He played scrum-half for Old Creightonians, Penzance & Newlyn, Camborne RFC and Leicester Tigers before his career was ended after he was diagnosed with Ménière ’ s disease and lost his sense of balance.

Cornish Pirates ( senior XV of Penzance & Newlyn RFC ) players display a giant pasty which was paraded as part of the 2009 St. Piran's Festival at Camborne, Cornwall

and Camborne RFC but matches have also been played at Penzance & Newlyn and Launceston.

The premier club side in Cornwall are the Cornish Pirates ( recently renamed from Penzance & Newlyn RFC ) who play in National Division One.

* December 30 – The Pirates of Penzance is first performed in Paignton, Devon, England.

Penwith () was a local government district in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, whose council was based in Penzance.

Great Western Trains operated InterCity services from London Paddington to the Cotswolds, West of England, South West England and South Wales and an overnight sleeper service from London Paddington to Penzance.

* July 1 – The Great Western Railway of England introduces the express train between London Paddington and Penzance in Cornwall which becomes known as the Cornish Riviera Express.

* July 6-A plastic bag of dirty linen carelessly placed against the electric heater in the vestibule of a sleeping car traveling between Penzance and London Paddington, England causes the Taunton train fire.

He returned to England in 1847, and was appointed successively to the circuits of Islington, Bristol, Leeds, Penzance, Penryn, Truro and St Austell in east Cornwall.

Land's End is a headland on the Penwith peninsula, located near Penzance in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

Pinafore became an international sensation, as did The Pirates of Penzance ( 1879 ) and Patience ( 1881 ).

Thus, the paradox of Frederic's birthday in The Pirates of Penzance establishes the surprising fact that a twenty-one-year-old would have had only five birthdays, if he was born on a leap day.

( Recently the people of Penzance have revived its midwinter celebration with the Montol Festival which like Padstow at times would have had people darkening or painting their skin to disguise themselves as well as masking.

″ The ancient chapel belonging to the town of Penzance may be seen in a fish cellar, near the key ; it is small and as I remember had the image of the Virgin Mary in it .″ The chapel was built of greenstone and approximately 30 ft in length and 15 ft in breadth of which only a fragment remained in situ and in around 1800 the chapel was converted to a fish cellar.

At a second Inquest in 1327 the number had risen to 13 at Penzance ; with 16 recorded at Mousehole and both now paying only 1 shilling each: the total rent for logii was 8s / 6d ( 42½p ) with 17 tenants paying 6d ( 2½p ) each.

By the time Queen Victoria came to the throne in 1837, Penzance had established itself as an important regional centre.

The dry dock was sold on 25 August 1904 to N. Holman and Sons Limited, the engineering business that had been trading in Penzance since 1840.

In the spring of 1982, Riddle was approached by Linda Ronstadt-via telephone through her manager and producer, Peter Asher-to write arrangements for an album of jazz standards Linda had been contemplating since her stint in Pirates of Penzance.

Similarly, in the 2001 time-travel comedy Kate & Leopold, Leopold sings the song ; however, the scene is anachronistic in that The Pirates of Penzance premiered in 1879, after Leopold had already left his own time of 1876.

Prior to 1825 anyone wanting to go from Hayle to St Ives or Penzance had to cross the sands of Hayle Estuary or make a significant detour crossing the River Hayle at the ancient St Erth Bridge.

In old age, she remembered that as a child she had sold fish at Penzance in the Cornish language, which most local inhabitants ( even the gentry ) then understood.

In 1984, after he had left drama school, Ball's first part was in Godspell at Aberystwyth Arts Centre, after which he worked for a few months in rep in Basingstoke, but his first major break was a star part in the production of The Pirates of Penzance at Manchester Opera House ; at an open audition he was selected from about 600 applicants who formed a queue to do singing, acting, and dancing interviews, which were held in three separate rooms.

In 1939 the school was evacuated to Penzance because of World War Two and in 1945 returned to the present site, the former Stoke Military Hospital on Paradise Road, which had been built in 1797.

I masnadieri is exactly the type of opera that W. S. Gilbert had in mind when he wrote The Pirates of Penzance in 1879, his glorious parody of the absurdities of mid-19th century Italian Grand Opera.

He had his first solo exhibition at the Newlyn Gallery near Penzance in 1959, and his first solo exhibition in London at the St Martin's Gallery in 1962.

She got a part in the musical The Pirates of Penzance but she had to drop out after getting too busy.

Prior to 1825 anyone wanting to go from Hayle to St Ives or Penzance had to cross the sands of Hayle Estuary or make a significant detour crossing the River Hayle at the ancient St Erth Bridge.

After the death of Davy's father in 1794, Tonkin apprenticed the boy to John Bingham Borlase, a surgeon with a large practice at Penzance.

The current holder of the Guinness World Record for Knitting with the Largest Knitting Needles is Julia Hopson of Penzance in Cornwall.

The Pirates of Penzance ; or, The Slave of Duty is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert.

" My eyes are fully open " ( with some changed lyrics ) was used in Papp's production of The Pirates of Penzance.

This was unexpected and forced Gilbert and Sullivan to race to complete and rehearse their new opera, The Pirates of Penzance, which premièred with much success on 31 December.

This is the terminus of the Looe Valley branch line to Liskeard ( at Liskeard, the line connects with the main Plymouth to Penzance Great Western Main Line ).

Nevada City is twinned with Penzance, a seaside town in Cornwall, UK and the nearby tin and copper mining town of St Just in Penwith, Cornwall, UK.

Penzance Youth Wind Band under the direction of Paul Carter have joined forces with Nevada Union High School instrumental music department on two occasions.

Historically, Woods Hole included one of the few good harbors ( along with Hyannis ) on the southern side of Cape Cod ( i. e. Great Harbor, contained by Penzance Point ) and became a center for whaling, shipping, and fishing, prior to its dominance today by tourism and marine research.

After the firm went bankrupt in 1889, Long Neck – the peninsula on which their factory was located – was renamed Penzance Point and was developed with Shingle-Style summer homes for bankers and lawyers from New York and Boston.

Gold is also known as an actress in musical theatre, having starred in numerous shows in the West End, beginning with Joe Papp's London production of The Pirates of Penzance in 1982.

Newlyn has a busy fishing harbour and is again favoured by artists, known as the Newlyn School ; it merges into Penzance and the path now follows the promenade through the town, passing Penzance railway station and continuing past the railway engine shed along the shore of Mount's Bay with its views of St Michael's Mount.

It was rewarded with properties and grounds on the English side of the Channel, including a small island off the southwestern coast of Cornwall which was modeled after the Mount and became a Norman priory named St Michael's Mount of Penzance.

There are traces of a rampart and ditch to the west of Penzance at Mount Misery, and an oval rampart and ditch at Lesingey above the St Just road, which together with Lescudjack, overlook the coast of Penzance and Newlyn.

A burgess paid his rent with money rather than with personal services and indicated that Penzance and Mousehole were considered to be towns.

A comparison of the settlements in West Cornwall can be made with the annual payments, based on the number of fishing boats, made to the Duchy of Cornwall in 1337: Porthia ( St Ives ) £ 6 ; Mosehole ( Mousehole ) £ 5 ; Marcasion ( Marazion ) £ 3 ; Pensanns ( Penzance ) 12s ( 60p ); Londeseynde ( Land's End, ( Sennen Cove ) 10s ( 50p ); Nywelyn ( Newlyn ) 10s ; and Portmynster ( Porthminster, St Ives ) 2s ( 10p ).

The old arms of Penzance were the head of St John the Baptist on a charger, with the legend " Pensans anno Domini 1614 ".

Penzance has a long-standing association with the local parish of Madron.

Penzance, with its dry dock and engineering facilities, was chosen as the western depot for Trinity House that serviced all the lighthouses and lightships from Start Point to Trevose Head.