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Last Updated on: 30th December 2020, 08:32 pm

 

   

DISCOVERING OUR COAST: 

ST. MICHAEL’S MOUNT CORNWALL:

BROOKE BOND OXO LTD 

CARD 32 IN A SERIES OF 50

 
 

Before the Romans came to Britain 

the little harbour at the foot of the Mount 

was a centre where tin was traded with the Phoenicians

It has been famous ever since. 

In turn priory, fortress and stately home

this memorable of coastal buildings 

occupies a superb defensive position 

high on its granite cone and surrounded by the sea. 

Only at low tide does a stone causeway

 give access to the mainland. 

In Armada Year a warning beacon flared from the Mount, 

and in the Civil War a century later 

it was a Royalist stronghold

The home of the same family for the past 300 years, 

the Mount has been presented to the National Trust 

while the family stays on as its tenant. 

 

Photograph: National Trust/ Howard Phillips

 

 

Brooke Bond Oxo Ltd.,

Picture Card Dept. DC,

PO Box 216,

Croydon 

CR9 3TL

 

   

 

 

 


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