Here is artist Lousie McClary on her recent discoveries around her local fields…
I have been having a lovely time drawing down at Bonnal farm, wandering the lanes and watching the trees start to form those lovely red tops now the buds are getting ready to burst forth. I found a fantastic field with beautiful long pale yellow grass…
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- Photo- Louise McClary
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- Painting by Louise McClary
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- Painting by Louise McClary
I also got to the bottom of a mystery…
Marlene (Bonnal Farm) always talks about taking the dog down Gent lane… I keep wondering why is it called that, so on one of my wanders collecting fire twigs, I thought I will jolly well go down and ask her…
“I have no idea,” she said… oh…!
So I wrote a letter to Rex and Pat (Gear farm) thanking them for the interview and asked did they know why it was called Gent lane? Gent lane goes from the main road to Tremayne quay, where it stops being gent lane remains the next puzzle to sort out!
Well, Rex tried to call me and failed for a couple of days, then when I was out wandering again down there with sketch book in hand I heard a tractor coming… Rex! Engine turned off, “I tried to call you Louise to tell you about Gent lane…” its called Gent lane because, many years ago when the gentlemen from Trelowarren estate wanted a splendid wood to be in, specimen trees were planted in what we today call ‘Solly’s wood’ named after the pork butcher who lived in the field next door (solly’s field!) his butcher shop was in the village in porky street, hence the name… anyway, the wood was called gentleman’s wood because of the specimen trees planted for the gentlemen of the estate, so presumably- lane next to wood- gent lane
Great story!
