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P19 Meet Our Kitchen Gardener

P22 What’s Cooking? Key – Island Eating

1 King Charles’ Castle 2 Cromwell’s Castle 3 The Sea Garden Cottages The Ruin Beach Café Sailing School 4 St Nicholas’ Church P62 Staying on 5 The New Inn Tresco – by the Gallery Tresco night or by 6 Bird Hides the week 7 Blockhouse 8 Monument 9 Tresco Abbey and Garden 10 Valhalla Collection 11 Tresco Stores and Delicatessen Post Office 2013 yearbook Bike Hire The Island Office Flying Boat Cottages, Bar and Spa 14 12 New Grimsby Quay 13 Old Grimsby Quay 14 Carn Near Quay

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PLEASE ENJOY CHAMPAGNE CHARLES HEIDSIECK RESPONSIBLY Tresco times 2013 yearbook

After more than twenty years of the Tresco Times, I am delighted to welcome you to its fresh, new look.

Edited by Tresco has been an integral part of “I hope you enjoy reading Alasdair Moore my family’s history for generations. this as much as we have [email protected] We have invested personally, as enjoyed putting it well as financially, in the social and Design & Art Direction structural fabric of the island because together and we hope nixondesign.com we have always felt that there is to welcome you to the nowhere quite like it in the world. island very soon.“ Advertising Our efforts have been supported Nicola Christopher by the wider Tresco family – one [email protected] of islanders, visitors and timeshare +44 (0)1720 422843 owners – all of whom have helped to sustain and nurture the island Published by alongside us. © Tresco Estate 2013 The Island Office, Tresco, Recent years have seen many Isles of Scilly TR24 0QQ developments and improvements, for both islanders and visitors. Thank you The new Sea Garden Cottages Chief photographers and the Ruin Beach Café mark Howard Sooley and the culmination of this activity Phil Nicholls and, I believe, have firmly established Tresco as one of Illustrators Britain’s finest destinations for Kathy Todd, Livi Gosling, the discerning traveller. Harry Tennent and Lorna Cox The new Tresco Times not only Guest Writer looks forward to the year ahead but Sam Llewellyn. Tresco-born and also back at the one that has passed. Robert with his grandson on the beach Editor of Marine Quarterly Whether you have been able to visit us or not, I trust that it will keep you Additional photography up to date with island life and keep Rob Lea, Mark Frost, Tresco in your thoughts. I hope you Carly Doherty, Adam White, enjoy reading this as much as we Toby Ash and courtesy of have enjoyed putting it together IoS TIC, Rachel Lewin and we hope to welcome you to and Peter Kiss the island very soon.

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in this issue p12 walking to Bryher

The quiet thrill of defying the natural p19 p22 order of things. Alasdair Moore on the one of the great island activities.

p19 kitchen garden

It’s all about companionship. Tresco’s kitchen gardener Dave Hamilton and his approach to growing fruit, vegetables and cut flowers.

p22 eating p41 A guide to the island’s eateries and what’s cooking in 2013.

p34 sailing

Haul out the mizzen and pull some “It is a man of poor jib off the roller. An early morning imagination who cannot summer sail in Lucille, a Drascombe see the gibbons swinging longboat with Marine Quarterly through the trees” Editor Sam Llewellyn.

p46 island farming

What you see is what you get. Getting p62 down and dirty on the farm.

p62 Accommodation

Staying for a night or a week? Looking for a New England style property or perhaps something more traditional? Interested in a timeshare? A guide to the island’s accommodation.

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Features p16 photography competition This year’s theme is ‘Tresco – People in the Picture’. So, er, please make sure there are! Extremely generous prize, as always.

p30 the humble lobster Particularly humble when served up in the New Inn. Beautiful illustration from artist Kathy Todd.

p32 food foraging Who needs the Deli? Rachel Lambert tells us what’s wild, p46 abundant and tasty.

p38 rock fishing Del and Neil give their top tips for a successful afternoon with rod and line.

p41 well-being It’s all Iyengar to me. Luckily Lucy Aldridge is on hand to tell us more about feeling good on Tresco.

p50 sport ing tresco Just don’t mention the cricket. How the island’s sportsmen and ‘women fared in 2012.

p52 g allery tresco Painting inspiration. Maggie O’Brien p12 on honing your artistic skills. p55 travelling to tresco It’s easy! Our guide to getting here.

Regulars p4 News p10 2013 calendar p76 cottage information p77 things to do and services p80 useful contacts

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Max on the quay the

The ever-cheery and resourceful Max Rowe has abandoned the Island Office and Tresco for St Mary’s – well at least during the working day. Max is now our Man on the Quay. He is ensuring that the links between St Mary’s airport and Tresco are as seamless as possible Ther apist for our visitors. Along with Island Taxis and of the Year Bryher Boats, Max is part of a team delivering a first-class service that comes with all flights Finalist booked through us at the Island Office. For more details about travelling to Tresco please go to tresco.co.uk/gettinghere Congratulations to Jess Turnbull who was a finalist in Therapist of the Year 2012 competition, run by ila, creators of luxury skincare and spa products. The competition spanned the world with a therapist from the Malaysian island of Langkawi coming second! Says Jess: “I am absolutely delighted – it’s a worldwide award and I was one of only five UK finalists!” Well done Jess! liberty Fabric Following the recent launch of the new Guests at Hell Bay this year will also Tresco-inspired Liberty fabrics, it is be able to sample Jess’ skills on Bryher! gratifying to see that US fashion label J-Crew (popular with Hollywood celebs and First Lady Michelle Obama) is offering a range of garments and accessories using the Liberty “Tresco” fabric.

Love interest Congratulations to Adam Toy and Kate Nelhams on their recent engagement. Kate is the youngest daughter of the gardens’ Mike and Isobel Nelhams and grew up on Tresco.

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FOND farewells

e bid a fond farewell to Bryan Wright, known to many as Fred or simply the Maj, who has left the island after nearly 20 years to move back to Dorset. For many years, Bryan delivered entertaining slideshows and garden tours, as well as being a convivial host to islanders and visitors fashion sense alike. We look forward to a visit soon! Tresco also says goodbye to the Chuter family – Richard, Tamsin Bridge, nother stylish company has Alice, Daisy and Lily. Richard came to found inspiration from Tresco Tresco 1995, started work at the heliport and the Isles of Scilly. Seasalt, in 1996 and was appointed manager in that great Cornish fashion brand, named 2006. He was also a highly successful their spring 2013 collection after the coxswain of the Czar gig. Tamsin Tresco Abbey Garden, while “The Isles worked both at the New Inn and the of Scilly” is the title of their summer Flying Boat Restaurant, and provided range of clothes. Seasalt is also running childcare at Sunny Days Nursery. a rather good competition. The prize is We wish them all the very best actually the best holiday in the world… for the future.

the £220,000 project. We are also church hopeful of receiving a grant from English restoration Heritage. However, there will still be a STOP press! substantial shortfall and we would like appeal to give all those who care about the island It’s just been announced an opportunity to support the restoration that superfast broadband project. UK tax payers can gift aid is to reach the Isles of Scilly in 2014 in a pioneering uch needed major restoration their donation. scheme by BT using unused and repairs are to begin in 2014 “It’s a huge project but one I believe fibre optic cables on the to St Nicholas’ Church. Built all those who love Tresco will want to Atlantic sea bed. in 1878 and designed by Lieutenant support. We want to ask all those who Thomas Dorrien Smith in memory of read this to give generously. Tresco is his uncle Augustus Smith, the church a small island community but I know is a much valued part of Tresco life. that its many visitors will want to see Under the energetic encouragement the church building restored and given of Eve Cooper, the church warden, more a new lease of life,” says the chaplain, than£18,000 has been raised towards Canon Paul Miller.

donations should be sent and cheques made Good news indeed and the cause of much celebration amongst Tresco’s out to .C.C. of the crack IT squad, Tony Reading and Isles of Scilly: Dan ‘Boy Wonder’ Etchells. They Eve Cooper are pleased to announce that with 5 Bay Row, Tresco, one or two exceptions, guests in Isles of Scilly TR24 0PY all the cottages can now enjoy full WiFi connectivity.

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New Additions to the 40 YEARS OF WARBLER WATCHING

resco’s favourite Birdman David Rosiar is celebrating his fortieth year of coming to Tresco and guiding his popular bird-watching and nature holidays. We asked him for his thoughts... “Who would have believed that this year I would be celebrating forty continuous years of visiting my favourite island in the world? I first set foot on Tresco in 1973 and made my way, along with the merry birding throng, all the way up towards Cromwell’s Castle, where a very rare vagrant from America, a Myrtle Warbler (now known as Yellow-rumped Warbler), had been found the previous day. Needless to say…no sign of the warbler. I made my way slowly back down to the Great Pool and went into the hide below Simpson’s Field and watched various migrant waders The Tresco Times is including Greenshank, Curlew Sandpiper and Little Stint. delighted to announce Captivated by the birds, the Pool, the birth of Algy Jago the reeds and the Autumnal colours, Dorrien Smith, brother to I thought to myself – this is magic! Xan and son to Adam and Tresco is like nowhere else. It’s NOT just the splendid wildlife, unusual birds, Tania Dorrien Smith. fabulous Spring flowers, Puffins and Seals, – it’s far more. It’s the atmosphere, Algy was born on the evening of 14th March the warmth, the super people, the and weighed in at a bonny 9lbs 120z. The walking, the lack of traffic and the editor was particularly pleased with Algy’s colours. But, don’t take my word for it – Christian name, a nod to his notable island come and see for yourself. ” forebears, Thomas Algernon Dorrien Smith (Great-great-great-grandfather) and Major Arthur Algernon Dorrien Smith (Great-great-grandfather). Great-great-great-grandpa Thomas Algernon

Closer to home, the Abbey has been echoing to the patter of tiny paws as the Dorrien get involved Smith ranks have been swelled David is leading three 5-day breaks in September and by the arrival of Fun, a lively October. For more details Border Terrier, pictured here please refer the events with Lucy Dorrien Smith. Photo by Alicia Good calendar on page 10. 6 | 2013 yearbook Tresco times 2013 yearbook

handy with a paddle as a weapon as well as a means of propulsion. The gig racing or rather its after- effects was probably the only thing that slowed down Bruce’s work-rate. For some time Maggie was unaware of this, until one Saturday morning, always a busy changeover day for her, on looking for her husband she discovered that the farm’s loft didn’t only house the flower boxes but a very comfortable lilo as well. The sea for Bruce was a source of pleasure beyond fishing and rowing: there was Bruce the water-skiier, Bruce the windsurfer. On land there was Bruce the bee-keeper, Bruce the table tennis player, not to mention Tresco’s top euchre cardsman Bruce Christopher. There was Bruce the Coastguard. Bruce was a core member of Tresco’s Coastguard team for forty years – he was a rock, rich in both experience and Bruce Christopher knowledge. There are many people over the past forty years that owe their safety 1949 – 2013 and in some cases their lives to Bruce. In his faded fluorescent Coastguard coat, spattered with anti-fouling, Bruce t is with great sadness that the Tresco consistent. It didn’t matter if you were the brought with him calm practicality and Times reports the death of Bruce Archbishop of Canterbury or a gardener, efficiency, as well as his usual humorous IChristopher, aged 63. Born September what you got was Bruce and exactly the ironic asides, to any situation. 1st 1949 at St Mary’s Hospital, Bruce same Bruce that everybody else got. All these different qualities and grew up on the family farm at Boro. Bruce was always consistent in his talents were parts of Bruce but all Educated at Tresco Primary School nature but he was a man of many parts. quintessentially Bruce. It has been said and then Kingsland, Plymouth, Bruce There was Bruce the farmer: With “Bruce didn’t have a job – he had a way studied agriculture at Cornwall Technical Maggie, Bruce made Boro an agricultural of life.” It permeated everything he did College. While working on a farm at gem, a jewel in Tresco’s crown – the and he would not have changed any of it St Newlyn East, he met his wife-to-be, market garden, the flowers, the cattle, for the world. Picking flowers, dropping Maggie Harris, with whom he returned the eggs – all of the highest quality and eggs off to an island pensioner, fishing to Tresco and Boro Farm in 1972. It was at all the results of expertise and hard work. or answering a Coastguard shout – it Boro Farm that Bruce died on 18 January A great deal of hard work. was all one, all Bruce’s way of life. after a characteristically spirited battle There was Bruce the fisherman But Bruce’s greatest role of all was against pancreatic cancer. too. Bruce loved the sea, his boats Bruce the family man – husband, father, Bruce Christopher was part of the and his fishing and highly accomplished grandfather, brother, uncle, son. Our fabric of the island. To the uninitiated, he was too. hearts go out to Maggie, daughter Claire Bruce could seem a little intimidating; Then there was Bruce the gig rower, and sons Alex and Joe and to all of this huge man, with a huge beard and a a legendary no. 3 paddle of his beloved Bruce’s family. huge personality. It would not take people Czar, one of the crew that took the It was a reflection of Bruce’s long to realise, however, that the biggest Nornour to France and back. Known standing within the larger community thing about Bruce was his huge heart for his fearsome scowl on the start line of the Isles of Scilly that so many and that his friendship was to be and powerful rowing style – everybody islanders attended his funeral. highly valued. in gigs knew Bruce. His talents with a St Nicholas’ Church was filled to Bruce represented the best of these paddle were not confined to the water... capacity with mourners from every islands: intelligent, independent, hard as a Newquay coxswain found to his great island and the collection raised nearly working, sociable, forthright, caring discomfort when he made the mistake £2000 for the Air Ambulance. Bruce and a whole lot of fun. One of Bruce’s of grabbing hold of the Czar at a buoy Christopher was a great man and great qualities was that he was utterly in a triangle race. Bruce could be pretty Tresco has lost one of its truest sons.

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Tresco & Bryher Food Festi val

14–15 September 2013

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Saturday 14 Sept – Tresco n the weekend of 14– 15 September 2013, the • Find out about Tresco Beef, from island Tresco & Bryher Food and Drink Festival farmer Paul Christopher and sample the will once again be celebrating the fantastic New Inn Tresco Beef Menu. produce, chefs and suppliers on Tresco and Bryher. • Sample produce from the kitchen garden The festival will be fun, relaxed and inspiring. As well with Dave Hamilton. as showcasing the fabulous chefs and small producers • Meet the Pender family, purveyors and fishers of Bryher crab and lobster. on the islands, it will also promote some of the Cornish • Taste refreshing Ales of Scilly and suppliers that help make Tresco and Bryher such delicious St Martin’s wine. wonderful foodie destinations. • Roll up your sleeves for some artisan bread-making at the Ruin Beach Café. • Learn from the expert, as Matthew Stevens gives a masterclass in filleting and preparing fish. • Go foraging with wild food expert Rachel Lambert. • Enjoy St Agnes ice cream from the Troytown Dairy – a must with a hearty dollop of St Agnes clotted cream on top! • Indulge your tastebuds in the evening at Tresco’s celebratory Food Festival Dinner. Don’t forget to pop into the New Inn, Ruin Beach Café and the Flying Boat where our chefs will be showing off their skills and preparing an array of special delicious dishes for you to taste.

Sunday 15 Sept – Bryher • Local Bryher Seafood – culinary demonstrations from Hell Bay’s Head Chef Richard Kearsley. • Samson Hill’s perfect brunch with Issy and Gareth Tibbs selling fresh baked croissants, pain au chocolat and savoury scones. • Freshly-baked goodies including traditional Scillonian Tatie Cake from Bryher Shop’s Zoe Dan. • Chilli to ceviche with Bryher’s Mexican Taco King, Wilbur Avilez. • Delicious homemade fudge from Veronica Farm. Fraggle Rock’s Kim Hopkins will be keeping the beer flowing to go with all the The festival is a real delicious food. In the evening, we’ll see highlight for all the chefs. the opening of the Hell Bay Crab Shack We love the opportunity to for a claw-cracking, shell-popping rustic show off our skills. banquet using the freshest crab straight from the sea…there’ll be music, dancing Head Chef Alex Smith of the New Inn and a whole lot of shellfish!

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May 24 – 29 June 25 July Taste of the Islands Waiting For Godot 11 – 18 May Are you island rusty or maybe a Scillonian The Miracle Theatre will be giving Art Scilly novice? Come for a five night ‘Taste of an evening performance of Waiting Scilly’ with local experts showing you For Godot, by Samuel Beckett in the A chance to visit the islands when some of the island highlights from history Abbey Garden. the local artists and craftspeople are to horticulture, including Mike Nelhams able to take time out and explain their of the Abbey Garden, naturalist Will 27 July inspirations, motivations and muses. Wagstaff and archaeologist Katharine Lots of exhibitions and classes to enjoy. Gallery Tresco opening Sawyer. From 24–29 June we will be offering a special 5-night dinner, bed Exhibition of work by Imogen Bone, 13 May and breakfast break at the New Inn. Anthony Garratt and Maggie O’Brien. Gallery Tresco opening Opening night party 6-8pm. 29 June Exhibition of work by Geoffrey Bickley, Nicola Hancox, Sophie Harding, Gary Cider festival Long, Maggie Matthews and Tom August Get your straw hat and dungarees on Rickman. As part of Art Scilly, the and join us at the New Inn for a whole 6 August evening opening will be followed with load of apple-based fun with live music music and frivolity at the New Inn! Gallery Tresco opening and…um…some cider. Exhibition of work by Tom Holland, 17 – 21 May 30 June Marie Mills and Mungo Powney. New Inn Ale Festival Tresco Triathlon Opening night party 6-8pm.

The New Inn will be holding its 25th Swim, cycle and run your way around 11 August bi-annual Ale Festival between Friday 17 Tresco in the island’s 4th triathlon in aid and Monday 21 May. Come and sample Romeo and Juliet of Cancer Research UK. The triathlon is a wide selection of local and South West fully subscribed but if you’d like to soak up The Festival Players Theatre will be ales with a 4-night bed and breakfast the atmosphere and lend your support, the performing Shakespeare’s Romeo and break at the New Inn for £520 per person. New Inn is offering a great 4-night B&B Juliet at 6.30pm in the Abbey Garden. break. Prices start from £550 per person, June flying from Land’s End and include a 17 August mini-treatment at the Tresco Spa. Gallery Tresco opening 10 – 15 June & 15 – 20 June Exhibition of work by John Dyer, Stewart Painting holidays with July Edmondson and Paul Wadsworth. Maggie O’Brien Opening night party 6-8pm. 6 July In June we will see the return of one of Tresco’s favourite artists, Maggie Gallery Tresco opening 11 August O’Brien, to lead two more of her popular Exhibition of work by Neil Pinkett, Tresco Fête painting holidays. Past master or a novice Ian Shearman and Rosemary Trestini. with the brush, Maggie will be sure to Er...lots of traditional fête-like goings on! Opening night party 6-8pm. hone your skills and help you to get the most from your palette! Monday 10 June 16 July 27 August until Saturday 15 June 2013 or Saturday 15 June until Thursday 20 June 2013. Prices Gallery Tresco opening Gallery Tresco opening start from £825 per person dinner, bed Exhibition of work by Paul Lewin, David Exhibition of work by Chris Hankey, and breakfast at the New Inn including Rust and Ellen Watson. Opening night Myles Oxenford and Nicky Walker flights from Land’s End. party 6-8pm. Opening night party 6-8pm.

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30 August – 3 September 23 – 28 September 27 – 28 October New Inn Ale Festival Nature Break Charlie Choak The Pasty Bloke Come and sample a wide selection of David Rosair’s autumn migration local and south west ales with a 4-night breaks. If you’d like to compare a Golden Charlie Choak has been making pasties bed and breakfast break at the New Inn Plover with a Grasshopper Warbler, join in Falmouth for more than 50 years. As for £520 per person. David at the New Inn 23–28 September, they say at the Choaks’ bakery: “We’ll Hell Bay on Bryher 28 September – tell you something for free, a Choak’s 3 October and the Sea Garden Cottages pasty ain’t like no other. Made to the September 3–7 October. For more details, please same Cornish recipe for nearly 65 years, call David on 01227 793501 or visit a Choak’s pasty is about as traditionally 14 – 15 September www.islandventures.co.uk Cornish as a traditional Cornish pasty Food Festival gets.” Charlie runs his own pasty school and will be offering tuition on Tresco. Following the great success of 2012’s October Each session will be for a maximum of Tresco & Bryher Food Festival, we four – £10 per person for the workshop thought that we’d do it again! You can 3 – 7 October and a free pasty of course! find all the details on page 9. Nature At Its Best 20 – 23 September Join David at the Sea Garden Cottages for December Wild Food Foraging guided bird and nature walks (see above). 21 – 28 December With wild food expert Rachel Lambert, 11 – 13 October First there’s Christmas... including guided wild food walks across Bread making Workshops the islands, based at Sea Garden Cottages. We will once again be offering a friendly To find out more please see page 33. Discover the art of bread making at the festive welcome at the New Inn. Escape Sea Garden Cottages with Baker Tom the hustle and bustle of the festive 23 – 28 September (Tom Hazzledine). Tom has made bread season with a 5-night dinner, bed and Abbey Garden Break for Fifteen Cornwall and Watergate breakfast break including Christmas Bay Hotel and has shops in Pool, lunch and an evening buffet, champagne Stay at the Sea Garden Cottages while Falmouth and Truro. and canapés on the first evening. discovering the delights of the most Prices start from £790 per person. extraordinary and exotic garden in 7 – 11 October the British Isles and learning new History on foot 28 December – 4 January horticultural skills. You will be in the Then there’s new year! expert company of Garden Curator Come and stay at Hell Bay in the Mike Nelhams, Head Gardener Andrew company of archaeologist and local Another great 5-night dinner, bed and Lawson and Propagator Dave Inch. And historian Katharine Sawyer. Katharine breakfast break with champagne and yes, you can return home with a bag full of illuminates the fascinating historic world canapés. We will also treat you to a seeds and cuttings for your own garden! of Scilly, from ancient Bronze Age tombs mini spa treatment. Prices start from Monday 23rd September until Saturday to battlefields and ruined castles, in a £790 per person. 28th September. Five nights dinner, bed series of guided walks across the islands. and breakfast in a one bedroom Sea Garden Cottage including wine with 9 October the first night’s dinner, return flights Gallery Tresco opening from Land’s End to St Mary’s, transfers to Tresco and all elements of the Abbey Exhibition of work by John Bampfield, Garden course for £900 per person. Stuart Kettle, Wendy McBride, Richard Stanley and Andrew Tozer. Opening night party 6-8pm.

To find out more or to book one The calendar will be continually updated and added to, of our special breaks, please please go to our website for all our latest offers and breaks. call us on 01720 422849 tresco.co.uk/eventscalendar

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Words Alasdair Moore Illustration Harry Tennant

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Clearly the most important thing in Harbourmaster contemplating a walk across the channel to Henry’s Golden Bryher is that there should be no water. Obvious Rules... as this may seem there are many times when the tide is almost low enough but you would be 1 Always wear ill-advised to attempt a crossing. The golden rule footwear – wellies or is that low tide should be 0.5m or less. Very low flip-flops to protect your feet from razor tides such as these only occur during the year’s shells etc. most powerful spring tides. On the day itself, atmospheric pressure and wind direction can 2 Use 0.5m low tide influence the strength of the tide too, so if in doubt as your guide for check with our Harbourmaster Henry Birch, the safe crossing. Island Office or Bryher Boats. Tide tables give 3 an exact time for low tide as well as depth. Always check Tresco’s point of departure for the walk to tide times.

Bryher is Flood Hatch and the route is a crescent 4 as you aim for Samson until level with Samson Always check the weather. Hill on Bryher before turning in towards Green Bay and Southward. 5 Never walk The last time I walked across the day was in fog. absolutely still with not even a hint of a breeze. Though there was no break in the high, white 6 Always tell cloud, the sand flats between Tresco and Bryher someone what you still gleamed as light reflected off the pools, are doing. puddles and rivulets left behind by the sea. On 7 such quiet days, you can hear the tide receding, the Do not attempt thousands of gurgling trickles of water, making to walk back more than half an hour their way in pursuit of the ocean. Tiny marooned after low tide – alking between fish bury themselves to avoid the gulls and beds just wait and take Tresco and Bryher of seaweed lie in clumsy heaps like an abandoned a boat home! on a spring tide is harvest. Standing midway, it is satisfying to one of the great island consider that only six hours earlier this vast If in doubt ask expanse of sand was under as much as 5m of water. Harbourmaster activities. However many times you Henry, the In the summer months, walking the channel Island Office do it, the quiet thrill of defying the is rarely a solitary activity. Not only do you see or Bryher Boats. natural order of things never really other pedestrians but there is always a smattering leaves you. of shrimpers as well as a few herring gulls

There’s something vaguely biblical about traversing a stretch of land where once there was sea. And it is right that you should feel this way. This in an astronomical event involving monumental forces, which for a short period Spring tides are caused by syzygy. S of time change the world as you know it. yzygy Tresco and Bryher may be close neighbours (Scrabble word score 25) describes the but they are most definitely two separate islands. alignment of three celestial bodies in They may share a school but each island has its a straight line. Tides are caused by the own identity that goes beyond the stretch of water gravitational act that lies between them, from their landscapes ions of the Sun and the to their churches. Yet, for a few hours each year Moon upon the Earth. the respective insularity of Tresco and Bryher dissolves as the islands’ natural barrier disappears Only when these three are in syzygy These are known as spring tides. and the two become one. does a spring tide occur. The sum Should these gravitational forces force of both the sun and the moon be working against each other then increases the amount of water the amount of water displaced displaced at high and low tides. decreases. These are neap tides.

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There is always a smattering of shrimpers as well as a spring tide breaks at few herring gulls padding about on the freshly- exposed sand like an extended buffet table Stay at Hell Bay three nights or more over a spring tide (see dates below) and you padding about on the freshly-exposed sand like will receive a well-earned glass of wine an extended buffet table. In addition to the human and lunch on Tresco, once you have walked traffic, tractors, cars and quad-bikes can sometimes across the sands from Bryher with a local be seen nipping between the islands where usually guide. Prices start from £160 per night only boats can sail. including dinner, bed and breakfast. My own experience of driving across to Bryher Subject to availability. All walks are is limited to a couple of trips in a large dumper dependent on weather conditions. truck. The front bucket was full of manure for my mother-in-law’s garden. The dumper’s high seat was a great vantage point from which to appreciate Daytime 2013 low tides from the view but I also learnt that the sand flats are not May, based on 0.5m or less – quite as flat as I had imagined. Long sections are GMT / BST. beautifully furrowed by the movement of the sea. Currents, tides, wind and waves have made the MAY Height Time sand in their own image. The effect was beautiful Sunday 26 0.5m 12.34pm to behold, though the juddering it produced on JUNE a manure-laden dumper proved distracting. At Tuesday 25 0.5m 13.11pm times it felt like driving across a giant washboard. Spring tides offer not only unusual footpaths JULY to other islands but a journey back in time. With Tuesday 23 0.5m 12.09pm every centimetre dropped by the tide, years fall Wednesday 24 0.4m 12.57pm away from the landscape. For thousands of years Thursday 25 0.5m 13.43pm the islands have been sinking and the sea levels AUGUST rising, so low tide is topographical time travel. Wednesday 21 0.5m 11.54am Around 3000BC, for instance, all of the inhabited Thursday 22 0.4m 12.38pm islands of today, with the exception of St Agnes, Friday 23 0.4m 13.21pm would have formed one huge, super-island. The land mass now exposed at low tide SEPTEMBER represents high tide thousands of years ago. Friday 20 0.5m 12.16pm Spring tides uncover rocks that are not simply marine geology. Amongst them are the remains of human habitation, stones that have been carefully positioned by human hands. As well as fish traps, there is evidence of hut circles and field systems beneath the high tide, seaweed and sand. Walk across the channel and you are walking through a submerged landscape of Bronze Age farmland. One of the most useful things about spring tides is that daytime low tide falls at lunchtime. A walk across the channel sets you up nicely for refreshment, be it lunch with a glass of wine at Hell Bay on Bryher or the Flying Boat on Tresco, a picnic or a pint at the New Inn or Fraggle Rock. So whether you are delivering manure, engaging in a bit of time travel or just taking advantage of some heavenly bodies, walking the channel is certainly one of the top island activities.

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Henry Tresco’s Harbour Master

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Tresco people in the picture

rom the very beginnings of photography, Tresco and the Isles of Scilly have been viewed through the lens and captured on plates, film and now memory cards. AsF early as 1856, Augustus Smith had Cornish photographer William Jenkyns photographing Tresco and a portrait of himself. It is the dynastic talents of the Gibsons of Scilly that really make the islands a milestone in British photographic history, as they have documented Scilly from the 1860s to the present day. It is with this in mind that the Tresco Times is pleased to encourage its readers to enter its 2013 Photographic Competition! Fun, quirky, interesting or arty, the theme this year is “Tresco – People in the Picture”. The only criteria is that it is of Tresco and has people in the frame…it could be in the pub, on a beach or up a tree. Entries could contain a single individual or a rugby team but will need to have been taken here and capture the essence of what makes Tresco so special. The prize is four return flights to Scilly from Land’s End and dinner for four with two bottles of house wine at a Tresco restaurant of your choice.

Individual entrants are limited to three entries which should be emailed to [email protected]. All images will need to be of a high resolution (300dpi) and entrants should be happy for us to use them in print or on the web. The competition is open until 30 November 2013 and the winner will be announced in the 2014 Tresco Times and will be published alongside the runners-up.

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Words Alasdair Moore Photography Howard sooley & carly doherty

t’s all about companionship really,” mused Dave Hamilton, Tresco’s kitchen gardener. Leaning on his fork, Dave was summing up his approach to growing fruit, vegetables and cut flowers.

“Companion planting is something that I use quite a lot to deter pests: marigolds with the tomatoes; alliums with the carrots and parsnips. But I think it goes beyond that – it’s about the companionship between plants and the soil. There’s an old gardening adage ‘Look after the soil and the plants will look after themselves.’ I would definitely subscribe to that!”

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he kitchen garden at the Abbey Garden is testament to Dave’s Tapproach. Through the seasons there are serried ranks of leeks, lettuces, beans and strawberries, as well as banks of flowers destined for the vase. For Dave, it all starts with the soil. “One of my favourite jobs of the year is collecting seaweed from the shoreline. Seaweed is a brilliant conditioner for the soil and as an island gardener nothing beats taking a trailer down to the beach for “sea-manure”. It’s heavy work with a pitchfork and the smell isn’t always that sweet but it’s great to take full advantage of our amazing natural environment.” Traditionally, the kitchen garden has always focussed on providing fruit, vegetables and flowers for the Abbey and Seaweed has been used as a the garden café. This year Dave is looking soil improver for centuries. It to expand the production of certain crops to make them more widely available contains several useful plant across the island. nutrients, including nitrogen, “2013 is going to be all about growing potassium, phosphate and more tomatoes, cucumbers, courgettes, magnesium. There are dried and rocket and salad leaves. We’re looking to provide more and more homegrown liquidised forms available from produce for the island’s restaurants and garden centres – alternatively for Tresco Stores. I love the idea of people you could take bag of it home coming to have a look at the kitchen with you! garden during the day and then enjoying eating some of the harvest for their dinner.” Dave Hamilton

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Dave’s duties are not confined to plant companions all the same, from the exotic life. His day begins with feeding the to the familiar and the productive to ducks and the chickens. This winter he the ornamental. For Dave it’s all about was also responsible for looking after a natural balance of good gardening and Tresco’s new arrivals, the red squirrels. good produce… produce that everyone “When I first moved here, I never can enjoy. imagined that this would be part of my job but it was fascinating to learn about these wonderful creatures.” Dave, his wife Mandy, sons Hamish and Luke and daughter Heather moved to Tresco from North Cornwall eight years ago. “Mandy’s parents are Tresco timesharers and we came to know the island as holiday-makers but always wanted to move here – it’s a dream come true.” Working in the exotic Abbey Garden has expanded Dave’s vegetable repertoire. “With the mild climate, I have been experimenting. We had our first crop of sweet potatoes last year and our olive grove is coming on nicely too!” With sweet potatoes and new potatoes side by side, Tresco’s kitchen garden has some unexpected companions but a breed apart

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A taste for all seasons in the islands’ kitchens

here’s nothing we enjoy more on the islands than a delicious meal. From local lobster at the New Inn and the delights of the Ruin Beach Café’s wood-fired oven, to the more formal dishes at Hell Bay, you can enjoy the very best and freshest local produce prepared by our talented chefs.

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The Ruin Beach Café

The Ruin Beach Café is open for breakfast, lunch and dinner most of the year. it’s always worth booking for breakfast or dinner. Opening times may vary seasonally. Call +44 (0)1720 424849 to book a table

aving been open for less than a year, we were absolutely delighted when the prestigious Condé Nast Traveller magazine awarded the Ruin Beach Café the Gold Standard in its global listing of favourite hotels, restaurants, bars and beach clubs from around the world. a colourful What they didn’t mention was the wonderful wood-fired oven that produces the delicious pizzas, roasts the succulent beef and fresh fish, as well as baking the past bread. The oven is fuelled with wood from Tresco and brings a real flavour of the Mediterranean to the cooking. The Café takes its name from the ruined Other highlights from the menu include wood-fired skate wing, spicy St Martin’s smuggler’s cottage that forms part of crab linguini, confit of duck, pot-roasted shoulder of lamb and gnocchi with goats’ cheese. its terrace. Uninhabited since the late- nineteenth century, when Augustus Smith arrived in the early 1830s, there Wholesome eco vibe… very laid-back was a family of 12 living there in abject poverty. Their shared sleeping quarters and relaxed but civilised, with lots of consisted of a low loft in the roof space. driftwood and stone. You can watch your The neighbouring Watch House was the little ones on the beach from the terrace Coastguard boathouse from the 1820s, and there’s a sailing school next door. which must have made smuggling a very precarious business for the old February 2013 cottage’s residents.

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The New Inn is open all year, serving lunch and dinner. As well as a range of delicious dishes, the Sunday Roasts are very popular! Opening times here is a new item on the pub’s menu this year… Tresco Surf & Turf. At the New may vary seasonally. Inn this great American invention comprises succulent Bryher lobster and juicy chargrilled Tresco beefsteak. Now there are those purist, nay, puritanical chefs Call +44 (0)1720 423006 to book a table and foodies who frown upon Surf & Turf. With a slightly snooty air, it is believed by some that Surf & Turf only exists as a means “to maximise hedonistic extravagance”. To many of us this may sound more like a recommendation than an accusation but still it does seem a little unfair. Not only are these two superb ingredients utterly local but they capture the very essence of Tresco. Surf & Turf, land and sea: quite literally, it’s what Tresco is all about. Land and sea define every element of island life; a rule to which the New Inn is no exception. Even the pub’s signboard comes from the sea, salvaged from the wreck of the Award, which sank on the rocky shores of Gweal in 1861. This year’s menu also has steamed crab claws, potted shrimps and other goodies Beers from the sea as well as homemade Scotch eggs. Another interesting combination is worth the Cornish pork and Tresco partridge sausage roll. It is at the opposite end of the their extravagance scale to Surf & Turf and a particular favourite of the Tresco Times editor with a pint of Tresco Tipple! hops Along with some cracking new dishes – pan-fried hake & New Inn fish stew – old favourites such as beer-battered fish and chips, Cumberland sausage and mash, the New Inn burger and freshly-made baguettes are still very much on the menu! The New Inn has been awarded 4 Yellow Stars and a Gold Star Award from Let us not forget the splendid selection The AA for quality and service and an AA rosette for food excellence. It is one of of ales too, from Skinner’s Betty Stoggs only 12 pubs in Cornwall listed in the new “Eating Out in Pubs” Michelin Guide. to St Austell’s Tribute, as well as guest breweries such as Ales of Scilly.

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OPEN MONDAY TO SATURDAY 9.30-5.30. Open for dinner he Flying Boat is named after the Royal Naval Air Station that was based on two nights a week. Tresco in World War One. The aircraft patrolled the Western Approaches, CLOSED ON SUNDAYs. hunting German U-boats. If you look out of the seafront windows you Call +44 (0)1720 424068 to book a table can still see the rails on which the flying boats were wheeled down to the sea. During the day, the offering is one of drinks, snacks and light lunches. The Flying Boat is open for dinner two evenings a week, with seafood and fresh fish at the heart of the menu. Keep your eyes peeled for Abbey Garden Curator Mike Nelhams’ special soirées with an illustrated garden talk, dinner and his affable company!

Quite what officers and men of the Royal Naval Air Station Tresco would have made of today’s Flying Boat is Seafood Freshis the cornerstone & Wild of the hard to guess. No doubt they would evening Taste of Scilly and Cornwall menus. With shellfish from the islands have approved of James Dodds’ and fresh fish from Newlyn, the focus is splendid painting of a flying boat. on simplicity and great flavours.

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Hell Bay Bryher

Richard Kearsley

riginating from the kitchens of Provençal harbours, bouillabaisse is the quintessential fish dish. While arguments may rage between Mediterranean chefs as to which specific types of fish make a classic bouillabaisse, there is Hell Bay is open from spring no doubt as to the multitudinous variety of sealife that can make up its ingredients... to autumn. Lunch is served mullet, wrasse, conger, langoustine, crab, rascasse, turbot, monkfish, mussels, hake, from 12pm – 2pm and dinner sea urchins – the list goes on. from 7pm – 9pm. Booking for Hell Bay’s Chef Richard Kearsley has spent many years perfecting his bouillabaisse. dinner is advised. It is a dish he loves and one that is gathering something of a following amongst those in Call +44 (0)1720 422947 to book a table the know on Scilly. “bouillabaisse was one of the things that I always loved about going on holiday to France when I was a kid. It was just so different, with the rouille and the croutons, so rich and so delicious. It’s very much part of my childhood memories. My recipe is based on one from my time running the seafood section at the Waterside Inn at Bray. I have refined it and tweaked it over the years, so now I feel that it is actually mine.” Hell Bay’s 3 AA Rosette restaurant is not just about bouillabaisse nor is it just about fish. Richard sources outstanding produce from the islands, Cornwall and the South West, not least Tresco Beef. But if it is a genuine taste of the sea, a real flavour of the islands that you’re after, whether you are staying at Hell Bay or just popping in for a bit of lunch, then Richard’s bouillabaisse will definitely hit the spot. The local Connection...

Since coming to Hell Bay, Richard has developed a close relationship with Bryher’s fishing family, the Penders. Hell Bay is the highest-rated hotel on “Mike Pender knows that he can bring me the Isles of Scilly with AA**** and the whatever he catches. Having such fantastic fresh fish delivered to my kitchen door restaurant has 3 AA Rosettes. by the fisherman himself is incredible. Last summer, he brought me some of the biggest monkfish I’d ever seen!”

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K ate’s Top Tips for 2013

1 MiP Rosé wine – We rather impressed food and wine critic Kate Tresco Spicer by having this wonderful Provence Stores & deli rosé on our shelves. Good bouquet but delicate in the glass and on the palate.

2 Tresco Beef comes top of my list of favourite products – great quality and great provenance! I also use the St Just butchers Vivian Olds. They are a proper family business, founded more than 100 years ago.

3 If you want to stay in for dinner but don’t want to cook, take a look at our Dine-At-Home range, cooked to order by a Tresco chef.

4 The Hicks family on St Agnes run a superb dairy farm, making the very creamiest ice cream, which we stock along with their milk and cream.

5 My favourite cheese at the moment is Helford White, from Treveador Farm, near Helston. A soft white cheese, it’s rind-washed which gives it a great flavour.

6 Bryher fudge – simply the best fudge in the world and I am not just saying that because I’m from Bryher!

orn on Scilly and brought up on Bryher, Kate Moore started work at Tresco Stores & Delicatessen when she was 17 years old and has been managing it for the past 10 years. There is clearly some sort of retail DNA operating here as her grandmother Kate Parkes moved to Tresco in the early 1960s to run Tresco Stores, which was then part of the pub. Kate’s sister, Zoe Dan, owns and runs Bryher Shop, which opened last year. Call +44 (0)1720 422806 EMAIL [email protected]

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Illustration Kathy Todd

With their fiercely territorial nature, the local lobster is a true islander. Rocky crevices are their natural home. Solitary and nocturnal, lobsters can live to a ripe old age, with some whoppers living for more than 50 years. On Tresco, you can enjoy locally-caught lobster cooked for you at the New Inn or buy it live from the fisherman himself; contact Mike Pender on +44 (0)1720 422975.

Words RACHEL LAMBERT Photography adam white

Happiness is a basket of foraged goodies and a satisfied belly

Gourmet Foraging on the Islands hat is it that makes us fall in love with these islands? For me it is the magical combination of being dropped off in the middle of the ocean, in a picturesque setting, with inescapable fresh air and a bounty of wildlife surrounding me. Plants seem happy here, abundant and flourishing, and a similar effect seems to happen to the people too.

Why am I so interested in the plants? range of tarty zings that can flood one’s yellow of gorse flowers. It is believed Well, as a forager it’s often what I notice mouth. Sorrel has traditionally been that the essence of gorse flowers can help first in a place and here on the Isles of used for fish sauces and soups, though lighten moods and counter feelings of Scilly my eyes and senses are rewarded the scope of this plant includes sweet hopelessness. With gorse in flower on the well. Nowhere else in the world, least of tarts and sorrel ice cream. How about islands all year round, making use of this all on the British Isles, will you find this pineapple and wild sorrel tarte tatin with plant’s culinary potential could bring you same combination of plants growing wild apple mint ice cream to polish off a step closer to contentment. Infusions side by side. Wild food is intrinsically your evening’s meal? from gorse flowers can release a gentle, local, though what’s unique on these Over on Bryher, sea beet or sea floral quality, which is perfect for panna islands is the combination of native and spinach (Beta vulgaris) is in abundance. cottas, wine, sorbets or crème brulées tropical plants that have naturalised Easily picked and added to my basket, for example. Imagine for a moment gorse here over the years. this plant works wonderfully just lightly flower panna cotta, set with wild seaweed Each year I find myself back on the steamed and served with pan-fried hand-picked from the islands, and islands and taking in the lavish display pollock fillet, crushed potatoes, and accompanied with a wild berry of wild edibles once again. What can wild sorrel aioli. Perhaps like many wild coulis – delicious! seem like a torrent of green plants foods its appearance can be deceptive; to others, with perhaps a splash of a dark green, glossy leaf that seems thick Rachel Lambert leads Gourmet Foraging colourful petals, to me is the potential and tough, surprisingly becomes a melt in & Dining Breaks twice a year, in spring for infinite gourmet meals just waiting the mouth texture without falling apart, and autumn. Based at the Sea Garden to happen. With over 50 edible plants when cooked. As the original spinach, it Cottages on Tresco, these breaks include to choose from, dinner could only be has a reassuringly familiar flavour too, three half-day foraging walks on three an exciting affair! perhaps a bit richer due to different islands and a five course taster Wandering around Tresco, it’s hard its unadulterated growth. menu each evening incorporating your to name an area where wild food is not As a fan of good food, wild food day’s foragings. Suitable for all ages, the growing. Whether you’re walking down enables me to treasure the simplicity of group is limited to just 12 guests and walks Racket Town Lane, ambling across a single flavour as well as the complexity vary from 2-4 miles each day. Foraging Appletree Bay, Tregarthen Hill or taking that comes forth in another plant – how is always carried out in a sustainable in the views of St Martin’s from the Old can something so small be sweet, sour manner, helping ensure that the islands Blockhouse, there’s plenty to choose with a hint of nuts for example? Like continue to be a source of beauty and from. Down on the beach, I can pick appreciating good wine, one’s palate can natural diversity for all to enjoy. plants that perfectly compliment fish develop, opening up a whole world of and seafood dishes, while numerous sensory experiences and with wild food sorrels are underfoot in more grassy you don’t even have to leave the island For more details please go to areas or poking out of stone walls. to encounter this! wildwalks-southwest.co.uk You can Choosing from sheep’s sorrel (Rumex If each taste had a colour I’m sure an contact Rachel on +44 (0)7903 412014. acetosella), common sorrel (Rumex artist would have a field day with these Alternatively, you can call the Island acetosa) or a Chilean oxalis, there are new shades and nuances. One of the most Office on+44 (0)1720 422849 to find subtle yet significant differences in the familiar of island colours is the bright out more or to book.

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t is very early on a summer morning. My Drascombe longboat Lucille is on a mooring off New Grimsby. There is the sickle sweep of the bay, the granite quay, the smoke of a Rayburn drifting northeast on the breeze. A curlew is yodelling, no doubt catching the worm. Haul out the mizzen and pull some jib off the roller. There are yachts anchored up there in the channel, anchor lights still primrose-yellow against the paling sky. Pull the mooring pennant off the cleat. Back the jib till the nose pays off, drop the pennant, sheet in. Lucille starts close-reaching down-channel under jib and mizzen. As Plumb Island slides by, up goes the tan mainsail on its honey-coloured wooden spar. The wake starts a small, efficient chuckle, and the lee rail drops. Away we go on the flat water, dipping to the puffs that come tumbling in between Samson and Bryher. The tide is ebbing. It would be embarrassing to go aground on the shallows of Tresco Flats. We tack once, then again to keep well over to the Bryher side. There is nobody in the lunchtime anchorage behind Puffin Island, because it is hardly even breakfast time, and anyway we are not looking for anchored boats, but for the beacons on Little Rag Ledge and the Hulman. Bear away and let out some mainsheet. We are blazing along in the flat water with the wind blowing into my right ear. Little Rag Ledge shoots by to starboard. Shove the tiller over to leave the Hulman to port and miss the Chinks off the tail of Carn Near. Paper Ledge swirls by. And off we go towards the crocodile- snout of the Mare, and beyond it Tobaccoman’s Ledge at the southeastern most corner of Tresco.

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Normally, we would stop for civilized drinks and pizza, and a chance to chew the fat with whoever is around. But it is still too early for civilised behaviour, Sailing School and anyway, civilisation is never more than the blink of an eye away on Scilly.

The first ferries are arriving at Carn Near. Lucille is emitting the small hum that means she is in perfect tune. The shoals and ledges are glassy in the falling tide under the sun. Squint southward to pick up the mark, the TV mast on St Mary’s over the iron-blobbed stalk of the Crow Beacon. When the two come into line, shove the tiller downhill and harden up. We are round the corner now, and the wind is muffled by the agapanthus-blue dunes behind Pentle Bay. Diamond Ledge glides by, trailing Auntie Gwen’s hair. Hold the mark over the stern. Tresco’s eastern beaches unreel, the sand sugar-white under the marram and pines, the water clear as vodka straight out of the freezer and not much warmer, turning with depth Nile green through turquoise to Quink blue. The breeze smells of heather. The coffee in the thermos smells of coffee, and about time too. All this should be relaxing. Instead, it is oddly suspenseful. There is a reason for this. Somewhere just past the Blockhouse, bang in the middle of the channel, I can never remember where, is Tide Rock. So I have the helm lashed and I am up on the foredeck Opened in 1999 the Ravensporth hanging my head over the nose like an idiot, and Lucille is Sailing Base at Old Grimsby has gone shearing through the green silky water at some five knots, and I am getting distracted by the extreme beauty of the little from strength to strength and literally turquoise curl her stem peels out of the sea; when from the shed to shed, as the site has changed deeps there leaps a pale thing, streaming weed like witch-hair, and Lucille sails right over the top of it: Tide Rock. Missed it by six inches. over the years from the old boatsheds On goes Lucille, a self-contained universe sliding by the to its current reincarnation across the distant shouts of children crabbing on Old Grimsby quay, and the sails of the morning classes in front of the slipway by the Ruin. slip from the Ruin Beach Café. Normally, we would stop for civilized drinks and pizza, and a chance to chew the fat with whoever is around. But it is still too We offer taster sessions to full RYA courses in early for civilised behaviour, and anyway, civilisation is never sailing, windsurfing & power boating. As people’s more than the blink of an eye away on Scilly. holiday time is so precious and everyone’s needs Old Grimsby vanishes behind a headland, and the wilderness are different we are happy to arrange a custom takes over again. The bottom of the sea drops away. The world package of tuition that best suits. is going up and down again, and the wind is blowing hard and steady, and I am sitting on the top rail watching the swell rolling We have a large fleet of dinghies, day boats and white on Men-a-Vaur and curling down the Golden Ball bar, windsurf equipment for hire to suit nearly all pulling in some mainsheet, bringing the nose onto a long blue abilities as well as easy to use, stable sit-on top valley of sea in whose bed the grim Kettle is boiling. Skirt the kayaks available for hire which need no previous Kettle, closing the ears to its melancholy roar, looking for the experience and are a great way to get a float. deep water under Shipman’s Head. And down the channel we go, past the yachts, past the quay. Get rid of the main. Roll up the jib. We are an RYA recognised teaching Lucille rounds up, the mizzen holding her head to wind. Boathook establishment and we are also the only for the mooring pennant. She falls back and lies quiet. The curlews activity provider in the islands licensed by the are yodelling again, and the gulls are quarrelling over the Great Adventure Activities Licensing Authority AALA. Pool. Soon it will be low water.

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K ayaking Tours Swallows & Amazons Fun Sessions Explore the smaller uninhabited islands A great half day excursion exploring A half day group session of sailing and looking for wildlife and experiencing Scilly’s uninhabited islands looking for or avoiding water sports fun. A fully supervised, high natural beauty close up. Our guide will lead pirates, depending on the crew’s inclination! energy morning or afternoon of sailing you through the shallows to areas that are Depending on group size, two instructors and kayaking, beach games and water fun. not accessible by passenger boats. We use lead the boats in convoy to land and explore A great way for the kids to meet and mix stable easy to paddle kayaks so these trips islands, finding treasure or treachery, before with other children while enjoying being are suitable for all. returning home for tea and medals. afloat… whilst perhaps giving the parents a few hours to themselves.

get in touch Porthmellon, St Mary’s, Ravensporth Base, Tresco www.sailingscilly.com Isles of Scilly, TR21 0NE (July & August Only) T: +44 (0)1720 422060 T: +44 (0)1720 424919 Words Alasdair Moore Photography Howard Sooley

Rock Fishing

If two words can sum up a chilled-out, Tresco holiday spirit, then “Gone Fishing” comes pretty close. Tresco times 2013 yearbook

ith a comforting mix of laid-back Huckleberry the wrasse prefer – a bit of calm water.” An hour or so later and we were out at Finn-ness, vague sense of purpose and dash of Gimble Porth. Neil and Del had both had outdoorsy adventure, “Gone Fishing” says it all... fish bite but not actually stay on the hook. and where better to enjoy a bit of fishing than an island? Neil explained: “To be honest this isn’t really the best time to be fishing – ideally you should be looking at a flood tide, And there’s plenty of fishing to be had. into a rock pool for me to take a better which generally has more fish. I’d choose You can charter a boat from Bryher Boats look. It was a beautifully coloured fish to fish in the hour and a half either side of to take you on the high seas or you could with thick, slightly protruding lips. high tide.” Almost as soon as he’d uttered hire your own from Bennett Boatyard “The wrasse has a fairly mixed diet but those words, his line went taught and he and pootle about the waters around limpets are an important food source, so it reeled in a 4 ½ lb wrasse. Tresco and Bryher. However, it is worth has a powerful set of jaws and teeth. When it “The wrasse is a pretty obliging remembering that you don’t actually have comes to the wrasse itself as food, I think it fish in terms of fishing,” said Del, as to get in a boat at all. There are plenty of makes good sashimi when sliced very thinly Neil pulled his catch out of the water. suitable spots along Tresco’s coast where, and it’s a great bouillabaisse ingredient... but “Always keen to take a hook and wants with a rod and line, there are good fishing we always catch and release,” commented to put up a bit of a fight too. The wrasse times to be had. Neil as he saw me admiring the fish. Del is what makes rock fishing on Scilly so you don’t have to be an expert or and Neil use unbarbed hooks, which are far much fun.” have expensive kit, as I found out myself. less damaging to the fish and much easier to As the tide ebbed away, our fishing Admittedly I was in the company of remove. In addition to the hook, they attach came to a natural end. Neil and Del Del Thompson and Neil Hansen, two lures to their lines to entice the fish to bite. had caught four or five wrasse each. of the islands’ best rock fishermen. Within a few minutes, Neil and Dell had Unfortunately, I had caught nothing Readers may be familiar with Del and caught two more wrasse. but I had spent a wonderful morning Neil’s daytime roles. Del runs the Tresco As the tide was ebbing, we moved by the sea, in good company and taxi between the quay and the airport, with it, heading north along the coast beautiful surroundings. I still had a while Neil is a boatman for Bryher Boats, from Long Point. They were looking for disproportionate sense of achievement ferrying passengers between the islands. that rocky, weedy habitat but also for and I was on my way to the New Inn for When not providing vital transport a spot tucked away from the wind. Del a well-deserved pint. The whole “Gone links, both Del and Neil are expert remarked: “It’s nice for us to be fishing Fishing” thing had definitely worked for rod fishermen. somewhere sheltered but it’s also what me. Next time maybe I’ll catch a fish. “There are lots of good spots to fish on Tresco, from Long Point round to Cromwell’s Castle,” said Del. “You can catch mackerel, pollack, the odd plaice or whiting and even mullet if you are very patient but our favourite fishing is for wrasse. The Isles of Scilly have some of the best wrasse fishing in the country.” Wrasse, most commonly the ballan wrasse, is a handsome fish that is to be found along rocky coastline, often lurking about in the weed. “What you’re looking for is an area Del’s handy blogspot with some large boulders and rocks, with www.scillylureaddicts.blogspot.co.uk plenty of seaweed and limpets. If the rocks are clean, then there’s no life and It has lots of useful information about • Look for a varied habitat in the water no fish,” advised Neil. We were standing fishing on the islands but here’s a few (seaweed, limpets etc). Clean rocks on the rocks near Long Point, on a cool, basic tips: mean no fish! grey day. The tide was going out. “Ideally you would look to fish on a flood tide, just • Always check the tides and weather • The best wrasse fishing spots are before it’s high and during the following before going fishing. sheltered with calm water. hour of lack tide before it ebbs,” said Del • Don’t fish alone. • Use barbless hooks for easy release – as he cast into the channel. Despite this barbs can be “removed” from hooks being “the wrong time” to be fishing, five • If you are not familiar with the spot, with a pair of pliers. minutes later he landed his first wrasse. watch the rocks and the sea for 10-15 It was a ballan wrasse, which Del slipped mins before you use it. • Only keep fish you are going to eat.

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A SENSE OF Well- Being

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aybe it’s the air – big lungfulls of salty maritime air bowling in across the Atlantic – but it’s healthier to be by the sea. They’ve done research and it’s a fact. All of which makes being on a small island rather good news. The Isles of Scilly has always been a pretty healthy place to live, though historically, in terms of medical care, it may have had its limitations. For centuries, the nearest doctor was on the mainland but that is not to say that islanders were helpless. “For want of male practitioners in physic, the few diseases and hurts in these healthful Islands have, for these many years last past been remedied by a society of skilful Aunts, constituting a sort of College of Physicians in Scilly…” So wrote Robert Heath, an officer garrisoned on St Mary’s in the 1740s. Fortunately we no longer need to rely on skilful aunts to stay alive on the isles, but when it comes to the well-being of body and soul, the ladies are still leading the way. “Tresco simply removes all the hustle and bustle, all the distractions of well being on one of the most influential people in life that fill up your head. It’s a peaceful tresco in days the world by Time magazine in 2004!” space, surrounded by sea. I think it’s the gone by “Yoga has helped me deal with many best place in the world," says our yoga life changes and challenges. Coming to instructor Lucy Aldridge. “For want of male my mat each day brings me back to my Lucy qualified as a Iyengar Yoga practitioners in physic, centre and who I really am," she adds. teacher in 1996 and has been coming the few diseases and hurts Lucy has been teaching yoga for more to Tresco for the past six years. Lucy in these healthful Islands than seventeen years. "It's the best job in explains Iyengar Yoga: “It’s based on the have, for these many years the world". She is also a qualified sports principle of correct body alignment. When last past been remedied and remedial massage therapist. the body is aligned, energy can move by a society of skilful In addition to her regular Wednesday freely – breathing is easy and the mind is Aunts, constituting a sort yoga classes, Lucy also leads the regular quietened. It’s a physical yoga but you can of College of Physicians yoga breaks on Tresco. 2013 also sees do as much or as little as you want. It was in Scilly…” something a bit different – a dedicated founded by Mr Iyengar, who was voted well-being weekend.

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“The Well-Being Long Weekend is designed for a group of girlfriends who want to get away from it all and have a healthy break that’s fun, luxurious and good for them too. It’s suitable for all ages. Ladies can come and stay in a cottage together and enjoy a range of activities – not simply yoga! I offer a bespoke service, so I can tailor activities to suit individuals or groups. For example, as well as yoga and spa treatments, I also offer posture assessment, popular with brides-to-be. Learning how to stand correctly and breathe in a relaxed manner brings an instant sense of calm to soothe the nerves on the big day. I lead meditational walks too. So much about Tresco revolves around the elements, it is important to make the most of the incredible environment, landscape and seascape. The walks are very much about focussing on one’s surroundings and being in the present.”

GENTLE PRANAYAMA BREATHING EXERCISES ARE SOMETHING ELSE that I like to use – in fact much of what I do is about breathing.

Yoga classes Lucy Aldridge takes yoga classes on Tresco every Wednesday. The 1½ hour sessions cost £10 with yoga mats and blocks provided. Booking is essential – please call the Spa +44 (0)1720 424075

THe SPA

Tresco’s extraordinary environment is a tonic in itself but why just stop at a tonic? At the island’s Spa there's a pool, jacuzzi, steam room, sauna and gym. There is also a range of treatments and massages on offer, from ila Marine Algae Body Wraps to pedicures and manicures. Our therapists, such as Jess Turnbull (a finalist in ila’s Therapist of the Year 2012) will be only too happy to advise on what might suit you best.

For more details or to book a treatment, please call +44 (0)1720 424075

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Yoga breaks

Five night yoga breaks at the Sea Garden Cottages are available from £880. For more details about yoga, the Well-Being Weekends or to book, please call the Island Office+44 (0)1720 422849 or visit tresco.co.uk

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Island Farming

“What you see is what you get,” says Paul, as he casts his eye over a verdant stretch of pasture, freckled with sturdy, russet-coloured cattle. “The fields and the grass and the cattle…that’s it. Put them together and what you end up with is Tresco Beef that’s Tresco-bred and Tresco-fed.”

2013 yearbook | 47 “The farm is a fundamental part of the island. In keeping the cattle, we’re looking after the land, maintaining its fertility.”

ounds simple, doesn’t farmers and stockmen. It’s been great it? Just a natural island to have the recognition.” For Paul it cocktail of goodness that is not just about the cattle; it’s about results in the finest beef the land too. in the South West. And “The farm is a fundamental part of simplicity does have a the island. In keeping the cattle, we’re lot to do with it, of course, but tempered looking after the land, maintaining with a great deal of good farming and its fertility. There are pieces of land hard work. that have been out of cultivation for The herd consists of more than 100 years that are being made use of again. Limousin-cross cattle, with a mixture Farming is also about stewardship, of Hereford, South Devon and North looking after what we have.” Devon to name but three. The current Looking after what we have is part bull is affectionately known as ‘Del boy’ of Paul and Jake’s jobs, in particular and all the island beef is island-born. the granite walls that run around so There are about 160 acres of prime many of the fields and border the lanes. Tresco pasture for them to enjoy, with “The walls on Scilly are different to the some highly-desirable views too! traditional stone hedges that you’ll see To ensure that the herd is entirely in Cornwall; the base stones are dug grass-fed, the farm produces its in here – each island used to have its own silage and hay. own style. Down at Gimbles you can And there’s nothing like a bit of see all the rounded beach stones have home-grown when it comes to grass been used and I always like to use the and cattle. Grass-fed beef is higher in decorative Cock and Hen top run.” omega-3, B-vitamins, beta-carotene, vitamin E, vitamin K, trace minerals “Tresco cattle are of a and micro-nutrients than grain-fed beef. quality rarely found. This The result is outstanding beef, which is can only be done by the skill available almost exclusively on Tresco. and dedication of a true The quality of the steers and heifers was stockman. Paul Christopher never in doubt on Tresco but 2012 saw is one of the top men I the renown of Tresco Beef growing on have ever come across.” the mainland. Philip Warren, Artisan Butcher “Last year was the first time that we sent our cattle to the Truro livestock market and we got the top prices every time,” explains Paul. “Just as pleasing have been all the compliments on the quality of our animals from the buyers,

48 | 2013 yearbook “I know it might not be the very best cut but I’m always happy to see a roast topside. It’s such a versatile meat, there’s so many cuts that cooked right are as delicious as sirloin… I love fillet but you can’t beat skirt of beef in a pasty!”

Tresco Beef is served in all our restaurants and Aficionados will be delighted to hear that at can be bought at Tresco Stores too. However, the Tresco & Bryher Food Festival in September, with a herd of about 100 cattle, there is a the New Inn will again be showcasing their limited supply. This means there are times special Tresco Beef Menu. when there simply isn’t any available.

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The Alfie Jenkins sporting

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The Ladies Novice Crew

The Men’s Novice Crew

n terms of sporting triumph in they are a genuinely novice crew. 2012, for much of the year we A great effort by the lads but also by were all at sea – it was only the their steely cox Susanna Gates, who has Tresco & Bryher Rowing Club coached them superbly. Pictured from that could really claim to have had left are Alex Prain, Peter Kiss, Tomas some success. The Men’s A crew Chytra, John McMurray, Zoltan Gal, in the renovated Men-a-vaur secured Jonny Fischer and Susanna Gates. a healthy clutch of trophies including: The Ladies’ A crew had a storming The Men’s A Crew the John Jenkins (St Mary’s to Tresco), first race coming in 32nd out of 125. Simpson (Tresco to St Mary’s), Dustcart Competition was fierce and though John Jenkins (St Mary’s to Tresco) (St Agnes to St Mary’s), Morley (St their final position slipped to 48th, Simpson (Tresco to St Mary’s) Martin’s to St Mary’s) and Scillonian it was a valiant effort, not least by Dustcart ( St Agnes to St Mary’s) Club Shield. This was the crew that the crew’s youngest paddle, Connie Morley (St Martin’s to St Mary’s) had done so valiantly in the 2012 World Lawson aged 16. Rowing in the Alfie Scillonian Club Shield Pilot Gig Championships in May. Jenkins were, from the bow, Connie After a brilliant and vigorous first Lawson, Edit Toth, Michelle Oyler, race from St Agnes, they held on to Kairen Carter, Alison Douglas, Lisa finish 23rd overall in the Alfie Jenkins. Roberts and the cox, Jack Carter. (Pictured top from left are cox Steve The Ladies’ Novice crew also Parkes, Alex Christopher, Will Ash, performed well and came a creditable Jamie Parkes, Jake Newton, David Reiss 108th – from the front – Sam Reed, Jana We are offering a great Triathlon and Andrew Hulands). Chytra, Kate Clement, Katalin Kurko, break at the New Inn. See page The Men’s Novice crew were equally Helen Wilson, Stephanie Williams. impressive – they finished 65th overall Their cox and photographer of all the 10 for details or call us on which is quite exceptional considering crew images is George Kershaw. +44 (0)1720 422849

50 | 2013 yearbook TRESCO & Tresco Triathlon Bryher C.C. n terms of the year’s most singular triumph, the prize has to go to IGraham Clegg who swam, rode and ran to victory in the Tresco Triathlon. The island’s favourite bikeman completed the course in 1hr 12mins and 45 secs. The 4th Tresco Triathlon is taking place on 30th June this year. It is becoming a very popular event. Organiser Pete Marshall was delighted when all 60 places were snapped up less than three weeks after the date was announced.

he cricket team had a rather less distinguished season in terms Tof silverware but this happy band more than made up for it with sportsmanship and beer. Apart from the great joy of finally winning a match (mid-August), the highlight for the Tresco & Bryher Cricket Club was probably the Old Gentlemen vs. Young Gentlemen match held in September. This was covered at length in a previous issue but it did underline the great value to the club of up and coming youth, most notably, brothers Hamish and Luke Hamilton and Henry Johnson. There is hope for us yet.

Averages and stats for very nearly the most westerly cricket club in the UK... Richard Dyche 61.4 overs 3 maidens 329 runs 22 wickets Richard Dyche 5.3runs/over 14.95runs/wicket Andy Lawson 59 overs 4 maidens 211 runs 14 wickets Andy Lawson 3.5runs/over 15.07runs/wicket Jon Taylor 36 overs 190 runs 11 wickets Jon Taylor 5.2runs/over 17.27runs/wicket Dave Hamilton 27 overs 120 runs 8 wickets Dave Hamilton 4.4runs/over 15runs/wicket Dave Hamilton 9 Al Moore 21 Al Moore 26 overs 146 runs 8 wickets Al Moore 5.6runs/over 18.25runs/wicket Jon Taylor 4 Jon Taylor 19 Dave Johnson 22 overs 3 maidens 51 runs 3 wickets Dave Johnson 2.3runs/over 17runs/wicket Richard Dyche 3 Dave Hamilton 15 Luke Hamilton 19 overs 110 runs 8 wickets Luke Hamilton 5.7runs/over 13.75runs/wicket Pete Marshall 2 Andy Lawson 12 Pete Marshall 47 overs 296 runs 15 wickets Pete Marshall 6.2runs/over 19.73runs/wicket Al Moore 2 Luke Hamilton 7 Mike Foster 23 overs 211 runs 10 wickets Mike Foster 9.1runs/over 21.1runs/wicket Joby Newton 2 Richard Dyche 6 Andy Lawson 1 Will Ash 5 Pete Marshall 4 Hamish Hamilton 4 Ed Fursdon 28 runs 5 innings 1 duck Ed Fursdon 5.6 Ed Fursdon 3 Richard Dyche 86 runs 13 innings 4 NO’s 3 ducks Richard Dyche 9.5 Joby Newton 2 Jon Taylor 212 runs 17 innings 3 NO’s Jon Taylor 14.7 Al Moore 206 runs 11 innings 2 NO’s 1 duck Dave Hamilton 24.5 Dave Hamilton 221 runs 11 innings 2 NO’s Al Moore 22.8 Andy Lawson 133 runs 13 innings 2 NO’s 1 duck Andy Lawson 12.09 Luke Hamilton 108 runs 10 innings 1 NO Luke Hamilton 12 Dave Hamilton 114 from 221 runs Pete Marshall 48 runs 7 innings 1 NO Pete Marshall 8 Jon Taylor 100 from 212 runs Jamie Parkes 39 runs 11 innings 2 NO’s 2 ducks Jamie Parkes 4.3 Al Moore 94 from 206 runs Hamish Hamilton 51 runs 8 innings 1 NO Hamish Hamilton 7.2

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y painting love affair with Tresco began in a glorious spell of weather My in August 2008. My husband Tim and I were in need of a break after a Mtumultuous year in which we had upped sticks and moved the entire family Painting from London to Cornwall – three sons, two cats, one puppy and my utterly charming but increasingly dotty, elderly mother. On a clear day we could see the Isles of Scilly Love Affair from our bedroom window, so, when it came to a few days away to celebrate our first year in St Just, it was the obvious choice. Travelling in a tiny plane that whirred just a few hundred feet above the waves was exhilarating enough, but Scilly from the air must be one of the world’s most Words & Photography Maggie o’brien stunning sights. The islands shimmer in a patchwork tapestry of aqua seas, umber rocks and creamy sands. As we came into land on St Mary’s that day I already knew the islands were going to be the most marvellous place to paint. What I couldn’t have known was how much the islands would come to mean to me, how often I would return to work and how eventually I would lead painting groups on Tresco. Not only is Tresco a painter’s paradise, but it is also the perfect place to learn Travelling in a tiny plane that landscape painting. That first visit was magical. Guiltily whirred just a few hundred aware this was supposed to be a trip with feet above the waves was Tim, I hadn’t brought paints but I took 100s of photographs and filled a sketch exhilarating enough, but book with drawings. I was already Scilly from the air must excitedly planning work and first on the list were the Agapanthus. I will never be one of the world’s forget climbing up between swathes most stunning sights.

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Painting on Tresco with Maggie O’Brien June 10 – 15 2013 or June 15 – 20 2013. From £825 for a five night holiday including flights, dinner, bed and breakfast at the New Inn and one evening at the Flying Boat. Visits to two other islands, free entrance to the gardens and tuition from Maggie O’Brien are all included. For further details please call the Island Office on +44 (0)1720 422849 or Maggie O’Brien on +44 (0)1736 811172 Maggie’s work can be seen at Tresco Gallery or on the Gallery website.

Gallery Tresco of marram grass to my first sight of Pentle Bay with its beautiful blue flowers populating the dunes as far as the eye could see. Exhibitions

Since then I have discovered boats in the morning light at Old Grimsby, Spring glorious sunsets over Bryher, the afternoon sun at New Grimsby, the wild North 13 May – Geoffrey Bickley, End with its magenta heather and the perfect curve of Appletree Bay at high tide. Nicola Hancox, Sophie Harding, Sometimes I go out with just a sketch book and explore new ideas, at others I take Gary Long, Maggie Matthews, water colours or quick drying oil paints – both great fun for working outdoors. Tom R ickman Above all it’s quiet – which is one of the reasons why it’s the perfect place to teach. Even in the height of summer we can be alone in a cove, tucked out of the wind amongst Summer the rocks. There is nothing worse for a beginner than to be watched! I like to work with 6 July – Neil Pinkett, a mix of abilities right up to the expert who just wants to paint in company. Amongst Ian Shearman, Rosemary Trestini my group last year were a couple who hadn’t so much as picked up a pencil since school. 16 July – Paul Lewin, David Rust, They were keen to tackle something together in retirement and decided to give oil Ellen Watson painting a go. Watching how totally absorbed they became and what wonderful results 27 July – Imogen Bone, they came up with was incredibly rewarding. Anthony Garratt, Maggie O’Brien Students can bring whatever media they choose – even if it’s just a sketch book. 6 August – Tom Holland, Everyone learns from each other as well as me and a painting holiday is a good Marie Mills, Mungo Powney time to try something new. We have great fun and a group spirit of support and 17 August – John Dyer, Stewart camaraderie quickly builds. I love my lone painting weeks on Tresco but working Edmondson, Paul Wadsworth together, sharing the trials and triumphs over supper in the New Inn and watching 27 August – Chris Hankey, people grow in confidence, learn new skills and make new friends is wonderful. Myles Oxenford, Nicky Walker Painting is a very individual thing. I teach and demonstrate one to one because there are no rights and wrongs and I encourage students to find individual ways of Autumn working that are right for them. You may simply want to improve your drawing skills 9 October – John Bampfield, or learn to make a sketch book diary. The most important thing is to relax and enjoy Stuart Kettle, Wendy McBride, yourself – and try not to be too self critical! Richard Stanley, Andrew Tozer I take a maximum of nine on my Tresco holidays which means everyone gets +44 (0)1720 424925 plenty of time and attention. Getting around is easy; when you’ve got your painting www.gallerytresco.co.uk paraphernalia to carry that’s important. On Tresco you can paint in the gardens in the morning and be amongst the Old Grimsby boats or even on Bryher in the afternoon. The possibilities are endless.

2013 yearbook | 53 Skybus fl ights and transfers to the NEW FOR 2013 Island of Tresco a seamless service

In partnership, Skybus and Tresco have created an all-in-one “car to cottage” ticket, offering a seamless service for Tresco’s guests. The ticket price includes all transfers within Scilly, such as taxi-bus to the quay and boating to Tresco.

TRESCO FLIGHT PRICES Return Skybus fl ights and transfers.

Land’s End £150 Exeter £240

Newquay £190

Prices are per adult return, call for child prices.

To book call Tresco or visit their website 01720 422849 tresco.co.uk

Cruise from Penzance or Fly from Land’s End • Newquay • Exeter IOSTravel Isles of Scilly Travel ATOL exempt. Terms and conditions apply to all offers By plane You can fly from Land’s End, Newquay and Exeter airports travel to to St Mary’s, a short boat trip from Tresco. tresco

Return from Land’s End

Adult £150 | Child – £118 Flight time 15mins

Return from Newquay

Adult £190 | Child £150 Flight time 30mins

Return from exeter

To book or for further information please call us on Adult £240 | Child £190 You can fly from Exeter, Newquay or Land’s +44 (0)1720 422849 Flight time 60mins End. Flights are operated by Skybus and land on St Mary’s, a short boat trip from Tresco. By boat You can sail from Penzance on the Scillonian III to St Mary’s, Seamless to Tresco a short boat trip from Tresco. Book through the Island Office and choose our “car to cottage” ticket to take you from your mainland airport all the way to your holiday accommodation. The ticket price includes all transfers within Scilly, such as the Tresco Shuttle to the quay and boat to Tresco. At every stage of your journey Return from on the islands, you will be assisted by Tresco Island staff or penzance our partners. This “car to cottage” ticket is only available when booked through the Island Office.

Met by the Tresco Met by Max at the Met by Tresco Island Adult from £75 Shuttle at the quay and taken to porters off your boat on Child from £38 airport and taken your boat arrival on Tresco and Sailing time to the quay taken to your cottage 2½ hours approx

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A Guide to Flying from exeter

Sleeping & eating

The Magdalen Chapter Beautifully converted former hospital with walled gardens in the heart of the city. themagdalenchapter.com Hotel Endsleigh To and from Tresco Olga Polizzi’s (TV’s Hotel Inspector) • Skybus (skybus.co.uk) offers a direct service between Exeter and Scilly. The charming hotel in the Tamar Valley. flight time is 60 minutes. In the summer months there are up to five flights a day Yes, we concede it’s not that close to (excluding Sundays) to St Mary’s, where you will be met by a Tresco representative Exeter, but it really is very lovely. who will assist you on the short hop to the island. hotelendsleigh.com • Exeter airport is the main hub for Flybe and can be reached directly from major Michael Caines Restaurant cities across the UK and Europe. The tasting menu is delicious. • For those in a car, Exeter airport is easily accessible from the M5, A303 and A30. michaelcaines.com • There are frequent train services between Exeter and London. The quickest journey time is two hours. In the city

Yes, there a lovely museums, galleries Work on the cathedral began in the 11th and shops, but just a visit to the cathedral makes a trip into the city century when the bishop’s seat was moved worthwhile. It’s simply one of the finest from Crediton because Exeter’s Roman walls examples of gothic architecture to be offered better protection against pirates. found anywhere. Images courtesy of heartofdevon.com

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A Guide to flying from newquay

To and from Tresco • Skybus (skybus.co.uk) offer a frequent air service from Newquay to Scilly. The flight time is 30 minutes. During peak periods there are six flights a day (excluding Sundays) to St Mary’s, where you will be met by a Tresco representative who will assist you on the short hop to the island. • Flybe (flybe.com) operates year round flights between Newquay and London Gatwick and Manchester. • During the summer of 2013, scheduled flights are available to Glasgow, Belfast, Düsseldorf, Edinburgh, Newcastle, Norwich, Liverpool and Southend. For all the latest information please visit newquaycornwallairport.com So, what’s in Newquay? Don’t believe everything you read in the newspapers. Yes, the town does attract a lively young crowd in summer, but it also has some of Cornwall’s most wonderful Sleeping & eating golden beaches – some seven miles of them in fact – not all of which are packed with ravers. Fistral beach is probably Cornwall’s best known surfing beach. Lessons are Scarlet Hotel available for novices. Harbour beach offers sheltered bathing and departure points A luxury eco-hotel for grown ups. for most of Newquay’s boat trips. Towan beach is close to the town centre and the scarlethotel.co.uk one you may recognise from photographs thanks to tiny Towan Island with the Watergate Bay house atop of it which is connected to surrounding cliffs by a suspension bridge. Beautiful coastal location. Next door is In the town you’ll find an aquarium, theatre, zoo and Waterworld, a state-of-the-art Jamie Oliver’s Fifteen restaurant. swimming centre loved by kids and serious swimmers alike. watergatebay.co.uk Headland Hotel An iconic Cornish landmark, right on Fistral beach. The name Newquay refers to the new headlandhotel.co.uk quay that was built in the fifteenth Images courtesy of Ian Stackhouse, century for pilchard fishermen. visitnewquay.org and Bob Berry (bbphoto.net)

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The GuRNaRD’s heaD The OlD cOasTGuaRD The FelIN Fach GRIFFIN For St. Ives & Zennor For Mousehole & The Minack For Brecon & Hay-on-Wye 01736 796 928 01736 731 222 01874 620 111 To and from Tresco By plane It’s only a short 15-minute Skybus flight from Land’s End to St Mary’s, where you will be met by a Tresco representative who will assist you on your short onward journey to the island. During peak periods Skybus operate more than 20 flights a day (excluding Sundays). A new terminal opened in April. By boat In the summer months, the Scillonian passenger ship sails daily to and from Penzance to St Mary’s. The crossing time is two and a half hours. The Scillonian has just undergone a major refit which included new passenger seating and eatery. Sleeping & eating Around West Penwith • St Ives – picturesque harbour town beloved of artists and visitors. The Old Coastguard, Mousehole • Penzance – Overlooking the iconic St Michael’s Mount, Penzance is a vibrant historic A charming 14-room hotel overlooking market town. Chapel Street, with its quirky shops and the Landmark Trust’s Egyptian the sea in this picturesque fishing village House, is regularly named as one of the country’s prettiest streets. The town is also close to Penzance. Named as Dining home to the Jubilee Pool, one of the finest examples of an art deco lido. Pub of the Year in Cornwall in the 2013 • We can highly recommend visiting the lovely villages of Mousehole, Good Pub Guide. Zennor and Lamorna. oldcoastguardhotel.co.uk • The fishing port of Newlyn, about a mile from Penzance, has three excellent wet fish The Gurnard’s Head, Zennor shops, a shell fish shop and a wonderful cheese shop. Pop into Jelbert’s if you fancy A dining pub with rooms on the coast some delicious homemade ice cream. between St Ives and St Just. Comfy Vi-Spring beds, a totally delicious • Best coffee in Penzance? The Cornish Hen Deli on Market Jew Street. menu and awe-inspiring location. gurnardshead.co.uk Venton Vean, Penzance The name Penzance derives from the Beautiful boutique B&B in a restored period house. Cornish Pen Sans, or holy headland, ventonvean.co.uk and is a reference to a chapel that is said Keigwin House, Penzance to have existed to the west of the harbour Friendly and comfortable family more than a thousand years ago. run guesthouse. keigwinhouse.co.uk

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Stay ing on tresco

You can book a stay on Tresco by the night or by the week. Or, if you’re hopelessly addicted, you can reserve your favourite cottage every year by becoming a timesharer.

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BY THE NIGHT

if you would like to book by the night, you can choose from:

“From the terrace of my cottage on the north-east of the tiny island of Tresco I looked across Sea Garden Cottages a neat lawn bordered by pink flowers to a swaying sea. Waves One-bedroom Sea Garden Cottages. These beautifully appointed properties were fizzled softly on boulders in the completed in 2012. There is a first floor double bedroom with a balcony and en suite cove, and in the distance a white bathroom. The ground floor comprises a sitting room with satellite television and lighthouse stood on an island. a fully fitted kitchen, should you wish to self-cater. Alternatively you can opt for a A seabird swooped and disappeared fully inclusive rate, with breakfast and dinner served at the nearby Ruin Beach Café. behind a headland with unusual, Guests have access to an indoor pool, sauna and tennis court. rounded rocks that might have been sculpted by Henry Moore. To check availability and book, please call us on What a setting.”

+44 (0)1720 422849. We can also arrange Tom Chesshyre, The Times transport on your behalf. on the Sea Garden Cottages

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Tresco’s friendly pub has rooms with en suites available to book per night on a bed “...you won’t need to spend more and breakfast basis. There is a heated outdoor swimming pool for guests. It has than a couple of hours walking or been awarded four yellow stars and a Gold Star Award from the AA and an AA cycling around Tresco, or exploring rosette for food excellence. It is also one of only 12 pubs in Cornwall listed in the the fabulous Abbey Gardens, before Michelin Eating Out in Pubs guide. The guide says: “it may prove difficult to leave... you can be sure that you’re the traditional bar is packed with nautical memorabilia...lounges have a friendly, definitely in a holiday paradise.” bustling ambience...serving traditional favourites...bedrooms are simple, well-kept and comfortable.” Frank Barrett The Mail on Sunday To check availability and book, please call us on +44 (0)1720 422849. We can also arrange transport on your behalf.

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Hell Bay, bryher Yes, we know it looks like a The four star Hell Bay Hotel on the neighbouring island of Bryher is owned by Tresco. storage shed. In Hell Bay is the highest rated hotel and restaurant on Scilly with 3 AA rosettes. There fact it is a storage shed! But not for long. are 25 suites to choose from; a number have a second bedroom or chair beds, making This spring it’s being converted into a them the perfect option for families. Full details can be found at hellbay.co.uk lovely spa treatment room, so you will Hell Bay has a heated outdoor swimming pool and sauna for guests, who no longer have to travel over to Tresco also have free access to the Tresco Spa. There is also a games room for younger (unless you want to) for that well- visitors. The main bar and sitting area has an extensive collection of Cornish art on deserved massage or beauty treatment. the walls, including works by Barbara Hepworth, Julian Trevelyan, Peter Lanyon, Patrick Heron, Roger Hilton, Mary Fedden, John Miller and Ivon Hitchens. ‘I’ve been to Hell, and I’ve a To check availability and book, please contact us on feeling I’ll be back’

+44 (0)1720 422947 or hellbay.co.uk. We can also Jasper Gerard arrange transport on your behalf. The Daily Telegraph

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BY THE week

for those visiting by the week, you can choose from:

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Our contemporary beachfront accommodation can be found at the Sea Garden Cottages and the Flying Boat.

1 Sea Garden Cottages This £10 million development on the eastern side of the island was completed in 2012. Cottages can sleep up to 10 people, and guests can enjoy access to an indoor pool, sauna and tennis court. “Tresco is not just an idyllic reminder of the Great British 2 Flying Boat Cottages Seaside of 50 years ago; it’s more Built on the site of a former World War One flying boat station, these New than that. It’s somewhere else England-style houses sleep up to 10 people. Tresco Spa and Tresco Stores altogether – a completely & Deli are close by as are tennis courts and an outside swimming pool. independent entity with its own unique and precious culture. Not just paradise on Earth, To check availability and book, please call us on it’s paradise in Britain.”

+44 (0)1720 422849. We can also arrange Alex James transport on your behalf. The Independent

2013 yearbook | 67 Tresco times 2013 yearbook traditional “What, I wondered, would one pay to rediscover the golden summers of childhood – of white sands, Our characterful, traditional granite properties range from small former fishermen’s blue skies and warm shallow waters and flower pickers’ cottages to large detached houses and are located across the in which to paddle and mess about island. We can help you pick one that’s just right. in boats? In an age mediated by currency crises and the trials To check availability and book, please call us on of holiday aviation, quite a lot. +44 (0)1720 422849. We can also arrange If only one could find a place, transport on your behalf. ideally near home...now we have discovered a place so close to our ideal as to have united three generations in delight.”

Julian Allason The Financial Times

Your own piece of Tresco…

A limited number of properties on the island are available as timeshares (see availability list on page 75). You can reserve a set week for the next 30 years. Tresco has one of the most generous schemes available by guaranteeing to buy it back from you any time after four years and before 15 years for the full purchase price (no deductions). Tresco timeshares generally increase in value and we are pleased to say that no timesharer has ever lost a penny when it came to sell.

Timeshares are managed by Dean Whillis, a long-time resident of the island. Please feel free to contact him on +44 (0)1720 424111 or [email protected]. If you’re on the island, you can pop in and see him in the Island Office. It’s all very friendly and very low key, with no hard sell or salesmen.

During the end of the 19th century Old Mill provided Scilly with most of its flour; now it is a traditional timeshare cottage.

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any of the Abbey Garden’s The sub-tropical Abbey Garden is tender floral gems would stand a glorious exception – a perennial no chance on the Cornish Kew without the glass – shrugging mainland, less than 30 miles away. Yet even at the winter equinox more than 200 plants off salt spray and Atlantic gales to will be in flower. All in all, it is home to species host thousands of exotic plants. from 80 countries, ranging from Brazil to New Zealand and Burma to South Africa. By building tall wind-breaks, the garden’s creator Augustus Smith, channelled the weather up and over the network of walled enclosures that he built around the ruins of the 12th century St Nicholas’ Priory and the three terraces he carved from the rocky, south facing slope looking towards St Mary’s. The hotter, drier terraces at the top of the garden suit South African and Australian plants, those lower down provide the humidity that favours flora from New Zealand and South America. The Abbey Garden is open every day, children under 16 have free entry, adult ticket £12.00

The Garden Café You will find a warm welcome in the Garden Café, whether you want a decent cup of tea or lunch. Selected plants and seeds are for sale in the shop. Guided tours are available by prior arrangement. Di v er sity of For more information please call us on +44 (0) 1720 424105 or visit tresco.co.uk plant life [email protected]

Abbey Gardens Break The diversity of plant life to be found within 23 – 28 September the Abbey Garden is extraordinary. Fringing Come and stay in our luxurious Sea the lush grid of paths which criss-cross the Garden Cottages, while discovering the gardens are a host of succulents, towering delights of the most extraordinary and palm trees and giant, lipstick-red flame exotic garden in the British Isles. Learn trees. Here you can find flowers of the king new horticultural skills in the expert protea and the handsome lobster claw. company of Garden Curator Walk amongst the great blue spires of Mike Nelhams and his team. Echium, brilliant Furcraea, Strelitzia and shocking-pink drifts of Pelargonium.

King Protea Furcraea 5 nights dinner, bed and breakfast in a one bedroom Sea Garden Cottage including wine with the first night’s dinner, return flights from Land’s End to St Mary’s, transfers to Tresco and all elements of the Abbey Garden course for £900 per person. For further information or to book Echium Pelargonium please call +44 (0)1720 422849 TrescoGardens map

Key

1. Garden Entrance Gift Shop & licensed Café café Garden Toilets 2 history Room 3 The Valhalla Museum 4 Bamboos 5 Fruit Garden 6 vegetable Garden 7 Eucalyptus Field 8 roman Altar 9 The Mediterranean Garden 10 The Shell House Mural 11 Father Neptune 12 Gaia, The Earth Mother 13 South African Flat 14 Succulent Cliff 15 Pebble Garden 16 Old Abbey 17 West Rockery 18 The Abbey 19 Palm Circle 20 Ancient Stone Seat 21 Glasshouses 22 The Tresco Children 23 East Orchard 24 Tree Ferns Gardens map

19 After more than ten years of waiting and two hundred years under water, the magnificent stern- figure from the wreck of HMS Colossus, an eighteenth century warship, was finally put on display on Tresco in May 2012. The cost of raising and constructing the display was in the region of £110,000. This was met by the Isles of Scilly Maritime Heritage Trust. As a registered charity, its continued aim is to raise this sum by donations. Treasures to be found

The Tresco Times is offering donors the chance to win a week’s holiday in Colossus, one of the Flying Boat Cottages. Colossus can sleep up to 10 guests in a high degree of comfort and style. The treasures to be found within the Abbey Garden are not limited to the floral kind. All you have to do is call Michelle at The garden is also home to a collection the Island Office and make a donation of shipwrecked figureheads, which are of £10 or over by debit or credit card. displayed at the Valhalla Museum, as well as Michelle will take your details and your the Colossus exhibition in the History Room. name will be entered in the draw. The There is also a children’s trail based around lucky winner’s name will be drawn shipwrecks and the gardens’ collection of on 1 November 2013. beautiful and versatile plants. There are animals too! Keep an eye out Donate over £1000 and your name for the glorious golden pheasants, exotic will join the other Colossus donors on a stick insects and for our newest arrivals, commemorative slate which will hang by the red squirrels. the exhibition itself. Tresco times 2013 yearbook

St Agnes Unspoilt and peaceful

Island size: 366 acres | Population: 72 t Agnes consists of around 148 hectares, I of courtesy images bottom and Main including Gugh (pronounced to rhyme with Hugh), to which St Agnes is joined except at high tide. It is the most south western of all the inhabited islands and the most isolated. sles of S of sles cilly TIC cilly

St Agnes is a most handsome island, graced with its trademark lighthouse, narrow lanes and rugged western seascapes. Farms, holiday lets, guest-houses, a campsite and a splendid public house are the island’s main businesses. as well as the pub, there are two cafés, which keep visitors and islanders going with lunches and teas during the day, one of which transforms into an excellent restaurant in the evening.

St Agnes is home to some unique island businesses, including island soap, chocolate and ice cream.

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Bryher rugged, y et deeply beautiful

Island size: 327 acres | Population: 81 ryher is about one and a half miles long and marks the north-western perimeter of Scilly’s archipelago. To the north and to the west are the Norrard Rocks and then the great ocean beyond. About eighty people live permanently on Bryher’s 133 hectares.

As with all the islands, its small population is employed variously in small-scale farming, fishing, tourism and the servicing of those industries. There are two boatyards, a marine engineering workshop, a chandlery, a forge, guest-houses, numerous holiday lets, Scilly’s smallest pub, the delightful Fraggle Rock, a café, a campsite, a gallery, a shop and post-office. Hell Bay is the island’s only hotel. Stylish, relaxed and of the very highest quality, Hell Bay is one of the finest places to stay on Scilly. Its restaurant has 3 AA Rosettes and it is known for its understated elegance and original art work. in addition the island provides delicious fudge from Veronica Farm. The two island boatyards provide visitors with the opportunity to hire boats (Bennett Boatyard) or even to “timeshare” them (Scillonia Boatshare). Servicing all boating requirements for both Bryher and Tresco is Bryher Boat Services.

Bryher is home to fisherman Mike Pender, who delivers shellfish to Tresco.

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Character house in large, T: 01752 206020 sheltered garden with three E: [email protected] holiday rental properties. www.southhill-bryher.co.uk BRYHER BOATS

Locally-caught For something different, book on our one hour Cyclone trip, lobster and crab maximum 12 people, for a trip to see seals, birds and other cooked to order wildlife, with commentary on local history and wrecks. Our suspension seats make it suitable for all ages. Speak to us about private charter to do it your way, or see our boat boards for daily advertised trips. We also offer a service between Scilly and Penzance in our fast jet boat Orders taken for (about 1¾ hours) if there are any flight disruptions. delivery to Tresco T: 01720 422975 01720 422886 [email protected] Mike & Sue Pender, Bryher

CHANDLERS GIFT SHOP Chandlery Souvenirs Fishing tackle Gifts Shipwreck display Camping supplies

Bryher Boatyard 01720 422702 Anneka’s Quay www.bryherboatyard.com

Nicola’s Sweet Treats

Celebration cakes from victoria sponges to fruit cakes to order! From birthday to anniversary!

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St Mary’s the hub of Scillonian life

Island size: 1554 acres | Population: 1666 t Mary’s is the main island in terms of I of courtesy image Middle population and the seat of local authority. At 629 hectares, it is over twice the size of Tresco, the next largest island. With a population of more than 1,600 , St Mary’s accounts for

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St Mary’s is dominated by Hugh Town, its capital and the only town on the islands. Hugh Town provides the islands with its main harbour, through which almost all goods coming in to the islands or going out pass. A supermarket, post office, butchers, delicatessen, museum, chemist, newsagents, galleries, photographers, clothes shops, restaurants and pubs are ranged along Hugh Town’s central, narrow streets. above the town and the quay is the Garrison, St Mary’s most westerly extension, on top of which stands Star Castle, a handsome fortification of Elizabethan origin. The retail heart of Hugh Town runs from the harbour out to a low neck of land which separates the sea at Porthcressa on one side and St Mary’s Pool on the other. Across this narrow corridor lies the rest of the island. Beyond Hugh Town, St Mary’s unfolds as an island of rugged coastline and gentle farmland. Like all the islands, it is scattered with historic remains dating back to the Bronze Age. St Mary’s is the hub of the Isles of Scilly.

For the visitor, St Mary’s offers a range of activities, including horse riding, bicycle hire, golf, sea safaris and even guided bus tours.

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On the coastal footpath, above Isles of Scilly Porthloo, St Mary’s. Food served all day Museum and most evenings, inside and out. Call ahead to book Church Street, St Mary’s an evening table. Open Daily from 10am Fabulous food. Adult £3.50 Fabulous view. Children £1.00 julietsgardenrestaurant.co.uk 01720 422228 iosmuseum.org

Cut Loose Photo: Chris Hall Unisex Hair Salon St Mary’s T: 01720 422232 E: rosannahicks @hotmail.com Tregothnan’s beautiful botanical gardens inspire our unique home-grown tea and English estate products.Why not book a cutloosescilly.co.uk Private Garden Visit? www.tregothnan.co.uk / 01872 520000 Tresco times 2013 yearbook

St Martin’s a prevailing sense of calm

Island size: 568 acres | Population: 140 B aking into account White Island on I of courtesy image ottom St Martin’s northern tip, the island has an area of 237 hectares and a population of around 140. sles of S of sles cilly TIC cilly

Along its south-western coast is a long stretch of glorious white sand and even St Martin’s rugged north-eastern coastline harbours one of the finest beaches on Scilly. Its economy is typically Scillonian: farming, fishing and predominantly tourism. st Martin’s possesses a very successful flower-farming business, Churchtown Farm, as well as a general stores, a diving school, a campsite, a bakery, an award- winning fish and chip restaurant and one of Britain’s most remote vineyards. In addition, St Martin’s is home to island jeweller, Fay Page.

The island has two quays, which are situated at Lower Town (looking across to Tresco) and Higher Town. Its most recognisable feature is the red and white striped daymark, built in 1683.

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Self drive catamaran motorboats Freedom to discover your own Scilly Moorings throughout the Islands

01720 422702 www.scilloniaboatshare.com Tresco times 2013 yearbook Cottage

EMERGENCY! accommodated at the discretion of the and at the Sea Gardens. Please reserve Fire, medical, coastguard Timeshare department provided that it is a time at the Spa or at the Porter’s Lodge. Always dial 999 agreed in advance. A Z-bed and bedding Free for Flying Boat members or £20 per will be supplied and the charge for this hour for non-members. There is 24-hour cover for emergencies service is £120 per person per week. such as fire, accident or serious illness. Children and baby services Dial 999 – as you would on the mainland. Cottage Cleaning Babysitting service: Babysitting can Your call is received by the Emergency and Extra Linen usually be arranged if you contact the Island Services who alert either Tresco Fire If you are staying for more than a week, Office giving at least 24 hours notice. The Service or Tresco first-responders, we will send a cleaner to your cottage on arrangement is a private one between you St Mary’s paramedic and medical launch the changeover day – at the end of your and the baby-sitter. Charges are £7.00 an skipper. Serious medical emergencies first week – to change bed-linen, towels, hour until midnight and £8.00 an hour after. may be flown out by Air Ambulance or cleaning pack etc and to vacuum and Cots, high-chairs, stairgates and Rescue Helicopter from RNAS Culdrose clean rooms including bathrooms and booster seats can be supplied free of – based on the Lizard, Cornwall. kitchen. Alternatively – if you prefer – charge, and should be ordered in advance fresh bed-linen and towels are available on your Arrival Form. Coastguard from Housekeeping. Simply contact the Should you see anyone in trouble on the Island Office and ask for what you want. All-terrain pushchairs are also sea, dial 999 and ask for Coastguard. You Waterproof sheets and feather pillows available to hire. may save a life. If you find any unusual are available on request. or potentially dangerous items washed up on the beach, you should contact the Medical problems Coastguard via the Island Office. Dead Island Facilities doctor marine mammals should also be reported. Golf Buggies.... There is a Health Centre on St Mary's, and Accounts on the island We are very anxious that our visitors who the doctor holds a surgery by appointment are incapacitated can still enjoy the island at Tresco Community Centre every You may use your cottage account to charge and we have several golf buggies which Tuesday morning. Call 422628 for items at all outlets except Gallery Tresco. are reserved strictly for those that have appointments or advice. For serious Simply show your Cottage Account Card a mobility problem. Apply at the Island medical emergencies always call 999. (or FBC card if a member) at the till. You Office, where the buggies may be reserved must settle this account by 10.30am on the The hospital deals with out of hours in advance of your stay. morning of your departure at the Island calls during evenings and weekends and Office, at which point you should also Tresco is, of course, primarily for walkers can be contacted on 422392 for medical return your Cottage Account Card. and cyclists. The buggies are provided advice 24 hours a day. If you also need as a courtesy to those of our visitors to speak with a GP out of hours please who genuinely find it hard to get around. call the hospital. Get in touch Please refrain from joy-riding if you are fit. The cottages service team will assist Wheelchairs A boating section with any household emergencies. Wheelchairs are available free of charge Scheduled boat trips Contact them via: and should be booked in advance at the Bryher Boats (Firethorn, Faldore and Island Office Island Office. Cyclone) operate a boat service for During office hours+44 (01720) 422849 Tresco. The times of the boats are posted Cottages Manager Leisure on notice boards around the island. 24hr emergency line +44 (01720) 424106 Swimming pools: Persons use the pool at Because Scilly experiences big tides, their own risk. The Estate cannot accept the times and departure points will responsibility for any damage or loss either Additional people vary and are posted the day before. in your cottage to persons or property from any cause whatsoever suffered by anyone using or The Timeshare Agreement allows for a Moorings at Tresco being present at a swimming pool. Children set maximum number of people in each If you would like a Tresco mooring, under 15 must be accompanied by an adult. cottage. However extra infants who sleep please contact the Harbourmaster, in cots are allowed. Any extra people Tennis courts: Tennis courts are located at Henry Birch, by post via the Island (over and above this maximum) may be both New Grimsby behind the Island Office, Office or mobile+44 (0)7778 601237.

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The Abbey Garden Fishing Historic monuments Our world-famous horticultural delight Read all about rock fishing on Tresco Two forts (the Old Blockhouse and is open daily. For more information, take on page 38. Bryher Boat Services also King Charles’ Castle) were built in Tudor a look at the garden guide. arrange offshore fishing adventures times to defend the harbours at Old and (see contact details above). New Grimsby from French and Spanish Boating invaders. The remains can be seen today. Bryher Boat Services visit other islands Golf In the 1650s, Cromwell’s Castle – a tall daily as well as offering trips to see birds There’s a nine-hole, eighteen cylindrical building with a lower gun and seals. Private charters and fishing tee golf course on St Mary’s. platform – was built and still dominates the trips are also available. For further details Call +44 (0)1720 422692 channel between Tresco and Bryher today. please visit www.bryherboats.co.uk or call +44 (0)1720 422886. Island Sea Sailing/Windsurfing/Canoeing Swimming Safaris on St Mary’s offer ‘Shipwreck, These are all available at the Sailing Centre. There are indoor pools at the Spa and Sea Seals and Seabirds’ wildlife rib Please go to page 36 for more details. Gardens available to members and three excursions and private charters. heated outdoor pools on the island. For further details please call Mark Don’t miss or Susie on +44 (0)1720 422732. Gig rowing Boat Hire is available from Bennett Boat From May to September there Yard – call Dan on +44 (0)1720 422205. are regular gig races between For long term boatshare, call Scillonia the island clubs. Scilly hosts Boatshare +44 (0)1720 422702. the World Gig Racing Championships every May.

Birdwatching The island is a magnet for birdwatchers. Tresco has three bird hides and two freshwater pools. Special spring Cycling and autumn tours are available with Bikes for all ages are available for hire professional ornithologist David Rosair next door to the Stores & Delicatessen. Gallery Tresco (see page 6). The exhibition calendar is on page 78 Tennis Horse riding There are two all-weather courts near Yoga and well-being St Mary’s Riding Centre caters for the Flying Boat and another at the Sea Please go to page 41 for more details a range of abilities. They also offer Garden Cottages. Pop into the Spa to about classes and Spa treatments. For trips on a horse-drawn carriage book and for racquets and balls. more information and to book, please call Call +44 (0)1720 423855 for more details. +44 (0)1720 424075.

Gym There’s a fully quipped gym at the Spa.

Walking There is a network of footpaths on Tresco. One option is to follow the coastal path along to Cromwell’s seventeenth century castle on Diving the island’s northwest promontory (built Why not give the Island Office Isles of Scilly Diving School on St Martin’s to guard the anchorage between Bryher a call on +44 (0)1720 422849? organise diving and snorkel excursions. and Tresco). A short hike up the hill behind Call +44 (0)1720 422848 for leads you to King Charles’ Castle with You’ll talk to an islander who more information. fabulous views of the islands. knows what’s what.

2013 yearbook | 77 Gallery Tresco 2013 ExHIBITIONS

Spring 13 May – Geoffrey Bickley, Nicola Hancox, Sophie Harding, Gary Long, Maggie Matthews, Tom Rickman

Summer 6 July – Neil Pinkett, Ian Shearman, Rosemary Trestini 16 July – Paul Lewin, David Rust, Ellen Watson 27 July – Imogen Bone, Anthony Garratt, Maggie O’Brien 6 August – Tom Holland, Marie Mills, Mungo Powney 17 August – John Dyer, Stewart Edmondson, Paul Wadsworth 27 August – Chris Hankey, Myles Oxenford, Nicky Walker

Autumn 9 October – John Bampfield, Stuart Kettle, Wendy McBride, Richard Stanley, Andrew Tozer

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With Buy Back Guarantee 30 year between years 4 and 15

MONDAY CHANGEOVER Sandy Lane sleeps 6 Week 41 10-Oct 2013 £25,025 Week 36 03-Sep 2013 £56,500 Rockpool (SG) sleeps 6/8 Barn Flat sleeps 6 Week 39 24-Sep 2013 £27,000 Week 29 18-Jul 2013 £111,750 Week 14 01-Apr 2013 £14,080 Week 43 22-Oct 2013 £21,900 Week 31 01-Aug 2013 £111,750 Week 24 10-Jun 2013 £20,625 Seagrass (SG) sleeps 6/8 Week 32 08-Aug 2013 £111,750 Week 30 22-Jul 2013 £54,500 Week 35 27-Aug 2013 £111,750 Sail Loft sleeps 8 Week 35 26-Aug 2013 £54,000 Teal sleeps 4 Week 36 05-Sep 2013 £57,000 Curlew sleeps 6 Week 38 17-Sep 2013 £18,000 Tern sleeps 8 Week 17 22-Apr 2013 £16,500 Week 41 08-Oct 2013 £11,200 Week 7 14-Feb 2013 £4,335 17yr* Week 18 29-Apr 2013 £12,975 Wigeon sleeps 6 Week 34 22-Aug 2013 £41,600 16yr* Week 19 06-May 2013 £20,625 Week 22 27-May 2013 £25,500 Week 43 24-Oct 2013 £18,000 Week 21 20-May 2013 £16,320 24yr* Week 24 11-Jun 2013 £20,625 Townshill sleeps 6 Week 30 22-Jul 2013 £54,000 Week 25 18-Jun 2013 £24,450 Week 39 23-Sep 2013 £20,625 Week 35 29-Aug 2013 £71,500 Driftwood (SG) sleeps 6/8 Week 14 01-Apr 2013 £28,000 WEDNESDAY CHANGEOVER FRIDAY CHANGEOVER Week 15 08-Apr 2013 £29,685 Coastguards sleeps 8 Abalone (SG) sleeps 8/10 Farmhouse sleeps 10 Week 35 28-Aug 2013 £80,000 Week 16 12-Apr 2013 £32,145 Week 38 16-Sep 2013 £42,500 Coral (SG) sleeps 6/8 Week 27 28-Jun 2013 £50,845 Flora (FB) sleeps 6/8 Week 23 05-Jun 2013 £43,080 Week 28 05-Jul 2013 £117,500 Week 30 22-Jul 2013 £106,500 Week 40 02-Oct 2013 £35,270 Garland (FB) sleeps 6 Flotsam (SG) sleeps 6/8 Dolphin Cottage sleeps 6 Week 30 19-Jul 2013 £106,500 Week 30 22-Jul 2013 £111,750 Week 28 10-Jul 2013 £49,300 Week 31 26-Jul 2013 £106,500 Week 35 23-Aug 2013 £106,500 Ivy Cottage sleeps 4/5 Endeavour (FB) sleeps 8/9 Week 31 29-Jul 2013 £45,250 Week 20 15-May 2013 £39,050 Glen sleeps 6 Week 32 05-Aug 2013 £45,250 Week 35 28-Aug 2013 £112,000 Week 28 05-Jul 2013 £57,000 Week 33 12-Aug 2013 £45,250 Week 37 11-Sep 2013 £57,350 Week 29 12-Jul 2013 £71,500 Week 40 30-Sep 2013 £15,150 Week 38 18-Sep 2013 £50,645 Week 36 30-Aug 2013 £56,500 Week 39 25-Sep 2013 £39,050 Maiden Bower sleeps 8 Kittiwake sleeps 8 Week 37 09-Sep 2013 £40,675 Gadwall sleeps 4 Week 17 19-Apr 2013 £19,425 Week 21 22-May 2013 £14,250 North End sleeps 6 Pentle House sleeps 8 Week 28 10-Jul 2013 £28,500 Week 37 09-Sep 2013 £40,175 Week 22 24-May 2013 £38,000 Week 38 18-Sep 2013 £18,000 Plover sleeps 4 Porth sleeps 6 Nurses sleeps 5 Week 21 20-May 2013 £14,600 Week 23 31-May 2013 £35,000 29yr* Week 36 04-Sep 2013 £42,500 Week 26 24-Jun 2013 £17,150 Rowesfield sleeps 6 Week 42 14-Oct 2013 £11,200 Old Mill sleeps 8/10 Week 35 23-Aug 2013 £71,500 Week 17 24-Apr 2013 £14,520 24yr * Snipe sleeps 2 Week 36 30-Aug 2013 £56,500 Week 29 17-Jul 2013 £80,000 Week 29 15-Jul 2013 £28,500 Week 38 13-Sep 2013 £35,500 Week 31 29-Jul 2013 £28,500 Pearl (SG) sleeps 4/6 Week 39 20-Sep 2013 £27,000 Week 32 05-Aug 2013 £25,000 Week 29 17-Jul 2013 £95,500 Sandpiper sleeps 6 Week 33 12-Aug 2013 £28,500 Week 35 28-Aug 2013 £95,500 Week 17 19-Apr 2013 £12,975 Week 43 21-Oct 2013 £8,660 Puffin sleeps 8 Week 18 26-Apr 2013 £12,975 Sophie (FB) sleeps 6/8 Week 19 08-May 2013 £30,560 Week 25 14-Jun 2013 £24,450 Week 21 20-May 2013 £41,100 Week 32 02-Aug 2013 £54,000 Week 23 03-Jun 2013 £41,100 SATURDAY Changeover Week 42 11-Oct 2013 £16,800 Seaflower (FB) sleeps 6 TUESDAY CHANGEOVER Gem(FB) sleeps 6/8 Week 15 05-Apr 2013 £28,340 Week 30 20-Jul 2013 £106,500 Week 22 24-May 2013 £41,100 Week 35 24-Aug 2013 £106,500 Beach sleeps 4 Smugglers sleeps 6 Week 12 19-Mar 2013 £7,590 School House sleeps 8 Week 26 21-Jun 2013 £33,800 Week 27 02-Jul 2013 £25,100 Week 28 06-Jul 2013 £63,500 Week 35 27-Aug 2013 £45,000 Sunbeam (FB) sleeps 6/8 Week 36 03-Sep 2013 £36,000 Week 34 17-Aug 2013 £106,500 Week 37 10-Sep 2013 £14,500 16yr* Tresco Timeshare is Week 35 24-Aug 2013 £106,500 Doctors Cottage sleeps 4 Week 35 24-Aug 2013 £106,500 RCI Gold Crown Week 36 03-Sep 2013 £36,000 Tresco Timeshare is available in February, Fearless (FB) sleeps 6 THURSDAY CHANGEOVER March and November on a 10 year deferred Week 33 13-Aug 2013 £106,500 Week 34 20-Aug 2013 £106,500 Cliff Cottage sleeps 6 payment scheme – call for details. Week 35 27-Aug 2013 £106,500 Week 27 04-Jul 2013 £34,780 Week 28 11-Jul 2013 £49,350 Green sleeps 6 Week 34 22-Aug 2013 £75,000 More timeshare weeks (including some Week 22 28-May 2013 £15,000 19yr* Week 31 30-Jul 2013 £54,000 Colossus (FB) sleeps 8/10 summer holiday weeks) are available in both Week 40 01-Oct 2013 £18,075 Week 18 02-May 2013 £30,710 our traditional cottages and the new Flying Week 26 27-Jun 2013 £48,520 Just Home sleeps 6 Week 39 26-Sep 2013 £39,050 Boat and Sea Garden Cottages. Week 23 04-Jun 2013 £23,700 22yr* Dial Rocks sleeps 6 Please contact Dean Whillis, Timeshare Manager Merrick sleeps 8 Week 38 19-Sep 2013 £35,500 Week 28 09-Jul 2013 £57,000 Telephone +44 (0)1720 424111 or email Week 36 03-Sep 2013 £57,000 Friendship (FB) sleeps 6 Week 28 11-Jul 2013 £106,500 [email protected] for further details. Norrard sleeps 8 Week 35 23-Aug 2013 £106,500 Week 37 10-Sep 2013 £39,995 Ocean View sleeps 10 (SG) – Sea Garden Cottage | (FB) – Flying Boat Pebble (SG) sleeps 2 Week 19 09-May 2013 £31,060 Week 32 06-Aug 2013 £58,250 Cottage. *Asterisked weeks do not include FBC Week 20 16-May 2013 £31,060 Week 35 27-Aug 2013 £58,250 Week 40 03-Oct 2013 £26,500 22yr* membership or have a Buy Back Guarantee.

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Postal Address: Tresco Isles of Scilly Diving School: 422848 The Island Office Abbey Garden Café: 424108 Isles of Scilly Golf Club: 422692 Tresco Abbey Garden office: 424105 Isles of Scilly Steamship Company: The Isles of Scilly [email protected] 424222 TR24 0QQ Cottages Manager: 424106 Island Sea Safaris : 422732 [email protected] (24hr emergency line) Island Supply: 422388 Tresco Telephone Directory Flying Boat Restaurant: 424068 Dialling code: 01720 Pender Shellfish: 422975 If calling from outside the UK, Gallery Tresco: 424925 Police: 08452 777444/422444 use the international dialing Harbourmaster: 07778 601237 code: +44 and remove first 0 Sailing Centre (St Mary’s): 422060 from local dialing code. Hell Bay Hotel (on Bryher): 422947 St Mary’s Boatmen: 423999 [email protected] Island Office: 422849 St Mary’s Harbourmaster: 422768 New Inn: 423006 This is the number to call St Mary’s Horse Riding Centre: 423855 to enquire about availability Post Office (at the Stores & or to book accommodation Delicatessen): 424113 Scillonia Boatshare: 422702 on the island. Ruin Beach Café: 424849 Skybus St Mary’s: 422905 Sailing Centre (Tresco): 424919 Steamship Quay: 424230 (July & August) Taxi (St Mary’s): 422555/422635/422260 Tresco Spa: 424075 Tourist Information on St Mary’s: Timeshare Manager Dean Whillis: 422536 424111 [email protected] Tresco Stores & Delicatessen: 422806 Mainland National Rail Enquiries: 08457 484950 Scilly Skybus Land’s End: 01736 787017 Bennett Boat Hire: 422205 Steamship Freight Bookings: Bryher Boats : 422886 01736 334249 Bryher Marine Engineering: 423047 Steamship Travel Centre: 08457 105555 Dentist: 422694 Steamship warehouse: 01736 334236 Doctor: 422628 Hell Bay Hotel (on Bryher): 422947 Emergency [email protected] Fire/Police/Ambulance/Coastguard: Tresco.co.uk Hospital: 422392 Call 999 in an emergency

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“Every aspect of creating their brilliant spirits has been a meticulously researched labour of love” ESQUIRE

“Starting a gin distillery in London is not exactly a new idea, it’s just no-one had done it for 200 years” MONOCLE

INTRODUCING THE MULTI AWARD WINNING GIN FROM LONDON’S FIRST COPPER DISTILLERY IN 200 YEARS

Now and then, something very special comes along. In this case now and then was quite a while. It has been almost 200 years since a copper pot still was operating in London until the three lads at Sipsmith commissioned theirs named “Prudence” in 2009, spearheading the resurgence in small batch spirits and the pure artistry of distillation.

Sipsmith’s London Dry Gin is one of the few gins in the world not made from concentrate. Instead, using the traditional one shot method, it’s handcrafted producing only a few hundred bottles at a time, delivering perfect balance with real intensity and character.

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