Maurice Harvey, St. Keverne and a blacksmith who was not that harmonious.

Maurice Harvey, St. Keverne and a blacksmith who was not that harmonious.

Since 1998 we as a club have paid our respects to Major Maurice Harvey; the well known Alvis works driver.

This year the Remembering Maurice Harvey event was held on the 6th October when six Alvis cars and 22 people gathered  in St. Keverne on the Lizard peninsular in Cornwall. A simple service was conducted at Harvey’s grave by Terry the local vicar.    Afterwards we lunched in The White Hart. After lunch Rob Moor was presented with a special trophy in recognition of his more than forty years service on the SW Committee. The award was a gear knob mounted on an ash triangle.

We then drove down narrow country lanes to Porthoustock beach and then on to Rosskilly’s Farm for ice cream.  St. Keverne is a small delightful village  which with it’s church and square in the centre is a picture of rural and tranquil. It does however have a surprising history! About 525years ago when Henry VII began raising taxes for a war in Scotland, the local blacksmith, Michael  an Gof lead a group of rebels (the Cornish rebellion of 1497) who marched to London. By the time he had reaches Greenwich his followers numbered 15,000. He was soundly defeated  by Henry’s army and met his fate at Tyburn gallows.

Rob Moor with his TA14 Special outside The White Hart S. Keverne.

The graveside gathering to remember Maurice Harvey.

Rob Moor is presented with an award by SW Secretary Tudor Francis in recognition of Rob’s service to the SW Section.

The Rob Moor Special on Porthoustock beach. The structure in the background is a mill and storage bunker that was used to crush locally quarried stone and load it into barges. The red box on the rear of Rob’s car was a beach combing find!

The trophy awarded to Rob Moor. The gear knob is tapped 3:8” BSF so that it can be used on the TA14 gear lever.

Tudor Francis