A Canadian Anglophile

 Gorhemmynnadown an'gwel  --- Greetings of the highest command

                                                 A greeting difficult to translate exactly but I am told that is close, I have seen a number spellings according to the various different forms of Cornish.

   Also it is not the old language but one that is being brought back to life, It was revived in the 20th centuary and gradually gained momentum and now there has recently been a standardised form and as such is now recognised be the EU ( what it has got to do with them though I do not know)

 Chons da-------  Good luck

 ha --- and

  Oll an gwella-------  All the best

Well, mystery solved. That photo I posted when I joined POE has been identified. As well as posting my question on this website, I sent the photo to Devon Life magazine, as I thought it most likely that we had reached Devon by the time I took the picture. It was a group of sculptures beside a road, with an inscription on one of the pieces. I'd neglected to note where we were when I took the photo and couldn't enlarge my photo enough to read it. An editor at Devon Life was kind enough to add my query to the website.

A reader from Exeter recognized it and wrote to the magazine with the information - and it turns out I was in the wrong part of the country altogether. The sculptures are located on the B4577 near Penuwch in Wales. There they sit, in front of a rather imposing house, making me wonder about their origin or purpose...a little whimsy on the part of the property owner? A representation of the family? Some sort of history project? I thought I had another mystery on my hands.

Google to the rescue! I found this notation by Roger Kidd on Wikimedia: 'The accompanying plaque has become weathered and indistinct but Cered's image from 2005 states, "A gift to the Community. The work of children of Ysgol Gynradd Penuwch. July 1993."' 

So there it is. I travelled the B4577 two days ago on Google Streetview and saw the sculptures with my own eyes. The power of the Internet.

I'm so glad you got your mystery solved, Brenda. 

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