In its heyday, the tiny granite hamlet of Trowan was home to almost 100 people. That was in the 19th century, when the collection of Cornish cottages, perched on the cliffs close to St Ives, housed workers from the nearby Consols mine.
Now, six months after the last resident moved out, Trowan, which is surrounded by a jigsaw-puzzle pattern of fields stretching to the clifftop, is being restored to create a new community of 11 homes.
