| Admin History | Bernard Walke, was an English Anglican priest. Most of his ministry was in three Cornish parishes; he was parish priest of St Hilary from 1913 to 1936 . Walke wrote a play in the early 1920s which was performed by a cast of parishioners for a local audience which was later broadcast on the radio by the BBC in 1927. His wife Annie Walke working with friends and artists from Newlyn (Ernest & Dod Proctor, Gladys Hynes, Alethea & Norman Grastin, Harold Knight, Pog Yglesias, Roger Fry and Joan Manning Saunders) were comissioned to decorate St Hilary Church painting altar pieces and panels. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Walke Accessed 10.10.2016). |