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What no blue plaque?

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Drakewalls House is an unassuming white painted Victorian house on the edge of Gunnislake, Cornwall.

Here it is today currently being used as a guest house in the beautiful Tamar Valley; however to many mineral collectors this house will be remembered as the residence of Richard "Dick" Barstow.

It is from here that he and his wife Yvonne operated his mineral business from 1978 to 1982.

Barring the archives of his mailing lists and surviving labelled specimens one can only imagine what mineral treasures passed through this place nearly 40 years ago.

Definitely worth a blue plaque!

(In the UK "blue plaques" are put up on buildings to commemorate former notable residents) 

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