THE Launceston based author Geoff Provis launched volume one of ‘Delabole at Work and War’, on Saturday, November 27, at Medrose Chapel Delabole where local people were able to purchase it and meet the author.

The book contains over 200 historic photographs and some illustrations, and it sets out to explain the hardships and nature of life at Delabole in by-gone years.

Geoff has written three history books on Port Isaac and in 2012 his book The Seafarers of Port Isaac was nominated for a prize by the Holyer an Gof Cornish Book Awards.