CHRONOLOGY OF SCRIGNAC First Web Edition

Date                             Event

Ice Age                        Morainic rocks deposited at Huelgoat and other nearby sites

Prehistory                    As the ice retreated northwards centre of Brittany was densely wooded and became sparsely inhabited. Near Croix Rouge, Scrignac, recent investigations have found signs of several carved flints 500 metres west of Croix Rouge a 2.85 metre menhir was found in 1897 in Parc-ar-Peulven. Near Kerensaux 23 axes were found. At Creac’h –Niver pottery fragments and a polished axe were found. There was certainly another menhir at Goarem-ar-Men-Son-Braz, but unfortunately all these traces have now disappeared.

Bronze Age                  From the bronze age several remains have been found at Scrignac. There was a 30m diameter tumulus at Lannouedic, and at Kermarguon a 40m diameter tumulus, near Parc-an-Dossen. In 1955 two tombs were found at Quillourou; in one there was a vase. An axe was found at Kerseac’h.

Iron Age                       An Iron Age tunnel was found between Menez-Braz and Menez-Kersers, containing contemporary money.

1^st Century BC              The Ossimi tribe inhabited the area. Sir Mortimer Wheeler made extensive excavations at Huelgoat in 1938 where in the first century BC the Camp d’Arthus, a large fortified settlement with some remaining earth ramparts was built. The ramparts remain. He also visited Scrignac the same year and made notes on local moated feudal settlements.

                                    At Scrignac several rectangular compounds existed. One at Kerbrat and another near the ruins of the former Chapel of Saint Nicolas. A third existed at Roc’h-oudern which was about 65 metres long. Mortimer Wheeler located another south of the Chapel at Coat-Keo, being sub rectangular, 65 metres x 45 metres and 3 metre high banks and only one entry from the east.

BC 56                           The Romans under Julius Caesar invade Gaul; Carhaix (Vorgium) was the principal local Roman town.

Roman Period             Gold and silver is mined at Huelgoat.

AD 350                         Christianity arrives in Brittany.

380                                           British legionnaires are posted to Brittany, bringing with them, it is said, the elements of Celtic language that evolved into Breton, closely related to Welsh.

Approx 6^th/7^th Century              Wave of immigration by Britons from Cornwall, Wales, and Ireland. Evidence of local arrival includes the hamlet Kersaux near Scrignac. Kersaux means “place of the English”.

11^th Century                 A mediaeval moat existed at Guernaon near Pont Truel on the limit of Scrignac towards Carhaix. It still exists and measures 65 metres long, with a bank and a ditch, and only one entrance, again from the east. Traces of metal working have been found on the site. On the opposite bank is the moat of Rospellem in Carnoet, both dominating the river crossing. Vestiges of fortifications in earth banks remain but the previous timber upper works are all gone. Another such moat exists between Coat Keo and Trinivel.

12^th Century                 Several written versions of the Celtic legend of Tristan and Isolde appear; the legend says that Tristan was passing through the countryside and came to Carhaix where he found Isolde living in the castle and he fell in love with her. The legend was heavily romanticised in the 19^th century and became the source for one of Wagner’s best known operas.

1197                             Battle of Carnoet sometimes known as Tossen Saint Veltas or St Guildas

Between King Richard I of England, known as Coeur de Lion, and the barons of Brittany, resulting in the defeat of the English (many of them were in fact, like King Richard, of Norman stock) his flight and the French alleged death of 8000 English soldiers. There is little if any corroboration of a defeat of this size in English textbooks.

1318                             A parish church existed in Scrignac by this date.

1342                             Brest surrendered to the English and remained in their hands until 1397.

1375                             Old Roscoff destroyed by the Earl of Arundel.

28 May 1387                 Violent earthquake in Brittany.

1388                             A papal bull mentions the restoration of a chapel at Scrignac

Middle Ages                 Date of the croix at Kerennou-Huella.

1407                             Exceptionally cold winter.

XVe                              Date of the croix at Kerseac’h.

XVe                              Date of foundation of the chapel at Trinivel, under the control of the abbey at Relec; there is also a croix of the XVe century.

Late XVe                      Date of the bell tower of Scrignac church, dedicated to Sant Per or St Pierre, the oldest surviving fragment of the original building.

1522                             The English invade and sack Morlaix; they are defeated the next day.

1529                             A severe winter causes misery and decimates the population

1532                             France absorbs the Duchy of Brittany.

1536                             A severe drought lasts from Spring to December

1540                             Summer stated in February and finishes in October. Grapes were ripe by July.

1548                             Mary Queen of Scots is exiled to France landing in Roscoff

1585                             The Seigneuries of Kerbrat-Helles and Chateau Montafilant of Scrignac were owned by the Bishop of Quimper, Francois de la Tour.

XVIe                             Date of the croix (Croas ar Hure) at Quilivel

XVIe                             Date of the croix at Quillournou

XVIe                             Date of the chapel of St Corentin at Toul ar Groaz

XVIe                             Date of the chapel of St Hernin at Quefforc’h

1608                             Severe winter

1656                             Another severe winter.

1669                             Date of the oldest croix at Coat Keo.

1675                             Revolt of Bonnets Rouges or the Revolt of “Papier Timbre” a loathed tax; the manors of Kerbrat, Kergral and Kerizec at Scrignac were destroyed by arson.

1697                             The Cistercian monks of La Feuillee owned the hamlets of Lannouedic, Kertanguy and Le Quilliou at Scrignac.

26 November 1703       A hurricane lashes Brittany and causes 8000 victims.

15 April 1718                Severe storms last two days.

6 April 1763                  Creation of the Compagnie des Mines Basse-Bretagne by Guillotou de Kerever under royal licence.  The company was formed to exploit the mines at Huelgoat and Poullaouen. Although a source of activity since even pre-historic times the mines entered their golden age in the 18^th century. They were at the time the principal metal mines of the French kingdom. Between 1749 and 1864 20,000 tonnes of lead and 60 tonnes of silver were extracted. Many of the senior workers were from elsewhere including Germany, the local population supplying labour.  

1765                             A hurricane destroys many trees.

December 1765            A severe winter.

1789                             The French Revolution commences.

1789-1793                     La Guerre de Vendee.

                                    Counter revolutionary Chouans from Brittany resist the revolution.

1790                             The Breton parliament at Rennes is abolished

1791                             The revolutionaries hunt the aristocrats and take possession of their houses and lands. The Bishop of Leon escaped to England.

1792                             Year I of the Revolutionary Calendar.

29 April 1792                A detachment of the Garde Nationale arrived in Scrignac to restore republican order, as there was considerable dissent from the revolution in the area.

3 May 1792                   Patriot Jean Peron took repossession of the Mairie at Scrignac. The commune had to pay a fine of 16,933 livres for previous dissention.

23 May 1792                 Coroller was elected mayor of Scrignac. He supported the revolution.

29 July 1792                 A priest called Le Coant was installed in Scrignac considered by many to be an intruder. An interesting premonition of developments 140 years later.

22 August 1792             A battle at Scrignac between Chouans and Republicans from Morlaix. The Chouans  arrived from other places, including Berrien, but also further afield. A counter revolutionary sentiment had been whipped up by the priests of Huelgoat, Bolazec and Poullaouen., and by local nobles who had not fled the revolution being Nouvel de la Fleche de Huelgoat, du Parc de Kerennou de Scrignac and Lesquelin de Goazvenou de Poullaouen. The counter revolutionary movement arrived in force up to about 3000 strong and surrounded Scrignac. The Chouans were demanding the reappointment of the priests. The revolutionary forces sent for reinforcements with cannons from Carhaix and Morlaix. There were several intensive skirmishes and 23 people at least were killed. In view of the greater fire power of the incoming forces the Chouans fled in the direction of Berrien and were chased by the revolutionary forces.

22 September 1792      The first Republic is formed.

October 1792                A Scrignac resident was guillotined during the Terror at Carhaix. It is known that the guillotine arrived in the town that month but it’s not known if those executed were the actual mutineers from Scrignac.

21 January 1793           Louis XVI guillotined at Paris.

1793                             Population of Scrignac 2016.

1794                             Cambry, who wrote  a report on Finistere, recorded that there were fewer sheep in the Poher owing to the problem of wolves. In Brittany in1840 there were 1,074,000 sheep over 976,000 hectares which fell to 166,000 by 1929. There were various attacks by wolves reported in 1777, 1801, 1811 and 1888.

Ann VII                         As required under a revolutionary law the whole Scrignac commune met to take part in a revolutionary ceremony when L’Hymne a la Patrie was sung and Vive la Republique was chanted several times. The population was required to declare hatred of the monarchy.

Ann VIII                        Armed robbery at Scrignac and a conviction for failing to register a birth.

1800                             Theophile Malo Corret de la Tour d’Auvergne, son of Carhaix,  born 1743 dies. « The bravest of the brave » soldier, who had been a prisoner of the English in 1794, is buried in Les Invalides.

Ann XI                          Robbery with violence at Scrignac.

1803                             The Nantes to Brest canal was designed.

1811                             The Nantes to Brest canal construction was started.       

1816                             Date of the croix at Fos Vern, Scrignac.

1818                             Yves Quelen, Scrignac resident, transported.

1826                             Francois le Foll, Scrignac resident, transported.

1828                             Guillaume le Lann, Scrignac resident, transported.

1830                             Scrignac lime kiln opens near the road to Croix Rouge.

1834                             Notaire accused of forgery at Scrignac.

1836                             First plan cadastral of Scrignac. It showed a cross in the middle of

                                    la place de l’Eglise, now place des trois Coant.

1836                             There was a murder at Scrignac.

1837                             There were 2597 hectares of agricultural land at Scrignac.

1847                             Thefts at Scrignac.

1849                             There was a murder at Scrignac.

1858                             The canal Nantes to Brest was completed at 364km long.

1866                             Scrignac church modernised and rebuilt.

1866                             Census at Scrignac. The population was 3104 of which 221 lived in the bourg, and 2883 in the countryside. The age breakdown is:

                                    Under 20           1359

                                    20/40                989

                                    41/60                565

                                    61/70                163

                                    71/80                26

                                    80+                   2

There were 579 houses, of which only 25 had a first floor. 305 houses had thatched roofs.

200 adults knew how to read; 97 knew how to read and write

Not many children went to school; many children started work at 10-12.

Agricultural production concentrated on hemp and linen. There were 14 houses where weaving took place, and 14 tailors. There were 5 blacksmiths, 4 saddlers, and 7 clog makers. There was only one boulangerie. There were 12 mills and one notaire.

Poverty was considerable; 80 people lived by begging and 192 people were retired or living off rents.

There were 361 working farms supporting 2526 people.

There were 689 horses, 508 sheep and goats, 376 pigs and 3507 cattle. There were 268 bulls and it’s possible that some were used for tilling the rocky ground. There were 760 bee hives.

Family size was large. 97 families had two children, 79 3 children, 59 4 children and 164 5+.

The number of inhabitants at some hamlets was large; at Pors Jaffrenou 7 families 38 inhabitants, Ty Jaffre 7 families 40 inhabitants, Kerloc’h 17 families 82 inhabitants, Trinivel 14 families 84 inhabitants and Quefforc’h 18 families with 102 inhabitants.

1867                             Theft of two metres of material took place at Scrignac.

1869                             Hunting crimes are recorded at Scrignac. There were many such crimes in the area that year.

1870                             In Scrignac 71 children less than one year old died, and 48 between 1 and 4. There were five burials on one day. In a nine month period there were 294 deaths of which 197 were children.

1870/71                         France invaded by Prussia. A Compagnie de Scrignac is raised to join many other Bretons and French, and marches to Conlie near Le Mans to join an army raised to counter attack the Prussians. The army is very badly equipped and many men have no weapons. Indecision and disease prevail and many lives are lost through disease and malnutrition.

1871                             Thoz, a republican, was elected as Maire at Scrignac. Conflicts between the Church and State accelerated.     

1872                             60% of heads of householders in Scrignac were farmers.

1880                             The Mairie sold the trees from the cemeteries at the Bourg and Coat Keo, Scrignac, against the wishes of the Church.

1886                             The number of two storey houses in Scrignac had increased to 68.

5 October 1890             Terrible storm at Scrignac which floods rivers and causes loss of two lives, a husband and wife named Laizet leaving five orphans.

1892                             Paul Serusier artist and collaborator of Gaugin lives at Huelgoat until 1894 and paints many local subjects.

1890                             A wild boar killed Mr Robinson an English expatriate near Huelgoat.

A street

bears his name.

1891                             The last known wolf in Brittany dies at Cloitre St Thegonnec.

1891                             Le petit train from Morlaix to Carhaix ran for the first time, although it was officially opened by French President Faure in 1897.

1896                             A butcher named Floc’h from Huelgoat murdered the Scrignac farmer Huguen by stabbing after a dispute involving the price of a veal calf. Floc’h also tried to kill Huguen’s son. The whole incident was reported in the Patit Parisien of 5 September.      

1900                             Population of Scrignac approximately 3000.

18 January 1902           Straw fire at Lannouedic, Scrignac,  caused by two children.

1906                             Socialists win 75.5% of the votes at Scrignac.

1910                             The mairie increased the rent of the Presbytere of Scrignac by 50%. The Bishop of Quimper ordered that the priest be withdrawn from the parish and that no bells would be rung. The argument was resolved in March.

1/3 August 1914            The Great War starts.

11 November 1918       The Great War ends. Like most in France the families of Scrignac suffered greatly. There were many men who did not return.

21 May 1919                 Victor Segalen, poet and writer, died in the forest in Huelgoat, with a volume of Shakespeare in his hand.

1921                             Population of Scrignac peaks at 3511.

17/18 September 1921              Festival Breton de Huelgoat organised by Taldir Jaffrennou of Carnoet whose family originated from Scrignac. There were 10000 visitors over two days with numerous events, banquets, competitions etc. Visitors included many notables including Marechal Foch. Amongst the competitions Paul de Kerseac’h from Scrignac won the 18-20 years category and Floc’h from Trinivel won the senior title. Jaffrenou was an ardent Breton separatist and anti-semite.

11 April 1922                Curious fire ball at Berrien.

1926                             Important repairs to Scrignac church.

1926                             An ancient chapel in Scrignac was purchased and removed stone by stone to be re-erected at Scaer where it remains.

1928                             Death of Theodore Le Hars, Senator and Mayor of Quimper following an accident in Scrignac at Kervoazou; there is a croix at the spot.

1928                             Restoration of the Four a Chaux (lime kiln) at Scrignac.

1930                             Abbe Perrot is appointed as priest at Scrignac. The Bishop of Quimper regarded him as a hothead nationalist and knew that at Scrignac he would be far away and in a village with strong left attitudes.

1931                             Date of the croix at Toul ar Groaz, Scrignac.

1930s                            Yves Menez from Scrignac leads the Ideal Jazz  band on the accordion, and is well known across France. His wife is the Scrignac hairdresser.

1932                             The chapel at Coat Keo, Scrignac was put up for sale by the Marie. It was bought by Abbe Perrot.

1932                             The proceeds from the sale of another chapel were used to build the school at Quenequen, Scrignac.

1935                             Abbe Perrot visited Wales to meet Welsh nationalists.

1937                             The chapel at Coat Keo, Scrignac,  is restored by architect James Bouille under the patronage of Abbe Perrot.

1938                             Death of Scrignac born Louis Goaziou at Charleroi, Pennsylvania, USA; he was an anarchist, later socialist and trades union leader.

1938                             A weekend day trip from Scrignac to the sea side at Roscoff cost 16 francs, with children half price.

1938                             Death of Scrignac born Theo Kervoelen fighting in the Spanish Civil War as a Republican

1 September1939         The Second World War starts.

10 May 1940                 Germany invades France with the Blitzkreig.

22 June 1940                The fall of France; an armistice is signed. France is divided into occupied and unoccupied zones. Scrignac is occupied with a German garrison of about 100, mainly in the Bourg. Some were billeted in the Couvent de Ker-Anna. Paratroopers were stationed at some times in the forest near Moulin Kerloc’h.

24 June 1940                General Charles de Gaulle broadcasts his “Appel aux Francais”from London.

1941                             Germany starts building their largest French complex of submarine pens at Lorient with up to 15000 workers many being forced. Construction continued until the end of the war. The pens successfully resisted persistent allied bombing and are still visible today. (Open to the public) The bombing of Lorient was so heavy that the city was destroyed and had to be evacuated. The pens at Brest no longer exist; they were more successfully bombed by the RAF using “earthquake bombs”.

6 April 1941                  With Bristol Beauforts the RAF attack the German battleships Scharnhorst, Gniesenau and Prinz Eugen at Brest. FO Kenneth Campbell is awarded a posthumous VC for his attack on the Gniesenau which saw no action for a further nine months, during what was a critical period of the Battle of the Atlantic. Campbell is buried at Brest.

29 January 1943           At 2.15pm 12 Boston bombers of the RAF, based at RAF Swanton, bomb the railway viaduct in Morlaix. Collateral damage kills 40 locals including 39 children at a school. The RAF looses one plane to anti aircraft fire.

24 January 1943           Scrignac born Germaine Pirou was deported to Auschwitz; she survived the war.

12 December 1943       Shooting of Abbe Perrot at Lannuzon on the road to Croix Rouge now marked by a solitary wooden cross. The Abbe was buried at the Chapelle de Coat Keo, Scrignac alongside the ancient chapel he promoted the alteration and restoration of.

29 January 1944           Francois Mitterand later President of France slipped into Beg an Fry, near Locquirec, in his role in the resistance under code name Jacques Morland. Motor  Gun Boat 502 commanded by LT Cdr Peter Williams RNVR landed him under the German guns mounted on the cliffs. A memorial marks the spot, and the German gun emplacement still exist. Next morning Mitterand took the train to Paris from Morlaix. French socialists see this as a symbolic place. Williams returned with escaping allied aviators supplied under the “Var” escape network.

Later Clare Francis, who married a Breton, wrote a novel about the resistance based in the same area.

                                    Williams was awarded various decorations for valour and the Legion d’Honneur. He died aged 91 in 1994 at East Grinstead, Sussex having been a farmer and politician.

4 April 1944                  Resistant P Mevel was shot by firing squad at Kerseac’h , Scrignac. The site is marked by simple roadside granite stone similar to the other two erected in Scrignac.          

6 June 1944                  D Day invasion by Allied forces in Normandy. The attack develops with the Americans on the right flank and British and Commonweath forces on the left flank. After taking Avranches and following stiff German resistance the Americans headed south and west. The British encircled Caen. Resistance uprising behind the German lines attacking principally supply lines including railways.

8 June 1944                  Resistants Francis Coant and Louis Coant (cousin) of Scrignac were exposed by the Breton Separatist Commando of Landerneau and were executed at Rennes on 8 June.

27 June 1944                Resistants J Le Fur and J Priol were shot by firing squad at Pennaneac'h, Scrignac.

8 July 1944                   Death of Scrignac born Jean-Marie Colloret, naval officer on board the Free French submarine La Perle between Newfoundland and Greenland.

17 July 1944                 Three German officers were killed by local resistants

23 July 1944                 Resistants.P Poher and V Poher were shot by firing squad at Pen ar Garront, Scrignac.

24 July 1944                 All the gendarmes in Huelgoat were arrested and the bourg of Scrignac was occupied by german sympathiser militia

29 July 1944                 The RAF bomb Scrignac, damaging the church and school, but kill by mistake 23 civilians, including one family of seven refugees, and only 2 of the German garrison based in the Couvent Ker Anna, Rue de Collonec. Rumours abound regarding double agents. The church including its stained glass is repaired after the war, and the date of the bombing is reproduced in the eastern window.

30 July 1944                 Resistants E Guillou and F Kervoelen were shot by firing squad at Pen ar Garront, Scrignac.

30 July 1944                 The RAF attacked the Chateau de Trevarez near Chateauneuf du Faou a rest home for the officers of the Kreigsmarine based at Lorient. As a sign of unity the Chateau was even visited by the crew of a Japanese submarine. The repairs were not completed until the 1980s. The chateau was built in the late 19^th century as a statement of financial success by a local shipping magnate and politician but the family only lived in it for a few years. It is open to the public.

31 July 1944                 Commonwealth new papers, including the Argus in Melbourne, Australia, reported that the german occupied village of Scrignac had been “wiped out”.

4/5 August 1944            Liberation of Scrignac by troops of the General Patton’s American Third Army and Armoured Corps advancing from Carhaix in their drive to take Brest and its deep water harbour. Some of the retreating Germans were isolated in a pocket near Brasparts and they were liberated by a daring sortie by Panzers.

5 August 1944               88 members of the British 3^rd Parachute Regiment land east of Morlaix in Operation Code Name Derry to secure the railway lines and the viaduct.

9 August 1944               Morlaix is liberated. The viaduct was kept intact.

10 August 1944             Allied naval forces land at St Michel en Greve to supply the American attack on Brest. They also land food to feed civilians fleeing Brest.

16 August 1944             La Compagnie de Scrignac-Berrien des Resistants are in combat near Irvillac. Second Lieutenant Le Foll of Scrignac wrote a report on the war of attrition on the German army retreating to the Brest stronghold. Amongst those killed were the officer commanding, Plassart and Yves Begat with Job Goasdue all from Berrien.

21 August 1945             The battle to liberate Brest starts.

25 August 1944             Paris is liberated.

21 September 1944      The Americans take a ravaged Brest along with about 38000 German prisoners. Previously the Allies had dropped 4000 tonnes of bombs on the city and they and the Germans caused so much damage that 10,000 homes were destroyed and 965 civilians killed. The damage is so severe that the port cannot be used by the allies. It was said that only three old buildings remained standing.

21 December 1944       Francois-Marie Coant of Scrignac died 21 December 1944 at Natzwiller concentration camp, Germany.

8 May 1945                   The second world war ends in Europe. Scrignac lost many combatants and non combatants.

10 May 1945                 The German garrison defending Lorient finally surrendered.

1946                             There were ten communist cells in Scrignac; more than in Morlaix.

1947                             Visit of Plaid Cymru from Wales to Brittany to investigate alleged atrocities committed against Breton nationalists in reprisals.

1950                             Date of the stone croix in memory of Abbe Perrot at Coat Keo, and a wooden cross at Lannuzon where he was killed. Every Easter Monday a ceremony is held in his memory.

1952                             Brittany championship of Lutte Breton (Breton wrestling) held at Scrignac.

1956                             There was an attempt to restore the Scrignac lime kiln again

1957                             Finistere politician Marc Becam campaigned for agricultural modernisation but found some of the farmers of Scrignac hostile.

1960s                            The Carhaix to Morlaix railway closed. It later becomes a route for walkers, riders etc and is now included in the Santiago de Compestella pilgrim route from Roscoff. It passes through Scrignac Gare.

19 March 1960              War in Algeria finishes.

A street

in Scrignac is named after the date. Scrignac lost three dead.

1962                             Construction of Brennilis nuclear power station commences.

1962                             Population of Scrignac 1948.

1965                             Death of General Maxime Weygand. Illegitimate son of either Empress Charlotte of Mexico or Leopold II King of the Belgians, Weygand became a senior general in the French Army heavily involved in the war at the time other fall of France. He later became entangled with the Vichy regime. He retired to a Chateau on the outskirts of Morlaix where he is buried in the cemetery, following the refusal of President de Gaulle to allow him to be buried in Les Invalides at Paris.

1970                             There were 4459 hectares of agricultural land at Scrignac.

Early 1970s                   There was a world shortage of copper partly driven by concerns about the effects African de-colonisation. Trial excavations were made at Scrignac but the halving of the price of copper in 1975 and high cost of recovery made the project unviable.

1970s on                       British purchasers start buying houses in the centre of Brittany including Scrignac. Initially these are principally holiday houses and the area became more attractive after the opening of the ferry linking Roscoff and Plymouth starting in 1972. Brittany Ferries was started as a co-operative of farmers wanting to extend their market in the UK, building on the earlier success of the “Johnnies”, itinerant onion sellers from Roscoff who used to sell their onions off bicycles in the UK. By 2009 there are approximately 140 British owned houses in the commune of Scrignac.

9 March 1974                The FLB blow up the 229m television mast at Roc Tredudon, depriving the area of television for several weeks.

1975                             Brennilis nuclear power station is bombed by the FLB.

1975                             Population of Scrignac 1450.

1976                             A bomb destroys war memorial in Scrignac; later re-erected in new format and position, now in Breton as well as the original French only.

1977                             Brittany championship of Lutte Breton (Breton wrestling) held at Scrignac

1977                             Michel Lang directs his film Hotel de la Plage at Locquirec.

1978                             Roman Polanski directs his film Tess of the D’Urbevilles at Locronan.

16 March 1978              The Amoco Cadiz founders at Portsall, causing widespread marine pollution.

1980                             Establishment of the Parc Regional d’Armorique.

1982                             30% of heads of householders in Scrignac were farmers.

1982                             The wooden cross near Croix Rouge raised in memoriam of Abbe Perrot is cut down by unknown objectors to his memory, and is later re-erected.

1988                             Inter-celtic championship of Lutte Breton held at Scrignac. The BBC recorded a TV programme.

1985                             Production ceases at Brennilis nuclear power station.

15 October 1987           A hurricane strikes the area. Wind speeds of up to 180 kph are recorded and in all about a quarter of Breton forests are destroyed including significant damage at Huelgoat.

1991                             The Mairie bought the former convent Ker Anna, Scrignac. After about ten years it was sold to a British developer, who later started building houses in the grounds.

1992                             The Vieilles Charrues pop festival is founded at Carhaix. By 2009 it had grown to a major festival attracting 230,000 visitors over four days.

2006                             Population of Scrignac 825, the lowest for over 200 years.

2010                             An exceptionally cold winter.

2010                                  The commerces remaining in Scrignac include an epicerie, a bar, a                                               restaurant, a café/restaurant, a pharmacie, an agricultural co-                                                    operative, a post office and a doctor. The butcher’s closes temporarily to be    bought    by                      the commune and a boulangerie is set to open.

10 September 2010      Two Scrignac ladies and another are drowned whilst cockelling at                                                 Locquirec

10 November 2010       A young English visitor is killed in a road accident at Scrignac.

2011                                  Another very cold winter, with snow and ice starting in November.

February 2011              The financial viability of the Poste is under threat and     opening                                reduced to twice weekly.

Summer 2011               The boulangerie opens and the boucherie reopens.

January 2012               The population is 808.