Summer has ended, and while harvest is not yet passed, as the rain pours down outside it is perhaps time to reflect on a summer of...

Wednesday 10th July 1940 was a beautiful summer’s day. At Falmouth Cemetery mourners and civic officials had gathered for the funeral of...

July 2024 While many people who know something about World War Two could tell you that ‘The Blitz’ started on Saturday 7th September 1940...

D-Day was coming. The invasion would be soon. Everyone knew that, even the Germans, but no one knew when or where. In Cornwall the signs...

Many with an awareness of the events of D-Day 1944 have a knowledge of the movement of the soldiers from their camps, through marshalling...

It’s April already. Easter has been and gone. British Summer Time has started even if the summer weather hasn’t. D-Day 80 in June will...

Glynn House stands majestic above the Fowey Valley overlooking the road bridge that takes the A38 from the valley floor to its winding...

The challenge of loading enough men and materiel in a short space of time to transport them across the Channel and offload them on the...

Pencalenick House Happy New Year to you and yours! Welcome to 2024 – the year which marks the 80th anniversary of the great undertaking...

As we reach December 2023 I thought this month we would take a look back 80 years to Christmas 1943. For Britain it was the fifth...

In this month of remembrance, it is easy to remember those whose great feats of bravery and valour are well documented or honour those...

As we head through autumn it seems that ailments has become the trending topic of conversation. Covid is on the rise with a new variant,...

Meeting one’s readers can often be an interesting experience for any author, but for me an essential part of my work as an historian is...

As the wind howls and the rain lashes down at the beginning of August one can’t but help feel for the farmers. They spent June wishing...

The view from Carne Beacon, a Bronze Age barrow close to the south Cornish coast near to the picturesque village of Veryan, is...

In these glorious sunny days we have been enjoying at the end of May and beginning of June it is hard to picture the scene in the skies...

I am quite sure that the hundreds of people who camp each year at the Treen Farm campsite in the fields above the stunning scenery of...

April is certainly a favourite month for practical jokers with the chance to wind people up on April Fools’ Day. I have certainly pulled...

Britain declared war on Germany on Sunday 3 rd September to uphold the integrity of Poland’s borders after the German invasion two days...

Padstow is the biggest port on the north coast of Cornwall situated in the mouth of the Camel Estuary. In the summer of 1940 its defence...