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March 2024
Glynn House stands majestic above the Fowey Valley overlooking the road bridge that takes the A38 from the valley floor to its winding...
Phil Hadley
Mar 1, 20247 min read
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February 2024
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...
Phil Hadley
Feb 5, 20246 min read
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January 2024
Pencalenick House Happy New Year to you and yours! Welcome to 2024 – the year which marks the 80th anniversary of the great undertaking...
Phil Hadley
Jan 4, 20245 min read
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December 2023
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...
Phil Hadley
Dec 3, 20236 min read
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November 2023
In this month of remembrance, it is easy to remember those whose great feats of bravery and valour are well documented or honour those...
Phil Hadley
Nov 16, 20236 min read
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October 2023
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,...
Phil Hadley
Oct 3, 20235 min read
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September 2023
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...
Phil Hadley
Sep 1, 20236 min read
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August 2023
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...
Phil Hadley
Aug 5, 20236 min read
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July 2023
The view from Carne Beacon, a Bronze Age barrow close to the south Cornish coast near to the picturesque village of Veryan, is...
Phil Hadley
Jul 1, 202310 min read
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June 2023
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...
Phil Hadley
Jun 3, 20235 min read
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May 2023
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...
Phil Hadley
May 1, 20234 min read
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April 2023
April is certainly a favourite month for practical jokers with the chance to wind people up on April Fools’ Day. I have certainly pulled...
Phil Hadley
Apr 1, 20234 min read
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March 2023
Britain declared war on Germany on Sunday 3 rd September to uphold the integrity of Poland’s borders after the German invasion two days...
Phil Hadley
Mar 2, 20234 min read
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February 2023
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...
Phil Hadley
Feb 2, 20235 min read
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January 2023
In a farmer’s field at Tehidy Barton stands the roofless shell of a concrete building. It is hard to believe today that this was once the...
Phil Hadley
Jan 3, 20233 min read
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December 2022
A lot of people have been commenting that this Christmas will be difficult what with the cost of living crisis and the fuel crisis and...
Phil Hadley
Dec 3, 20226 min read
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November 2022
The annual period of national remembrance often throws up a number of stories of incredible bravery and courage. Among those who...
Phil Hadley
Nov 2, 20228 min read
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October 2022
The town of Lostwithiel was Cornwall’s ancient capital founded by the Normans. It housed a number of important Duchy of Cornwall...
Phil Hadley
Oct 7, 20223 min read
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September 2022
In the cemetery on the hill overlooking the picturesque Cornish harbour of Charlestown stands this headstone to this much-travelled...
Phil Hadley
Sep 1, 202212 min read
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August 2022
In Chapter Sixteen of A Place And A Name, the Major pays a visit to Major Edgar Hare, the Chief Constable of the Cornwall Constabulary in...
Phil Hadley
Aug 1, 20225 min read
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