November 2024
When the threat of war was looming large in 1938 the Air Ministry decided it needed an airfield in the strategically important Cornish...
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Phil Hadley
Oct 28 min read
October 2024
The Jews have had a long-standing connection with Cornwall. Many came in the 18th century arriving in ports like Fowey and Falmouth. In...
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Phil Hadley
Sep 64 min read
Summer is Ended
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...
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Phil Hadley
Aug 111 min read
The Blitz Before The Blitz Part Two
Wednesday 10th July 1940 was a beautiful summer’s day. At Falmouth Cemetery mourners and civic officials had gathered for the funeral of...
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Phil Hadley
Jul 312 min read
The Blitz Before The Blitz!
July 2024 While many people who know something about World War Two could tell you that ‘The Blitz’ started on Saturday 7th September 1940...
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Phil Hadley
Jun 77 min read
June 2024
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...
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Phil Hadley
May 39 min read
May 2024
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...
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Phil Hadley
Apr 15 min read
April 2024
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...
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Phil Hadley
Mar 17 min read
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...
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Phil Hadley
Feb 56 min read
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...
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Phil Hadley
Jan 45 min read
January 2023
Happy New Year to you and yours! Welcome to 2024 – the year which marks the 80th anniversary of the great undertaking we now know as...
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Phil Hadley
Dec 3, 20236 min read
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...
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Phil Hadley
Nov 16, 20236 min read
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...
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Phil Hadley
Oct 3, 20235 min read
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,...
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Phil Hadley
Sep 1, 20236 min read
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...
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Phil Hadley
Aug 5, 20236 min read
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...
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Phil Hadley
Jul 1, 202310 min read
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...
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Phil Hadley
Jun 3, 20235 min read
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...
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Phil Hadley
May 1, 20234 min read
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...
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Phil Hadley
Apr 1, 20234 min read
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...
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