Falmouth Inner Harbour 1937 On Saturday 22nd February 1941 as the streets were full of afternoon shoppers Falmouth suffered an air raid...

Lanhydrock House wedding Cecil George Archer and Evelyn Doreen Lytton 9 Sept 1942 It has long been said that February with its...

An ATS girl shares a New Year toast with a soldier I don’t know how 2024 treated you and whether you’ll look back on the year with fond...

The Penzance Wherrytown bus to St Ives taken in the autumn of 1943 by Staff Sergeant Robert Astrella of 7th Photographic Reconnaissance...

When the threat of war was looming large in 1938 the Air Ministry decided it needed an airfield in the strategically important Cornish...

The Jews have had a long-standing connection with Cornwall. Many came in the 18th century arriving in ports like Fowey and Falmouth. In...

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...

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...

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...