Cornwall's Hidden History Blog
A year or so ago an old Porthlevener asked me if I knew about the Moonstone. (I think that he might even have called it an asteroid at the time.) When I said I hadn’t he told me I couldn’t miss it, this rock that had supposedly fallen from space, if I went to cliffs […]
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For the past couple of years I have been a bit of a guinea pig for the iWalk Cornwall team! I have been helping them to test their amazing new range of MYSTERY WALKS. These brilliant interactive walks bring together so many things I love – they get you out and about, they are fun […]
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In the 1920s Cornwall adopted Frederick Albert Mitchell-Hedges as one of their own and he in turn returned here again and again to relax, to write and to give lectures to rapt audiences. Always a controversial figure, Mitchell-Hedges was a traveller, an adventurer, a hunter of sea-monsters and is believed by many to have been […]
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I have always been fascinated by the odd and the obscure. And most especially the lost and forgotten. So when I learnt that there was a very unusual relic from the past hiding on the grounds of Falmouth Hospital I was determined to find out more. I first came across the Meridian Stone in a […]
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In the summer of 2017 I interviewed Dr E. Emma Carlyon about her role as County Coroner for My Cornwall magazine. It was the first professional interview that I had ever done but she put me completely at ease. Although I only met her that once I still remember how struck I was by her […]
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The narrow headland of Sharrow Point juts out into the waves that wash into Whitsand Bay on Cornwall’s far eastern coast. At first glance the most remarkable thing about the little promontory is the breath-taking views it affords, stretching from Rame Head to Dodman Point but this rocky outcrop also hides an unusual relic from […]
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There are certain members of our community who are supposed to be beyond reproach. Individuals that we hold in higher esteem, who are meant to set the standard for the rest of us – the village constable or doctor perhaps and of course, the local vicar. But experience should have taught us that these individuals […]
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In the spring of 1909 a series of startling events in Cornwall became front page news across the British Isles. The newspapers reported that a ‘madman’ had shot four people and had barricaded himself into his home in the small rural town of St Blazey. Cecil Dench was quoted as saying that his home was […]
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Poltesco is one of those really beautiful hidden spots on the Lizard. A place that you only seem to get to if it was where you were heading for in the first place. But this now isolated cove was once a hive of industry, with men and machinery at work and ships coming and going, […]
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For many years there have been stories about a large wild cat roaming the isolated moors in the centre of Cornwall and while most people have come to regard the Beast of Bodmin Moor as something of a joke, what if some of those sightings were actually real? I began looking into this story by […]
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