Cornish Britons won their future at the battle of Hehil?
Cornish Britons won their future at the battle of Hehil – by Rob Simmons In the beginning of the eighth century, the old British Celtic kingdom of Dumnonia was in…
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My Torpoint Bomb
by Tom Bowden – During the blitz on Plymouth in 1941 I found a bomb and then I lost it. That was 70 years ago and I thought it was…
Cry of Tin to Shake Rag Alley – ’twas Cornish Cousins!
– ONE of the wonderful things about being of Cornish birth or ancestry is that (almost everywhere) in this wide world the sun never sets on a Pasty! … Or…
Come to Cornwall!
‘Come to Cornwall’, By Tom Bowden – In 2008 I tried to get an article in the Readers Column of Golf Monthly magazine. There was a small prize but the…
On The River Tamar
By Tom Bowden I was born in Torpoint on the River Tamar in 1929 and spent much of my youth messing around in boats on the river. The Tamar stretches…
The Plymouth Blitz in 1941
By Tom Bowden I was ten years old when the war started on 3rd September 1939 and I was a schoolboy living in Torpoint on the Cornish side of the…
Torpoint – An 18th Century New Town
by Tom Bowden Most Cornishmen will recognise Torpoint as that Cornish town on the banks of the River Tamar where you wait for the ferry before tasting the pleasures of…
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