The South East Corner of Cornwall
– by Tom Bowden This article is about a journey from Cremyll Point in Plymouth Sound to Looe many years ago. I have drawn a rough map of the area…
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The Hamoaze
– by Tom Bowden I was born in Torpoint on the River Tamar and across the river from Plymouth. My Sketch of the River Tamar shows that the part of…
A Cornish Settlement
On the afternoon of Sunday 18 December, 2011 members of the small local rural community and a few Cornish from much further a-field will again gather at the Byng Uniting…
Rev. Robert Stephen Hawker
by Tom Bowden – Robert Stephen Hawker was born on 3rd December 1803 in Plymouth and he was the son of a doctor. Robert then went on to Oxford University…
Cornish Celts exist, says Prof Peter Beresford Ellis
The Celtic Nations, 1961- 2011, a Sea Change? Some personal views, by Professor Peter Beresford Ellis Below is the text of the presentation about the Celtic League which was prepared…
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…
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…
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…
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