Day: May 3, 2022

Lanhydrock: The First Three Centuries is now available

Lanhydrock: The First Three Centuries is now available This book has been long in the making even though more has been left out than included. It describes the people and events that made Lanhydrock more than a country house, or left it on the brink of abandonment and demolition. From the harsh world of the […]

A Victorian Family at Lanhydrock is now available

A Victorian Family at Lanhydrock: ‘Gone the Happy Dream’  A personal account based on the Lanhydrock archives by Mike England is now available 1876 – ‘That evening at Butleigh Court, near Glastonbury, a very special relationship started. One great romance would transform two modest individuals and provide Lanhydrock with its greatest era since the Civil […]

A Social History of Bodmin Union Workhouse by Tony Philp is now available

A Social History of Bodmin Union Workhouse by Tony Philp is now available This book gives a detailed account of the history of Bodmin Union Workhouse from its inception in 1834 to its closure in the late 1930s. It describes the conditions experienced by those less fortunate beings who crossed the workhouse threshold and the […]

Looking Back At North Cornwall by Peter Davies is now available

Looking Back At North Cornwall by Peter Davies is now available This book is the second volume of articles written by Peter Davies, historian, of North Cornwall and previously published in the North Cornwall Advertiser. The articles cover many aspects of life in North Cornwall from its early history to the present day. The forty-two […]

Bodmin 1901-2000: A Century of Memories is now available

Bodmin 1901-2000: A Century of Memories Edited by Mike England and Phil Hadley This book contains an overview of Bodmin throughout the twentieth century. There are a collection of recollections covering everything from the simple pleasures of growing up to the horrors of war. There are photos from through out the period covering all of […]