Channel Shore

by Tom Fort

  Fisher, Rear-Admiral Ralph, may have hosted seances in Hayling Island, ref1

  Fleet, The, lagoon in Dorset:

  aquatic flora, ref1

  eel fishermen, ref1

  Fleming, Ian, writer:

  leases White Cliffs, St Margaret’s Bay, ref1

  rabid hatred of Germans, ref1

  affection for Kent coast, ref1

  Folkestone, Kent:

  parish church, ref1

  Creative Quarter, ref1

  Channel Tunnel, ref1

  seafront wasteland, ref1

  regeneration plans, ref1

  Leas Cliff Hall, ref1

  Professor John Walton, ref1

  Forbes, Stanhope, painter:

  migrates to Newlyn, ref1

  friends and colleagues, ref1

  Ford Madox Ford, novelist:

  and H. G. Wells, ref1

  Romney Marsh, ref1

  Fowey, Cornwall:

  glorious road to, ref1

  King of Prussia pub, ref1

  Fox, Sarah Prideaux, author of Kingsbridge and its Surroundings, ref1, ref2

  Gabbro, stone, ref1

  Ganges, HMS, training ship, ref1

  Gardiner, Allen, missionary:

  leads mission to Tierra del Fuego, ref1

  dies of starvation, ref1

  Gardiner, Keith, painter living in Lamorna, Cornwall, ref1

  Gardiner, Stanley, father of Keith, also painter in Lamorna, ref1

  Gee, Ethel:

  spy at Portland, ref1

  imprisoned, ref1

  Gehry, Frank, American architect, involved in aborted project in Hove, ref1

  Geology of Wessex, The, Doctor Ian West’s website, ref1, ref2, ref3

  George III:

  visits scene of Halsewell disaster, ref1, ref2

  bestows royal approval on Weymouth, ref1

  health collapses, ref1

  statue, ref1

  George V:

  sent to convalesce near Bognor, ref1

  receives Mr Baldwin, ref1

  did he say ‘Bugger Bognor’? ref1

  sandcastle ref1

  Gladstone, William Ewart, British Prime Minister, delivers last public utterance, ref1

  Golden Cap, Dorset:

  highest point on Channel, ref1

  acquired by National Trust, ref1

  Golding, William, novelist, on crossing the Channel, ref1

  Goldstone, David, property developer, owns Land’s End, ref1

  Goring, West Sussex:

  and Richard Jefferies, ref1, ref2

  beach huts, ref1

  Gosse, Edmund, writer:

  Father and Son, ref1

  ‘genius for inaccuracy’, ref1

  last drive with father, ref1

  Gosse, Philip Henry, naturalist:

  rock-pooling with son, ref1

  influence on age, ref1

  disappointment over Second Coming, ref1

  Graham, Winston, novelist, on Towan Beach, ref1

  Greatstone, Kent:

  bungalows and villas, ref1

  Listening Ear, ref1

  Great Mewstone, Devon:

  angled crest, ref1

  residents, ref1

  Great Panjandrum, circular rocket-launcher, blows up at Weston-super-Mare, ref1

  Greenwood, Paul, fisherman and writer:

  appearance, ref1

  fishing life, ref1

  holiday homes, ref1

  Scottish purse-seiners, ref1

  shark-fishing, ref1

  Gribben Head, Cornwall, ref1, ref2

  Grockle, disparaging term for visitor, derivation of in Torquay, ref1

  Guenther, US General Alfred, unveils monument on Slapton Sands, ref1

  Halls, Monty, ex-Royal marine and TV presenter:

  series about Cadgwith, ref1

  seasickness, ref1

  Hallsands, Devon:

  situation, ref1

  dredging, ref1

  beach sinks, ref1

  abandoned, ref1

  ruins, ref1

  Halsewell, East Indiaman:

  caught in gale, ref1

  wrecked near St Aldhelm’s Head, ref1

  rescue, ref1

  media sensation, ref1

  items recovered, ref1

  Hamilton, Sir Archibald Abdullah:

  Selsey fascist and Moslem, ref1

  succeeded by Sir Patrick Moore as local eccentric, ref1

  Hammond, Reverend Joseph, historian of St Austell, ref1

  Harlequin, sloop wrecked in Seaford Bay, ref1

  Hardy, Thomas, novelist and poet:

  friend of Sir Frederick Treves, ref1

  White Nose or White Nothe, ref1

  Harper, Charles G., travel writer:

  St Margaret’s Bay, ref1

  George Burt, ref1

  Vale of Encombe, ref1

  recipe for swan, ref1

  Exmouth, ref1

  bald pates in Torquay, ref1

  Hallsands, ref1

  Hope Cove, ref1

  crossing the mouth of the Erme, ref1

  damns Membland Hall, ref1

  disparages Whitsand Bay, ref1

  abuses Charles I and ridicules Cornish language, ref1

  scornful of The Lizard, ref1

  denounces golf, ref1

  whitewashes smugglers, ref1

  speculates about Phoenicians, ref1

  Porthcurno, ref1

  Hastings, Sussex:

  as Cinque Port, ref1

  pleasant surprise, ref1

  fishing fleet, ref1

  Pier, ref1, ref2

  Sidney Little, ref1

  White Rock swimming baths, ref1

  Bottle Alley, ref1, ref2

  seafront strategy, ref1

  Souvenir Normand, ref1

  Abbey, ref1

  trouble, ref1

  Hastings and St Leonards Observer, newspaper, ref1

  Hastings Weekly Mail and Times, newspaper, ref1

  Hawkins, Sir Christopher, Cornish landowner and developer of Pentewan, ref1

  Hayling Island, Hampshire:

  riddles, ref1

  suburbanised, ref1

  attractions praised by Betjeman, ref1

  Holy Grail possibly buried there, ref1

  Nevil Shute, ref1

  Jesus Christ possibly visited, ref1

  Helford River, Cornwall, ref1

  Hengistbury Head, Dorset:

  ferry, ref1

  beach huts, ref1

  flora and fauna, ref1

  bought by Gordon Selfridge, ref1

  Castle, ref1

  sold to Bournemouth Borough Council, ref1

  Henry, Prince, son of George V, opens Leas Cliff Hall, Folkestone, ref1

  Hepburn, Katherine, actor, swims at St Margaret’s Bay, ref1

  Hera, German cargo ship wrecked off Nare Head, ref1

  Herzogin Cecilie:

  one of last grain ships, ref1

  runs aground on Ham Stone, ref1

  beauty, ref1

  Hesketh Crescent, Torquay, ref1

  Highways and Byways in Dorset, by Sir Frederick Treves, ref1

  Highways and Byways in Sussex, by E. V. Lucas:

  traduces the Rev. Jonathan Darby, ref1

  wheatears, ref1

  anecdote of Coleridge, ref1

  History and Antiquities of Dorset, by the Reverend John Hutchins, ref1

  History of the Fishes of the British Islands, by Jonathan Couch, ref1

  History of Sidmouth, by Peter Orlando Hutchinson, ref1

  Hitchcock, Robyn, singer, on Seaford’s non-existent Museum of Sex, ref1

  Ho Chi Minh, Vietnamese revolutionary leader:

  possible connection with Newhaven, ref1

  statue, ref1

  Hope Cove, Devon:

  wreck of St Peter the Great, ref1

  Cottage Hotel, ref1

  fishing and tourism, ref1

  smell, ref1

  Hope of Amsterdam, wrecked on
Chesil Beach, ref1

  Hordle, Hampshire, ref1

  Hore-Belisha, Leslie, Transport Minister, in praise of Hastings, ref1

  Houghton, Harry, Portland spy, ref1

  Hove, Sussex:

  King Alfred Leisure Centre, ref1, ref2

  vision of Frank Gehry, ref1

  Howard of Effingham, Lord, commander of English fleet fighting the Spanish Armada, ref1

  Howgego, Ray, authority on the life of F. A. Mitchell-Hedges, ref1

  Hudson, W. H., nature writer:

  wheatears, ref1

  buried in Worthing, ref1

  on Richard Jefferies, ref1

  Cornish character, ref1

  Penzance, ref1

  landscape of Penwith, ref1

  Land’s End, ref1

  Hutchins, Reverend John, historian of Dorset, ref1

  Hutchinson, Peter Orlando:

  Sidmouth antiquarian, ref1

  character and manners, ref1

  Hythe, Kent:

  as respectable as Sandgate, ref1

  as Cinque Port, ref1

  Firing Range, ref1

  beach, ref1

  Ilbert, Reverend Peregrine, Rector of Thurlestone, ref1

  IMAX cinema, Bournemouth:

  voted most hated building in Britain, ref1

  expensive farce, ref1

  Imperial Hotel, Torquay, ref1

  Importance of Being Earnest, The, play by Oscar Wilde, written in Worthing, ref1

  International Hydrographic Organisation, decrees boundaries of seas, ref1

  Isle of Wight:

  preferred to Brighton by Queen Victoria, ref1

  apology, ref1

  detached from mainland, ref1

  protects Swanage, ref1

  Izzard, Eddie, comedian, brought up in Bexhill, ref1

  James II:

  deposed, ref1

  lands England in a mess, ref1

  James, Henry, novelist:

  visited by H. G. Wells, ref1

  on Edmund Gosse, ref1

  Jarman, Derek, artist, garden at Dungeness, ref1

  Jenkins, Mark, Torquay hotelier, ref1, ref2

  John, barque wrecked on The Manacles, ref1

  Jones, R.W. H., architect of Ocean Hotel and Lido at Saltdean, ref1

  Joseph of Arimathea, speculation about visit to Hayling Island, ref1

  Joyce, James, novelist:

  enjoys lying on Bognor beach, ref1

  inspiration for Finnegan’s Wake, ref1

  Joynson-Hicks, William, Home Secretary, on perils of mixed bathing, ref1

  Jury’s Gap, Sussex, ref1

  Keats, John, poet:

  wet spring in Teignmouth, ref1

  complains about Devon weather, ref1

  Kennack Sands, Cornwall, ref1

  Killigrew, Sir John, builder of first Lizard lighthouse, ref1

  Kilvert, Reverend Francis, diarist:

  celebrates joys of nude bathing, ref1

  admires girl’s dimpled bottom, ref1

  pays tribute to Mullion pub landlady, ref1

  Kimmeridge, Dorset:

  Bay, ref1, ref2

  Sir William Clavell, ref1

  oil well, ref1

  village life, ref1

  Project, ref1

  Kingdom by the Sea, book by Paul Theroux, ref1

  Kipling, Rudyard, storyteller and poet:

  writes inscription at Rame, ref1

  goes mackerel fishing, ref1

  Kipps, novel by H. G. Wells, ref1

  Kirby, Neil, Eastbourne hotelier, ref1

  Knight, Laura, painter:

  Newlyn School, ref1

  at Lamorna, ref1

  Knight, Harold, painter and husband of Laura, ref1, ref2

  Kroger, Helen and Peter (alias Lona and Morris Cohen), spies for Soviet Union, ref1

  Kynance Cove, Cornwall, ref1

  Ladram Bay, Devon, caravan park and rock stacks, ref1

  Lamorna, Cornwall:

  valley, ref1

  loved by painters, ref1

  cove, ref1

  quarries ref1

  Landewednack Church, Cornwall, ref1

  Land’s End, Cornwall:

  owned by Charles Neave-Hill, ref1

  sold to David Goldstone, then Peter de Savary, ref1

  and W. H. Hudson, ref1

  pilgrims, ref1

  visual impact, ref1

  trashy dump, ref1

  Land’s End, The, book by W. H. Hudson, ref1

  Langham Hotel, Eastbourne, ref1

  Langton Herring, Dorset:

  pub where spies met, ref1

  lane to Chesil Beach, ref1

  Lannacombe Bay, Devon:

  campsite, ref1

  glorious days at, ref1

  Lawrence, D. H., novelist, in Bournemouth, ref1

  Lawrence, Sergeant William, soldier:

  memorial at Studland, ref1

  fighting life, ref1

  Leathercote Point, Kent, and boundary of Channel, ref1

  Lennon, John, Beatle:

  Hotel of Peace and Love, Bournemouth, ref1

  keen on peace and love, ref1

  Lewis, Norman, Bognor councillor, warning about Butlin’s, ref1

  Listening Ears:

  at Greatstone, Kent, ref1

  invented by William Tucker, ref1

  problems, ref1

  scrapped, ref1

  Little, Sidney, Hastings Borough Engineer:

  declares the town shabby and decayed, ref1

  Britain’s first underground car park, ref1

  other projects, ref1

  known as Concrete King, ref1

  Littlehampton, Sussex, and East Beach Café, ref1

  Lizard, The, Cornwall:

  drawn to resemble Italy, ref1

  shaped like reptile head, ref1

  Point, ref1

  Village, ref1

  lifeboat, ref1

  lighthouse, ref1

  end, ref1

  Loe Bar, Cornwall:

  lovely place, ref1

  wreck of Anson, ref1

  Loe Pool:

  largest freshwater lake in Cornwall, ref1

  delicious fat trout, ref1

  Loftus, Marie, music hall star, builds bungalow at Shoreham Beach, ref1

  Logan Rock, Cornwall, ref1

  Longhurst, Henry, golf writer:

  stands up for St Cyprian’s, ref1

  fondness for Eastbourne, ref1

  Looe, Cornwall:

  saturation point, ref1

  East and West, ref1

  seagull menace, ref1

  fishing fleet, ref1

  shark-fishing, ref1

  Island, ref1

  Looney, Naiomh, artist, work at Brighton, ref1

  Lords and Landlords, book by David Cannadine, ref1

  Louis Philippe, King of France, flees to Newhaven, ref1

  Lovell, John, Brixham fisherman, organiser of Festival of the Sea, ref1

  Lucan, Lord, vanished aristocrat and murder suspect, leaves car at Newhaven, ref1

  Lucas, E. V., author of Highways and Byways in Sussex, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Lugger, Captain:

  digs grotto at Whitsand Bay, Cornwall, ref1

  verse, ref1

  scurvy treatment by National Trust, ref1

  Lulworth, Dorset:

  Ranges, ref1

  Camp, ref1

  Cove, ref1

  Lydd, Kent:

  desolate corner of Romney Marsh, ref1

  Ranges, ref1

  Lydiard, Captain Charles, naval officer drowned off Loe Bar, ref1

  Lyme Regis, Dorset:

  Jane Austen tour, ref1

  attractions, ref1

  little to say about, ref1

  Jane Austen, ref1, ref2

  dark cliffs, ref1

  1824 storm, ref1

  Lyte, Reverend Henry, Minister of All Saints, Brixham:

  high-minded minister, ref1

  deserted by congregation, ref1

  dea
th, ref1

  writing of ‘Abide With Me’, ref1

  Macauley, Lord, historian, mocked by Sydney Smith, ref1

  McEwan, Ian, novelist, author of On Chesil Beach, ref1

  Mahomet, Sake Deen (various spellings), shampooist and masseur:

  early life, ref1

  moves to Brighton, ref1

  technique, ref1

  and Prince Regent, ref1

  tributes after death, ref1

  Mais, Stuart Petrie Brodie, writer, broadcaster, cricket-lover:

  lives in Southwick, ref1

  roused to defend cricket, ref1

  evicted, ref1

  blue plaque, ref1

  Malkovich, John, American actor, rumour of move to Eastbourne, ref1

  Manacles, The, reef off Cornish coast:

  ship-swallower, ref1

  the John, ref1

  Barbary pirates, ref1

  Manning-Sanders, Ruth, author of The West of England, on Land’s End, ref1

  Marana SS, wrecked off Start Point, ref1, ref2

  Marazion, Cornwall:

  stepping off point for St Michael’s Mount, ref1

  eclipse, ref1

  Marconi, Count Guglielmo, radio pioneer and fascist, first transmission from Poldhu, ref1

  Margate, Kent:

  naked men, ref1

  outraged decorum, ref1

  Marnham, Patrick, writer, biographer of Mary Wesley, ref1

  Martello Towers:

  commissioned, ref1

  built, ref1

  surviving, ref1

  Martin, Reverend George:

  Rector of St Michael’s Caerhays, ref1

  erects cross on Dodman Point, ref1

  Mary, Queen, accompanies George V to Bognor, ref1

  Mawnan Owlman, ref1

  Mawnan Smith, Cornwall, ref1

  Maxwell, Gavin, writer, unhappy at St Cyprian’s, Eastbourne, ref1

  Membland, Devon, home of Lord Revelstoke, ref1

  Menabilly, Cornwall, house near Fowey, ref1

  Mermaids:

  one found on Cogden beach, ref1

  other sightings, ref1

  physical characteristics of, ref1

  Methodism, spread of in Cornwall, ref1

  Mevagissey, Cornwall:

  resolutely fishy, ref1

  Ocean Harvest, ref1

  a great place, ref1

  Michelet, Jules, 19th century French historian, ref1

  Middleton-on-Sea, Sussex:

  childhood holidays at, ref1

  beach, ref1

  unappreciated proximity to Bognor, ref1

  Mildmay, Henry, banker, owner of Mothecombe, Devon, ref1

  Milford-on-Sea, Hampshire:

  situation, ref1

  attempt to turn into smart resort, ref1

  battered by 2014 storms, ref1

  Mitchell, Percy, Cornish boat-builder, ref1

  Mitchell-Hedges, F. A. ‘Mitch’, fisherman and explorer:

  fishing methods, ref1

  marries, ref1

  acquires Skull of Doom, ref1

  adopted daughter, ref1

  oblique relationship with factual reality, ref1

  in Polperro, ref1

  Molodiy, Konstantin, KGB spy:

  better known as Gordon Lonsdale, ref1