by Tom Fort
arrested and imprisoned, ref1
mysterious death, ref1
Moonraker, spy story by Ian Fleming, ref1
Moore, Sir John, soldier:
bust in Sandgate, ref1
fatally wounded at Corunna, ref1
command at Shorncliffe Redoubt, ref1
Moore, Sir Patrick, astronomer, spiritual home at Selsey Cricket Club, ref1
Morehouse, Geoffrey, writer, disparages Peacehaven, ref1
Mosley, Oswald, British fascist:
attends Blackshirt holiday camp at Selsey, ref1
interned, ref1
political views not dissimilar to Sir Patrick Moore’s, ref1
Mousehole, Cornwall:
destroyed by Spaniards, ref1
Methodism, ref1
Penlee disaster, ref1
Dolly Pentreath, ref1
Mudeford, Dorset, ref1
Muggeridge, Malcolm, writer, comments on Bournemouth, ref1
Mullion, Cornwall:
harbour, ref1
treasure, ref1
Old Inn, ref1
Mary Mundy, ref1
Munnings, Sir Alfred, painter:
painted by Harold Knight, ref1
denounces modern art, ref1
Murillo, Spanish steamship involved in collision off Dungeness, ref1
My Life and Soft Times, autobiography by Henry Longhurst, ref1
Nairn, Iain, writer on architecture:
denounces Peacehaven, ref1
snob, ref1
Rustington, ref1
Napoleon Bonaparte:
prepares for invasion of England, ref1
stares across Channel, ref1
gives up invasion, ref1
Napoli SS, container ship:
grounded off Branscombe, ref1
national scandal, ref1
Nare Head, Cornwall, wreck of the SS Panama, ref1
Nash, Paul, painter:
Romney Marsh, ref1
surrealism in Swanage, ref1
National Trust:
Sussex, ref1
against cyclists, ref1
virtuous hands, ref1
part in national life, ref1
grating heartiness, ref1
Golden Cap, ref1
Great Mewstone, ref1
Captain Lugger’s Cave, ref1
Towan Beach, ref1
type, ref1
St Anthony’s Head, ref1
Poltesco, ref1
Loe Pool, ref1
Land’s End, ref1
Nature In Downland, book by W. H. Hudson, ref1
Neave-Hill, Charles, former owner of Land’s End, ref1, ref2
Nesbitt, E., children’s writer:
and Rosamund Nesbitt, ref1
home in Dymchurch, ref1
Neville, Charles, property developer:
buys land to build Peacehaven, ref1
ambitions, ref1
expands empire to Saltdean, ref1
spirit alive, ref1
Newhaven, Sussex:
formerly Meeching, ref1
mysterious Marine Station, ref1
statue of Ho Chi Minh, ref1
links with Vietnam, ref1
Tipper Ale, ref1
Newlands Manor, Milford-on-Sea, Hampshire, ref1
Newlyn, Cornish fishing port:
pilchards, ref1
drugs, ref1
sense of itself, ref1
painters, ref1
Newton Ferrers, Devon, ref1
Nichols, Beverly, writer, abuses Bognor, ref1
No Highway, novel by Nevil Shute, ref1
Norwood, Melita, KGB spy, ref1
Noss Mayo, Devon:
estuary, ref1
church, ref1
Observer, newspaper on women bathing with little on, ref1
men bathing ‘in state of nature’, ref1
Oddicombe, Devon:
cliffs, ref1
geology and rock pools, ref1
Oh! What A Lovely War, film directed by Richard Attenborough, ref1
Old Harry’s Rocks, Dorset:
view of, ref1
sitting by, ref1, ref2
Oldie, magazine, tribute to Eastbourne, ref1
Oldway Mansion, Paignton:
commissioned by Isaac Singer, ref1
grounds, ref1
unfamilial, ref1
as council offices, ref1
sad neglect, ref1
Olympics, 1968 Mexico, ref1
On Chesil Beach, novel by Ian McEwan, ref1
On The Beach, novel by Nevil Shute, ref1
Once Aboard A Cornish Lugger, book by Paul Greenwood, ref1
Onedin Line, The, TV series, ref1
Orwell, George, writer, rails against Eastbourne prep school, ref1
Otter, river, Devon, ref1
Owen, Keith, investment banker, bequest to Sidmouth, ref1
Pagham, Sussex:
sheep allegedly savaged near, ref1
Harbour, ref1
tamed, ref1
Blackshirt camp, ref1
Paignton, Devon:
mixed bathing, ref1
seafront, ref1
Oldway Mansion, ref1
George Bridgman, ref1
Palace Hotel, Torquay, ref1
Parish-Alvars, Elias, harpist:
born Teignmouth, ref1
hailed by Berlioz, ref1
early death, ref1
Paynter, Bettie:
admired by Marconi, ref1
married, ref1
sells Boskenna, ref1
Paynter, Colonel Camborne, owner of Boskenna, ref1
Peacehaven, Sussex:
abused by snobs, ref1
defended, ref1
bungalows, ref1
Charles Neville, ref1
promoted by Powell brothers, ref1
spirit of Neville appealingly alive, ref1
Peek, Sir Henry, biscuit tycoon, builds Rousdon, ref1
Pellew, Sir Edward, frigate captain:
mansion in Teignmouth, ref1
puts Algiers to flames, ref1
Pengersick Castle, Cornwall:
not a proper castle, ref1
spirit energy, ref1
Pentewan, Cornwall:
recalled by A. L. Rowse, ref1
harbour, ref1
decline, ref1
visit by David Cameron, ref1
holiday camp, ref1
type, ref1
Pentreath, Dolly, Cornish speaker:
living in Mousehole, ref1
energy, ref1
death, ref1
monument, ref1
Penzance, Cornwall:
in March, ref1
problem families, ref1
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert visit, ref1
position, ref1
Jubilee Pool, ref1, ref2
byword for social deprivation, ref1
delights of, ref1
literary associations, ref1
Perrin, Reginald Iolanthe, fictional TV character, runs into sea at West Bay, Dorset, ref1
Pevsner, Sir Nikolaus, architectural critic:
Gateway Flats, Dover, ref1
Rustington, ref1
Phoenicians, alleged trade links with Cornwall, ref1
Pierce, Captain Richard:
in command of the Halsewell, ref1
and daughters and nieces, ref1
affecting scene, ref1
Pike-Fisher, The, book by Edward F. Spence, ref1
Pilchard, fish:
lifeblood of villages, ref1
appearance of shoals, ref1
salting, ref1
trade with Italy and Spain, ref1
decline, ref1
as Cornish sardines, ref1
Pinter, Harold, playwright, writes Homecoming in Worthing, ref1
Pitt, Brad, American actor, allegedly involved in Gehry project in Hove, ref1
Pitt, William (The Younger), British Prime Minister:
orders building of Ma
rtello Towers, ref1
orders digging of Royal Military Canal, ref1
abused by Cobbett, ref1
Plotlanders:
Camber Sands, ref1
innocent anarchists, ref1
Shoreham Beach, ref1
Pagham, ref1
Plymouth, Devon:
Spanish Armada, ref1
HMS Ramillies, ref1
youth, ref1
Polly, Mr, novel by H. G. Wells, ref1
Polperro, Cornwall:
overcooked tourist trap, ref1
dream of a fishing village, ref1
F. A. Mitchell-Hedges, ref1
Dr Jonathan Couch, ref1
Polridmouth, Cornwall, ref1
Poole Harbour, Dorset, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Porth-en-Alls, house at Prussia Cove, home of Tunstall-Behrens family, ref1
Porthallow, Cornwall:
grey grit, ref1
arts-and-crafts shop, ref1
Porthcurno, Cornwall:
sandy beach, ref1
Cable and Wireless, ref1
Porthleven, Cornwall:
outskirts, ref1
tourism, ref1
storm battering, ref1
Portland, Dorset:
stone, ref1
Bill, ref1
tidal race, ref1
jealousy of natives towards strangers, ref1
spy ring, ref1
1824 storm, ref1
Portmellon, Cornwall, ref1
Portscatho, Cornwall:
layout, ref1
sea monster, ref1, ref2, ref3
scepticism about monster, ref1
Portsmouth, Hampshire:
deep-water anchorage, ref1
Harbour, ref1, ref2
Powell, Felix and George, music hall performers:
compose patriotic song, ref1
promote Peacehaven, ref1
Powys, John Cowper, novelist, ref1
Powys, Llewellyn, novelist, resident at White Nothe, Dorset, ref1
Prawle Point, Devon:
ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Prettejohn, Elizabeth, last resident of Hallsands, Devon, ref1
Prince Regent (later George IV):
love of ‘best old stingo’, ref1
customer of Sake Deen Mahomet, ref1
adopts Brighton as playground, ref1
last visit, ref1
Promenade, pleasures of, ref1
Prussia Cove, Cornwall:
Carter brothers, ref1
visited by Charles Harper, ref1
Tunstall-Behrens family, ref1
Pulman, George, journalist and fisherman, author of The Book of the Axe, ref1
Purbeck, Isle of, Dorset:
landscape, ref1
stone, ref1
hills, ref1
Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur, ‘Q’, writer:
on Cornwall, ref1
on Jonathan Couch, ref1
Quinn-Judge, Sophie, biographer of Ho Chi Minh, ref1
Raban, Jonathan, writer, on the Portland tidal race, ref1
RAF Biggin Hill, ref1
Rambles Beyond Railways, book by Wilkie Collins:
pilchards, ref1
Looe Island rat hunt, ref1
Land’s End, ref1
Rame, Cornwall:
Head, ref1
Church, ref1
Kipling, ref1
Ramillies HMS, wrecked off Bolt Head, ref1
Rashleigh, Charles, developer of Charlestown, ref1
Rashleigh family, owners of Menabilly, ref1
Rattenbury, Jack, smuggler at Beer, Devon, ref1
Ribbentrop, Joachim von, Hitler’s foreign minister and lover of Cornwall, ref1
Richards, Keith, Rolling Stone, connections with West Wittering, ref1
Richardson, Dorothy, novelist, love affair with H. G. Wells, ref1
Richmond Brown, Lady, companion of F. A. Mitchell-Hedges, ref1
Riviera Centre, Torquay, hideousness of, ref1
Rochethulon et Grente, Marquis de, French aristocrat, ref1
Roedean School for Girls, Sussex: my mother as headmistress, ref1
tunnel ref1
Rokeby, Lord, eccentric and regular swimmer on Hythe Beach, ref1
Romney Marsh, Kent:
proposal to flood, ref1
Royal Military Canal, ref1
Doctor Syn, ref1
celebrated by writers and artists, ref1
magic erased, ref1
Roseland peninsula, Cornwall, ref1
Rottingdean, Sussex:
trapping wheatears, ref1
Magnus Volk’s electric railway, ref1
Rousdon, Devon:
Sir Henry Peek, ref1
becomes school, ref1
Down From Londons, ref1
Rowse, A. L., historian:
lived at Trenarren, ref1
memories of Pentewan, ref1
Cornish snob, ref1
Royal Bath Hotel, Bournemouth:
Oscar Wilde, ref1
Rupert Croft-Cooke, ref1
Royal Military Canal, Kent:
cycle path, ref1
dug, ref1
militarily useless, ref1
as leisure and heritage asset, ref1
Russell, Bertrand, philosopher, mathematician, writer:
at Carn Voel, ref1
refuses to tie parcel, ref1
Russell, Doctor Richard, pioneer of sea water therapies, ref1, ref2
Russell, Dora, writer:
at Carn Voel, ref1
also refuses to tie parcel, ref1
Penwith, ref1
Russell, Katharine, daughter of Bertrand and Dora, at Carn Voel, ref1
Rustington, Sussex, ref1, ref2
Rye, Sussex:
as Cinque Port, ref1
Royal Military Canal, ref1
St Aldhelm’s Head, Dorset:
and Halsewell, ref1
tidal race, ref1
St Anthony’s Head, Cornwall:
battery installed, ref1
acquired by National Trust, ref1
heritage asset, ref1
St Aubyn, Colonel John, owner of St Michael’s Mount, ref1
St Aubyn, Thomas, of Clowance, accused of wreck plundering, ref1
St Austell, Cornwall:
disasters, ref1
Bay, ref1
china clay workings, ref1
and Pentewan, ref1
St Cyprian’s, boys’ prep school in Eastbourne, ref1
St George’s Island, Looe:
Finns and Hoopers, ref1
rat hunt, ref1
owned by Atkins sisters, ref1
St Keverne, Cornwall, and Barbary pirates, ref1
St Leonard’s, Sussex:
well-bred extension of Hastings, ref1
pool demolished, ref1
St Margaret’s Bay, Kent:
start of Channel, ref1
Lanzarote Hotel, ref1
Excelsior Tea Rooms, ref1
Noel Coward, ref1
James Bond, ref1
St Mary, Church of, Hayling Island, possible burial site for Holy Grail, ref1
St Michael Caerhays, Church of, Cornwall, ref1, ref2, ref3
St Michael’s Mount, Cornwall:
extraordinary spectacle, ref1
alleged Phoenician trading post, ref1
wanted by Ribbentrop, ref1
St Peter the Poor Fisherman, Church of, Devon, ref1
St Wilfrith, lands near Selsey, ref1
St Winwaloe, Church of, Cornwall:
half-buried in sand, ref1
Gunwalloe, ref1
San Antonio, Portuguese treasure ship, wrecked Loe Bar, ref1
Salcombe, Devon:
self-satisfied air, ref1
good place to start revolution, ref1
and Herzogin Cecilie, ref1
Saltdean, Sussex:
classier than Peacehaven, ref1
Ocean Hotel, ref1
Lido, ref1
Charles N
eville’s vision, ref1
Samphire, edible plant, picked below Dover Castle, ref1
Sandgate, Kent:
says NO, ref1
H.G. Wells, ref1
bust of Sir John Moore, ref1
Scarborough, Yorkshire, bathing at, ref1, ref2
Sea Monsters:
Dorset, ref1
Portscatho, ref1
Gerrans Bay, ref1
Seaford, Sussex:
absence of Museum of Sex, ref1
Shags, ref1
limb of Hastings, ref1
Seaside towns:
grappling with future, ref1
what has gone wrong, ref1
resisting lure of big project, ref1
Second homes, issue of, ref1, ref2
Seldon, Dr Anthony, head teacher, hails vision of Frank Gehry, ref1,
Selsey, Sussex:
Bill, ref1
in retreat, ref1
Mosley’s Blackshirts, ref1
Sir Archibald Abdullah Hamilton, ref1
West Sands holiday camp, ref1
cricket club and Sir Patrick Moore, ref1
Shaldon, Devon:
Bridge, ref1, ref2
ferry, ref1
female rowers, ref1
Shambles, The, sandbanks off Weymouth, ref1, ref2, ref3
Shark Angling Club of Great Britain, headquarters at Looe, Cornwall, ref1
Shaw, Robert, actor, ref1
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, poet, heart buried in Bournemouth, ref1
Shoreham, Sussex:
Harbour, ref1
Beach, ref1
Marie Loftus, ref1
bungalows and shacks demolished, ref1
Shorncliffe Redoubt, Sandgate, commanded by Sir John Moore, ref1
Shute, Nevil (Norway), novelist:
full name, ref1
joins Wheezers and Dodgers, ref1
writes No Highway, ref1
investigates Holy Grail, ref1
in trouble with Yacht Club, ref1
emigrates to Australia, ref1
Sims, George Robert, journalist and dramatist, sings praises of Eastbourne, ref1
Singer, Isaac Merritt, sewing machine magnate:
moves to Paignton, ref1
commissions The Wigwam, ref1
shunned by society, ref1
death ref1
Singer, Paris, son of Isaac:
commissions Oldway Mansion, ref1
affair with Isadora Duncan, ref1
Sirnis, Alexander, Russian revolutionary, resident in Tuckton, ref1, ref2
Slapton, Devon:
Sands, ref1
Exercise Tiger, ref1
monument, ref1
Slapton Ley:
situation, ref1
Royal Sands Hotel, ref1
coot shoot, ref1
pike-fishing, ref1
tyranny of bird lobby, ref1
Smeaton, John, engineer, designs Charlestown Harbour, ref1
Smith, Charlotte, poet, verses on Beachy Head, ref1
Smith, Reverend Sydney:
lover of Sidmouth, ref1
humour, ref1
and Mrs Partington, ref1
Southwick, Sussex:
cricket ground, ref1
cricketers arrested, ref1
Green survives, ref1
Souvenir Norman, Anglo-French friendship club: