Channel Shore

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: