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Channel Shore

Page 36

by Tom Fort


  origin, ref1

  in Hastings, ref1

  still going, ref1

  Spade House, Sandgate, home of H. G. Wells, ref1, ref2

  Stamfordham, Lord, George V’s secretary, ref1

  Start Bay, Devon:

  empty sea, ref1

  Exercise Tiger, ref1

  Start Point, Devon, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Steinkraus, Bill, US showjumper, ref1

  Stevenson, Robert Louis, novelist, in Bournemouth, ref1

  Strete, Devon, struck by stray US shell, ref1

  Stroller, pony:

  wins silver at 1968 Olympics, ref1

  buried at Barton golf course, ref1

  Such, Such Were The Joys, George Orwell’s account of schooldays at St Cyprian’s, ref1

  Suevic SS, wrecked off Lizard Point, ref1

  Swanage, Dorset:

  eccentricity, ref1

  charm, ref1

  Mowlem Institute, ref1

  clock-less Clock Tower, ref1

  strictures of Paul Nash, ref1

  and Purbeck stone, ref1

  Talland, Cornwall:

  church, ref1

  Reverend Richard Dodge, ref1

  bogus curate, ref1

  Tcherkov, Count Vladimir, disciple of Tolstoy:

  leader of Russian community in Tuckton, ref1

  return to Russia, ref1

  control over Tolstoy’s legacy, ref1

  President of Tuckton FC, ref1

  Tcherkov, Vladimir, left-back for Tuckton FC, ref1

  Teign, river, Devon, ref1

  Teignmouth, Devon:

  escapes blight of Brunel, ref1

  lido, ref1

  Grand Pier, ref1

  admired by Fanny Burney, ref1

  Keats, ref1

  Sir Edward Pellew, ref1

  Elias Parish-Alvars, ref1

  Theroux, Paul, novelist and travel writer, sneers at beach huts, ref1

  Thorndyke, Russell, actor and storyteller:

  Dymchurch, ref1

  and Doctor Syn, ref1

  Thurlestone, Devon:

  cut above Hope, ref1

  no pub, ref1

  shameful episode, ref1

  Thwaite, Ann, biographer of the Gosses, father and son, ref1

  Tilden, Philip, architect:

  commissioned to design Hengistbury Castle, ref1

  remodels Porth-en-Alls, ref1

  Tolkien, J. R. R., writer, holidays in Bournemouth, ref1

  Tolstoy, Leo, and Bournemouth, ref1

  Torbay, Devon:

  urban spread, ref1

  coast, ref1

  Council, ref1

  Torcross, Devon:

  Exercise Tiger, ref1

  coots, ref1

  lone fisherman, ref1

  Torquay, Devon:

  high opinion of self, ref1

  lure of English Riviera, ref1

  loved by backbone of nation, ref1

  compared with Cannes, ref1

  Pavilion, ref1

  Riviera Centre, ref1

  Fawlty Towers, ref1

  pleasure of walking, ref1

  Torre Abbey, Torquay, ref1, ref2

  Tout, family of Hallsands, Devon, ref1

  Towan Beach, Cornwall:

  described by Winston Graham, ref1

  saved by National Trust, ref1

  Towan type, ref1

  Town and Country Planning Act 1947, ref1

  Townshend, Charlotte, richest woman in Dorset, ref1

  Travis, Dr John, historian of bathing, ref1

  Treneer, Anne, Cornish schoolteacher and writer, ref1

  Trevanion, Squire John, (Bettesworth-Trevanion), owner of Caerhays Castle, Cornwall:

  inherits, ref1

  builds castle, ref1

  ruined, ref1

  Trevenwith Farm, Cornwall, ref1

  Treves, Sir Frederick, surgeon and lover of Dorset:

  Elephant Man, ref1

  treats Edward VII, ref1

  Highways and Byways in Dorset, ref1

  mourns old Swanage, ref1

  St Aldhelm’s Head, ref1

  Encombe, ref1

  Worbarrow Bay, ref1

  Lulworth Cove, ref1

  statue of George III, ref1

  Portland Bill, ref1

  Cogden mermaid, ref1

  Burton Bradstock, ref1

  Tucker, William Sansome, acoustic scientist, ref1

  Tuckton, suburb of Bournemouth:

  Dorothy L. Sayers, ref1

  Count Tcherkov, ref1

  Free Age Press, ref1

  football club, ref1

  Tyneham, Dorset:

  sad story, ref1

  houses fall into ruin, ref1

  incredible tranquillity, ref1

  Under Sail Through Red Devon, book by Raymond Cattell, ref1

  Unsentimental Journey Through Cornwall, book by Mrs Dinah Craik, ref1, ref2

  Upcott Farm, Dorset, ref1

  Vade Mecum of Fly-Fishing for Trout, The, book by George Pulman, ref1

  Varwell, Peter, Brixham man, ref1

  Verlaine, Paul, French symbolist poet:

  teacher in Bournemouth, ref1

  writes Bournemouth, ref1

  Veryan, Cornwall Long Grave, ref1

  Victoria, Queen:

  dislike of Brighton, ref1

  visits Mount’s Bay, ref1

  Villeneuve, Admiral Pierre-Charles:

  ordered to make Channel safe for invasion, ref1

  in Cádiz, ref1

  Volk, Magnus, promoter of Seashore Electric Railway, ref1

  Voysey, Charles, architect, designed Spade House, Sandgate, ref1

  Walde lighthouse, near Calais, marks northern limit of Channel, ref1

  Walton, Barclay Harper, stockbroker, sailor and friend of Kipling, ref1

  Walton, Professor John, historian of the seaside, ref1

  Ward, Colin, writer and anarchist, ref1, ref2

  Watson-Watt, Robert, pioneer of radar, ref1

  Webb, Matthew, endurance swimmer:

  crosses Channel, ref1

  victim of celebrity culture, ref1

  drowns below Niagara Falls, ref1

  Week at the Land’s End, A, book by John Thomas Blight, ref1

  Wellington, Duke of, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Wells, H. G., novelist:

  moves to Sandgate, ref1

  sex drive, ref1

  cycling, ref1

  leaves Sandgate, ref1

  on the household of E. Nesbitt, ref1

  Wembury Bay, Devon:

  geology, ref1

  holiday camp, ref1

  smart houses, ref1

  Wesley, Mary, novelist, living at Boskenna, Cornwall, ref1

  West, Dr Ian, geologist:

  exceptional website, ref1

  Kimmeridge, ref1

  Chesil Beach, ref1

  farewell, ref1

  West Bay, Dorset:

  Chesil Beach, ref1

  cliffs, ref1

  Reginald Perrin, ref1

  Broadchurch, ref1

  West Pier, Brighton:

  opened, ref1

  decline, ref1

  derelict, ref1

  West Wittering, Sussex:

  in retreat, ref1

  classier than East Wittering, ref1

  Weston donkey sanctuary, Devon, ref1

  Weymouth, Dorset:

  Bay, ref1

  looking a picture, ref1

  Olympics, ref1

  numerous attractions of, ref1

  George III, ref1

  princesses bathe, ref1

  1824 storm, ref1

  Wheatears, small birds:

  habits, ref1

  slaughter, ref1

  protected, ref1

  White Cliffs, Noel Coward’s house at St Margaret’s Bay, ref1

  White Nothe (or White Nose), Dorset:

  landslide, ref1

  Llewellyn Powys, ref1

  Whitsand Bay, Cornwall, ref1, ref2

&n
bsp; Wilde, Oscar, playwright:

  Worthing, ref1

  Bournemouth, ref1

  Wilkes, Lewis Vaughan and Cicely, owners of St Cyprian’s, Eastbourne, ref1

  William III (William of Orange):

  sails into Brixham, ref1, ref2

  statue, ref1

  greetings to England, ref1

  Williams, Dorian, television showjumping commentator, ref1

  Willimott, Reverend William, Rector of St Michael’s Caerhays, ref1

  Winchelsea, Sussex, ref1, ref2

  Winspit, Dorset, ref1

  Wolfe, Thomas, author of ode to Sir John Moore, ref1

  Wood, Florence Carter, art student:

  married to Alfred Munnings, ref1

  suicide at Lamorna, ref1

  Woolf, Virginia, novelist and diarist, abusive about Peacehaven, ref1, ref2

  Worbarrow Bay, Dorset, ref1

  Worth Matravers, Dorset, ref1

  Worthing, Sussex:

  Pier, ref1

  literary associations, ref1

  Broadwater Cemetery, ref1

  bathing, ref1, ref2

  Wyke Regis, Dorset, ref1

  Yealm, river, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Year at the Shore, A, book by Philip Henry Gosse, ref1

  York, Duke of, Frederick, ref1

  Young, Gerard, historian of Bognor, ref1, ref2

 

 

 


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