The documents behind the history
History is only as good as its sources, and this section gathers a range of primary documents that have proved useful to researchers working on the Rame Peninsula. From Victorian trade directories listing every business in the area to wartime records, these documents give texture and detail to the broader historical picture.
Documents
Millbrook Shops and Commercial Premises
A record of the shops and businesses that once served the Millbrook community.
Local Disaster off Millbrook Mud, 1798
The French prize vessel Coquille catches fire and is lost on the Millbrook mud — a local disaster from the Napoleonic Wars.
Lest We Forget — Local War Memorials 1914–18
Gillian Kempster's research into local First World War memorials and the men whose names they carry.
We Will Remember Them — Local War Memorials 1939–45
Gillian Kempster's companion piece covering Second World War memorials.
More from this section
Further photographs, documents, galleries and links held in the group's online archive for this topic. Documents open in a new tab.
Documents
- PDFMillbrook: a 'new' medieval town? Graeme Kirkham
- WordSutton Family Day Trip to Cawsand 1920s
- WordPolbathic - a Halliday family history of the village
- PDFThe Rame Peninsula - A Celtic and Saxon History
- PDF1910 Cave Dwellers at Seaton and Downderry
- PDFA Tragedy on the Cornish Coast,1912
- PDFA History of a Cornish Garden
- PDFA Journey into Cornwall by George Luscomb 1799
- PDFMillbrook post World WarTwo Celebrations
- PDFKings Certificate to all School Children
- PDFSkinners Official Guide to Millbrook Cawsand Kingsand and Whitsand
- PDFMillbrook Rangers AFC Fixture list 1948-49
- PDFMargaret Willcocks' Botany Workbook
- PDFMargaret evelyn mary willcocks bio
- PDFPolbathic - an illustrated history of the 19th and 20th Century
- PDFA Journal with Delineations from Nature and Remarks Descriptive Principally of Cornwall by Richard Hopkins Leach 1814
- PDFGwr line to legend landMany historians have recorded the oral traditions handed down in the 18th and 19th Centurues. These became a unique selling point for the Great Western Railway …
- PDFAnother Old Chap in a Bowler
- PDFBooze and Boats
- PDFTemperance
- PDFThe 'Happy Go Lucky' Affair Part 1
- PDFThe 'Happy Go Lucky' Affair Part 2
- PDFBrains vs Chains
- PDFSixty Years On
- PDFThe Tea Dealer
- PDFTin, Salt, Baccy and Brandy
- PDFNovember 1915
- PDFJournal of a Tour of the Southern Coasts of England 1795
- PDFThe History of Cornwall Fortescue Hitchins 1824
- WordThe history of cornwall volume 2 1824
- PDFThe Cornish Register Maker Wallis 1838
- PDFThe Cornish Register Rame Wallis 1838
- PDFSlaters Royal National and Commercial Directory 1852-3
- PDFPost Office Directory Maker Cawsand Millbrook 1856
- PDFVillage History Reminiscences W J Cox 1878
- PDFKellys Directory 1893
- PDFMillbrook Parish Council minutes 1932-1937
- PDFMillbrook Parish Council minutes 1939-1946
- PDFWebsite village hist maker rame parish mag1899
- PDFFerry (CREMYLL) Agreement 1911
- PDFMaker and Rame Parish Magazine March 1915
- PDFMaker with Rame Courier 1979
- WordCawsand Bay Regatta 14th August 1952
- PDFKingsand-Cawsand Carnival August 1983