Falmouth
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Oct 28, 2026
Sean CunninghamGUEST
And they're already, from November 75, they're starting to intercept the packet boats coming back from North America.
Sean CunninghamGUEST
So at Falmouth and Cornwall, they set up a station which opens all the correspondence, extracts the text, which looks interesting in terms of this alignment of people's ideas and their loyalty.
Sean CunninghamGUEST
or rebellious intent.
Sean CunninghamGUEST
And it begins to create this sense of how ideas are changing in America.
Selina MasonGUEST
So detail really matters to me hugely.
Selina MasonGUEST
But then... on the other hand so just the big scale and i think it all came it really it it really came to the fore of my mind i think when i was working on the falmouth maritime museum with um mj long i was working at long and kentish and fantastic amazing architect uh and create incredible role model for me at such a young age and um We were working, it was a Millennium Project, huge building.
Selina MasonGUEST
It's basically rehousing the small boats collection for the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich down to Falmouth.
Selina MasonGUEST
Obviously with an intention to create a broader... economic basis for the town um to attract visitors to it more but it was a building that sat by the waterside it didn't necessarily have complete access to the waterside the whole of the waterside along some a lot of it is was in private hands the high street was really struggling the council was worried about bus traffic we were we were we had this red line big building in it, and all of the intractable problems were outside the red line.
Selina MasonGUEST
And I was kind of thinking to myself, those were really interesting problems to solve.
FreyaHOST
On Wednesday the 28th of October, Witchcraft in Cornwall is holding a charms and curses lecture.
FreyaHOST
This will be at six o'clock in the evening at the Poly in Falmouth.
FreyaHOST
It will be an evening lecture diving into Cornwall's dark history, focusing on traditional charms, historic curses and the lore of the evil eye.
FreyaHOST
Also on Wednesday, Lisgard Museum will be holding a Cornish folklore trail.
Annah O'LearyGUEST
And I actually specialised in woven textiles.
Annah O'LearyGUEST
The course that I did, it was down in Falmouth in Cornwall.
Annah O'LearyGUEST
And at the time, knitted textiles was part of the fashion course.
Annah O'LearyGUEST
So it wasn't kind of treated as, it was treated as a garment rather than a piece of possible kind of design work, kind of to stand alone from being a garment.
Hannah Louise LambGUEST
I mean, I had visited, but yeah, it was quite a big move.
Elaine DyeHOST
I interviewed the visual artist Imogen Bone quite early on in the podcast and she is from Scotland and went to study in Falmouth.
Elaine DyeHOST
And I asked her that question and she said, well, you know, I was looking at the prospectuses for Dundee and Aberdeen and then I saw Falmouth and it had palm trees on it.
Elaine DyeHOST
So you turned your back on the palm trees of the southwest of England for the slightly grittier streets of Glasgow.
Elaine DyeHOST
What was your thinking behind that?
Tom BeasleyHOST
saw Elliot Minor at Butlin Skegness in the mid 2000s
Luke StevensonHOST
I saw them at Falmouth's Princess Pavilions with me and about 300 other people from Cornwall
Tom BeasleyHOST
the one thing I remember about that gig because I don't really remember any of the songs that well I probably would if I listened to them but the thing I remember is
Luke StevensonHOST
there you go
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Gemma WhelanHOST
Two months later, November 14th, 1916, Falmouth, southwest England.
Gemma WhelanHOST
Special Branch Officer George Grant turns up his collar against the biting wind swirling around the docks.
Gemma WhelanHOST
He's an officer in Special Branch, the counter-espionage division of the British Police.
Mike TilburyHOST
At the end of each month, John calculates monthly averages and sends them on to the Climatological Observers' Link, or COL for short, a network of around 300 enthusiasts who report on hyperlocal weather patterns.
Mike TilburyHOST
Their stations are dotted all over the country, from Falmouth in Cornwall to Orkney in Scotland, often set up in suburban gardens.
Mike TilburyHOST
From these they document air temperature, rainfall, sunshine hours, wind speed and direction, earth temperature, snowfall, frost, fog and thunder, according to their interests and the equipment they have to hand.
Mike TilburyHOST
As far as possible, COL members strive to emulate Met Office protocol, such as recording observations at 9am.
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What happened next kept the Tirpitz out of the Atlantic.
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On the 28th of March 1942, a force of more than 600 sailors and commandos sailed from Falmouth, England for Saint-Nazaire in occupied France.
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Their target was the Normandy dock, the largest dry dock in the world when it opened in 1932, and the only one on the Atlantic coast big enough to repair the German battleship Tirpitz.
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Without it, planners reasoned, Germany would think twice before sending her to sea.
Cliffe TribeHOST
It's just a lot.
Cliffe TribeHOST
And it's Falmouth, is it? Yeah, Falmouth.
Cliffe TribeHOST
Deep as dark as Cornwall.
Tommy KillickGUEST
Yeah, it's just a lot of big trips, but that's one of the consequences of what happened.
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