Welcome to the Fowey Harbour Heritage Society Website
Fowey harbour, which includes the communities of Fowey, Bodinnick and Polruan, has been a significant international trading port since the medieval period and is still a working port today, exporting china clay. Our aim is to encourage you to explore the area and find out more about the places and people that have contributed to its heritage.
Promoting the heritage of the Fowey harbour area
The Society introduces you to the rich and varied history of Fowey harbour and what you can see today by:
- Organising talks
- Publishing an annual journal
- Presenting our annual heritage awards
- Providing heritage grants to local organisations
- Promoting guided walks
- Working with other societies on heritage projects
Programme of talks 2024/25
The programme of talks for 2024/25 is as follows;
All on Saturdays at 2pm.
14 Sept. From Travellers to Tourists, the Story of Pre-1914 Visitors to Cornwall. Louis Turner. Fowey Town Hall.
12 Oct. The Battle of Lostwithiel -1644, Parliament's Greatest Defeat. Tony Smith. Fowey Town Hall.
9 Nov. The Cornwall Memory Game. Merryn Threadgould. Fowey Town Hall.
There will be no talk in December
11 January. Daphne du Maurier's Cornwall. Lynn Goold. Polruan Village Hall.
8 Feb. Tammy Blee's Cabalistic Agency - Cornish Witchcraft and Folklore. Jason Semmens. Fowey Town Hall.
8 March. Some Stories about Cornish Church Building with Special Reference to the Fowey Area. Joanna Mattingly. Fowey Town Hall.
12 April. Crossing the River - The History of the Fowey Ferries. Chris Bradish. Whitecross Village Hall
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The Battle of Lostwithiel 1644 - Parliament's Greatest Defeat
Fowey Town Hall
12 October, 2pm
Cost: Free for members. Non members will be charged £10.
Contact: All enquiries to Hon. Sec, Kath Pearce, on 07977 572268 or via Ticket Tailor https://buytickets.at/foweyharbourheritagesociety/1369877
The Battle of Lostwithiel 1644 - Parliament's Greatest Defeat
In August 1644 Lostwithiel found itself at the centre of a bitter siege. Within six weeks this small town would be reduced almost to rubble, with buildings in flames and its population starving and disease ridden. In the streets and surrounding countryside hundreds lay dead and dying and thousands more were to die before a defeated Parliamentarian army reached relative safety. In this talk Tony Smith will describe the Battle of Lostwithiel, one of those much overlooked British battlefields and how it became King Charles I’s last major victory in the First English Civil War and Parliament’s greatest defeat.
Tony Smith has been a battlefield guide for some 15 years, regularly taking school tours to the battlefields of France and Belgium as well as family pilgrimages showing people the places where their ancestors fought and sometimes died. He is also a volunteer for the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and regularly gives public talks about the Commission as well as leading tours around the cemeteries where war dead are buried.
