Digest

Digest is our quarterly publication of all things related to Charlestown’s history.

Issue 11 – Summer 2023

Available to Non Members in October
  • Editorial – Getting to know Charles Rashleigh
  • Charles Rashleigh’s Contemporaries
  • Lady Daphne goes back to the future.  A heritage harbour, an historic sailing vessel, and a fresh start. Part II
  • The Chough Garret Engine
  • News from the Charlestown History Group
  • Future Events and Get Involved

Issue 10 – Spring 2023

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  • Editorial – Milestones and Celebration
  • A Grand Day out in Charlestown from 1863
  • Lady Daphne goes back to the future.  A heritage harbour, an historic sailing vessel, and a fresh start. Part I
  • News from the Charlestown History Group
  • Future Events and Get Involved

Issue 9 – Winter 2022 / 23

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  • Editorial – Charles Rashleigh Bicentennial 1823-2023
  • Charles Rashleigh and Polgooth. The beginnings of Charlestown?
  • Charles Rashleigh’s ancestors and the arrival of the Rashleigh family in Cornwall.
  • News from the Charlestown History Group
  • Future Events and Get Involved

Issue 8 – Autumn 2022

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  • Editorial – Sign of the times
  • Pascoe Williams and the Williams Family
  • The canon of Cannons
  • The Charlestown Leat sign (update)
  • News from the Charlestown History Group
  • Future Events and Get Involved

Issue 7 – Summer 2022

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  • Editorial – Looking back and tomorrow’s history
  • How the iron horse bucked Charlestown
  • Regatta 50 years. Milestones and highlights
  • The Search for The Duporth Cup (part 4)
  • News from the Charlestown History Group
  • Future Events and Get Involved

Issue 6 – Spring 2022

Digests over a Year old are available on Request
  • Editorial – Improving History
  • Myths of Charlestown
  • Captain Charles Henry Deacon & the Waterwitch
  • Bombs on Charlestown
  • News from the Charlestown History Group
  • Future Events and Get Involved

Issue 5 – Winter 2021 / 22

Digests over a Year old are available on Request
  • Editorial – The Charlestown Leat Sign
  • Memories of The Charlestown Leat
  • Prince George Visits Charlestown – 24th June 1931
  • News from the Charlestown History Group and Review of the Year
  • Future Events and Get Involved

Issue 4 – Autumn 2021

Digests over a Year old are available on Request
  • Duporth Cup Discovered
  • 50th Anniversary of Dock Improvement Project – Opening Day
  • Regatta Memories
  • Duporth Manor 1781-1933
  • News from the Charlestown History Group

Issue 3 – Summer 2021

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  • The Building Stones of Charlestown Church
  • Memories of Charlestown People
  • Before there was Charlestown
  • The Search for The Duporth Cup (part 3)
  • News from The Charlestown History Group

Issue 2 – Spring 2021

Digests over a Year old are available on Request
  • Charlestown Gun Battery and Cliff Volunteers
  • The Charlestown Leat
  • The Search for The Duporth Cup (part 2)
  • News from The Charlestown History Group

Issue 1 – Winter 2020 / 21

Digests over a Year old are available on Request
  • The Search for The Duporth Cup (part 1)
  • Brick Hill
  • Charlestown Regatta 50 years
  • Introducing The Charlestown History Group