News: Bartlett Blog

This Bartlett blog explores the history of sea shanties and celebrates the Falmouth International Sea Shanty Festival, the largest free nautical music and song festival in Europe.

This Bartlett blog explores the remarkable history of the Falmouth Packet Service and some of the diverse passengers who used these vessels.

This Bartlett blog post explores the story the de Gaulle family’s escape from France in the summer of 1940, finding refuge across the Channel.

This Bartlett blog offers fascinating insights into pilot boats and maritime pilotage, pilots are a vital safety service in Falmouth and beyond.

This Bartlett blog provides background information to the historical maritime journal kept by Captain Edward Lawrance of the Packet Ship Anna Teresa.

This Bartlett Blog looks at the official naming ceremony of the Queen Elizabeth Dock in Falmouth in 1958 and the arrival of the first ship to enter the dock.

This Bartlett Blog looks at the Construction of the Queen Elizabeth Dock in Falmouth, 1956-1958.

This Bartlett Blog examines the story of John Arscott, a convict from Truro in and Catherine Prior, an accomplice of Mary Broad, who were both sentenced to seven years transportation and taken to Australia on board the First Fleet.

In 1881 Charles Napier Hemy lived and worked as an artist in Falmouth. In this Bartlett Blog we uncover what led Hemy to become an artist and what brought him to Falmouth.