Charlestown History Walking Tours

31/10/2024

Just wanted to say thank you to everyone who came along on my ghost tour tonight, you were a lovely group.🎃🎃🎃

18/10/2024

Due to high demand, I'm delighted to announce two more ghost tours leading up to Christmas. These will be held on Saturday the 7th and Sunday the 8th of December meeting at Charlestown church at 6pm.
To book a 1.5 hour tour email me at [email protected]
Tickets £12.50pp

14/10/2024

I'm delighted to announce that from January 2025 I will be running weekly ghost tours of our beautiful village.
During 40 years of research I came across countless stories about ghosts, the macabre and even two murders.
Why not join me for a ghost tour of Charlestown.
For enquiries please email me at [email protected] or message me via Facebook.

26/09/2024

I am still getting plenty of lovely reviews for my award winning walking tour, like this one from The St Kew WI who came along a couple of weeks ago.

21/09/2024

I still have tickets for my new book launch, slide show and talk about the history of St Austell and Mevagissey Bays at the St Austell football club on the 4th of 0ctober at 7.30 pm.
Please let me know if you are going to attend even if you want to pay on the door on the night because there are limited tickets.
If anyone wants copies of any of my books just message me or go to my website at www.charlestowntours.co.uk to purchase in the online shop.
I have received some wonderful comments from people about Catch the Wind, it seems people really enjoyed reading it.

15/09/2024

UPDATE ON GHOST TOURS OF CHARLESTOWN.

Saturday the 5th October is sold out.

I have 6 tickets left for Sunday 6th of October at 6pm.

So If you're still interested and can do the Sunday evening I'm up for it, just message me. However, if there is more interest I may add more dates.

Tickets £10pp for a 1.5 hour tour.

14/09/2024

On Monday morning I will be taking a walking tour of our beautiful Charlestown village.
If you want to come along please be at the church on church road at 10.20.

11/09/2024

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An in-depth look at aspects of a fascinating past

02/09/2024

The winter season will be upon us soon, which heralds the start of the guest speaker season.
I already have lots of bookings for this year and next.
Up to the present day, I have presented talks and slide shows to over 20,000 people up and down the County.
I also speak on multiple topics, including two different talks on Charlestown history, St Austell during the war, maritime history, the history of St Austell Bay ,the transportation of china clay by horses, St Austell history and the merchant schooners.
If you run a group, society or institute and you would like me to come and talk to you please don't hesitate to contact me via email at [email protected]

30/08/2024

Another lovely review, thank you Stephen

11/08/2024

Another lovely review left for me by a kind customer.
I have availability for walking tours Monday, Tuesday, Thursday afternoon and all day Friday this week. Message me if you want to join me for a tour.

10/08/2024

This afternoon, after much delay, I went up to the printers to collect my new book entitled 'Catch the Wind.' To say I'm delighted is an understatement. It's a thing of beauty.
It's a lot larger in dimensions than my previous book St Austell- The Porcelain Parish. It's a hardback book and it will cost £20.
For years I've collected information about our local ports, this combined with my own knowledge and experience of the local area, working around the St Austell and Mevagissey Bays, I think, makes for a fascinating read.
There is nothing repetitive in this book. It takes a fresh look at the ports of Mevagissey, Pentewan, Ropehorn, Charlestown, St Blazey, Par and Polkerris.
There's lots of subject matter within, that hasn't been written about before. Lots of fresh photos as well. One of my favourite bits when researching for the book was the fascinating history of Par Stack. It also covers the history of the Polkerris and Mevagissey lifeboats, smugglers,the Cannis and Gwingeas rocks and Antiquity. A whole chapter on Charlestown with a fresh look at things and a whole chapter on the old port of St Blazey including the building of Par harbour by Joseph Austen Treffry.
I hope you all enjoy this book, it's the last from me, and I hope that I've left a small mark on the fascinating history of our beautiful area. I'm no Rowse, but I hope people will remember my contribution towards the cause through my books.
So, ive picked up 50 books with the remainder coming midweek next week. The others are all printed but the covers need to be attached.
If you want to buy a copy, please feel free to come to the house,and when I have the rest I will deliver to the St Austell area. You can also order online on the website at www.charlestowntours.co.uk and I will post them in due course.
I hope you enjoy reading it 😁.

08/08/2024

If you fancy making the most of your visit to Charlestown, why not join me on an award winning two hour historical walking tour.
Tours available all next week.

06/08/2024

Walking tour tomorrow morning (Wednesday), be outside the church at 10.20.if you want to come along .

30/07/2024

I just wanted to say a huge thank you to St Austell Library for having me back once again, this time to do a talk and slide show on St Austell war history. Thank you to everyone who came along as well, your continued support astounds me.
I hope everyone enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed presenting it. They raised a fair bit of money for an armed forces charity to boot. Well done everyone, fabulous evening.

25/07/2024

Next week is looking like summer 🌞 if you would like to come along and soak up some wonderful history just drop me a message or send me an email .

22/07/2024

I had a lovely review left for me again yesterday.
I have tour availability for this week, just drop me a message to book.
Twice daily tours at ,10.30 am and 2 pm.

04/07/2024

Onwards and upwards, I'm so happy, I constantly get amazing feedback from customers. TripAdvisor Travellers Choice Awards for 2023 and 2024.
Thank you all for your continued support, you are all so kind. When this journey began I had no idea of how it would go, I didn't have much faith in my own abilities if I'm honest, but the reviews don't lie.

01/07/2024

If anyone missed my war talk last time and wanted to see it. You can come along to this one.You need to contact the library about tickets and not me, and tickets are limited. I will not be doing this show after this date, so this is your last chance.

29/06/2024

TripAdvisor has changed the rankings. I am currently number one in St Austell according to both traveller favourites and traveller rankings. I'm chuffed if I'm honest, I just wish they would keep the reviews up to date ! Had another lovely review left for me yesterday.

25/06/2024

I have just won another TripAdvisor Travellers Choice Award for my Charlestown Walking Tour
To say I'm chuffed is an understatement!

22/06/2024

Tonight, I have had my first collaboration with Timescape tours. A Poldark tour that finished at Charlestown with a tour of the village with me.The clients were from Baltimore. They were absolutely made up with the tour. I can't wait to work with them again in the future.

21/06/2024

Next week, I shall be off to the printers with my latest creation entitled 'Catch the Wind.' It's a comprehensive history of the St Austell and Mevagissey Bays. It covers the ports of Mevagissey, Pentewan, Ropehorn, Charlestown, Par and Polkerris. It also covers antiquity, lifeboats, shipwrecks, and smuggling. This is a fresh look at things. Several topics within as far as I'm aware have never been written about in any great detail.Some of the stories are from my own experience of working the bays for over 40 years. The book contains over 200 pages. It is packed with many unseen photos from my collection.
I am extremely proud of what I have created, only Mike Littleton, my proof reader has read it so far, so the jury is out. I really hope you all like it. This is my last offering, there will be no more books from me. Sadly it just takes up so much time. It's taken 6 hours a day for six weeks just to put it on paper let alone the work involved in writing it. But I think I have recorded on paper a great history of the area in my 4 books.

14/06/2024

I'm so excited to announce that in the future, I shall be working very closely with the wonderful Springtide Restaurant in Charlestown. I hope we can do great things together and I'm really looking forward to getting stuck in, pardon the pun!

13/06/2024

Walking tours available, email or message me to book. Had some amazing TripAdvisor reviews again in the last few days, why not come along and see why everyone is talking about Charlestown Walking Tours.