£12.99
Bob Richards (Signed Copy)
Publication Date: 2025
Format & Edition: Paperback, Second Edition
Pagination: 120 Pages, Illustrated
Genre: Canals, Waterways & Shipping
Status: In Stock
Bridging the Tide by Bob Richards looks at some of the Victorian passenger ferries of the River Fal.
The River Fal flows through Cornwall from its birth on Goss Moor to finally reaching the English Channel at Falmouth, a distance of twenty one miles.
In this well researched book, Bob Richards tells the fascinating history of the ferry crossings of the River Fal, from ancient crossings for religious scholars visiting Glasney College in the 13th Century to the Age of Steam and the coming of the tourism industry.
Bridging the Tide features details of Trelissick Estate’s opposition to the improvement of the King Harry ferry passage, the attempted murder of the ‘founder’ of the St. Mawes to Falmouth ferry, 19th Century plans to build a causeway from Flushing to Falmouth, how ‘Mopus Jenny’ saved Lord Falmouth’s mail from a thief, the first passenger excursions along the Cornish coast, an alleged King Charles Charter signed during the English Civil War, and much much besides.
This is a fully revised, extended and updated 2nd edition of a book with more research, information and photographs.