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Murder, Debt, Riot: Richard Holloway, Redruth Solicitor

The career of a local solicitor laid bare, with an overview of his cases, financial problems, and harrowing family tragedy…

The Man Who Photographed the Miners: J. C. Burrow in Cornwall and Wales

Part two. Who was the man who photographed the miners? How did he do it? What risks did he take? Didn’t he always operate in Cornwall? Read the story behind the stunning photographs of Cornish and Welsh mining in the 1800s, by John Charles Burrow…

The Man Who Photographed the Miners: J. C. Burrow in Cornwall and Wales

Who was the man who photographed the miners? How did he do it? What risks did he take? Didn’t he always operate in Cornwall? Read the story behind the stunning photographs of Cornish mining in the 1800s, by John Charles Burrow…

Works in Progress, May 2022

Dear All… I realise it’s been some time since my last post on Paul Rabey the Younger, and no new articles as yet! I can only apologise; the demands of a full-time job and a family means I always research and write my work whenever I have a spare moment. But never fear, new andContinue reading “Works in Progress, May 2022”

Paul Rabey and The Foreign Girls’ Protection Society: They Died With Their Shoes On, Part Five

A sinister and extraordinary post…Victorian Cornwall’s most notorious con-artist and Victorian London’s dark underworld…an unpleasant conclusion to this series…

Paul Rabey and the Bristol Con: They Died With Their Shoes On, Part Four

Sham mines in Perranporth, Bristol men with more cash than sense, acts of vengeance, court hearings, valueless shares, forgery, suspect bank accounts, mountains of dirty money and, in the midst of it all, Cornwall’s most infamous con artist!

The Two Paul Rabeys: They Died With Their Shoes On, Part Three

Even criminals and rogues have families to turn to…continuing the career of Paul Rabey the Younger, Victorian Cornwall’s most notorious con man…

Paul Rabey and the False Imprisonment: They Died With Their Shoes On, Part Two

What happens when you cross Victorian Cornwall’s most notorious con man?

They Died With Their Shoes On: The Career of Paul Rabey the Younger, Part One

The first in a five-part series. Paul Rabey was a cunning and malevolent Victorian con-man who made, and lost, a fortune selling fraudulent mining shares to unsuspecting businessmen. In his day, he was notorious…