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    Kathy Brown
    20/10/21

    Your challenge: Walk or Run the Distance of The Trafalgar Way!

    Could you walk, run or wheel 271 miles in under 1 year and 38 hours?   We're announcing the launch of The Trafalgar Way End-to-End Virtual Challenge, your chance to follow in the wheeltracks of history.   If you are someone who likes to walk or run for fitness or pleasure, but sometimes needs motivation or something to...

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    Kathy Brown
    14/06/21

    Art & Photography Competition Winners!

    What a year!    The Art & Photography competition, 'Posctards from The Trafalgar Way' was launched in February 2020 with an original deadline of Sept 2020. No sooner had we started to promote it than - bam! Lockdown! No travel permitted, confusion and lethargy set in, home-schooling pressures, plus competition from...

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    Kathy Brown
    14/09/20

    Halfway Home!

    We're Halfway Home in our national Art & Photography competition to promote awareness of The Trafalgar Way!   Although we had made the decision to postpone the competition deadline to next year, we also wanted to recognise those who had already submitted entries prior to Sept 1st 2020. So we set our three Lapenotiere re...

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    Kathy Brown
    12/08/20

    Important Updates to the 'Postcards' competition

    Important thing 1: deadline extended to 16th April 2021   As you will appreciate, the run of our competition since early 2020 has been hugely disrupted by the Covid-19 lockdown and all the uncertainty that has gone along with that. We have been unable to reach many of the groups, schools and clubs we had hoped to. Consequen...

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    Kathy Brown
    29/05/20

    Book review: TRAFALGAR by Benito Pérez Galdós

    "Dentro de poco los hombres de unas y otras islas se han de convencer de que hacer un gran disparate armando tan terribles guerras, y llegará un día en que se abrazarán, conviniendo todos en no formas más que una sola familia." Benito Pérez Galdós   "... before long the inhabitants of the different islands will be co...

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    Kathy Brown
    13/05/20

    Art & Photography in the time of Coronavirus

    It's been a tough few months for all of us in a locked down world. Even tougher for those of us involved in keyworking roles or who have lost friends and loved ones to covid-19. Our team would like to extend our thanks, condolences and support to all, whether situated along The Trafalgar Way or not, in these sad and challenging ...

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    Kathy Brown
    20/02/20

    Announcing the Peter Warwick Memorial Trophy

    Calling photographers and artists within the RN and RM: Announcing The Peter Warwick Memorial Trophy   A special £1000 prize and trophy awaits one lucky winner of The Trafalgar Way's Art & Photography Competition 2020. We're looking for an outstanding photographic or artwork entry from anyone who is currently, or has b...

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    Kathy Brown
    17/07/19

    An Urgent Message - now available to buy

    We're excited to announce that the book featuring the prize-winning collection of stories from our competition, "An Urgent Message", is now for sale on Amazon.  Click here to view and buy in paperback - only £7.95, profits go to The 1805 Club's Trafalgar Way Fund, to help us keep telling the story! The book includes...

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    Kathy Brown
    31/05/19

    In which our Lapenotiere supports the Cape to Cape Rally

    The weekend of 18th and 19th May 2019 had been keenly anticipated. We'd followed the progress of the Cape to Cape drivers making their way back from Trafalgar in Southern Spain, through Portugal, back to Spain and then overnight to Portsmouth. The final leg of their massive, fundraising journey was to take place along the revers...

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    Adam Preston
    07/03/19

    Running The Trafalgar Way Short Story Competition

    At The Trafalgar Way we are all about storytelling so last year we decided to launch a short story contest. Little did I know it was going to take me into one of England's most historic rooms and that one clever young woman was going to force us to re-write our own rules! The subject would be 'An Urgent Message' but this would b...

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    Kathy Brown
    05/02/19

    A visit to Cape Trafalgar

    Cape Trafalgar, October, just before midday, 1805. The wind is light and north-north westerly. Standing on the headland, looking out to sea, we see the sails of over fifty ships in the distance. One line is racing back to safety in Cádiz harbour. Two others are bearing down on them from the west. They are sailing directly towar...

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    03/12/18

    Perranwell: the 39th plaque is unveiled

    On 17th November 2018 villagers in Perranwell Station in Cornwall welcomed a visit from a perfect replica 19th-century post-chaise carriage. The bright yellow period carriage, pulled by two horses with a postillion rider, carried Midshipman Ben Cunningham from RN College Dartmouth and actor Tom Blyth, playing the part of Lt John...

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    06/11/18

    Story: An Urgent Message

    For our Autumn 2018 Short Story Competition, we asked writer and campaign consultant Adam Preston, himself a Nelson descendent, to compose a short story entitled 'An Urgent Message'. The idea was to tell the story of The Trafalgar Way in an interesting and engaging way, while providing the children who might take part in the com...

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