Poldark's Cornwall E-Book

Gill Knappett

• Herausgeber: Pitkin
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Serie: Location Guides
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 35

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2020

Beschreibung

Are you longing to know where your favourite scenes in Poldark were filmed? Or discover the secrets behind the derelict mines and perfect, unspoiled beaches? Pitkin's latest addition to the Film Locations series allows you the inside knowledge to go behind the scenes and follow in the footsteps of Ross and Demelza. Travel back in time and join them along the windswept cliffs, rugged coastline and untouched, pristine beaches. From Padstow to the Lizard peninsula, Cornwall takes centre stage, providing the breath-taking backdrop that brings the series to life. The latest awarding-winning adaptation of Winston Graham's Poldark, produced by the BBC, has captured the hearts of millions of viewers worldwide. As the third series returns to our screens this summer, and with a forth series underway, tourists from all over the globe are flocking to the deepest corners of the UK's southwestern tip. Over the last three years the series has brought the region's rich heritage back to life, with tales of smugglers, shipwrecks and the secrets of the mines gripping viewer's imaginations. Visit the Poldark family mines at Agnes Head or Levant Mine, a World Heritage Site. Gallop along the clifftops of Chapel Porth, and learn of famous shipwrecks at Gunwalloe. If it's the glistening, azur waters you're after, don't miss Holywell Bay, Cornwall's largest stretch of coastline, which becomes the Warleggans private beach in series two. Cornwall has been an inspiration for writer's, film directors and artists alike for centuries, and Eleanor Tomlinson (Demelza) sums up its magic. "So much of the piece came alive when we were filming in Cornwall and everyone found their character in the outdoors." Britain's best kept secret is yours to enjoy.

Leseprobe

CONTENTS

POLDARK: Then and Now

THE SOUTH: Charlestown

Turnaware Point

The Lizard

Kynance Cove

Mullion Cove

Gunwalloe

THE WEST: Land’s End

Penberth Cove

Pedn Vounder

Porthcurno

Porthgwarra

Gwennap Head

St Just

Botallack and Levant Mines

St Ives

THE NORTH: St Agnes

Perranporth

Droskyn Point

Holywell Bay

Trerice

Bedruthan Steps

Padstow

Prideaux Place

THE EAST: Bodmin Moor

St Breward

Bodmin

Minions

Map

Sunset over Gwennap Head, one of Aidan Turner’s favourite filming locations

POLDARK:

THEN AND NOW

When Winston Mawdsley Graham penned his first Poldark novel, Ross Poldark, in the 1940s, it is unlikely that he could have imagined that he would still be writing about the character over 50 years later. But such was the popularity of the novels that in 2002, just a year before the author died, the twelfth and final book in the Poldark series, Bella Poldark, was published.

Born Winston Grime in Manchester in 1908 – he later changed his surname to Graham by deed poll – he moved with his parents to Perranporth in Cornwall when he was 17. The author’s first novel, The House with the Stained Glass Window, was published in 1934, and eleven more followed before Ross Poldark was published in 1945.

The Poldark adventures are set against a backdrop of the dramatic Cornish coast of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, with the first tale beginning in 1783, when Captain Ross Poldark returns to Cornwall from the American Revolutionary War. So begins a family saga of romance, jealousy, betrayal, feuds, intrigue and tragedy.

Winston Graham in 1985

Aidan Turner as Ross Poldark

The novels, which first captured the imagination of post-war Britain, went on to be translated into over 30 languages. An adaptation of the first seven books for television in the 1970s proved highly popular, and in 2015 the BBC brought Poldark to life once more, introducing the characters to a 21st-century audience. The 2015 series averaged over eight million viewers per episode, and several further series of the period drama followed.

As a result of Poldark’s on-screen success, actor Aidan Turner (Ross Poldark) has become a household name. Few can forget the image of him in the famous scythe-wielding scene, and at the National Television Awards in 2016 he was presented with the ‘Impact Award’ for his performance. Other leading roles have been played by Eleanor Tomlinson as Ross’s wife, Demelza; Heida Reed as his first love, Elizabeth; and Jack Farthing as the man who became his arch-enemy, the ruthless financier George Warleggan.

But, of course, there is a much bigger star of the show: Cornwall. In Poldark’s Cornwall we take a trip around the most south-westerly county in England – many parts of which are now in the care of the National Trust – exploring the beautiful locations used for filming the series as we follow in our fictional hero’s footsteps. Travelling from the historic harbour of Charlestown and heading along the sheltered south coast, circling the gaunt headland of mainland Britain’s most south-westerly point, then along the breathtaking north shoreline with its crashing, Atlantic waves, and on to the bleak beauty of Bodmin Moor, we hope that you will enjoy the journey.

THE SOUTH

CHARLESTOWN

The historic port of Charlestown, with its iconic tall ships, has been a popular filming location for Poldark. It not only stood in for the towns of Truro and Falmouth – the latter the home of Captain Andrew Blamey (actor Richard Harrington) and from where he and Verity Poldark (Ross’s cousin, played by Ruby Bentall) elope in series one – but its beach became St Mary’s in the Isles of Scilly, where, in series two, Ross Poldark seeks out the fugitive Mark Daniel (Matthew Wilson), a miner who killed his wife, Keren (Sabrina Bartlett), after discovering she had been unfaithful to him with Dr Dwight Enys (Luke Norris).