The 'supporters' of Charles Campbell Ross are a destructive bunch but presented with a window of opportunity they can have a smashing time with the best of them.......

Charles Ross has had quite a few mentions elsewhere on the website. He crops up in several ‘On This Day’ pieces, and in 2017 we published a two-part Penwith Paper on his brief term as an MP and its rather lively ending. This is not surprising; .he’s an important figure in the town’s Victorian history. True, he doesn’t have a statue – but then, Humphry Davy doesn’t have a major piece of infrastructure named after him

The 1880 General Election in the Parliamentary Borough of St Ives - disfigured posters, a candidate afraid to come out of his carriage, and the threat of a  beheading. Interesting times..... 

In the previous Penwith Paper, we left Charles Ross, newly elected to the Parliamentary Borough of St Ives, arriving at Penzance station in triumph and looking forward to the day when he could contest the Western Division, He was to be disappointed...............

St Michael's Mount has a long and colourful history, changing hands on numerous occasions and not always in the most peaceful of circumstances.