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Meetings are held mainly on the last Monday of each month at 7.30pm in the village hall.

Our future programme includes:

29 March           Local natural history and a warden’s year by Mike Ingram of the National Trust

26 April             Reminiscing on Kingswear families by Tessa.

31 May              Film by Phil Trayhorn and David Murphy

21 June             Afternoon visit to Slapton Ley Field Study Centre

27 September  Film ‘Sons of the Sea’

? October          Day time visit to the cider press.

25 October       Talk on Kent’s Cavern

29 November   Talk by John Risdon followed by the AGM

For more information on the next meeting click here:  Next Meeting

 

Annual membership is single £12 and couple £18.  Details from David Williams, address below.

 

The Society's Newsletters can be downloaded as pdf files, click on:

October 2006

May 2007

December 2007

December 2008

November 2009

July 2010

 

For the following Historical Notes, click on:

The Old Vicarage

The Beacon

Memories of Hoodown & my Kingswear Childhood

Reminiscences of a small English sawmill

Kingswear church tower

Trinity Chapel

comments on the latter two papers are invited to michael_stevens@email.com

 

A comprehensive collection of historical directories, including Kellys, from 1750 to 1919 can be seen on http://www.historicaldirectories.org/hd/index.asp.

 

The books below, priced £4 plus postage, are obtainable from:

David Williams

3 Kingston Cottages

Brownstone Road

Kingswear

Dartmouth  TQ6 0ED

Tel: 01803 752 716
e-mail Address: dr.williams@lineone.net

 

 

             

 

  

 

The following book on the history of Kingswear's church is published by the

Friends of St Thomas and can be purchased for £6 plus postage from:

Melinda Smallwood

Belmont

Lower Contour Road

Kingswear

Dartmouth  TQ6 0AL

e-mail address melindasmallwood@boltblue.com