Text Box: KINGSWEAR  HISTORIANS  
 

 

 

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

Our future programme includes:

30 January        History of Berry Head - Nigel Smallbones 

27 February      History of the Railway - Andrew Hamilton

30 March          Free French - Tony Higgins

30 April             History of Devon Constabulary - Alan Salsbury

28 May              History of Brixham Fishery - John Risdon

25 June             Visit to Lupton House

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

 

Annual membership is single £12 and couple £20.  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

March 2011

 

For the following Historical Notes, click on:

The Old Vicarage

The Beacon

Brookhill

Memories of Hoodown & my Kingswear Childhood

Reminiscences of a small English sawmill

Kingswear church tower

Trinity Chapel

The Kingswear childhood of Col. H Jones VC

 

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 £5 plus postage (Kingswear at War £8), 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