Welcome to the history page. We have had a good response to the first blogs, and feed back received means I am able to correct some information. Owen Masters tells me that the “green soap” was in fact, white Sunlight soap, It came from the SS Persier. She was en route from Swansea to Antwerp, with…
There are four churches/chapels in the Parish. There was a fifth, the Neutral Plymouth Brethren chapel and school built in Galmpton in 1847, and functioning well into the twentieth century, after which it stood vacant for many years and has been a house since the 60’s. Of the four remaining, the Methodist chapel is in…
Hope History group is quite small, but we have gathered a lot of information over the years. As there are many second and holiday homes it is not easy to recruit members, but we have a lot of interested friends, and we are eager to share the information we have, and to ask for more….