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HMS Ramillies
Wrecked off Bolt Tail 15th February 1760 In late 2023, the History Group was able to buy this wonderful model of HMS Ramillies which was built by Alan Quester from Oswestry,…
Books produced by the Local History Group
In 1819 Abraham Hawkins wrote “Kingsbridge and Salcombe with the Intermediate Estuary”. It was a consideration of subjects ranging from Natural History; notes about the great and the good of…
Bill Jarvis – unsung hero
William Thomas Jarvis 1894–1969 A long time ago I was having a conversation with an old friend about how all young people these days know all the answers. “However,” she…
Malborough Church of England Primary School 1952–57
At the age of five it was time for me to go to school and along with most children in the village I went to Malborough School. My near neighbour…
Now you see it – now you don’t!
I have written before about how most people these days have still and video cameras on their phones and how we have all unwittingly become recorders of history. We spend…
The South Hams and the Cornwall connection
Devon and Cornwall are like brothers. There is nothing the inhabitants like better than getting one over the other county. However there is more that unites them rather than dividing…