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, who dived on the wreck in 1973.  During lockdown, Alan researched and then built his model, and gave us information about his dive, and some…

Ghosts and bonfires

Being the season of ghost stories and bonfires, I thought I’d look for stories involving the parish, but came up with virtually nothing.  There was a bonfire of course as part of the alarm system  to warn the Nation of the approach of the Spanish Armada in 1588. The bonfire was at the end of…

First history post

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….