My first Slipway is at at Inner Hope and was used for launching the Lifeboats. In the 1700’s this area was known as Hope Gate. This slipway has good for access to all the beach at low tide only. This is one of the first lifeboats pre-1900; the slipway presumably built or improved in 1878 when…
10th July 1940 was the start of what was to be called the Battle of Britain, so I thought about bombs around here, and realised we do not know a lot. People know about the bombs in Aveton Gifford and Kingsbridge, indeed Mr Farleigh, builder and undertaker of Galmpton Cross, had his daughter May and…
With our Neighbourhood Plan started in 2015 nearly ready, I had planned to quote part of an article from the Gazette written in the mid 1970’s based on an interview with someone living in Inner Hope, but without giving the date. Sadly my filing system let me down, the folder containing cuttings had masses, but not…
I could not find anything last month that compared with the current lockdown; the snow of 1947 and the less dramatic snow of about 40 years are simply not comparable. This month however the 75th Anniversary of VE Day could not be ignored! During the war, there were many changes in the parish, initially a…
Just a brief early post because next weekend, the Bank Holiday, the History Group is holding an exhibition in the Fishermen’s Reading Room. The theme this year is events with a 9 in the year, so do not miss a display about the Louis Sheid wreck in 1939, information on the Eddystone Lighthouse, and war…