by admin | Aug 17, 2021 | Articles
by Walton GalePublished January 2013 This is not an attempt to draft a pocket edition of a history of the Old Plymouth Society. It is merely a record of some of the Society’s activities over the past years, and a little of the background to these events.The Old...
by admin | Aug 17, 2021 | Articles
by Nicholas J CasleyPublished January 2013 Two westcountry quincentennial anniversaries have recently made the national news. There has been the march from Cornwall to London in the footsteps of Michael An Gove and his fellow Cornishmen, who were ultimately to be...
by admin | Aug 17, 2021 | Articles
by Nicholas J CasleyPublished January 2013 I am indebted to Ray Bush for his ‘rejoinder’, Historical Sources -Useful or a Minefield, that appeared in the last issue of Old Plymouth Today. It should have taught us all to be even more sceptical of assertions...
by admin | Aug 17, 2021 | Articles
by Major John Barrow, MBE.Published January 2013 The third in this series. A series which I have been informed by many of you is a particular favourite, thank you for your kind words. This time another recipient of the Victoria Cross, Second Lieutenant John James...
by admin | Aug 17, 2021 | Articles
by Pamela MagillPublished December 2012 Widey Court, once the historic Mansion which King Charles I used as his headquarters during the siege of Plymouth in 1643 during the Civil War is no longer in existence. It was demolished in 1954. The site is now occupied by...
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