Plotting Plymouth’s Past – Update

by Old Plymouth SocietyPublished July 2015 Plotting Plymouth’s Past, the original one year project that began on 28th November 2012 and grew into a two year project, finally finished on 1st November 2014 with the installation and unveiling of a unique boundary...

Plotting Plymouth’s Past

by Doreen MolePublished February 2013 In November 2012 the Old Plymouth Society was successful in obtaining a grant of £6,300 from the Heritage Lottery Fund for a project called Plotting Plymouth’s Past. The money was awarded as part of All Our Stories, a brand...

The Secretary’s Soliloquy or Traumas of a Treasurer

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...

Historical Sources – Useful and a Minefield

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...

Heroes of Plymouth

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...