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  • Kingswear History
    • Historic Photos and Maps
      • Photos and Maps 1920 – 1929
    • Notable People
      • Kingswear’s Heroes in Peace and War
        • Nancy Tarran – Village Heroine
        • Lt Col “H” Jones VC
      • Charles Seale-Hayne
      • Thomas Newcomen
      • The Heal Family
      • The Tribble family
    • Notable Buildings
      • The Bridges Across The Dart
      • Church of St Thomas of Canterbury, Kingswear
        • Kingswear’s Church Bells
        • Friends of St Thomas’ Kingswear,
      • Kiliney, Wood Lane
      • Kingswear’s Five Post Offices
      • Start Bay Villa – Coombeside – Pinewoods
      • Kingston Farm Cottages
      • Kingswear Castle
      • The Mill at Mill Bay Cove
      • Sarah Roope Trust Houses
      • The Old Vicarage
      • Kingswear Hall
      • The Beacon
      • Brookhill
      • Kingswear’s Church Tower
      • Trinity Chapel and the Day Mark
      • Ashleigh Flat
      • Bathhouse and Adjoining Boathouse at Greenway House
      • Boohay Farmhouse
      • Nethway House  
      • The Gommerock Tower
      • The Kennels to Lupton House
    • Pre-historic Kingswear
    • Roman to Norman
      • Romano-British Earthworks at Stoke Gabriel
    • Late Medieval Kingswear
    • Kingswear – 16 / 17th Century
      • The Kingswear Cannon
    • Kingswear in the 18th Century
    • Kingswear in the 19th Century
      • Prints, Photos, Maps 1800s
      • Napoleonic War at Sea 1801 – 1815
      • The First Kingswear Water Bills 1814
      • WHEN THE RAILWAY CAME TO KINGSWEAR
      • The visit of Napoleon III to Kingswear 
      • 1864 – American Civil War
      • The Kingswear Fire Engine
      • Kingswear Parish Council 1894 – 1910
    • Kingswear in the 20th Century
      • Hoodown and the Kingswear Golf Club  
      • Kingswear Ferries 
      • Kingswear Parish Council 1894 – 2001
      • The Steam Laundry
      • Reminiscences of a Small English Sawmill
      • Paddle Steamer Kingswear Castle
      • Ian Giles – Introduction to my writings!
        • Ian Giles 1 – On the Move
        • Ian Giles 2 – First I Had a Dog
        • Ian Giles 3 – Then I Bought a Boat
        • Ian Giles 4 – Then I Join the Railway
        • Ian Giles 5 – Meet Mike and Vic
        • Ian Giles 6 – The Fourth Man
        • Ian Giles 7 – Christmas 1957
        • Ian Giles 8 – National Service RAF
        • Ian Giles 9 – I buy a motorbike
        • Ian Giles 10 – Tribute to Mr Penwarden
      • Reg Little (1927 – 2016)- Introduction
        • Frank Little born 1898 – Bus Driver in 1920s
        • Eleanor Little born 1901
        • My Life and Times in Kingswear – 1932>
        • Reg Little – Kingswear School 1930s & 1940’s
        • Reg Little – Dartmouth & Kingswear Steam Laundry
        • Reg Little – Kingswear Railway Station in the 1930s and 1940’s
        • Reg Little – Kingswear Businesses between 1930’s & 50’s
        • Reg Little – Kingswear Churches in the 1930s and 1940s’
        • Reg Little – Mr Roberts’ Saw Mills at Kingswear
        • Reg Little: Cars I have owned
        • Sheila Little – The The Willing family and The Maltster’s Arms in Tuckenhay
      • Memories of Hoodown and My Kingswear Childhood
      • 20th Century Wars
        • Kingswear in World War I
          • The Dartmouth U boat 
          • Kingswear in WW1 – War Memorial
        • Kingswear in World War II
          • Wartime Kingswear
          • Wartime Life at Kingswear School 
          • Kingswear in WW1 – War Memorial
          • Reg Little: Growing up in wartime Kingswear
          • Sheila Little interview – Memories of VE Day 8th May 1945
          • The Escape of the Ragamuffin
          • The Free French in WW2
          • The Kingswear Torpedo Station
          • Reg Little: Experimental Radar Station at Coleton Fishacre (Updated)
          • Reg Little: Exercise “Tiger” – Slapton Sands
          • Reg Little – The Free French in Kingswear
          • Reminiscences of an Eight Year Old Evacuee
          • Thomas William Lewis – Evacuee
    • Census Records – Kingswear and Neighbourhood
      • Kingswear Census 1841 – 1911 Names Index
      • Kingswear Demographic 1841 -1911
      • Kingswear Houses and Occupancy 1841 – 1911
        • Kingswear 1841 -1911 All Trades
          • Kingswear Trades and Employment Analysis
      • 1841 Census – Kingswear and Surrounds
      • 1851 Census – Kingswear and Surrounds
      • 1861 Census – Kingswear and Surrounds
      • 1871 Census – Kingswear and Surrounds
      • 1881 Census – Kingswear and Surrounds
      • 1891 Census – Kingswear and Surrounds
      • 1901 Census – Kingswear and Surrounds
      • 1911 Census – Kingswear and Surrounds
    • Resources
      • Archives
        • Historic Environment
        • Genealogy
          • Church Records BMD
      • Kingswear Cemeteries and Burial Records
        • Burial Records
          • Cemetery Records
          • New and Old Cemetery Plan
    • Potential Research
  • Books and Publications
    • Newsletters
      • No.1 – Oct 2006
      • No.2 – May 2007
      • No.3 – Dec 2007
      • No.4 – Dec 2008
      • No.5 – Dec 2009
      • No.6 – Jul 2006
      • No.7 – Mar 2011
      • No.8 – Jul 2013
      • No.9 – Sep 2023
    • Books
      • Kingswear and Neighbourhood
      • Kingston Farm and its Cottages
      • The Dart Estuary Lights, Marks and Lighthouses
      • Shipwrecks and Disasters on the River Dart
      • Smuggling in the Dart
      • A Short History of Local Golf and the Kingswear and Dartmouth Golf Club
      • Kingswear at War – Book
    • Voices of Empire in Exeter
  • Meetings and Events
    • Admiralty Charting
    • Visits
    • External Meetings and Events
      • DHRG Poster
      • DHRG History Day – Itinerary
  • Past Meetings
    • The Fighting Temeraire
    • EMIGRATION TO AUSTRALIA IN THE 1850s
    • Arsenic and Old Lace 14 April 2025
    • The Navy and the South-West in the English Civil War
    • 10 Feb 2025 – Captain John Jellard
    • Kingswear Village (1841 -1921) – 13 Jan 2025
      • Presentation – Census – Follow-Up
    • The Death of Nelson – 9 Dec 2024
    • A Dartmouth House Through Time – 11 Nov 2024
    • Paignton Literary Events – History and Genealogy
    • The Engines That Changed The World
    • Emigration from the Port of Dartmouth
    • Devon Coastal Waters Into Art 1750 – 1850
    • William White. Dartmouth Captain and Amazon Explorer.
    • Kingswear Life in the Early 20th Century
    • KH AGM 12th February 2024
    • 11th September – The Frieze at Greenway
    • 9th October – The Archaeology of the Lower Dart
    • 13th November – The Fownes-Luttrell Family Influence on the Development of Kingswear
    • 11th December – Re-creation of a Phoenician Voyage of the 6th Century BCE
    • 8th January 2024 – The Channel Fleet in Torbay
    • Kingswear Life in the Early 20th Century
    • Britannia Royal Naval College, its history and its special relationship with the Royal family
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Arsenic and Old Lace 14 April 2025

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