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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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