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Tamar History Newsletter

ISSUE NO. 4 - Spring 2000
Included in this issue:
· Guisers, Scoots and Crowdy Clawns
· Bealswood brickworks
· News from the Archives
· Tamar Ferries
· Book reviews
· Lime kilns
Price £1.00

ISSUE NO. 5- Autumn 2000
Included in this issue:
· Deadly doings in Latchley
· Kit Hill - Follies, Barrows and Ropeways
· Calstock Viaduct - the concrete blocks
· HMS Impregnable
.
Price 50p

ISSUE NO. 6- Winter 2000Included in this issue:
·
Building the Viaduct
· Goss and the Boatyard
· Murder at Latchley
· Carnivals
. Castle Wood
. River Steamers
.
.Lost Buildings of Gunnislake
. William John Murton
Price £1.50

ISSUE NO. 7- Spring 2001
Included in this issue:
.
History of Albaston
. Manure Navigation Canal
. Chip Factory at Calstock
. Refugees from Plymouth Blitz
. Brickworks of Calstock Parish - pt 1
. Life in Gunnislake in the 1930s, 40s and 50s
. Early History of Calstock Parish
. The Cowling family of Calstock and Moonta
Price £1.50

ISSUE NO. 8- Summer 2001
Included in this issue:
. Calstock Brickworks - pt 2
. Wheal Martyn China Clay Works
. Okel Tor Mine
. Kit Hill
. Market Gardening
. William George
. Thomas Old (bargeman)
. Bealswood
Price £1.50

ISSUE NO. 9 - Winter 2001/2
Included in this issue
· The Turner Trail
· Calstock Parish in 1300
· History of Policing in the Southwest
· Market Gardening in the Tamar Valley
· How to Research Your House
· The Incline Railway
· The Harewood Diaries
· Kit Hill
· Off to New Zealand
Price £1.50

ISSUE NO.10 - Spring 2002
Included in this issue:
· Stone Cutting
· The Bere Peninsula
· Threshing Days
· Extract from the Journal of Barclay Fox
· Kit Hill (part 2)
· Calstock House (Tasmania)
· Gypsy Daniels - a Gunnislake Boxer
· John Norden - an Elizabethan Mapmaker
· Market Gardening
Price £1.50

ISSUE NO. 11 - Summer 2002
Included in this issue:
· Gunnislake Clitters Mine
· Hingston Down
· Flash Boat Origins
· Kit Hill (part 3)
· Danescombe Valley and Kelly
· The Tamar Weirs and their Fisheries
Price £1.50

ISSUE NO. 12 - Winter 2002
Included in this issue
· Rowing and Regattas
· Calstock's Turbulent Priest - Richard Franklyn
· Poor Law in St Dominick
· Calstock Town Waterfront
· Slimeford
· A Report on the state of Calstock Town in the 1800s
Price £1.50

ISSUE NO. 13 - Spring 2003
Included in this issue:
· Calstock in the 1920's
· Off to New Zealand
· Farms, Freemen & Serfs - Mediaeval Calstock
· Farms & Farmworkers in North Cornwall
· The Edgcumbe Family
· The Romance of Devon Great Consols
· Calstock's Wagon Lift
· Manganese Mills and Mining
Price £1.50


ISSUE NO.14 - Summer 2003
Included in this issue: ·
.When the Americans camped in the Parish in 1943
· The State of Gunnislake in the 19th Century - Dirt, Drains and Disease
· Free Men and Unfree Women
· The Story of Hilary of Calstock
· Miners' Emigration to North East England
· Landulph Parish
· Wheal Benny
· Okel Tor
· Calstock Christmas Capers
Price £1.50

ISSUE NO. 15 - Winter 2003
Included in this issue:
· An Article by Henry James on Calstock in the 1920s
· Incline Railway
· Typhoid and cholera in the Parish
· The Latchley/Mill Way
· The Tamar
· History of Cornish Fields and Hedges
· Developments at Cotehele
· Saw and Paper Mills
Price £1.50

ISSUE NO.16 - Summer 2004
Included in this issue:
. The Plottes of MordenMill (16th century map)
. Devon Great Consols Mine Railway
. Mining in the Danescombe Valley
. The Impact of the Bedford Estate on the Tamar Valley
. Cornish Wrestling
. The Trelawneys of Harewood House
. The Inside Story of Calstock
Price £1.50

ISSUE NO.17 - Autumn 2004
Included in this issue:
. Naming and Shaming
. A History of Calstock Manor Mills
. An Article by Henry James on Calstock in 1935-6
. An article on the Danescombe Valley Conservation Works
. Memories of Alan Preston of Calstock and the Danescombe Valley
. Account of a Circular Walk on Dartmoor from Norsworthy Bridge
. A Visit to St Austell Brewery and the Luxulyan Valley
. A Tamar Bargeman's Notebook
Price £1.50

ISSUE NO.18 - Spring 2005
Included in this issue:
.
The Royal Train
.
Macadam without the Tar
. Rectors of Calstock
. An Article by Henry James on Calstock 1938-9
. Victorian Tavistock
. A Walk along the Tavistock Canal
. Fascinating Characters at Morwellham
Price £1.50


 
 ISSUE NO.19 - Summer 2005
Included in this issue:
. Metherill to Melbourne
. Delaware Road Board School
. Wesleyan Sunday School - Gunnislake
. Shamrock - the Last Tamar Barge
. Lanhydrock and the Robartes Family
Price £1.50

ISSUE NO.20 - Autumn 2005

Included in this issue:
. Tales of Bygone Calstock
. Quarries in the Gunnislake Area
. Danger Around the Mines
. Rich Metallic Ores of Caradon
. Ferry Farm - Talk and walk
. Cotehele - the Building and the Builders
. Views from the River Fowey
. The Will of Samuel Hunn (1853)
Price £1.50


ISSUE NO.21 - Spring 2006
Included in this issue:
. Balmaidens of the 1850's
. Delaware Road Board School
. Grave News
. Tamar Valley Trains
. Limekilns
. Dartmoor Longhouses
. Monumental Masons
Price £1.50

ISSUE NO.22 - Summer 2006
Included in this issue:
. The Strawberry Season
. Titanic
. Tithe Records
. 'Sold by a Stick'
. History of a Language
. TS Mount Edgcumbe
Price £1.50

ISSUE NO.23 - Autumn 2006
Included in this issue:
. The Bedford
.1878 at Delaware School
. Gunnislake Mine
. Calstock Church
. Visit to Uppacott Longhouse
. Minnions Walk
. Eddystone Light
Price £1.50

ISSUE NO.24 - Spring 2007
. Water in Harrowbarrow
. Three Hares
. SS Great Britain
. Eddystone's Lighthouses - part 2
Price £1.50

ISSUE NO.25 - Summer 2007
.Brickworks in the Tamar Valley
. Peopling the Past in the Tamar Valley
. Gunnislake Methodist Church 125th Anniversary
. Murder Most Foul
. Victor Canning in Calstock
Price £1.50

ISSUE NO.26 - Autumn 2007
. Extract from Mary Veal's Composition Book
. More Foul Murders
. Calstock Viaduct
. Discovering Gunnislake's Past
. History of Latchley
. Old Metherell
. Dartmoor's Prisoners of War
Price £1.50

ISSUE NO.27 - Spring 2008
. Thoughts on Gunnislake's Past
. Manor of Calstock
. More Foul Murders
. Old Newspaper Cuttings
. Calstock Chip Factory
. Confessions of a Cherry Thief
. Wildlife in an English Church
. Preserving your Memories
Price £1.50

ISSUE NO.28 - Summer 2008
. Dr. Leakey's House
. Fashionable Finery
. Lost Relatives
. Development of Millbay
. Your Humble and Obedient Servant
. Cornwall's Mining Landscape
. Discovery of a Roman Fort in Calstock
Price £1.50

ISSUE NO.29 - Autumn 2008
. Murder in Metherell
. Memories of a Wartime Childhood in Cornwall
. John Call and Whiteford House
. Cornwall's Mining Landscape Part 2
. Tavistock Fallen of the Second World War
. The True History of Cotehele
. Kilworthy Farm's 19th Century Buildings
Price £1.50

ISSUE NO.30 - Spring 2009
. Fashionable Finery Pt.2
. The Swing Riots of 1839
. Disappearance of Benjamin Bathurst
. Gunnislake Public Hall
. Trevithick's Puffing Devil
. Stonehouse - Then and Now
Price £1.50

ISSUE NO.31 - Summer 2009
. Calstock Regatta
. Gawton Mine
. Plymouth Seamen's Bethel
. Country Houses in Cornwall
. Calstock Life in the 1920's
. Tavistock's Sanitation in the 1840's
. Tavistock North to Callington by train
Price £1.50

ISSUE NO.32 - Autumn 2009
. Saw Mill at Kelly
. Gunnislake Institute
. History of Harewood
. Roman Fort at Calstock
. RAF Harrowbeer
. Extracts from the minutes of the Drakewalls Occupational Centre
Price £1.50

ISSUE NO.33 - Spring 2010
. Elsie Halls' early life in Calstock
. The Miner's Bond and the Durham Strike
. A walk around the Cotehele Estate
. Ancient Mining in the Tamar Valley
. Construction of Calstock Viaduct - part 1
. Industrial Heritage features below Gunnislake Newbridge
Price £1.50

ISSUE NO.34 - Summer 2010
. The Dartmoor Prison Riot in 1932
. Drakewalls Men's Club
. Construction of Calstock Viaduct pt. 2
. The Rowse Family of Calstock
. Ancient Tenements on Dartmoor
. Extracts from an interview with Joan Rogers of Pitt Farm, Drakewalls
Price £1.50


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