Images courtesy of The Box, Plymouth copyright The Herald
Oct 1963 Read More →
Bull Point Ratings Housing Estate
Bull Point Ratings Housing Estate – St Budeaux Site. Plans ‘Received by the Admiralty’ 1956 Plans submitted to the Admiralty 1956 to build 180 houses and 270 flats on St …
Apr 1956 Read More →
Wilkinson Road
Bought on eBay by Fotonow CIC in 2018, the seller told us “The slides were bought many years ago, in Adelaide, South Australia, where I lived for 46 years. The …
Jul 1953 Read More →
Ordnance Survey map
Map from National Library of Scotland, showing Devon and Cornwall boundaries as surveyed in the 1930s.
Feb 1946 Read More →
Emmeline Pankhurst arrested and brought to Bull Point Barracks
Emmeline Pankhurst is well known as the leader of the Suffragette movement, but her connection with and arrest in Bull Point, Plymouth in 1913 is less well known. Derek Tait …
Mar 1913 Read More →
Royal Albert Bridge
A lovely find in an old book ‘Rivers in Devon: From Source to Sea’ (Seeley & Co Ltd, London, 1893) the imposing Royal Albert Bridge at Saltash, drawn by A. Ansted, …
Feb 1893 Read More →
Local parish map
With thanks to The National Library of Scotland (all rights reserved) we have this wonderful map from 1889 showing Barne Farm in the St Budeaux parish. You can see Barne Barton is …
Dec 1889 Read More →