Local History Meetings List
To see our record (where available) of the history presented at any of our meetings please click on the appropriate link in the table below.
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| Date | Subject / Record |
| 2011 | ___________________________________________ |
| Sep | Kingsbridge Town Trail |
| Oct | Cookworthy Museum and Resource Centre |
| Nov | Kingsbridge in World War 2 |
| 2012 | ____________________________________________ |
| Jan | Living at Loddiswell Station by Sheila Hall |
| Feb | History of Quay House by Tony Child |
| Mar | Dodbrooke Church |
| Apr 4th | Dodbrooke Town Trail |
| Apr | Churchstow Church and Inn |
| May | Origins of Kingsbridge Street Names |
| Jun | Kingsbridge Street Names continued |
| Jul | Sherford Church and Malston Barton |
| Sep | 250 Years of Transport in Kingsbridge |
| Oct 8th | Official naming of Squeezebelly Lane |
| Oct | Kingsbridge Town Trail revisited |
| Nov | Kingsbridge Mills |
| 2013 | ____________________________________________ |
| Jan | Kingsbridge Church |
| Feb | Nonconformism comes to Kingsbridge |
| Mar | More Kingsbridge Street Names |
| Apr | Exploring Kingsbridge Passageways |
| May | Bowcombe Creek and New Bridge |
| Jun | Royal Observer Corps in Devon by Tony Child |
| Sep | Chivelstone and East Portlemouth Churches |
| Oct | William Date, Shipwrights Yard and the Fruit Schooners by Michael Day |
| Nov | George Montagu’s Blue Plaque: Why?, Where? by Gordon Waterhouse |
| 2014 | ____________________________________________ |
| Jan | Royal Mail in the Kingsbridge Area |
| Feb | West Alvington visit |
| Mar 5th | Kingsbridge Town Trail revisited |
| Mar | History of Roman Catholics in South Hams |
| Apr 2nd | Dodbrooke Town Trail revisited |
| Apr | Prawle history |
| May | Bowcombe Creek revisited |
| May | Lidstone Family by Ann Lidstone |
| Jun 4th | Kingsbridge Passageways revisited |
| Jun | East Prawle visit |
| Jul | Sherford Church and Village |
| Sep | WW1 in the South Hams: Warhorses, Sherford Sons, Hospitals |
| Oct | Galmpton visit |
| Nov | Mysteries of the Kingsbridge Line by Kelvin Ellis |
| 2015 | ____________________________________________ |
| Jan | Charleton |
| Feb | Down Memory Lane in the South Hams |
| Mar | Masonic Lodge visit |
| Apr | Raising the Sherman Tank at Torcross, with Film |
| May | The Ilbert Family and Bowringsleigh by Michael Day |
| Jun | Reminiscences of Bowringsleigh, Miss Ilbert and the WI connection |
| Sep | Bluebell, Poppy and Tally Ho! Buses |
| Sep 30th | Bearscombe Farm visit |
| Oct | Proposed new Kingsbridge Heritage Trail by Rosemary Speed |
| Nov | Bowringsleigh visit / Dodbrooke Town Trail revisited |
| 2016 | ___________________________________________ |
| Jan | Old Kingsbridge slide show |
| Feb | Back to School in the Kingsbridge Area |
| Mar | More Kingsbridge Area Mills |
| Apr | Kingsbridge Passageways revisited |
| May | Bigbury Area by Norman Botton |
| Jun | Cookworthy Museum revisited |
| Sep | Loddiswell history by Sue Sweeney |
| Oct | Loddiswell visit |
| Nov | The Life of Hilda Harvey of Loddiswell |
| 2017 | ___________________________________________ |
| Jan | Local History Quiz |
| Feb | The Lost Village of Hallsands |
| Mar | William Cookworthy - Pioneer of porcelain |
| Apr | Family Research |
| May | Local Heroes John Scoble |
| Jun | Lime Kilns on the Estuary |
| Jul 12th | An Evening with Mr Cookworthy |
| Jul | Blackdown Rings – Walk and Talk |
| Sep | Town Hall and Workhouse |
| Oct | Blackdown Rings - The Norman involvement |
| Nov | Delving into the Past, by Graham Collyer |
| Dec | Christmas celebration with music |
| 2018 | ___________________________________________ |
| Jan | Chillington - a right royal heritage by Tessa Spencer, Jane Hind and Neil Martin |
| Feb | Shipwrecks off the coast near Malborough, by John Cole |
| Mar | Houses with History - an introduction to local homes, by their owners: A short History of Washabrooke Mill by Pauline Fryer and History of Bernagh, once the Cottage Hospital, by Chris Barnwell |
| Apr | Quakers in Kingsbridge - with a walk to follow at a later date, by Quakers: The History of the Quakers in Kingsbridge and District, by Juliet Morton and Georgina Torabi |
| May | Project Donn: Mapping the Devon Manor House and its landscape, by Abi Gray from the Devon Rural Archive at Shilstone |
| Jun | Chillington - Part II- historic buildings by Neil and team |
| Jul | Chillington walk |
| Sep | Houses with History - Part II The Salt Mill of Dodbrooke by Jennie and Vivienne |
| Sep | Houses with History - Part III The Salt Mill of Dodbrooke (continued) by Jennie and Vivienne |
| Oct 18th | Devon Rural Archive & Shilstone House Visit |
| Nov | Conscientious Objectors by Felicity Goodall |
| Dec | Christmas Celebration at St Edmund's Church |
| 2019 | ___________________________________________ |
| Jan | The Chamberlains of Dodbrooke – the first fifty years of a Victorian business |
| Feb | East Prawle |
| Mar | Schooner Port -The sailing ships of Salcombe and Kingsbridge, by Roger Barrett. |
| Apr | Growing up in Kingsbridge by Alan and Roger Lidstone and Robert Cattell |
| June | The Primrose Line |
| Sep | in East Prawle by Roger Tucker |
| Oct | Houses with history: High House Farm. A farm in South Devon – 400 years of history 1600 – 2000, by Ted Froud |
| Nov | The Elliotts -Story of a Chillington family, by Neil and team |
| Dec | Christmas celebration – Dodbrooke church and its history |
| 2020 | |
| Jan | Lost Plymouth by Felicity Goodall |
| Feb | The Dartmouth 400 story – part of by Laura Campbell and team |
| 2021 | |
| Jan | Introduction to the Plymouth Box. Paul Brookes CEO |
| Feb | Devon’s cloth industry & Exeter’s pattern book of 1763. Dr Todd Gray |
| Mar | Kingsbridge's role in home defence during the Revolutionary & Napoleonic Wars 1793-1815, by Roger Barrett |
| 2025 | |
| Apr | The Kingsbridge Passageways - a blog post by Simon Briercliffe |
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