Kingswear Historians are currently developing a new website and hope to have it up and running by Autumn 2023.

We shall also be running a series of talks to be held throughout the winter. Information will be published on our new site.



The Society's Newsletters can be downloaded as pdf files, click on:

October 2006

May 2007

December 2007

December 2008

November 2009

July 2010

March 2011

Summer 2013

 

For the following Historical Notes, click on:

The Old Vicarage

The Beacon

Brookhill

Memories of Hoodown & my Kingswear Childhood

Reminiscences of a small English sawmill

Kingswear church tower

Trinity Chapel

The Kingswear childhood of Col. H Jones VC

 

A comprehensive collection of historical directories, including Kellys, from 1750 to 1919 can be seen on http://www.historicaldirectories.org/hd/index.asp.

 

The books below, priced £5 plus postage (Kingswear at War £8), are obtainable from:

Carolyn Williams

3 Kingston Farm Cottages

Brownstone Road

Kingswear

TQ6 0EG


e-mail Address: carolynwilliams351@gmail.com

 

 

             

 

         

 

The following book on the history of Kingswear's church is published by the

Friends of St Thomas and can be purchased for £6 plus postage from:

Carolyn Williams

3 Kingston Farm Cottages

Brownstone Road

Kingswear

TQ6 0EG


e-mail Address: carolynwilliams351@gmail.com