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Shamed by yard fight. Dartmouth Chronicle Articles Yesterday's Headline Stories
DHRG No. 102602
Ship building and the Philips family.
Reprinted : November 1966. Yesterday's Headline Stories No. 114.
Reprinted : November 1966. Yesterday's Headline Stories No. 114.
Jemmy – burglar of old. Dartmouth Chronicle Articles Yesterday's Headline Stories
DHRG No. 102603
Theft from Hawks coal office.
Reprinted : September 1966. Yesterday's Headline Stories No. 116.
Reprinted : September 1966. Yesterday's Headline Stories No. 116.
Inspectors had the measure! Dartmouth Chronicle Articles Yesterday's Headline Stories
DHRG No. 102604
When the weights and measures men came to town.
Reprinted : January 1967. Yesterday's Headline Stories No. 121.
Suicide of glory yacht. Dartmouth Chronicle Articles Yesterday's Headline Stories
DHRG No. 102605
The scuttling of the Westward.
Reprinted : February 1967. Yesterday's Headline Stories No. 127.
Reprinted : February 1967. Yesterday's Headline Stories No. 127.
The boy Hero of a river tragedy. Dartmouth Chronicle Articles Yesterday's Headline Stories
DHRG No. 102606
Collision and sinking of Frank Alexander’s boat ''Oh My''.
First printed : 1945 - Reprinted : March 1967. Yesterday's Headline Stories No. 129.
Mount Boone. Ghost came back for daughter. Dartmouth Chronicle Articles Yesterday's Headline Stories
DHRG No. 102607
Thomas Boone the ghost of Mount Boone.
Reprinted : April 1967. Yesterday's Headline Stories No. 134.
The big floating dock that didn’t. Dartmouth Chronicle Articles Yesterday's Headline Stories
DHRG No. 102608
The tale of Philips & son floating dock.
Reprinted : July 1967. Yesterday's Headline Stories No. 140.
Crippled ship brought the town shame. Dartmouth Chronicle Articles Yesterday's Headline Stories
DHRG No. 102609
S.S.Sutherland.
Reprinted : August 1967. Yesterday's Headline Stories No. 143.
Miniature Harrods went crash Dartmouth Chronicle Articles Yesterday's Headline Stories
DHRG No. 102610
William Ajax Maygrove, shop owner.
Reprinted : August 1967. Yesterday's Headline Stories No. 144.
The Holy Joe who asked for jail Dartmouth Chronicle Articles Yesterday's Headline Stories
DHRG No. 102611
Rev. Joseph Johnson.
Reprinted : September 1967. Yesterday's Headline Stories No. 149.
When voters held out their hands. Dartmouth Chronicle Articles Yesterday's Headline Stories
DHRG No. 102612
1859 By-election.
Reprinted : September 1967. Yesterday's Headline Stories No. 150.
Out of the clutches of death. Dartmouth Chronicle Articles Yesterday's Headline Stories
DHRG No. 102613
A death on the river near Ditsum.
Reprinted : October 1967. Yesterday's Headline Stories No. 151.
Case of the kicked out Sergeants. Dartmouth Chronicle Articles Yesterday's Headline Stories
DHRG No. 102614
Fred Pound and John Back.
Reprinted : October 1967. Yesterday's Headline Stories No. 153.
The quick sell out of a family. Dartmouth Chronicle Articles Yesterday's Headline Stories
DHRG No. 102615
Lily and Kearney Radford.
Reprinted : November 1967. Yesterday's Headline Stories No. 155.
Chronicle Articles – No documents. Dartmouth Chronicle Articles Yesterday's Headline Stories
DHRG No. 102616
DHRG No. 102617
Born & lived until married in one of three cottages that used to be in Vavasours Slip; remembers the fire in the paint works opposite when she was age 3, families were evacuated to Clarence St. Father worked carrying coal for the Gas Works, Mr Tall was Manager of the works.
Played on the beach by the shipyards on the edge of what is now Coronation Park. Mr Trot delivered bread to the Naval College each day from Dunnings Bakery in Foss St, College used Kingswear Laundry.
She worked at the College aged 13 from 7.00 am to 12 noon 6 days a week for half a crown (12½ p) then worked at the Dartmouth laundry in Victoria Rd until married. Recalls butcher's shop in Lower St & Hannaford’s in Duke St, describes dish made by her mother from 10d of meat.
Tenements in Higher St, now Higherside Flats; Brown family; went to the Board School (now Holdsworth House sheltered accommodation). Borrowed blankets for the winter from Mrs Sanders.
Mr Anstey was engineer on the Totnes paddle boats before they were replaced by diesel engines & propellers, boats were owned by Mr Tollman, River Dart Steam Boat Co. Wages were very poor.
Remembers boiling clothes in a copper which was built into a wall of the house & using the mangle. House had running water but no bathroom, baths were taken in front of the fire with water heated in kettles on the range.
Played on the beach by the shipyards on the edge of what is now Coronation Park. Mr Trot delivered bread to the Naval College each day from Dunnings Bakery in Foss St, College used Kingswear Laundry.
She worked at the College aged 13 from 7.00 am to 12 noon 6 days a week for half a crown (12½ p) then worked at the Dartmouth laundry in Victoria Rd until married. Recalls butcher's shop in Lower St & Hannaford’s in Duke St, describes dish made by her mother from 10d of meat.
Tenements in Higher St, now Higherside Flats; Brown family; went to the Board School (now Holdsworth House sheltered accommodation). Borrowed blankets for the winter from Mrs Sanders.
Mr Anstey was engineer on the Totnes paddle boats before they were replaced by diesel engines & propellers, boats were owned by Mr Tollman, River Dart Steam Boat Co. Wages were very poor.
Remembers boiling clothes in a copper which was built into a wall of the house & using the mangle. House had running water but no bathroom, baths were taken in front of the fire with water heated in kettles on the range.
DHRG No. 102618
Lower Ferry & employees, Living conditions in crowded accommodation, wash days, shops, trades & working conditions. Poor Law relief. Food - bread & dripping, sheep’s head, rabbits, pigs trotters. Father a Coal (H)lumper, fishing to supplement wages.
DHRG No. 102619
Work for a furniture shop & removal firm. Food: tripe, hogs pudding, offal. Christmas stockings. Lower Street shops & pubs, doctors' fees, medicine. Butterwalk, Warfleet limekilns & brewery. Jobs in the coaling trade, making the tally, strikes, unions & unemployment.
DHRG No. 102620