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DARTMOUTH OVER 60’s REST ROOM Social History Clubs and Organisations
DHRG No. 103128
History of the over 60s Rest Room located in the North West corner of the market building.
DHRG No. 103129
Names of Army personnel serving at Dartmouth Castle during WWII as remembered by Daisy Fleet & Caroline Hunt daughters of George & Selina Gunnell who lived in the old lighthouse during that period.
DHRG No. 103130
St Saviours Annex with Dartmouth Cemetery Book 3, 21st June 1899 to 4th April 1918. See also 100105 & 103054.
Sinking of HMS Monmouth in the battle of Coronel in 1914 Dartmouth Chronicle Articles
DHRG No. 103131
Sinking of HMS Monmouth in the battle of Coronel off the coast of Chile in November 1914.
Abbreviations Property Commercial Shop and Businesses
DHRG No. 103134
List of abbreviations used in Shops & Businesses archive files No's 103121, 103122
Dartmouth Shops & Businesses North Property Commercial Shop and Businesses
DHRG No. 103135
Record of Dartmouth Shops & Businesses over time, updated as new information comes to light. Broadstone, Browns Hill, Coombe Rd, Coombe Tce, Coombe, Coronation Park, Church Rd , Clarence St, Clarence Hill, College Way, Collingwood Rd, Higher Victoria Road, Ivatt Rd, Mayors Ave, Mount Boone, Nelson Rd, N Embankment, Ridge Hill, Silver St, Townstal Rd, Townstal Crescent,
Dartmouth Shops & Businesses Central Property Commercial Shop and Businesses
DHRG No. 103136
Record of Dartmouth Shops & Businesses over time, updated as new information comes to light. Duke St, Anzac Street, Collaford lane, Church Close, Fairfax Place, Higher St, Palladum Arcade, Palladum Mews, St Saviours/Hanover Square, Flavel & Raleigh St, Foss Street, Smith Street, Uniom St Lower Victoria Rd, (Inc Victoria Tce, Carlton Tce, Wilsdene Tce, Pebble Tce, Spring Bank), Market St, Market Square & Inner Market.
Dartmouth Shops & Businesses South Property Commercial Shop and Businesses
DHRG No. 103137
Record of Dartmouth Shops & Businesses over time, updated as new information comes to light. Above Town, Bayards Cave, Bayards Hill, Castle Road,Castle Green,, Waterpool Lane, Crowthers Hill, Lower Street, Newcommen Rd, South Town, , Southford Rd, Hauley Rd, Oxford St, S Embankment,
St Clements Parish Register 1653 – 1710 Family History Marriages St Clements Family History Baptisms St Clements Family History Burials St. Clements
DHRG No. 103138
Images of the earliest surviving register of St Clements, Dartmouth, covering Baptisms, Marriages and Burials between 1653 and 1710 (date of latest entry). No transcript yet available so you will need to look through the document.
DHRG No. 103139
CAPTAIN JOHN BULLEY, a sea captain born in 1798 who travelled the world and often achieved record speeds for his voyages. until the final years of his life Dartmouth was the home to which he always returned. He was mayor of the town in 1840, and deeply involved in many aspects of business and local politics.
Significant events in dartmouth Social History Historic Events
DHRG No. 103140
A time line listing important events in Dartmouths past
From the early Eighth Century until 1949.
From the early Eighth Century until 1949.
DHRG No. 103166
DHRG No. 103167
DHRG No. 103168
DHRG No. 103169
St Petrox Exterior Memorial Inscriptions Family History Burials St. Petrox
DHRG No. 103175
Including a register of names, grid references, grave-finder maps and selected examples of inscriptions.
St Petrox Interior Memorials Family History Burials St. Petrox
DHRG No. 103176
Register of names, a floor plan, grid references and selected examples of inscriptions.
Memories of War Social History Historic Events Second World War
DHRG No. 103187
Preliminary draft of DHRG publication number 16, "Memories of War, by local people at home and abroad, 1939-1946", compiled by Ray Freeman in 1995. Contains many accounts by local people of their wartime experiences, both in Dartmouth and elsewhere in the world during the Second World War. Copy of final publication held in Dartmouth Library.
DHRG No. 103194
To mark the Queen's Platinum Jubilee in 2022, DHRG has researched the history of Royal Jubilees and how they were celebrated in Dartmouth.
DHRG No. 103195
Harry Inder is recognised in Dartmouth as inventor of the town's first motor car. But that's not Harry's only achievement. Barry Inder, his grandson, has been researching Harry's wider contribution to Dartmouth's shipbuilding and engineering history, and his other significant inventions.