Code |
Description |
Date |
Keywords |
H/20/1 |
notes on smuggling in north Devon by Graham Farr, twentieth century |
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Smuggling |
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Box of twelve scrapbooks by Basil Kennelly on north Devon maritime themes, mid-twentieth century, with original photographs and postcards of ships (index)
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merchant pictures |
B1/1134-a |
Corporation petition regarding remitting narrow cloth custom, 1423, with transcript of 1774
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1423 |
Trade Commerce |
B1/905 |
printed resolution at Exeter, accepting government's supply of herrings to the poor due to the high price of corn, 1500 |
1500 |
Fishing |
B1/619 |
extract regarding legal case of unwholesome fish in market, 1547 |
1547 |
Fishing |
D.656 |
Notes and ts copy on Bristol Channel shipping recorded in Welsh port books from 1560 to 1603
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1560 - 1603 |
shipping trade |
B2M/Z1 |
grant of arms to John Hawkins for `courageous worthy and famous entreprises... into the unhaunted parts of Africa and America', 1566
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1566 |
Exploration |
3416M/E3 |
Copy of orders and articles concerning payment of harbour dues in 1603, c.1700
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1603 - 1700 |
Harbours |
B65Z/1-11 |
papers regarding enquiry into weirs on river Taw, c.1627-30
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1627 - 1630 |
Fishing |
B1/682 |
Deed of arrangement concerning wool bought in Ireland, regarding merchants of Minehead and Bristol, 1632
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1632 |
Trade Commerce |
B1/558 |
Probate will of Thomas Heywood of Northam, mariner, with bequest of quarter of William of Northam, 1633
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1633 |
Mariners |
B1/4024 & 621 |
Copy order from Board of Trade regarding French trade with Western ports and account of monies paid attending French ambassador regarding London merchants' grievances, 1636-7
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1636 - 1637 |
Trade Commerce |
B1/623 |
Letter from Governor of Exeter regarding French trade, 1637
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1637 |
Trade Commerce |
B21Z/1/12 |
Letter from Andrew Turner, senior, to Robert Phipps, merchant of Exeter, complaining of losses caused by Parliamentary forces and navy, 6 September 1647
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1647 |
Navy Operations |
B1/1730-1 & 1735 |
papers regarding fishery and nets, 1649-50 |
1649 - 1650 |
Fishing |
B1/46/515 |
Barnstaple Corporation order regarding bags of imported wool from Wales, Ireland or any other `infected place' and plague, 2 September 1651
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1651 |
Trade Commerce |
B1/1733 |
bond regarding Edward Kettlewell and Grace Stevens of Montserrat, two children, sent in the Forteene from the West Indies, 26 November 1658 |
1658 |
Emigration |
3704M/SS/W1-12 |
Letters,accounts and misc. papers relating to wrecks on Croyde, Saunton and Putsborough Sands 1668 -1936 |
1668 - 1936 |
Wrecks |
1142B/EA94 |
Account of wool shipped to London, 1668
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1668 |
Trade Commerce |
R2379A/Z38/3 |
Two copies of statement regarding limits of port of Bideford in 1676, 1801
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1676 - 1801 |
Ports Harbours |
B69/37 |
Account book of Benjamin Smale, merchant of goods carried inc. from Bideford, Topsham, Swansea, Dublin, Milford, Oport
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1687 - 1690 |
Trade Commerce |
R2379A/Z7 |
Map of old and new quays at Bideford c.1690
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1690 |
Ports Harbours Quays |
48/25/10/6-9 |
summary book, abstract of title and correspondence with Admiralty relating to ownership of fisheries, weirs and rights of wreck, Heanton Punchardon and Braunton, c.1700-1848, with plan of fisheries, c.1850 |
1700 - 1850 |
fishing |
50/11/66-100 |
papers on Chichester estate in Wales, notably 70, tithe account books of the Chichester estates, inc. list of Aberystwyth fishing boats and tithes payable, 1730; 85, bundle of papers, some legal, on disputes over tithes of Llanbadarn Fawr and Llanfih |
1700 - 1714 |
Fishing |
H/20/2 |
Extracts from letter book, port of Barnstaple, eighteenth - nineteenth centuries
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1700 - 1900 |
Ports Harbours |
B69/38 & add3/1 |
Letter and account book of a London merchant, 1704-5 & 1705-11, mainly with Francis Arundell at Leghorn and also throughout England and the continent
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1704 - 1711 |
Trade Commerce |
B1/909 |
Printed notice for keeping `The Walk', Barnstaple, clear of casks, bales and idle persons, 1714
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1714 |
Ports Harbours Quays |
B1/2032 & 2204-11 |
bonds and contracts regarding transportation of felons to Virginia or Maryland, 1727-92 |
1727 - 1792 |
Emigration |
B1/1128-9 |
Papers regarding cargo of hard soap, Appledore and Barnstaple, 1738-9
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1738 - 1739 |
Trade Commerce |
B1/4025 |
oath of allegiance of Barnstaple Customs and Excise Officer, 1742
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1742 |
Emigration |
B1/3122 |
Barnstaple quay repair account, 1750
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1750 |
Ports Harbours Quays |
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Photocopies of scale Navy plans of Childers , sister ship of HMS Weazle of the late eighteenth century
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1750 - 1800 |
navy shipbuilding |
B1/1765 |
appointment of officer for duty on salt as collector of subsidy of tonnage and metage, 1751 |
1751 |
Emigration |
3704M/SS/LU1 |
Ms book entitled `The Island of Lundy', with journals of visits in 1752 and 1787, c.1787 yachting
|
1752 - 1787 |
Leisure |
B44Z/2 |
Incomplete account of George Crocker of Bristol to the owners of the Barum, inc. purchase of provisions and customs and pilotage fees at Cork, 15 June 1752
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1752 |
Trade Commerce |
Cann Box 1/2b/4 |
Pass for the Swallow , brigantine, 1753
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1753 |
pass shipping |
3704M |
Incledon family papers inc. FC1-25, collection of letters with naval news, 1754-1804
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1754 - 1804 |
Navy |
D900.Lun |
Ts of account of the burning of the Nightingale in 1754
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1754 |
wreck |
R2379A/Z60 |
Account books of the Sally and Albion, 1767-1815
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1767 - 1815 |
accounts Shipping |
R2397A/Z60 |
Account Book of the Sally, Snow and Albion brigantine, 1767 - 1815 |
1767 - 1815 |
accounts shipping commerce |
B149/2 |
Marriage settlement with a quarter part of the Sally brig, 1768
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1768 |
Ships Shipping |
2364M/E1 |
Volume of estate accounts, with accounts of voyages made by the Elizabeth, sloop, 1768-71
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1768 - 1771 |
Trade Commerce |
1774/LE1 |
Bundle legal documents, 1769-1804, inc. papers relating to vessels owned by the Hogg family
|
1769 - 1804 |
Ships Shipping legal |
B76Z/6, |
Letter from A. Keppel to Vice Admiral Lord Shuldham, Plymouth, regarding men for the spy tender, 1778
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1778 |
Navy Recruiting |
B1/3120-1 |
Legal papers regarding quayage at Barnstaple, 1779, 1789
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1779 - 1789 |
Ports Harbours Quays |
B262add2/11/10 |
Papers relating to Charles Besley Gribble's account of meeting Napolean on St Helena, notes on Gribble's voyages, 1788-1801, notes on voyages of Capt. Henry Gribble, 1818-32, notes on voyages of Charles Besley, 1826-c.73
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1783 - 1873 |
Mariners |
North Devon Atheneum |
Four scale Navy plans of HMS Naiad 1795
|
1795 |
Plans |
B1/3113 |
Account for building Little Quay, Barnstaple, 1796
|
1796 |
Ports Harbours Quays |
1774/B1 |
Bond of indemnity regarding the Aurora, 1798
|
1798 |
Ships Shipping |
Cann Box 1/25b |
Bill of sale of the Friendship brigantine of Appledore, 1798 & bond for faithful service of agent to Barnstaple and Bristol Shipping Co., 1854
|
1798 - 1854 |
sale shipping |
B76Zadd/2 |
Memorandum of private signals from Admiral Lord Keith, 1800
|
1800 |
Navy |
R2379A/Z38/56/2 |
Articles of the Maria privateer, 1800
|
1800 |
Piracy Privateering |
B325/1 |
Plan of ports of Bideford, Barnstaple and Ilfracome, showing out-stations and dependencies, nineteenth century
|
1800 - 1900 |
Ports Harbours |
D900.Mor |
Ts notes by Marshall Edwin Harris, including copy of nineteenth-century notes by Henry Watts on shipping
|
1800 - 1899 |
shipping |
Cann Box 1/2b/5 |
Insurance certificate for church bells on the Nautilus from Bideford to London, 1803
|
1803 |
insurance |
B689-1 |
HM Customs and Excise, Barnstaple: customs house bonds, leases and commissions |
1804 - 1870 |
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R2379A/Z8 |
Register of Bideford shipping, June 1805 - 1813
|
1805 - 1813 |
Ships Shipping Registration |
1774/B2 |
Power of attorney regarding salvage of the Rigby 1806
|
1806 |
Wrecks |
178B/Z1 |
Letter from McCarthy and Brown of London to Capt. Twokig, 7 December 1807, regarding sale of the materials of the General Suwano wrecked at Bude
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1807 |
Wrecks |
B84Z/8 |
Certificate of discharge of Thomas Smith, late surgeon of HMS Peterell , 1807
|
1807 |
Navy |
B9/5/32 |
Assignment of the Eliza, sloop of Bideford, 1809
|
1809 |
Ships Shipping Registration |
1774/B3 |
Bill of sale of 1/8 of the Favre of Barnstaple, 1811
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1811 |
Ships Shipping |
50/11/137 |
Official letters, commissions, certificates, etc. relating to naval service of Lieut. John P.B. Chicester, 1812-28, inc. a mess book, 1814-15, statement of dimensions of mast and yards of the Pandora
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1812 - 1828 |
Navy Papers |
B76Z/9 |
Statement of James Lord Gambier, Admiral of the White Squadron, regarding public employment, 1 July 1812
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1812 |
Navy |
B9/18/27 |
Bill of sale of the Hope of Bideford, 1812
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1812 |
Ships Shipping sale |
B76Zadd/3 |
Order from Sir Edward Pellew for a survey of the Swallow 1813
|
1813 |
Navy |
P/72/1-2 |
Maps of areas of jurisdiction of ports of Barnstaple and Bideford taken from atlas, c.1815
|
1815 |
Ports Harbours |
1774/B4 |
Accounts of the Newton brig, 1816
|
1816 |
Ships Shipping |
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Large bankers box 2 (3), envelope of papers relating to harbour shipping and navigations at Barnstaple, Bideford and Appledore, including Taw Shipyard plan, 1920, with photocopy and two photograph; envelope of nine disbursements accounts of the |
1820 - 1828 |
shipping |
B69/41/1-3 |
Rules of the Mariners Union Society of Clovelly, 1823-38
|
1823 - 1838 |
Mariners |
B69/28 |
Journal of Browne Smith, 1824-7, regarding navy duty on the Tagus Portugal and aboard the Aurora
|
1824 - 1827 |
Navy |
3317S/1 |
Shipping register for Ilfracombe, 1824-37
|
1824 - 1837 |
Ships Shipping Registration |
B11Z/37 |
Certificate of registry of the Nightingale at Barnstaple, 1825
|
1825 |
Ships Shipping Registration |
H/17 |
Extracts from letter books, port of Ilfracombe, 1827-9
|
1827 - 1829 |
Ports Harbours |
50/11/62 |
Two parliamentary bills, plan and book of reference by James Green, surveyor, and other papers relating to proposed road and harbour scheme, Combe Martin, 1827-37
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1827 - 1837 |
Ports Harbours |
50/11/158 |
Plan of proposed harbours, Combe Martin bay, c.1830
|
1830 |
Ports Harbours |
50/11/126 |
Bundle of letters from Lieut. Obadiah Newell, Plymouth, to J.B.P. Chichester, Arlington Court, on naval, family and estate matters, 1831-2
|
1831 - 1832 |
Navy |
3318S/1-4 |
Shipping registers for Barnstaple, 1824-1906, and register of transactions, 1831-1940 |
1831 - 1940 |
Ships Shipping Registration |
P/70 |
Extracts from diary of R. Ellis, Bideford merchant, inc. lists of exported goods, account for provisioning the William bound for Prince Edward Island, 1840, dimensions of spars for a vessel being built at Bideford, 1840, calculation for mea |
1833 - 1852 |
Mariners |
50/11/143 |
Petition to House of Commons from inhabitants of Barnstaple, Bideford and area in favour of River Severn improvement, c.1835
|
1835 |
Ports Harbours |
3319S/1-8 |
Shipping registers for Bideford, 1786-1897, and register of transactions, 1836-1908
|
1836 - 1908 |
Ships Shipping Registration |
50/11/181/1-5 |
bundle of papers concerning emigration to Australia and New Zealand, 1837-9 |
1837 - 1839 |
Emigration |
B262add2/1/1-28 |
Correspondence relating to Capt. Henry Gribble and his travels in the Far East in the 1840s
|
1840 - 1850 |
Mariners |
1142B/SS/4 |
Solicitors' papers relating to shipping comprising agreement for sale of the Alert ,smack of Barnstaple, 1842; certificate of registration of the Lilly of Barnstaple, 1846; bill of sale for mortgage regarding the Betsey of |
1842 - 1863 |
Ships Shipping |
50/11/127 |
Misc. papers inc. letter on the improvement of Combe Martin harbour, c.1845
|
1845 |
Ports Harbours |
50/11/129 |
Misc. prospectuses, 1845-6, inc. of London, Rotterdam and Harlingen Steam Schooner Shipping Co.; Metropolitan and Brighton Sea Water Conveyance Co.; Sutton Harbour and Dock Co., Plymouth; Monzani's Patented Ships' Life and Shore Boat Co.
|
1845 - 1846 |
Ships Shipping |
50/11/33/12c |
Copy of memorandum of agreement with John Stanbury as to wreck and insurance of Woolacombe, 26 March 1852
|
1852 |
Wrecks |
B120add4/1 |
Account book of the Rhea Sylvia, 1853-67
|
1853 - 1867 |
accounts |
3318/2 |
HM Customs and Excise, Barnstaple (addnl): register and appropriation book
|
1855 - 1986 |
|
3319/3 |
HM Customs and Excise, Bideford (addnl): registers, appropriation and transfer books |
1855 - 1993 |
|
B118/1/1-3 |
Crew lists of the Ellen Martin, Maria and Psyche of Bideford, 1863-90
|
1863 - 1890 |
Ships Shipping Crew |
2239Badd8/111 |
Envelope of misc. papers on shipyards inc. sale particulars for shipbuilding yard, Northam, 1868, mortgage of the John and Ann of Braunton, 1875, prospectus, plan, etc. of Bideford and Bristol Channel Ship-Building and Shipping Co. Ltd, 1878 |
1868 - 1878 |
Ships Shipping shipbuilding |
1201A/PZ6-18 |
Notes by H.H. and R.P. Chope of Hartland, inc. accounts of wrecks, 1871-c.1900
|
1871 - 1900 |
Wrecks |
2239Badd8/157/1-3 |
letter from Joseph Risdon with plan of wall to prevent sea encroachment at Westward Ho! and rough sketches of sea defences, 1877
|
1877 |
harbours |
B422/1-3 |
Technical drawings of James Goss, Barnstaple shipbuilder, 1882-6
|
1882 - 1886 |
Ships Shipping shipbuilding |
2309B/Z11/5 |
Brixham Seamen's Orphan Boys' Home prospectus, 1883
|
1883 |
Mariners |
683/0 |
Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen, Bideford: register of sea fishing boats |
1884 - 1988 |
|
P/28/1-10 |
Photocopies of poems by James C. Harding of Appledore on wrecks from 1885 to 1912
|
1885 - 1912 |
Wrecks |
B128/1-10 |
papers of HM Customs and Excise, Barnstaple, relating to Appledore Customs House, inc. correspondence, 1932-58; records of seizures, 1860-1961; charts and plans for proposed public works (piers), 1886-1953
|
1886 - 1961 |
customs |
B354 |
Records of P.K. Harris and Sons, Appledore shipbuilders, 1891-1963
|
1891 - 1963 |
Ships Shipping shipbuilding |
3289add2/1-3 |
District register of Royal Navy ratings, c.1892-1925; return of engagements, discharges, etc., of Naval Reserve officers and men, 1920-49
|
1892 - 1949 |
Navy Papers Reserves |
B120add/1 |
certificates of Royal Humane Society for preventing drownings, 1893-6
|
1893 - 1896 |
Mariners Health Welfare |
3579B/B14 |
Papers of J.B. Reed and Co. relating to transport comprising 1, correspondence regarding the purchase of the Leader, ketch of Hull and shipments, 1897-8; 2, insurance policies and premium certificates, 1898-1904; 3-8b, receipted bills, bi |
1897 - 1925 |
Trade Commerce |
682/0 |
Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen, Barnstaple: register of sea fishing boats |
1903 - 1988 |
|
B120add4/2 |
Account book of the Braunton Shipowners Mutual Insurance Association, 1908-45
|
1908 - 1945 |
Ships Shipping insurance |
B50G |
Records of North Devon Yacht Club, inc. lists of members, 1909-65, race records, 1909-85, financial accounts, 1975-85
|
1909 - 1985 |
Leisure |
B261/1-36 |
Papers of Captains GG and HGG Clarke of Braunton, inc. ships' account books, 1909-22, financial papers relating to the CFH, Democrat, Result, St Austell and other ships, 1927-33, papers relating to the British Sail |
1909 - 1931 |
Ships Shipping |
B420/1-2 |
Correspondence regarding Association for the Efficient Watching of our Coast, 1910-11
|
1910 - 1911 |
Rescue |
3318 add |
Barnstaple shipping register |
1910 - 1987 |
trade commerce |
A73 |
Royal National Lifeboat Institution, Appledore branch: minutes, reports, accounts and papers, 1914-2001.
|
1914 - 2001 |
lifeboat coastguard Devon |
B369/1/2 |
Journal of B.R. Bickford containing notes on flags and pendants used in naval signals, 1915-16
|
1915 - 1916 |
Navy Papers, WW1 |
B272/1-3 |
Papers relating to H.M. Customs, Appledore comprising statements of trade, 1961-83, register of seamen, 1935-64, wreck books, 1919-82 |
1919 - 1982 |
Customs |
B155/1-15 |
Programmes for Bideford regatta, 1919-55, and for Appledore and Instow regatta, 1926, 1955 |
1919 - 1955 |
Leisure Yachting |
B99/1 |
Copy of statement of liabilities and assets regarding the Hansen Shipbulding and Ship-Repairing Co. Ltd of Northam, 1925 |
1925 |
Ships shipbuilding |
2006 Acc 18 |
Bideford ships' registration papers, 1925-92.
|
1925 - 1992 |
ships registration documentation |
B120add3/1-3 |
Letters and sketch plan regarding hospital ship at Barnstaple, c.1927
|
1927 |
Mariners Health Welfare |
B120add4/3 |
Midshipman's journal of Colin C. Lowry, 1929-31, with misc. service papers
|
1929 - 1931 |
navy service papers |
4347/1 |
Journal of John H.A. Stucley, midshipman, on the Malaya, Ramillies, Furious, Wren, Royal Sovereign, Foresight, Leander and Fame,1934-6 |
1934 - 1936 |
Navy diary |
R2379A/Z47 |
scrapbook of press cuttings in Admiralty case of owners of SS Devonia vs corporation of Bideford, 1937
|
1937 |
steam legal |
B333 |
Papers of Barnstaple and Bideford Port Health Authority, inc. inspector's records of inspections, 1939-88; reports of port medical officer of health, 1940-76; bundle of correspondence, 1949-89
|
1939 - 1989 |
Mariners Health Welfare |
R2379A/Z9 |
Correspondence regarding Bideford shipping, 1942-7
|
1942 - 1947 |
Ships Shipping |
B355add/3/1-2 |
Copy greetings telegrams, HMS Lauderdale 1944
|
1944 |
Navy |
H/14/1-4 |
Extracts from diary of Jack Freer of HMS Stevenstone April to November 1944
|
1944 |
Navy Operations |
B120add/2 |
Minute book of Braunton Shipowners' Mutual Insurance Association Ltd, 1946-59
|
1946 - 1959 |
Ships Shipping Insurance |
B155/18 |
Programme for Championship Regatta, Plymouth Amateur Rowing Club, 1950
|
1950 |
Leisure |
B114/1-6 |
Notes, transcripts, drafts, etc., by Stanley Thomas for book on The Nightingale 1950s
|
1950 - 1959 |
Ships Shipping |
A208 |
Corporation of Trinity House: plans of lighthouses: Bideford, Lundy and Lynmouth 1950-99.
|
1950 - 1999 |
lighthouse |
2681/1-101 |
Misc. papers regarding the Lynmouth flood of 1952, inc. correspondence
|
1952 |
flood |
B155/20 |
Menu for Championship Regatta dinner, 1955 |
1955 |
Leisure |
4347/2 |
Notebook containing, inter alia, reminiscences of John H.A. Stucley's naval training at Dartmouth and career, late 1970s
|
1970 - 1980 |
Navy Education |
B361 |
Minutes and correspondence of North Devon Lifeguard Committee, 1972-3
|
1972 - 1973 |
Rescue |
B119/1-9 |
Misc. papers relating to the Bideford Ship Company Ltd, 1986-7 [closed access]
|
1986 - 1987 |
Ships Shipping |