by Bob King | Nov 19, 2021 | Uncategorized, Victorian Britain
I’ve found a significant number of births on the Island that I was unaware of so I thought I’d do a brief list whilst I still research their back stories. The information on their place of birth comes from a variety of sources, the Censuses, Military...
by Bob King | Oct 27, 2021 | Uncategorized
I thought it may be of interest to have a look at some of the images, charts, paintings photographs and the like to see how the Island has changed over the centuries. The vast majority of the images are looking at it from the Devon or Cornish mainland so I’ll...
by Bob King | Oct 6, 2021 | Uncategorized
The title of Governor of Plymouth and St Nicholas Isle seems to confirm they were regarded as two separate entities in terms of ownership, the Island not being part of Plymouth when it was incorporated in 1440. The Governor was a Crown Appointment and was a military...
by Bob King | Sep 24, 2021 | Post WWW2, Uncategorized
Immediately after the War finished there was local agitation to return land requisitioned for the War to Plymouth City Council. Prominent figures included Isaac Foot the Lord Mayor of Plymouth for 1945 and Chairman of the Special Purposes Committee and his son Michael...
by Bob King | Sep 3, 2021 | Uncategorized, World War Two
I recently came across the Fort Log for World War Two and up to the start of the demilitarisation of the Island in 1957 together with a Royal Engineer survey and a couple of photos of the same era. The Fort Record isn’t a daily diary of the period but is in 3 parts....
by Bob King | May 13, 2021 | Uncategorized, Victorian Britain
A few more fascinating documents to explore that have recently come to light. It’s the 1881 Barrack Plan for the Island surveyed and drawn up by the Royal Engineers. It was a decade after the completion of the Palmerston or Napoleonic Casemates which contained the 9...
