About us
OUR MEETINGS:
RAME PENINSULA HISTORY GROUP..
PROGRAMME 2025 – 2026.
2025:
17th Nov ' The Coronation - a Maritime Tragedy and Modern Day asset' Ginge Crook
15th Dec ‘Mount Edgcumbe through the Artist’s Eye.’ Cynthia Gaskell Brown (Social Evening)
2026:
19th Jan "Sir Edward Pellew and the Wreck of the ‘Dutton’ on Fishers Nose, Plymouth" Ron Smith
16th Feb “The Voyage of the Gladstone in 1883 taking emigrants from Plymouth to Australia". Neil Rugg
16th March 'Conquering the Dumnonii: new light on the Roman military deployment in South West Britain'. Dr Chris Smart
20th April 'Joshua Reynolds and the Edgcumbes Jenny Pery'
18th May ' Old shops and Businesses of Cawsand and Kingsand' an illustrated stroll through the streets, Roger Collins
15th June TBA
Our Meetings: are usually held on the third Monday of the month, excepting July and August.
We Meet: at Cawsand Congregational Church Garrett Street Cawsand.
We Begin: at 7.30pm
Nearest Parking: Kingsand Car Park, (next to 'Half Way Inn') or in Cawsand Public Car Park, or
on-road parking.
Information on next meetings: is sent by email to all subscribers to our mailing list. Please sign up here
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Amoung our most recent meetings were:
2023
16th Jan LOWER TAMAR CROSSINGS Les Deering
20th Feb THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE OF DRAKES ISLAND Bob King
20th Mar PLYMOUTH TO 1619 Martin Read
17th April NAPOLEON IN PLYMOUTH SOUND 1815 Clive Charlton
15th May A NETWORK OF 18 CENTURY FORTIFICATIONS IN THE RAME PENINSULA Caroline Villuamy
19th June A Geology Investigation of Sandways Beach, Kingsand, Rame Meriel Fitzpatrick
18th September The Second Armada Malcolm Cross
16th October Graint Ine Magdr - Rame Peninsula and the Politics of Early Medieval
Cornwall John Fletcher
20th November Mt Edgcumbe Ernie Hoblin
11th December Quiz evening
2024
15th January Devon's Bridges Robert Hesketh
19th February Two Wrecks Around Rame - the A7 and HMS Coronation
Mallory Rachal Haas 18th March Stories from the Plymouth Custom House, Brian Rayden
15th April The Lynher Barge Barbara Bridgeman
20th May Trade on the Tamar Clive Charlton
22nd June What's new at Maker Heights? Andrew Martin. Walk
16th September 2024 Letters from Australia Martin Eddy
21st October 2024 The Eddystone Lighthouses Ron Smith
18th November 2024 Robert Lenkiewicz 1941 - 2002 Louise Courtnell
9th December 2024 Quiz evening
2025
20th January 2025 ‘Devonport Dockyard, Historical and Social Impact'. Dr Harry Bennett
17th February 2025 Summer of 1792: The journal of a Remarkable Visitor to the Rame Peninsula' Malcolm Cross
17th March 2025 The Evolution of the Historic Landscape of the Rame Peninsula Pete Herring
21st April 2025 Lady Astor and Maker Camp Anne-Marie Sutcliffe
19th May 2025 Water, Wind and Tide Mills Duncan Paul Matthews
16th June 2025 Group Walkabout
15th Sept ' The Tamar Barge Fleet' Clive Charlton
20th Oct 'Reason or Rebellion? The Suffragette Story in the South West' Pamela Vass