NEXT MEETING is VIA ZOOM
7.30 pm Tuesday 12th November 2024 by Ron Howell
3000 Years of History From Under The Sea
In 1995 a team of amateur divers working in the Erme Estuary in South Devon moved their operation to the waters off Salcombe due to bad weather. Little did they know that weekend that their lives were about to be changed. Work has continued on what the British Museum has described as the most important maritime discovery of the Bronze age period in the world.
The finds are displayed in three cabinets at the British Museum and show cases at Plymouth Art Gallery and Exeter Museum.
The talk covers four shipwrecks from different time periods in one area of the seabed.
Ron Howell is the secretary of the South West Maritime Archaeological Group. Ron has been diving for over 50 years after leaving the Royal Navy and is the man responsible for the amazing discoveries after breaking the surface on that day in 1995 with his hands clutching gold coins, nuggets and jewellery in his gloves, the rest is history!.
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HARBERTON CHRISTMAS TREE FESTIVAL 14-16 December 2024
We'll also be having a History Group tree again at the Harberton Christmas Tree Festival, 14th - 16th December and current;y pondring on a theme for 2024 -- all suggestions welcome !!
The Harberton and Harbertonford History Society encourages the study of the local history of Harberton Parish and the surrounding County.
There are approximately 5 meetings with speakers each year and at least one field excursion. Meetings take place in Harberton or Harbertonford on alternative dates, or via Zoom sessions - details of which can be found in the Programme.
Members of the Society have gathered information on the past history of the villages, personalities and the Parish including the preparation of historic walks around both Harberton and Harbertonford. The Society is making collections of photographs and some artefacts and have embarked on an oral history project to build an archive of first hand histories in both villages.
Subjects covered in previous meetings have included:-
The History of Harbertonford Mill Pilotage on the River Dart
The Construction of the Avon Dam Victorian Crime in Totnes
Tuckenhay Paper Mill Church Houses in Devon
Vagrants and Travellers in 17 Century Harberton
The Trist Family of Harberton
Field Trips have included visits to:
Finch's Foundry at Sticklepath
Grimspound and Bellever Neolithic Sites, both accompanied by an
Archaeologist from Dartmoor National Park
Membership is open to anybody interested in local history and is £12 per year with talks free to Members. Non members are welcome to meetings at the cost of £3 per meeting.
The Society is keen to receive photographs/articles/family records for the archives which can also be added to our website.
Please contact our secretary Jill Powell - jill.powell-redlion@outlook.com
We are affilliated to The Devon History Society - see links page
Chairmen:--
Derek Robinson in Harbertonford 01803 732442
Stanley Oldfield in Harberton 01803 864654
Harberton & Harbertonford
History Society
