“ Rolling Through Time: The Story of the Shadbolt Family’s Wallis & Steevens Steam Roller, “Chipchase” that would have worked in Hooe or Radford Quarry When most people think of family heirlooms, they picture antique furniture, jewelry, or old photographs…
The Ship Wreck Project – Alien Invasion or Balasz Turos? On cold, dark nights in November 2013, Hooe Lake became the stage for a spectacle that left onlookers both fascinated and puzzled. If you happened to be there, you might…
On a fairly wet December day in 2009, Kevin Warley local historian and arboretum co-ordinator held an historic tour and walk of the Radford & Hooe Lake area. We recorded some of the talks and discussions to give those that…
It has long been believed that Oreston had up to five pubs at times over the centuries. It is now thought that there could have been seven. These pubs could have been a formal public house or inn, as we…
HOOE GREEN AWARDED VILLAGE GREEN STATUS. At their meeting on the 30th May 2019 PCC Planning Committee agreed unanimously that the land known as Hooe Green should be given Village Green status and included in the register of Village Greens.…
These are extracts from a book by Alec Wood who worked for F.J.Moore’s Stoncrete works at Pomphlett. He has written a number of books of his interesting life, his employment and times at Stonecrete, he worked for them prior to…
Fond memories of Hooe Lake and Radford by Alison Hanson… My great grandad, Caleb Samuel Carder (1875 – 1971) had an allotment on the hillside above Radford Quarry in Lower Saltram, on the left as you began downhill on the…
by Martin Read, Plymouth University – September 2011 The remains of hulks, or abandoned watercraft, located along the river edge and the intertidal zone are an important component/evidence of our maritime past. Often they represent the only remains of types…
My great, great grandfather Frederick John Moore established a quarrying firm in Plymouth during the early part of the last century (F J Moore). During the late 1950’s my grandfather also Frederick Moore sold the family firm to English China…
My earliest memories of Radford Castle are taken from the time when my parents moved in as Tenants and Gatekeeper in 1931 when I was about eighteen months ' old, along with my ten year old half- sister Edna and half-brother Roy aged twelve. Their mother had died at the age of thirty two and my father was a widower when he married my mother.
