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STOP PRESS: MAY 2008
With my Mum`s passing, & work in general I hsve been busy of late. However I am slowly scanning 100s of new photos as well as collating those folks who have sent me scans.There is a huge amount to come soon. Until then.....
Top left, the old Toll House in Alma Road, Plymouth, close to where the Pennycomequick roundabout now is. Centre left & centre right, a view of Pennycomequick as was. Top left sees trams & cars in Plymouth's Union Street. Bottom left is Plymouth's Hoe Pier before it was Blitzed in 1941.Centre left shows a bombed city centre of Plymouth with Guildhall & St. Andrews Church showing. Centre right & far right are 2 views showing Bedford Street, Plymouth in 1902 - The King's visit - thanks to Terry.
Below are 3 photos of Pink Floyd at Earls Court in May 1973. The one with the dry ice cloud was taken during "Echoes" while the other one that looks to be ablaze was during "Careful With That Axe, Eugene." This latter shot has appeared in Phil Taylor's book on Dave Gilmour's Stratocaster guitars - the Black Strat. I took these myself.
STOP PRESS: OCTOBER 2007
My Mum, Gladys Eileen Johnson passed away on 12/10/07, my Dad's birthday. She was aged 83. Going through some of her things with my Dad, Leslie James Johnson, I have found some very good photographs including Pennycomequick in Plymouth. They will soon be up on this page. Gladys Eileen Johnson, 02/01/1924 to 12/10/2007
I have rescanned some aerial photos from the 1980s to a higher degree of resolution, we have: Dartmoor/Burrator Reservoir & area, Plymouth's central area of Devonport & Stonehouse, some aerial images of Guernsey in 1990, then aerials of Plymouth City Centre - Barbican - Sutton Harbour, now it's Plymouth Sound from the helicopter, now Marsh Mills - Leigham - Crabtree - Coypool, now Torpoint, Saltash, Rame Head, Penlee Point, Cawsands, here are some 1940s aerials of Millbay Docks & finally some more "wartime" aerials of RNAD Bullpoint, Ernesettle & Wrangaton. Have a look at these, World War I U Boat submarine photo album and also some images of a possible Japanese attack on Singapore or Freemantle, Australia in the early days of World War II.
Here we go: two maps of 1645 -The English Civil War. This one is outer Plymouth, while this one is Plymouth town. (thanks to Phillip Photiou) A very rare photo now of the Scraesdon Fort railway - this one is 20 Coy Royal Engineers, taken in 1906. A smaller scan is here. These scans are of the Western Morning News in 1967 with a feature on the Scraesdon Fort railway 1, 2. (thanks to Graham Jones of Bristol) Brocks fireworks adverts from 1961, see below and here is a Wessex ad (thanks to Ivan Hissey) & a box of Wilders fireworks (thanks to Martin Weselby) The centre photograph below is of Hostin`s shop in Plymouth, or am I wrong, Atherton Place, Devonport? (thanks to Terry) Three posters here of the famous Van Dike Club as was 1, 2, 3.(thanks to Tony Vincent) Some of you may have seen on the BBC last year, colour cine film taken in the 1920s by pioneer cinematographer Friese Greene: it seems he may have had a studio in Plymouth? (thanks to Joanne Beattie of Australia)
This selection is from Miss Stivey of Stoke, Plymouth - click here to see some of her plates. Here we have some plates from the Bestwetherick family. Next is something very very special, 1950s era photos of the re-modelling of Plymouth North Road Railway Station.(thanks to Nick)
Some time ago we popped over to Switzerland & flew around the Matterhorn with Air Zermatt taking some interesting aerial photographs of the Swiss Alps - & some cool Swiss trains!! It's not often you get free aerial photos of the Swiss Alps anywhere.
STOP PRESS: SEPTEMBER 2007
I have collected as many photos etc as I can of the old Manor House at Leigham, Plympton, Plymouth. Do you have any of Leigham Manor? Surely someone must have some - or papers & documents!
STOP PRESS: AUGUST 2007
I am sorry to hear the death of Mrs Betty Saundercock (Bollard) in Plymouth, whose son, Chris, I have known since 1965. Chris helped me immeasurably in the early days of Cyberheritage. His mum was a great lady. Our thoughts are with Vic, her husband, & especially Chris, Mo & Sarah, & all the Bollards.
LOST TUNNELS LINKING PLYMOUTH FORTS - AN URBAN MYTH "BEGINS TO BE PROVED TRUE" BY DILIGENT FIELDWORK
This time last year, if someone said that I would set foot in the bombed & blitzed Plymouth Air Raid shelter of Portland Square - I would have laughed at them. I did laugh at Tony Rees when he phoned me - however the laugh soon was on me as he had indeed found the concealed entrance it and we did get in, see Stop Press JANUARY 2007 on this page.
So when I had a phone call last week from a Mr X, I similarly laughed at him when he said he had found one of the lost tunnels of urban myth Plymouth. The myth is that there are many "lost" tunnels linking the Palmerston era land forts to the north & north east of Plymouth. Everybody knows they are a myth & all tunnels are known, surveyed & recorded. When Mr X showed me his photos & his drawings - the smile disappeared again. Watch this space for what may well become an amazing discovery of lost Plymouth history, red tape permitting. Oddly enough Mr X used to work with the finder of Portland Square Air Raid shelter, Tony Rees!...& I have worked with both of them! To see a Plymouth Urban Myth Tunnel - a PUMT, click here.
Above: PUMT no.1, July 2007
Onwards!! Here is something different, a pair of stereo photographs of HMS Cambridge firing up St Johns Lake during gunnery target practice, circa 1880s to !890s. I had a call from Dave Gilmour's agent recently, asking to use one of my pics for official Floyd use, it was taken in 1973 at London's Earls Court, during "Careful with that Axe Eugene."
STOP PRESS: JULY 2007
At the moment here in Plymouth there is much Council fury at the 1960s icon the Civic Centre building being listed by English Heritage. The Council is not too keen on preserving it, basically they say it's not worth it, or it's an eyesore. Ok, ok, but to put things in perspective, we need to look at other Council owned buildings that WERE WORTH IT then we will know how they think, so write a list of what they have so far done, down. Now, the fun, to do this will you need either a large sheet of paper and a fine line pen, or a small piece of paper and a whacking thick pen! Which is it to be, here's a clue as to one that slipped through their bulldozer mentality. In case you're stumped, this gem, the Palace Theatre, is falling to bits. Here we see it in 1971.
More odd thinking -I have always found the turf covered fall of shot spotting artillery bunkers at Okehampton Artillery Range to be of great interest, see 1.....2.... It comes as no real shock to hear that Dartmoor National Park finds them "out of keeping" and is pressing the Army at Okehampton Battle Camp to remove them. They have been there for over 100 years and blend wonderfully into the landscape -they are the landscape!
Here we have some re-scans of photos from the 1970s & 80s. Featured are Heathrow & Plymouth Airports, as well s Exeter. So much has changed. Cadet Lamerton's photos of his view of the Falklands War are given a rescan - he was only 18 - & shown along with Cyberheritage`s own photographs of the Plymouth Victory Parade, as well as the ships coming home to Plymouth & the Hermes return to Portsmouth. Was it really 25 years ago? Now a few unusual artworks on "Scouting." Back to the future now to 1991 and a look at Cold War Spies and Atom Bomb Blast Calculators residing in a public jigsaw puzzle library at Pounds House in Plymouth. Graffiti in Plymouth Air Raid Shelters is seen & re-scanned - look out for the Crucifix with the inscription "Enter here all ye who need to rest." A rather amazing collection of old maps of Plymouth is here. Here is a unique photographic panorama of Mt Wise at Devonport, Plymouth- surely unique, - as well as some nice photos of "C Class" submarines. Now some scans of some artwork used in the Paton Watson - Abercrombie "Plan for Plymouth." "Park the Chemist" was a well known chemist shop on Mutley Plain, trading in an age old way - have a look. In case you've forgotten, this is how Drake Circus in Plymouth looked in 1975 & here is a collection of other 1970s photos of Plymouth - before cars were everywhere. This is good, three shots of the lead singers of Lindisfarne at the Van Dike in Plymouth in 1971. A Type 42 Destroyer HMS Liverpool puts to sea on a families day. A couple of photos of Mrs Van Dike, singing on the Hoe as a child between the Plymouth Blitz Air Raids. A look at R.W.Kingwells "Talbot" Pub at the bottom of Molesworth Road in Plymouth c1900. This one is a mystery. Three wartime, or just post war photographs of Royal Navy Submarines, "Tantalus," P231 & P231 again. This collection here are from the Rame & Penlee areas, Coastal Defence Batteries & people & villages, some taken in 1970, & others c1900. Back in the future, the present, Tony Rees has made an superb reconstruction of the only full colour poster we have ever found during our subterranean travels - it was found in the Portland Square Air Raid Shelter in Plymouth.. Now we have some good colour photographs of British Rail, mostly Western Region in the 1980s. Some more BR in the 80s are here too...& here again, this time Hadfield & Manchester. Now a photo collection album of mostly Plymouth photos, late 1890s, early 1900s, and some of the south coast as well, some are on my other pages, but these are bigger scans.
Dave Perryman went flying & shared his aerial photos of Plymouth, South Hams & S.E. Cornwall with the world. There are several cracking aerial shots here. Some better re-scans of Swiss Railways in the 1980s. Mr Hardick of Kelly Bray sent me in these unusual 1960s railway photographs. Mr Broom sent in these photos of the Falklands Conflict in 1982. Mike Caswell of New York has sent in two more photographs of HM Submarine Sibyl around 1945..1.....2... Two 1900 era photographs here, one of HMS Benbow, the other of HMS Bullfinch, thanks to Terry Kent. Valerie Jordeson sent in these images of the stricken submarine HMS Thetis high & dry on the beach after salvage. Photographs here of the Plymouth Hoe Boat Club in 1925...1.....2......3.....thanks to Susan Horswell. This is a charabanc outing around 1924/5 from St. Paul's Church, Devonport, Plymouth, thanks to Peter Siddall. Ivan Hissey sent in these two scans of 1961 adverts for Brocks & Wessex Fireworks. Looking at better scans now of Plymouth Breakwater & Fort, & Spitbank Fort in the Solent. A trip to Istanbul in 1976 is recorded here, along with Italy in 1975, & Tunisia in 1973. When I was a lad...I used to fsh in Millbay Docks - now banned of course, here are some 1960s shots of Cork Pier, Princess Pier & West Wharf, as well as a few odds & ends. In the early 1990s, Prince Rock Power Station was demolished, sadly killing a spectator (by flying debris) who was Postmaster at Staddiscombe Post Office. In 1977 it was the Queen's Silver Jubilee. Many streets were closed for "street parties." Here is one such event at Fullerton Road, Plymouth. More, even more, re-scans of Swiss Railways are here. Here we have rock band Genesis playing a very early gig at the Van Dike, either 1971/72....1.....2.......3, also here are Hawkwind & Medecine Head (thanks to Paul Gregory) for these two. This plan from the 1990s, was drawn by contractors working on Salisbury Road School in Plymouth - it shows the large number of Underground Air Raid Shelters it had. Three shots of the Torpoint Ferry in the 1980s...1.....2......3 Two photos here now of Mount Wise before much was removed ie the accommodation blocks..1.....2 Here is a Brymon Airways Twin Otter landing at Plymouth Airport & giving cars a fright in the 1980s. Two views of South Yard, Devonport Dockyard, probably 1980s, what changes there have been....1....2 Thanks to an unknown person for sending in this superb scan of a Falklands Harrier GR3 in action in 1982. This is rock band Stray at Plymouth Guildhall in 1971/72. What is the name of this ruined farm house in Forder Valley? Photo taken in 1972, the house now gone. A fine 1980s collection of boats here in Sutton Pool - how many of you remember the "Iverna?" Now a mid 1980s view of Powder Mills on Dartmoor. This is a 1990 aerial view of an unknown Channel Island. Pink Floyd are playing "Echoes" here among a swirling waterfall of dry CO2 at Earls Court in 1973. Finally two rotting hulks sleep away the years in Radford Lake, also known as Hooe Lake....1.....2. A powerful Class 50 BR locomotive has an easy load as it passes Keyham in Plymouth, in the late 1980s, Do you remember the concrete & asbestos bus stops - shelters -erected in the 1950s by PJS - Plymouth Joint Services, the local bus company, long before First & Stagecoach etc. This one is/was near Cattedown Roundabout in Plymouth.
Here we see a Class 47 storming the Devon Banks around Ivybridge in the 1980s. Thanks to the unknown sender (my fault, I have misfiled their details) of this photo of an early submarine the A8 - see my web page on the loss of this boat,and also the submarine H24.
STOP PRESS: JUNE 2007
Did you see "BLINK" - a Dr Who TV episode? Surely this must rank as a pinnacle of excellence in British TV. Dr Who is becoming a "genre" so in years to come he will still be about like Sherlock Holmes. Well done the BBC. Time travel is always close to me eg Portland Square air raid shelter, see below. Lots coming up now, some of these are hi res rescans of existing pages, but there are 100s of new pics for you. The text descriptions are sparse, but with work etc it is the only way to get anything up for the while. Here is a page showing the opening in 2007, of a US army "K" ration for the first time - it was sealed in 1942. Now a look at Widecombe Fair, Dartmoor, Devon, back in 1972. On to RAF Mt Batten - as was, the developers have done a first rate job of destroying most of the history there - who was Lawrence of Arabia, or Aircraftsman Shaw anyway? Here we have some rescans of images and pages from the "Navy & Army Illustrated, 1.....2.....3. Following on is a mixture of old & new scans here, one set is of Plymouth people in the early 1970s - out & about....1.....2.......3. Just here are some better scans of Heathrow Airport and Plymouth Airport - Roborough in the 1970s & 80s.
STOP PRESS: JANUARY 2007
FOUND! PORTLAND SQUARE UNDERGROUND AIR RAID SHELTER
...At the University of Plymouth. When Tony Rees phoned me up last year to say he thought he may have found the long lost & concealed entrance to Portland Square Shelter, I thought "I don't believe it!!" After all I had looked for it on many occasions & failed. I was wrong. Click on the link for full photos and report on finding & exploring probably the most infamous name in Plymouth's Blitz history - it being the grim scene of a direct hit causing the biggest single loss of civilian life of all the many air raids that were inflicted on Plymouth. It's all here on this link.
STOP PRESS: DECEMBER 2006
Steve and Karen Johnson invite you to go "up the creek" at their new natural history web site: "Johnson's Creek." It's a photographic portfolio of the history, flora & fauna of Manor Park, near Plymbridge & Leigham in Plymouth. The massive site is in collaboration with Dave Fenwick, the well known local plantsman & botanist & a long tern friend of 30 years to the Johnson's. See snakes, deer, butterflies, frogs & much more as well as the old "Leigham Manor" House.
STOP PRESS: OCTOBER 2006
WANTED: Any & all old negatives, colour & black & white, slides, & cine film (any size) - anything, just send the lot, postage costs will be refunded, just put the lot into a box or envelope and post to the address at the very bottom of this web page. Lots more to come, more old cine, more aerials, photos of Plymouth people in 1970s, long changed street scenes and more. WHAT remains of the Civil War were ever found back in the late 1800s and early 1900s when Plymouth was expanding out into it's then green hinterland? Where did all the fired cannon balls go, what happened to the mass burials in the pits close to the lines, were artifacts found, what happened to them? Plymouth was surrounded by a chain of earth and wood forts, ditches & redoubts, what happened to them during Plymouth's expansion? Fort Stamford still has a large earthwork, and Resolution Fort off Beaumont Road was found a few years back, but what about all the rest, Lipson Fort, Pennycomequick Fort, Hopton's Work & all the rest? I would like to recommend Phillip Photiou`s book "Plymouth's Forgotten War" - it paints superb topographical mind images of how the Plymouth landscape worked back in English Civil War days. Nick Goad sent in this fine shot of the area around HMS Cambridge & Defiance in probably the late 1890s. Dave Williams from Wellington, New Zealand sends in this photo of members of the Glanville family at Ford Park cemetery in the late 19th century. This is a modern view of the grave. Terry Rider sent in this image of a "Tug o` War" on Plymouth Barbican many years ago. Paul White set in these 3 tram photos from an unknown location. Brian Gerrard sends in this sot of a HE Bomb time delay use, or pistol. Made by the Wolsey car company in 1955 having a delay of 144 hours. The time delay spread of these pistols was 1/2 to 144 hours. This type was used quite extensively against the Japanese in the war as there was no tell tale clock ticking mechanism to give it away. New updates on Firework Museum page.
STOP PRESS: SEPTEMBER 2006 v4
A hi-res look at the Plymouth Breakwater and the Breakwater Fort is here, while Spitbank Fort in Portsmouth is here. A coastal defence battery in Gibraltar & Plymouth are here. The area of Drake Circus in Plymouth has changed much in recent years, this is how it was in about 1976 from the roof of the then Plymouth Polytechnic. Two wartime submarines are seen here at anchor in Plymouth Sound, along with a 1988 view of a floodlight & flare lit Type 22 frigate. Post World War II Blitz Plymouth owed much to the "Plan for Plymouth." Here are some hi-res artworks from the original plan document. Maker Church in Mt. Edgcumbe Park across the Hamoaze from Plymouth has a tall tower that by virtue of it's geographical position was used as a semaphore station over the years.
STOP PRESS: SEPTEMBER 2006 v3
Loads of hi-res railway photographs here from BR days in the Western Region, 1980s style. Two pages here of hi-res Plymouth and South West aerial photographs from around 1981. This is one, & here is the other. Very good resolution photographs here of Plymouth and area from Victorian & Edwardian eras, some are on this site in other areas but not at this quality. More 1980s material here of close up details of the gun casements on Drakes Island, the Bridge, & the Dragon's Teeth. Brymon Airways are seen here in action at Plymouth Airport, again 1980s. Next a most unusual nautical map of Plymouth Sound & Hamoaze. Scouting is seen here at the turn of the 19th century. Still more Plymouth underground air raid shelter graffiti is to be found here. Even more Victorian & Edwardian Plymouth & south west area photographs. UNIQUE WRITTEN TEXT ON THE LOSS OF THE SUBMARINE THETIS; "CLOSE ENOUGH TO TOUCH" by P Armstrong. (apologies for the yellow formatting artifacts) Another piece here on the Thetis loss by A Shaw, a relative of one of the few Thetis survivors.
STOP PRESS: SEPTEMBER 2006 v2
Something new to Cyberheritage here, VIDEO!! HOURS OF IT! CLICK HERE to visit Cyberheritage`s video showroom at "YouTube." Some of the material here is stunning. Shot by the Pell family during their travels in the 1920s & 1930s, footage is of Looe, Polpero, Plymouth, London, Chester, Wales, Angelsey, Southend, Folkestone, Liverpool, Llandudno,& many more places, funfairs, lifeboats, trains, cars, air ships, seaside, town & country life - fashion, also "DUFAY" COLOUR film of digging for victory in 1941. Loads of film here - mixed in among this is some of my modern filming of fireworks, & diving in the Red Sea, so just hunt around. You may need to have flash installed. Back to still images, here are some very high resolution scans - huge files, sorry, of the NAVY & ARMY ILLUSTRATED, superb period images of Britannia.
STOP PRESS: SEPTEMBER 2006 v1
Here we have some great scans directly off prints from 1903. Some of these appear elsewhere on this site but these are the better scans. Next are some very hi-res aerial photos of London in 1946, (60mb) and the area around Plymouth too (280mb) They are both winzip files, you will need winzip to open. The London shots are normal jpegs, but the Plymouth, South Devon ones are "ecw" files. These need Irfanview to open, get it free here. Now a look at some of the less common hand grenades & militaria at the Bodmin Infantry Museum. Here is Cann Tunnel, almost under Asda at Leigham, Plymouth, seen elsewhere on the site but better resolution here, once a very large Underground Air Raid Shelter/Underground Hospital. This is something unusual here, during works in 2005 to redevelope the site of the former Cattedown Road School into a Nomony children's centre, the old school's underground air raid shelter was found - just look at the amazing graffiti of German U-Boats. Here is an interesting set of scans about a Royal Naval "Destroyer." Some photos of the British forces on the Falkland Islands in 1982, & images relating to Plymouth & Portsmouth during the Falklands conflict. Here are some images of a box of Frankfurt Arsenal cannon ball fuses from the 19th century. Now some 19th century scans of maps of Leigham, Estover, Mainstone & Longbidge, Marsh Mills. These are unseen colour photos on the cleaning of the hull of the recovered Holland 1 submarine at Devonport Dockyard. Now we have some photos of the wartime underground air raid shelter at Drake Primary School at Keyham, Devonport, Plymouth - originally Johnston Terrace School. This little lot covers the Plymouth Blitz, Cawsand and a VE Day party at Saltburn Road, St. Budeaux, Plymouth. Moving on, we have a fine collection of photos from the Beswetherick family (see below). Nice old fireworks here, and an old RNLI maroon launcher. More old Plymouth maps here, Last days of the old style Torpoint Ferry. Looking into a 1960s box of Pains Fireworks. Images and scans here of coastal defence, & especially some hand drawn sketches of Penlee Battery. Looking here at the Jubilee Inn, Burton Boys & Lockyer Hotel, Plymouth pubs now long gone. Very rare images of Radford at Plymstock, Plymouth. Unseen images here of the Eddystone Lighthouse, Breakwater Light, Saltash & Pennycomequick. Still more maps here. Superb aerial photos of the Solent & the Solent Fortifications - Hurst Castle, Fort Albert, Bembridge Fort & the enigmatic Sea Forts. Still more, colour photos of the Portsmouth Sub Graveyard. Look at this, "The Buzz" the wartime magazine of HMS Marne. some great rock acts are seen here on the Van Dike posters of the 1970s. Interesting odds & ends here, incl. Marsh Mills Station signal box, and more of same but different here. Finally, for now, more underground air raid shelter graffiti in this 1940s hideaway behind a present day Youth Hostel. THESE LISTINGS WILL NO LONGER BE REPEATED FURTHER DOWN THIS PAGE IN THE MAIN LISTINGS IN A AN ATTEMPT TO SAVE SPACE.
STOP PRESS: MARCH 2006
First off, looking for help! Trying to trace any descendants of Ann Maria Jeffery, nee Beswetherick, born Lostwithiel, Cornwall, UK 1839, & their children William 1861, Louisa, 1863, Ned(?), Maud Mary(1870),Caroline(1873), Sarah Eliza..(Auntie Bert!)(1877)Edwina M(1878) & Stella Ann(1881). If you can help please mail me. Also trying to trace the Jeffery family in Essex & or Saffron Walden & the Campbell family from Maidenhead. See Beswetherick web site.
STOP PRESS: JANUARY 2006
Images of World War II, staff & wartime humour of the A.R.P. Plymouth Report Centre, taken from the local Plymouth journal "The Alert." Brilliant front cover artworks from the boy's comic "The Champion." Finally art & adverts from 1928 in the "what's on" for Devonport's Alhambra Theatre. SPEAK OR VIDEO CALL TO STEVE FOR FREE ON "SKYPE" !! BETTER THAN AN E-MAIL, IF I AM AT HOME AND FREE, I WILL ANSWER AND HELP YOU WITH YOUR HERITAGE QUEST, SEARCH ON SKYPE FOR CYBERHERITAGE OR STEVE AND KAREN JOHNSON. Check out Brian Smith's new site on the famous Breeches Buoy Rescue Rockets, a content rich site that Cyberheritage is pleased to promote.
STOP PRESS: DECEMBER 2005
At last, a really good shot of Leigham House from the 1960s or early 1970s, together with a splendid shot of its rhododendrons, many thanks to George, (top left 2). Also a much better scan of that classic shot of the two little girls at Pisky or Piskey Pool on Plymouth Hoe, maybe very late 1890s to early 1900s, thanks to Derek Tait. Top right shows us a splendid view of the guns, older RMLs on the floor and more modern Breech Loaders emplaced - at Western Kings Battery in Stonehouse, Plymouth Sound in the early 1900s. Also we have a very important document on the loss of the submarine HMS Thetis in 1939 - the transcript of the official 1946 hearing into the loss and the case against Cammell Laird Shipyard (272k rich text file). Then two colour shots of an LST high and dry on Plymouth Breakwater in 1949. Now any early coach trip by "Royal Blue" in Plymouth. Thanks to those who sent them in. More still, three photos of an old ships fireworks box 1, 2, 3. Thanks to Mandy. Back to 1982 now and we have two shots of the vessel "Keren" a troop carrier in the Falklands War, originally the "St. Edmunds," the photo here is of a Remembrance Ceremony aboard her in San Carlos Sound - "Bomb Alley" thanks to Alan Robson. More material updated on Firework Museum.
STOP PRESS: NOVEMBER 2005
NOVEMBER 5th PLYMOUTH, ENGLAND, FIREWORK NIGHT: "please to Remember the 5th of November" well NOT here.
THE LAST BONFIRE
Plymouth City Council in it's wisdom decided to ban...wonderful word, "Ban" or as we say "Bannnnnnnnnnnn" all unofficial bonfires on council land in Plymouth. Driving around the city on Bonfire Night it seemed that the bannnnnnnn was 100% effective with tales of council workmen dismantling any bonfires as soon as they were built. Once upon a time every park and open space would have a bonfire on it with all the locals coming out to chat and meet instead of hiding behind locked and barred front doors with curtains drawn. However our wise City Fathers felt that this was dangerous and led to vandal and hooligan behaviour. So the bannnnn. Where we once had light parks, lit by friendly blazing light we now have dark, unlit and sinister parks, devoid of all humanity. Many young people tried to innocently build bonfires (this links with their school history studies of how King James, upon discovering and foiling Guido Fawkes Gunpowder Plot plan, ordered bonfires to be lit across the nation in celebration) but were thwarted by the council - save the Keyham Lads and Gals who just managed it in Alexandra Park. To stand up for themselves they sat down on it - the bonfire and won. Perhaps they had built and lit Plymouth's Last Bonfire. From the photos below it's clear to see how horrific and awful their behaviour is, or rather is not in keeping a little bit of our British history alive..."please to Remember the 5th of November"
CYBERHERITAGE TRAVELS TO AUSTRALIA & SINGAPORE - PHOTO ALBUMS OF:
COASTAL ARTILLERY ON ROTTNEST ISLAND, - NEAR PERTH, AUSTRALIA, - COASTAL ARTILLERY IN SINGAPORE AT FORT SILOSO, AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL MUSEUM AT CANBERRA, - FLYING OVER THE RED CENTRE OF AUSTRALIA, - ABORIGINAL ART FOR SCHOOL KIDS TO COPY & IMPROVISE, - TRIBAL BODY ART FROM PAPA NEW GUINEA, - THE ROYAL FLYING DOCTOR SERVICE, - THE SCHOOL OF THE AIR, - AERIAL PHOTOS AT THE GLEN HELEN ROAD HOUSE, - FLYING HIGH OVER LONDON'S DOCKLANDS ALL ON CD EX.AUSSIE WAR MEMORIAL
PLUS AND ALSO......
Aerial views from 40,000 feet of the Red Sea and Sinai areas, Suez, Alexandria and more.
Some superb hi-res scans of advertising broadsheets from the world famous rock club, THE VAN DIKE in Plymouth. Many of you may not know that Pink Floyd, Yes, The Nice and Genesis etc. once played across the road from the mini-mart in Albert Road Plymouth!!
Official documents from Plymouth in the Blitz of World War II - Where the Bombs Fell, Civilian Deaths register, ARP Sector Plans, maps of Air Raid Shelters and more: they are all here. Nice 19th century image of Prince of Wales Battery, Stonehouse, Plymouth - it is much the same today as it looks over Plymouth Sound. Image 1, Image 2
STOP PRESS: OCTOBER 2005
100 years of Schermuly and Boxer Rockets of the Irish Coast Guard, images of the manufacture of World War II practice mortar bombs, the Danish Konsberg life saving Line Rocket, on fireworkmuseum.co.uk we have 1960s images of mint condition Standard & Brocks fireworks, and a look at the Brocks newspaper AND loads more coming soon...Australia, Red Centre, Great Barrier Reef.
STOP PRESS: SEPTEMBER 2005
Fixed the "lost" pages of various travel photos of Istanbul, Tunisia etc in the 1970s, including the amazing "il Palio" in Sienna, Italy. They are now here.
STOP PRESS: JULY 2005
Looking to do a web page on the legendary Van Dike Club that was alive and giggin` in Exmouth Road Plymouth from the mid 1960s to 1974. Many world class bands cut their teeth at the Van Dike, names such as Pink Floyd, The Nice, Yes, Jethro Tull, Genesis and Roxy Music all drove down past the bed sits in Albert Road and turned into Exmouth Road to park outside the stage door of the Van Dike. If you have photos of the bands on stage, crowds in and outside, anything of the building, press clippings or copies of the A4 sized monthly "what's on" handbills, then I would like to hear from you. Before it was the Van Dike it was the Purple Fez, in the war it was an Ambulance and First Aid Station. ..or any shots of the Isle of Wight Festival...Now it is burnt down having had a slow and seedy time since the glory days of when it was the Van Dike. The site is now rebuilt with housing. Below are some shots of a regular performer, the Pink Floyd on their August 1st 1969 gig, as well as shots of The Nice and Yes, with thanks to John Tozer.(12strings@blueyonder.co.uk) Also, as ever looking for images of Penlee/Rame Church Coastal Defence Battery and Renney/Lentney as well.
STOP PRESS: APRIL 2005
THE LATE SQD. LDR. EDDIE "HANK" HANCOCK D.F.C. PERSONAL WARTIME RAF PHOTO COLLECTION - STUNNING! POSSIBLY THE BEST UNSEEN RAF COLLECTION THERE IS - ABOVE IS JUST A TASTER! (click above images to enlarge) above content: CREW OF "G" FUKA SATELLITE JANUARY 1941 plus the photographic collection of his brother Geoffrey Hancock RAF, another wartime RAF FLYER AND MORE AMAZING IMAGES.
STOP PRESS: MARCH 2005
John Turner
It was with great sadness that I have recently learned about the death of a great friend of mine, a World War II Airborne Forces Veteran, & an amazing lover of history, that being Cyril Banfield. Cyril passed away at his home in Plymouth, sadly alone in the few days before Christmas 2004. He was in his late 70s but agile almost to the very end, enjoying many trips away to the museums of the UK and France. It had been my privilege to have known Cyril for over 10 years and enjoyed his company and knowledge both in my home and in the field doing research. Cyril was the finest you could ever meet in the UK armed forces. You are missed greatly by many.
MALDIVES and SEYCHELLES: a "how to do" diving family holiday, resort info, dive locations - exact places to dive from. Download as a "word.doc" document file, about 7mb, big, sorry, but contains all the photos and text you need, how to have a diving holiday without leaving the family on dry land!! it's here, click here, or right click and "save target as."
STOP PRESS: FEBRUARY 2005
Hayesleigh, now Ravenscroft House at Yelverton, Devon, England: in the late 1890s to early 1900s: many thanks to N. Gordy: a wonderful collection of Victorian happy snaps, weddings and picnics. The house is still there today. From a contributor in the US comes this amazing image of St.Anthony`s Head Lighthouse, Falmouth in 1942, just look at the WW2 camo!!.It`s a 1.75mb bitmap, so it will take a little while to load. There has been a major update at the Firework museum.
STOP PRESS SPECIAL: OCTOBER 20th 2004
A NEW HM SUBMARINE "THETIS" WEB SITE. MEMORIAL PAGE TO SEAMAN ALBERT YATES, LOST ON THE THETIS IN 1939, JUST BEFORE THE OUTBREAK OF WW II - A LOSS FOR WHICH THE "ADMIRALTY REGRETS."
This is a personal page by his Grandson, Adrian Yates of Plymouth, with many unseen images.(see also main Thetis page here)
STOP PRESS: OCTOBER 2004
Remember the days when the corner shop was "open all hours." Images of Leigham House in 1970s, ARP or ATS marching in parade along Mutley Plain in 1940s. Two aerial images in 1981 of the Breakwater Fort and Jetty..1....2...Looking at Okehampton Army Camp in the 1890s and when the Yanks were there in 1944, and Royal Naval Target Practice Seawards off Plymouth. Then some nice shots of Coastal Defence guns, and some WW I and WW II ammunition "Gas, Gas, Gas." Also a look at WW II Totter Rockets. Then on the railways, Class 37s steam heated in Scotland in 1984 followed by some mystery glass plate photographs. Still more new, a look at Plymouth College of Art and Design Photography Dept in 1970, and a look at Millbay Docks in 1970. Then a look circa 1900 ish at Plymouth North Road Railway Station and the old original Royal Theatre. Two old pics of the Britannia Inn at Milehouse 1...2, and a pic of an old car outside the Virginia House Settlement on the Barbican, two pics of D-Day troops leaving Torpoint in Cornwall 1...2, and two photos of an old Whitby..1...2!! A new page on the fortifications, Victorian & German of Alderney, Channel Islands, incl. aerial photographs of the forts and bunkers. Four photos of the tolls being taken on Stone House Bridge, early 1900s, 1....2....3....4. Brymon Airways at Plymouth Airport in the 1970s & 80s thanks to Ian Haskell, feature again in some already seen images now rescanned at much higher resolution (and some at Southampton) - 400k size. Also a shot of Elphinstone Quay in Plymouth in the 1960s - 350k, a 1950s aerial of the River Plym and Billacombe area - 400k ,thanks to David Perryman, and a fine painting of HMS Mauritius, 550k - sorry I have lost the details of the sender There has been a major update at the Firework museum. Some amazing hi-res photos of World War II grafitti in a Plymouth, England, underground air raid shelter.
STOP PRESS: MAY 2004
New collections of aerial photos taken 2003/2004 from "low" flying passenger aircraft. Areas around Exeter, Devon, UK, then some shots flying from Venice, Italy to London Gatwick, shows Switzerland and France too... then some flying low in a Dash 8 from Plymouth to Newquay, in Cornwall, then back up to London Gatwick, still more on another Plymouth service, further afield, out to the Maldives in the Indian Ocean, via, Plymouth, Newquay, London Gatwick and back to Plymouth Airport again! These sites show lots of SW England topography, Clay Tips, estuaries, coastlines, rivers as well as London Gatwick Airport + more exotic images too!
STOP PRESS: APRIL 2004
Old OS maps of Plymouth, England, must be early to mid Victorian era or so. Spotted by SJ one day blu-tacked on a corridor wall at Marjon College, so out popped my digital camera and here we are! PLUS: HMS/M Sybil in WW2, as sent in by a visitor to the site AND some nice packs of Macau firecrackers (among other things!)..also sent in by a visitor! and more sent in, HMS Majestic c1895 (thanks to Ian Duque), and still more fireworks, old Brocks etc.
STOP PRESS: JANUARY 2004
UNSEEN c 1900s ERA PHOTOS OF PLYMOUTH & AREA, WEMBURY, RADFORD, THE EDDYSTONE LIGHTHOUSE, ...UNDER SAIL, NEWTON FERRERS, NOSS MAYO, EARLY AVIATION . The early aviation ones are here...where is this early airfield? It must be near Plymouth! ALSO HI-RES: Blue prints of M1 submarine, T & S class boats. Models of Battling Betsy, Halibut submarine.....with Regulus missile & Thor missile base. World War II images from Plymouth, Lord Astor & evacuee, a young girl singing her heart out on the Hoe,... railway illustrations from the Eagle comic, box art from Revell missile kits plus Plymouth Blitz ARP shelter sector plans & a FALKLANDS beach scene, Meccano AND MORE: K-CLASS SUBS AT ALGIERS,.. L BOATS IN USA, STILL MORE: More old firework posters at hi-res!! and an Indian one. SENT IN PICS: SUBMARINE L-3 AT PLYMOUTH, SHIP`S BRIDGE ROCKET/SIGNAL ROCKET LAUNCH SYSTEM BY SCHERMULY ALL AVAILABLE ON CD
STOP PRESS: SEPTEMBER 2003
HI-RES IMAGES OF ROME & VENICE PLUS EGYPT, IDEAL FOR SCHOOLS DOING ROMANS & EGYPTIANS. IT'S ALL HERE, PHARAOHS, PYRAMIDS, HIEROGLYPHICS, TOMBS & TEMPLES, THE NILE, LAKE NASSER, NUBIA
STOP PRESS: JANUARY 2003
THE US IN THE UK!! PRIOR TO D-DAY-100 PHOTOS
US ARMY & NAVY IN ENGLAND, inc PLYMOUTH, 40MB OF AMAZING IMAGES, G1`s, CAMPS, PREPARATIONS,FUN,AT WORK, LANDING CRAFT, AT SEA, IN FLIGHT, CRASHES AND ACTION- IT`S ALL HERE! THANKS TO MIKE DEAN MBE FOR HIS WORK IN THE USA & PASSING THEM ON TO ME FOR YOU TO SEE, MANY OTHERS WOULD HAVE KEPT THEM HIDDEN!! click here for the photo album page, and click here for an "Excel" file of the photo locations and dates etc.
STOP PRESS: DECEMBER 2002
Large scan of Scraesdon Fort, should print out to almost A3.
STOP PRESS: OCTOBER 2002
Rare 1971 photo of Penlee Point showing Electric Lights, Observation Posts, Foghorn etc. - now all gone.
STOP PRESS: SEPTEMBER 2002
Shore treasure hunting on the 1912 wreck of the steamer Vectis at Andurn Point, Plymouth, Devon is here.
A new venture for Cyberheritage, the opening of www.cyberheritage.com/abroad .Early and mid 1970s medium quality photos of Moscow, Venice, Florence, Siena..."Il Palio", Lanzarote, Brittany, Istanbul and Tunisia. See how these places have changed in 30 years!!! ALSO with current time hi-res photos of Rome, Sorrento, Pompeii and Vesuvius, Herculaneum, Capri, Monte Cassino and the British War Grave at Cassino.
www.cyberheritage.com/abroad is here on this link
Very rare 1970 colour photos of Rame Coastal Defence Battery, Whitsands Bay, East Cornwall, which may be found HERE! Large scans, to print out to A3 of British Rail Specials to Paignton, Devon, featuring Classes, 40, 31 and 47, and also Clay in Cornwall - which may be found HERE. New also is the page looking at what remains of the Blitz - shrapnel hunt, and a gas mask ARP rubbish dump. Last but not least are these scans of some 1960s plastic model box art.
STOP PRESS: AUGUST 2002
JUST ADDED: PHOTOS OF OLD SUBMARINES AND CREWS, K6, K14, B5, B6, U54, D Boats at Torquay, early French boats at Dunkirk. PHOTOS ONLY HERE
STOP PRESS: JULY 2002
All "Cyberheritage" material, photos, images and web sites are now available on CD, mostly to a far higher degree of resolution and printing-out size, ideal for A3/A4 framing & hanging. Just ask. JUST ADDED: SUBMARINES, VERY LARGE A3 SIZE IMAGES, SEE BELOW, HERE; PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOL FOR GIRLS TRIP TO LONDON c.1968, (also good 60`s view of Edinburgh and a few odd shots of luscious 60`s babes!!) TWO PLYMOUTH GIRLS SEEKING ROMANCE IN PARIS IN 1972, GOOD VIEWS OF OLD CARS AND PARIS SKYLINE, PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOL FOR GIRLS TRIP TO AUSTRIA c.1969, GOOD VIEWS OF OLD CARS. PHOTOS ONLY
STOP PRESS: MAY 2002
I have just been able to get some colour negatives taken in 1991 scanned to a very high quality. Subject matter is World War II graffiti found in the Underground Air Raid Shelter at Sutton High School and also the shrub verge at Lower Street, both Plymouth. Done by schoolchildren from Primary to Grammar age, they are a stunning window into the past. Files are 900k at most. HITLER, CHURCHILL, GOERING, HITLER, MUSSOLINI, "PLUCKED NAZI EAGLE," BATTLESHIP, HEINKEL, HEINKEL, GOERING, GOERING CD-HI-RES PHOTOS
NEW - SPEAK OR VIDEO CALL TO STEVE FOR FREE ON "SKYPE" !! BETTER THAN AN E-MAIL, IF I AM AT HOME AND FREE, I WILL ANSWER AND HELP YOU WITH YOUR HERITAGE QUEST, SEARCH ON SKYPE FOR CYBERHERITAGE OR STEVE AND KAREN JOHNSON - NEW -
TO FIND OUT ABOUT CYBERHERITAGE`S HIGH RESOLUTION PHOTO CDs - CLICK HERE
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