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- SLADNOR PARK – APOCALYPSE MAIDENCOMBESorry, but you do not have permission to view this content. Registration is now live By registering you will be able to: – access key documents on the website – receive newsletters – receive regular updates about events and projects in the combe – access important information relevant ... read more9 years ago
- MAIDENCOMBE’S TIN CHURCH SENSATIONALLY REVEALED
I am indebted to John Williams for giving me access to a most extraordinary and historically important photograph of Maidencombe's Tin Church which was situated within Sladnor Park at the turn of the twentieth century.Such was my incredulity at first seeing the photograph, I studied the image for many minutes ... read more9 years ago - OBERLEUTNANT BIEBER – SCOURGE OF SOUTH DEVON SHIPPING IN WW1
Further researched after my article of February 23 2013: Anyone strolling along Maidencombe beach on the evening of September 16th 1918 would have witnessed the sinking of the Lord Stewart - a 1445 ton armed merchantman (converted collier) - en route from Cherbourg to Barry. At 8 pm in the ... read more9 years ago - THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY of MAIDENCOMBE’S WAR
Nestled unobtrusively in a sheltered combe between Torquay and Teignmouth, the then undeveloped and mainly farming community of Maidencombe would have been expected to avoid the heavy punishment meted out by the Luftwaffe in World War two. And, to a large extent, it did but the tiny hamlet did have ... read more9 years ago - MAIDENCOMBE’S WARNovember 3rd 2017 marks the 75th anniversary of a very little known and even less documented event in Maidencombe's history.On that day in 1942, Maidencombe came under direct and deliberate fire from the Luftwaffe as opposed to the dumping of ordnance by Tip and Run raiders who had missed their ... read more9 years ago
- Sladnor Park – a vision of horror from the pastSorry, but you do not have permission to view this content. Registration is now live By registering you will be able to: – access key documents on the website – receive newsletters – receive regular updates about events and projects in the combe – access important information relevant ... read more9 years ago
- New Ward Boundary Changes Affecting MaidencombeSorry, but you do not have permission to view this content. Registration is now live By registering you will be able to: – access key documents on the website – receive newsletters – receive regular updates about events and projects in the combe – access important information relevant ... read more9 years ago
- SLADNOR PARK PUBLIC ‘CONSULTATION’Sorry, but you do not have permission to view this content. Registration is now live By registering you will be able to: – access key documents on the website – receive newsletters – receive regular updates about events and projects in the combe – access important information relevant ... read more9 years ago
- REVISED ECV PRESENTATIONSorry, but you do not have permission to view this content. Registration is now live By registering you will be able to: – access key documents on the website – receive newsletters – receive regular updates about events and projects in the combe – access important information relevant ... read more9 years ago
- RECONSTRUCTION OF THE SOLOMON’S POST MARKER
With no carpentry skills to draw upon, the reconstruction of a Solomon's Post marker was daunting but as a former silversmith who had work experience in Hatton Garden, I felt ready to make the attempt.Here follows the basics set out in photos as I progressed.Cutting of the pyramid cap.The 4 ... read more9 years ago
