Tavistock Heritage Trust
The history of the wool trade in Tavistock
The industrial history of Tavistock is often said to have been dominated by mining. In the Middle Ages, Tavistock's status as a Stannary...
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News
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Oct 10, 2018
"This annual debauchery": the history of Goose Fair
This piece was written by the late Gerry Woodcock and published in volume 8 of Tavistock's Yesterdays. It is reproduced here with the...
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Oct 5, 2018
We will remember them
By Alex Mettler On the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918, an Armistice was signed at Compiegne, France, dictating cessation of...
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Sep 6, 2018
Tavistock Guildhall - “The least possible delay”
This piece was written by the late Gerry Woodcock and first published in Tavistock History Society Newsletter of Spring 2014. It is...
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Aug 10, 2018
Remembering Theophilus Jones
By Alex Mettler On Friday 26th July, following a suggestion by Jane Miller of Westbridge Cottages, a group comprising seven residents of...
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May 7, 2018
Mad, Bad & Fascinating to Know - the Colourful Ancestors of the Dukes of Bedford
By Dr Geri Parlby The Early Years – From John to Edward Russell (c.1485 – 1627) It is amazing to think that a shipwreck could bring such...
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Apr 29, 2018
A Shopping Bag of Memories
By Alex Mettler In the Tavistock Times Gazette of 30 November 2017, an article appeared requesting information regarding names and...
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Apr 23, 2018
From Devon to Australia: A 19th Century Narrative
This is a guest post from Virginia Noonan, author of From Devon to Australia: A 19th Century Narrative. This new book on the history of...
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Sep 10, 2017
A Titanic Death
By Alex Mettler The Rogers family were monumental masons and granite merchants in Tavistock for almost a century, but they also lost a...
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