The Box The Box | Tavistock Place | Plymouth | Devon PL4 8AX 01752 304774 Email Facebook Twitter The team at the Royal William Yard are doing a great job of sharing its interesting history with people during this year’s festival. In case you’ve missed their posts, here are some helpful links: Royal William YardContinue reading “The Royal William Yard”
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Plymouth Breakwater: Fascinating Facts
The Box The Box | Tavistock Place | Plymouth | Devon PL4 8AX 01752 304774 Email Facebook Twitter For those of us who live in or regularly visit Plymouth, the breakwater is such a familiar sight that we probably don’t appreciate its significance. Yet, it’s been described as ‘the Channel Tunnel of its era’ andContinue reading “Plymouth Breakwater: Fascinating Facts”
The Breakwater
The Box The Box | Tavistock Place | Plymouth | Devon PL4 8AX 01752 304774 Email Facebook Twitter Welcome to the last Wednesday of the 2020 Plymouth History Festival. Later on today we’ll be looking at sport and sporting activities, with glimpses from the archives and information about a couple of parks where you canContinue reading “The Breakwater”
Sir Francis Chichester
The Box The Box | Tavistock Place | Plymouth | Devon PL4 8AX 01752 304774 Email Facebook Twitter Perhaps the largest crowd ever to gather on Plymouth Hoe – a quarter of a million people – saw the 65 year-old Francis Chichester sail home to finish the first west-east solo circumnavigation of the world onContinue reading “Sir Francis Chichester”
James Rich Steers
The Box The Box | Tavistock Place | Plymouth | Devon PL4 8AX 01752 304774 Email Facebook Twitter Only the fishes see a shipbuilder’s finest ideas once his vessel has slipped into the sea. It’s the precise shape of the hull and the swell and curve of the timbers that give the ideal compromise betweenContinue reading “James Rich Steers”
The Wreck of the Dutton
The Box The Box | Tavistock Place | Plymouth | Devon PL4 8AX 01752 304774 Email Facebook Twitter This painting is by a man called Nicholas Pocock (1740-1821), a Bristol-born artist who was known during his lifetime for the detailed paintings he produced of naval scenes. His skills were originally honed during a spell asContinue reading “The Wreck of the Dutton”
Letters Reporting the Mutiny of the Plymouth Squadron, 1797
Lee-Jane Giles Twitter Lee-Jane Giles is a PhD candidate at University of Plymouth. Her research focuses on the admiralty general court martial records in the 18th century, specifically 1755-1779, and considers how the charges related within them can shed light on how members of the marine corps constructed masculine values and validations. Lee-Jane is alsoContinue reading “Letters Reporting the Mutiny of the Plymouth Squadron, 1797”
Dame Agnes Weston and Dame Sophia Wintz
The Box The Box | Tavistock Place | Plymouth | Devon PL4 8AX 01752 304774 Email Facebook Twitter Born in London in 1840, Aggie Weston spent more than two decades living and working among the sailors of the Royal Navy. She co-founded two Royal Sailors’ Rests in Plymouth and one in Portsmouth with fellow philanthropistContinue reading “Dame Agnes Weston and Dame Sophia Wintz”
Restoring the ‘souls of ships’
The Box The Box | Tavistock Place | Plymouth | Devon PL4 8AX 01752 304774 Email Facebook Twitter 14 figureheads weighing a combined total of 20 tonnes will be on display in the main entrance of The Box when it opens to the public. Carved in the 1800s, and on loan from the National MuseumContinue reading “Restoring the ‘souls of ships’”
The Royal Navy and the Dockyard
The Box The Box | Tavistock Place | Plymouth | Devon PL4 8AX 01752 304774 Email Facebook Twitter Plymouth has been linked with the history of the Royal Navy for centuries and has the largest naval base in Western Europe. The huge site in Devonport, which dates from the 1690s, covers four miles of waterfrontContinue reading “The Royal Navy and the Dockyard”
Plymouth History Festival 