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Historic maps of Maker and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Maker maps
Maker photos
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Cremyll| Kingsand| Cawsand| Millbrook| Devonport| Rame| Stoke| Bovisand| Torpoint| Heybrook Bay| Freathy| Plymouth| Plymstock| Whitsand Bay| Wembury| Saltash| Crafthole| Sheviock| Plym Bridge| Newton Ferrers| Plympton| Noss Mayo| St Germans| Landrake
Maker area books
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New Book on Rame
I am currently compiling a book for Amberley Publishing called 'The Rame Peninsula Through Time'. The book will feature 90 old photos and 90 new photos. The new photos will all be in colour. I was wondering if anyone would be so kind as to lend me and old personal photos they have of the area? Email copies would be fine. I think it will prove to be a very interesting and attractive book when it's completed. Thanks for any help anyone can give me, it's much appreciated. Best wishes, Derek Tait. derek.tait@virgin.net
Year of The Appendix.
During that summer my family made a trip to stay at Mount Edgcumbe for a fortnight or so, my mum being a distant relative of the occupying family, so to speak. On the journey down the A.38, (no M5 then), I kept complaining about stomach (?) pains and was ordered to bed by our hosts the moment we arrived. (I must have been about fourteen at the time.) During that night the pain worsened and the local GP, the kindly Dr. Lewis was summoned 'at the double' to my bedside. Having informed Mum that I had developed appendicitis, she immediately reacted by stating I would be brought to a Plymouth hospital in the morning. '' No you won't, you will take him there right now, his condition is ACUTE! ''
Not quite as simple as it sounds, as by this time it was 2.30 a.m. and it required a very tactful phone call to mobilise the staff at the Torpoint Ferry to make... Read more
Happy Times
It was about 1956 that my twin sister and I stayed at the Mountedgecomb Arms which our grandmother owned. We have very happy memories of walking over Mount Edgecombe and seeing films in Millbrook village hall. We went to tea with Mrs Strutt and her family, if I remember right there were two boys and one daughter. Sadly it was the last time that we saw our grandmother. Cremyll has a big place in our happy memories. It was great standing outside the hotel and watching all the Navy vessels and submarines go past. It is a lovely part of the country.
Kingsand
I was born in the village in 1924 and have a a lifelong treasury of memories of this lovely twin village, suggest you visit Rame Heritage or Village Family Tree sites for an informed guide by local historians - Jack Ford.
Cawsand
My family has been conected to Kingsand and Cawsand since the 1700s, and before, I expect. My family names are Colmer, Skinner, Prest (Millbrook) and Booth. I am very proud to be part of this forgotton corner of Cornwall.
Summer 1967
When I was three or four years old I visited Cawsand for a family holiday. I remember it very clearly because, for various reasons, it was the only holiday we all went on together. I am hoping someone might be able to solve an on-going mystery. We stayed in a wooden-framed canvas chalet which was set, with about eight or so others, on a concrete plinth reached by steps up from the beach. There were no loos (only the ones just up from the beach) and no electric lights - just paraffin lamps. The 'rooms' were divided by canvas walls (it can't have been much of a holiday for my mum and dad!). I distinctly remember that the part of the beach where the chalet was set was made up of flat rocks, not sand or shale, and that there was an out-crop of rocks and then the other part of the beach (to the right if you were looking at it from the sea) was sand and shale. I... Read more
Summer 1967
You werent dreaming Patricia! - they were there and they are still there from Easter to the end of September. They are on the beach walking from Cawsand to Kingsand and then on for half a mile or so towards Plymouth.
They are as loved now as they ever were.
Best Wishes
Gillian
