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Historic maps of Wilcove and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Wilcove maps
Wilcove photos
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Torpoint| Devonport| Saltash| Stoke| Cremyll| Millbrook| Freathy| Plymouth| Kingsand| Cawsand| Sheviock| Crafthole| Rame| Landrake| St Germans| Whitsand Bay| Bere Ferrers| Bovisand| Plymstock| Plym Bridge| Tideford| Pillaton| Heybrook Bay| Bickleigh| Milton Combe| Wembury| Clearbrook
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Memories of Wilcove
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Cornwall memories
Torpoint
This photograph of Torpoint, Fore Street and Ferry Queue brings back memories of when I joined the Royal Navy at HMS Fisgard in January 1955. We were not allowed ashore, the term used on RN establishments and ships, during the first four weeks of our New Entry Period. When we were allowed out I well remember walking from HMS Fisgard down to the ferry, paying one penny as a foot pasenger, and then walking from the Devonport side up to Plymouth Hoe and the NAAFI Club and then back again. Had this picture been dated 1955 instead of 1950 I may well have been one of the three naval ratings walking on the pavement alongside the war memorial.
Torpoint Memories
I was born in Tor House Torpoint in 1933. Tor House was purchased by my Grandfather R S G Norgate, Royal Navy, in the early 1900s. My Uncle Dr Robert Norgate inherited the property in 1934. My Brother Joseph and I lived with my Mother Louise Greaves at Tor House until we came to Australia in April 1949. In my memories of Torpoint, and the outbreak of war, we were living at Carbeile House, which my parents at the time were running as a guest house. I can remember the Air Raids and the bombing of the oil tanks?, which were just down the road from Carbeile. We used to shop for our groceries from Mrs Bradford's shop in Fore St, buy our fish and chips from Mrs Hacker. Mrs Hacker was a friend of my mother as she had worked for my Grandmother as a girl. I also remember the Woodhouse family. I returned to Torpoint for a visit in 1990 and then in 1998. Torpoint has not changed... Read more
Ferry Queue
I grew up on Antony Road in Torpoint and before there were 3 ferries and a queuing system I can remember the ferry queue stretching past our house and up the hill almost out of the town. Opposite our house was the 'Regal' cinema (now a gym and swimming pool) which was very convenient for us children - we just crossed the road and watched whatever they were showing every Saturday afternoon - it was noisy, messy and cheap!
Rats, Rats And More Rats.
This photograph was obviously taken when the road bridge was nearing completion in 1961. My husband grew up nearby, and tells some gruesome stories about the plague of rats they experienced when the undergrowth was being cleared in the early days of construction. The family cat would bring home several rats each day, and local gardens were over-run with them. Worse still, they got into outhouses and sheds, under floorboards and even into houses.
Which Side of The River Tamar?
This photo is actually taken from the Devon side of the River Tamar, in St Budeaux, looking towards Saltash on the Cornwall side. In photos taken after the road bridge opened in 1961, you can tell which side is which, as from the Devon side the rail bridge is on the left. Before then, it depends on the angle of the photo i.e. if the railway line comes into view from your left and curves to the left in the distance, usually with the bridge to the right, then you are looking from Devon towards Cornwall.
Grandad's Grandads.
The white building on the far right of the photo is the Royal Albert Bridge Inn, at Saltash Passage on the Devon side on the river. A relative was born there in 1920 when his father John Augustin R. Stoneman was the landlord. Prior to that the landlord was John Watts Stoneman, father of JARS. His other grandfather was William John Bronte, who told his grandson that he had been told by his mother that she held him in her arms as a baby, standing on the bridge at the official opening in 1859.
Life in Full Circle
The little house next to Mary Newman`s Cottage is where I live now...but I first walked past it with my mother at about the time this photo was taken.
We got off the steam train at the station just up the hill, to walk to the waterside.
I also remember the house about 8 years later as a young teenager with our gang
from Plymouth...over to scrump the apples and pears which were once grown on Old Ferry Road. It was just by chance that I discovered that the little house was for sale in 1992 and I have been living here since.
Up until the 70s there was a gas works at the back of the house and a 3 storey
warehouse at the front now both demolished...so now I have wonderful views of
the River Tamar and Brunel`s Royal Albert Bridge. A couple of years age a nice old fella from London stopped to talk to me outside my house...it turned out that he once lived here... Read more
