Tamar Journals

DateCoverTopicsAuthorLink
2012vol 34 2012Editorial
George & Charlotte Mine
Life in the Tamar Valley 70 years ago
William Morris
Calstock Parish & the Titanic
A Family in the Valley
The Devonshire Association celebrates
Meetings of FOTV - 2011

Colin Buck
Jane Webber
Patrick O'Sullivan
John Snell
Michael Mashford
Helen Harris
Jane Kiely
Tamar-34-2012
2013vol 35 2013Editorial
A Family in the Valley, Part 2: Mashford’s Boatyard
The Railway and Locomotives of the Devon Great Consols Mine
Environmentalist or Hypocrite? William Morris and Arsenic - guilty or not proven? Part II: the 'Defence' of William Morris
The Weir Quay Smelters
The Historic Daffodils of the Tamar Valley
Recent Heritage Projects in the Tamar Valley
FoTV: meetings and committee members

Michael Mashford
John Snell

Patrick Sullivan


Colin Buck
Dr Frances M. Howard, FLS
Samantha Barnes
Tamar 35 (2013)
2014vol 36 2014Editorial
Building at the Limit : Netstakes and the unlucky sisters
A Railway to Callington
Saltash Turnpike Trust's Milestones
South Hooe Mine
Helliers, Hoopes and Barbary Pirates: exploring the Bere Ferrers parish Churchwarden's accounts
Meetings of the FOTV - 2012 and 2013

Gary Hicks

Bruce Hunt
Peter Clements
Colin Buck
Clive Charlton

Helen Wilson
Tamar 36 (2014)
2015vol 37 2015Editorial
Ernest Terrell: A Tamar Valley Mine Engineer
The Schooner Elizabeth Drew and the Sims and Willcocks families of Gunnislake and Calstock
The Danescombe Valley: an Industrial Archaeological Study
The launch of the gig 'Teylu'
The Calstock Landslip
Global Tamars? Our river's name in two very different settings
Celebrating 20 ' Outstanding years in the Tamar Valley
Book Review: Devon Great Consols by R.J Stewart
Mettings of FOTV - 2014

Helen Wilson
Gary Hicks

Colin Buck

Jane Kiely
Jane Kiely
Clive Charlton

Charlotte Dancer
Stephen Docksey
Helen Wilson
Tamar 37 (2015)
2016vol 38 2016Editorial
The Tamar Fertiliser Industry
Okeltor Boathouse
Saltash Blue Plaque Trail
What could have been: the proposal for a low level road crossing at Saltash
The Cornish Man Engine
Shamrock - a brief history
Meetings of FOTV - 2015

Bob Ashford
David and Jill Lane
Bruce Hunt
Bruce Hunt
Gary Hicks
Jane Kiely
Joe Lawrence
Helen Wilson
Tamar 38 (2016)
2017vol 39 2017Editorial
Admiralty Stones at St John's Lake
From Beer to Bricks: Southdown near Millbrook, Cornwall
Some Early Photographers in Plymouth: the River Tamar and George Washington Wilson's visit in 1861
Two Admirals on the Saltash Blue Plaque Trail
Early Postcards of the Tamar Valley
General Booth in Gunnislake
The Long Life of the 'Good Intent'
The Fate of the 'Fluvius Tamar'
Mettings of FOTV - 2016

Richard Spear
Cynthia Gaskell-Brown

Nigel Overton

Bruce Hunt
Helen Wilson
John Snell
Gary Hicks
Clive Charlton
Helen Wilson
Tamar 39 (2017)
2018vol 40 2018Editorial
Health problems of arsenic workers
Greystone Quarry
What might have been: an alternative Saltash Bridge

The Tavistock Gazette and Emanuel Crocker
An Edgcumbe Memorial at Maker and the remarkable Violet Pinwill
Lady Shelley: illustrious visitor to Bere Ferrers
Parkrun comes to the Tamar Trails
Book Review: Robert Waterhouse, 'The Tavistock Canal: Its History and Archaeology'
Meetings of FOTV - 2017

Jill Lane
Graham Hicks
Bruce Hunt and David Greenfield
Gary Hicks
Helen Wilson

Clive Charlton
Jane Kiely
Stephen Docksey

Helen Wilson
Tamar 40 (2018)
2019vol 41 2019Editorial
Now you see it, now you don't: The plottes of Morden Mylles, Cutell
Bridge Mill, Bridgerule: History and Revival
Thomas Down, Tharsis Villa and Tharsis Mine
Celebrating our unique Daffodil heritage
Horsebridge
More Early Postcards of the Tamar and its tributaries
Celebrating Calstock's Steamboat Heyday
Picturesque excursions near Pymouth, 1804
Meetings of FOTV - 2018

Stephen Docksey

Alan and Rosie Beat
Jill Lane
Lesley Strong
Helen Wilson / Clive Charlton
Helen Wilson
Jane Kiely
T.H. Williams / C. Charlton
Helen Wilson
Tamar 41 (2019)
2020vol 42 2020Editorial
Dartmoor Sheep
Earth to Earth: the story of an agricultural labourer in Bradstone in the nineteenth century
The Tamar Valley as the cradle of tungsten processing - and how Ernest Terrel acquired and transferred mining skills to Hermerdon
The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Tamar Valley
Gian Hogweed: Britain's most dangerous plant?
Silver Anniversary for the Tamar Valley AONB
The death of Charles Stothard at Bere Ferrers, May 28th 1821 and some if its ramifications
John Leland's encounter with the Tamar and its surroundings
Meetings of FOTV - 2019

Malcolm Thompson
Sue Andrew

Keith Loze


Anthony Tibbles
Tamar Valley Invasives Group
Charlotte Dancer
Clive Charlton

edit. Clive Charlton

Helen Wilson
Tamar 42 (2020)
2021vol 43 2021Editorial
The Moyes Mariners of the Tamar Valley
Triangular Club-rush and conservation in the Tamar Estuary
The fishing lugger 'Our Boys'
The ferry from Cargreen in Landulph to Thorn Point in Bere Ferrers
Landulph in the 'Dark Ages' and its place names
River Tamar Walkway and Wetlands Project
Royal Visitors to the Tamar and Tavy: the excurions of George III and Queen Charlotte in 1789
Major John Palmer - a valiant but mysterious Bere Ferrers resident
FOTV monthly meetings and outings - 2020-2021

Maggie Watkinson
Peter Nicholson

Phil Codgell / Liz Smith
Maggie Watkinson

Andrew Barrett
Jane Kiely / Peter Thompson
Clive Charlton

Clive Charlton

Jane Kiely et.al.
Tamar 43 (2021)
2022vol 44 2022Editorial
A Lost Cornish House - Harewood House, Calstock
Jack Barrett (1911-1982) - Tamar Salmon Fisherman
The Met on the Tamar - surely not!
The conundrum of the grampus in the River Tamar
Calstock Wetland Birds - the first year
Rob Furneaux - Tamar Valley author
The History of Tamar Valley Orchards
The remarkable tale of Theodore Paleologus - Landulph's most illustrious resident?
Calstock Parish Archive
Dan Ward (1851-1935), Land Agent for the Earl of Mount Edgcumbe
With a View not to be surpassed: Drakewalls, St Ann's Chapel, Albaston
FOTV committee
From an AONB to the 'Tamar Valley National Landscape': a review of 2022 shows a busy period and changes afoot for our protected landscape

Paul Holden
Susan Pittman
Maggie Watkinson
Maggie Watkinson
Jan Simpson
Clive Charlton
Rob Furneaux
Clive Charlton

Lynda Harman
Belinda Kumpel

Jill Lane


Dan Cooke, Tamar Valley AONB Manager
Tamar 44 (2022)
2023vol 45 2023Editorial
The disappeared fish weirs of the River Tavy
Death (or near death) on the Tamar
Calstock Wetland Birds - the second year
Return of the Tide
From Saltash to Scilly - via the Falklands: the first HMS Tamar
Three men in a boat on the Tamar: the picturesque, the sublime and the world of work in Hearder's 'Guide to the River Tamar'

Sharon Gedye
Maggie Watkinson
Jan Simpson
Peter Nicholson
Bruce Hunt / Clive Charlton

Clive Charlton
Tamar 45 (2023)
2024vol 46 2024Editorial
The Saltash Ferryman
Memories of Exploring the Tamar 1976-2003
The Black Presence in the Tamar Valley – some early fragmentary references, 1500-1900
The Prince of Wales Mine, Harrowbarrow: the final phases
The remarkable Lady Ernestine Edgcumbe: some glimpses of Tamarside life from her journal
The Moths of the Bere Peninsula including part of the Tamar Valley and the surrounding area, by Phil Barden (Book Review)
‘Plymouth’s Other Fleet’: Gary Hicks’ maritime research
legacy
A Glimpse of the Upper Tamar

John Forster / Lynn Marsh
Susan Pitman
Anthony Tibbles

Keith Loze / Steve Roberts

Clive Charlton

Clive Charlton


Clive Charlton
Tamar 46 (2024)