DARTMOUTH CHRONICLE ARTICLES

	1^st Printed	Re-printed	Title	Summery
		1964
	1895		Great fire at Blackawton Oldstone House Destroyed	The family mansion of the Dimes family was on Saturday night-destroyed by one of the most disastrous fires which has ever occurred in the neighbourhood of Blackawton.
		Aug 14^th	Oldstone Murder
		“ 21^st	Cannibalism on the High Seas
	1906	“ 28^th	Suicide of Borough Engineer	Report on the death of Arthur Smith
		Sept 4^th	Pilot Boat Speared	Five die when the Pilot boat was in collision with a ?
		“ 11^th	Veale V.C.	Cpl Veal Devonshire Regt awarded the V.C.
		“ 18^th	M.P.s Bribes	Bribing of M.P. in the 1859 Elections
		“ 25^th	Three Times Torpedoed	Wartime maritime experiences
		Oct 2^nd	Bank Crash	Report on the demise of the “Naval Bank” Butterwalk Dartmouth in 1914
		“ 9^th	Murder on Western Maid	Murder on the American steamer Western Maid in 1919
		“ 16^th	Sub Disaster	Report on the sinking of ?
		“ 23^rd	Breach of Promise	Louisa Burgoyne v James Oldrieve 1872
		“ 30^th	Moses MP Court Case
		Nov 6^th	Assassination in Zanzibar	Death of Lt Percy Hockin in 1873
		“ 13^th	Drowning incidents in the Dart
		“ 27^th	Holy War	By Rev John Priestly Foster
		Dec 4^th	Dartmouth Bench Mutiny	Major Richard Searl 1905
		“ 11^th	Fighting J.P.s	Cpt R B Clelland of Rock Hill & E Owen of Stoke House
		“ 18^th	Kingswear Woman on Plague Ship	Nancy Tarron & the Pilot Cutter “Fly”
		“ 25^th	Workhouse Death	Sam Brown of the Dittisham Light Infantry
		1965
		Jan 1^st	Paint Fire	Water dried up
		“ 8^th	Rubberneck Lee
		“ 15^th	Crooked Solicitor Square
		“ 22^nd	Duff Spy Case	German Spy Max Schultz
		“ 29^th	“Formidable”	Sinking in Brixham
	1882	Feb 5^th	Rising Sun Trawler Murder	Life on Dartmouth & Brixham Trawlers 1882
		“ 12^th	Fighting Death
		“ 19^th	Town Clerk Scandal
		Mar 5^th	Runaway Churston Train
		“ 12^th	How town nearly lost College	Events in 1875
		“ 19^th	Lost Family Steer
		“ 26^th	Great Storm in Brixham
	1912	Apr 2^nd	Dartmouth Fire Heroine	Maud Ash & Fire in Newcomen Rd Tenement 1912
	1937	Oct 1st	At work at seven years of age	When Dartmouth Craftsmen Earned A Guinea A Week
			In the Beginning	History of the Royal Gardens & other Town Gardens
			Practicing for the D Day Landings	The day villagers were told a large chunk of the South Hams was to be requisitioned
	1979	Feb 2nd	Riddle of Oldstone House Ruins	The story of Oldstone House, mysterious death & fire
	1996	Feb 16^th	Crimea Gun History
	2001	Aug 3rd	The Two Dartmouth's	A look into the life of Dartmouth Nova Scotia
	2001	Sept 21^st	War Years Dartmouth Castle	Memories of Dartmouth Castle during the Second World War
	2005		Foss Street in 1861	Foss Street residents in 1861 using the census of that year
	2006	Oct	Memories of wartime Dartmouth	Childhood memories of R J Razzell who spent some time in Dartmouth as an evacue
		Waiting publication	St Petrox Feoffees	An article about the water supply in Southtown, Dartmouth, when it was provided by the Feoffees of St. Petrox,
	2009		Our Local Pioneer Aviator	A. Liwentaal 1894
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2		1964	Horror on the High Seas	Adrift in an open boat they killed the boy to stay alive
3		Sep-64	Council scandal ended by a bullet	Suicide in November 1906 of Arthur Smith charged with misappropriation of funds amounting to £500
4	1893	Sep-64	Five drowned as open boat was speared	Attempted to rescue passengers from the German ship Thekla
5		Sep-64	Capital V. C. for valour and Veale.	Private Theo Veal of the Devonshire regiment, His act of bravery and award of the Victoria Cross
6		Sep-64	Scandal of the £75.00 vote bribes	Story of vote rigging during the election of Dartmouth’s MP 1859.
7			Torpedo Terror for a 15 year old college cadet	15 year old ex Dartmouth cadet Christopher Musgrave rescued from the North Sea during the first world war.
8	1914	1964	Overdrawn and quartered by the bank crash	The story of the sudden closure of the Navel Bank on the corner of the Butterwalk
9	1919	Oct-64	The Maid affray.	Shooting of two seamen on board the American ship Western Maid here in the river.
11	1872	Oct-64	A wedding of convenience was arranged	The jilting of Louisa Burgoyne in 1872 by James Putt Oldreive.
13	1873	Dec-64	Assassination in Zanzibar.	The attempted rescue by sub Lt. Percy Hockin from Dartmouth of his colleague Marcus MacCausland who was attacked and killed
16	1870	Dec-64	Dartmouth’s five year holy war.	The vicar who fought with pen and bells. The story of Rev. John Priestley Fosters battle with his parishioners and the town Council
17	1905	Dec-64	When Dartmouth bench mutinied.	When seven men objected to the local education system being taken over by the county
18	1887	Dec-64	Fighting J.P.s.	They black each other’s eyes in the Embankment battle
19	1824	Dec-64	Death sentence for their grace darling.	The story of the Kingswear pilot Cutter Fly and her crew Charlie Hamilton,Phil Farley, Tom Avis, Bill Norcombe, Will Smith and Nancy Tarran and the plague ship.
20	1901	Dec-64	20^th century began with scandal in the workhouse	Dartmouth man in the Totnes workhouse. Sam Brown of the Dittisham Light Infantry
24	1911	Jan-65	Spy who was careless.	The German spy Max Schultz in Dartmouth
25		Feb-65	Just an act of providence.	The sinking of HMS Formidable 15 miles off Berry Head and the fishing smack Providence,
26	1882	Feb-65	The beast of the rising sun,	Osmond Otto Brand a braggart and a bully
30	1876	Mar-65	The runaway train went down the track.	The day when Newton Abbot train hit the train from Kingswear
31	1876	Mar-65	How the town nearly lost the College
32	1850s	Mar-65	The lost family Steers.	George Steers of Dartmouth who in the 1850s was one of the world’s greatest yacht designers.
33	1910	Mar-65	The storm that orphaned 30.	The great storm of 1910 when the local boats Vigilance, Speedwell, Eva, Marjorie, & Sea Belle sank within a few hours.
34	1912	Apr-65	Fire heroine put men to shame	Maud Ash & Fire in Newcomen Rd Tenement
35	1912	Apr-65	The big town health probe.	. The scarlet fever epidemic that swept through the town
36	1877	Apr-65	Battle for Slapton Ley.	Lydston Newman claimed ownership of Slapton Ley. The long and costly legal battle.
37		Apr-65	The calculating boy genius.	The life story of George Parker Bidder.
38	1877		Murderess Mother.	The trial and execution of a Sarah Brown
39	1892	May-65	Vicar who shocked his flock.	Rev. Harry Tracy in 1892 dared to question the then established teachings of the church.
47		1965	The old men of the sea.	The fate of the motor yacht Campeador and her elderly crew during WWI
49	1922	Jul-65	Golden key was this Henley’s prize.	The story of William Henley and the Henley museum.
50	1930	Aug-65	Bridge of Sighs.	For years there was talk of a bridge over the river dart before it slip through their fingers.
52			What a Lovely War	Dartmouth at the start of WW I
54	1896	Sep-65	Magnificent man with his flying machine.	Albert Liwentall and his early flying machine, believed by some to precede the Wright Brothers by some eight years.
55	1854	Sep-65	Family who wrote history.	William Lamb Hockin and his 16 children from 1854 on.
56		Sep-65	Kingswear Bishop and that box.	The mystery of Joanna Southcott’s box.
57	1881	Sep-65	Pilot who rammed a mailboat.	The ramming of the Warwick Castle by the SS Winston in 1881.
58	1881	Oct-65	Dream ended in drowning.	In the years before the 20^th century Brixham and its fishing industry experienced its most tragic period
59	1880	Oct-65	When measles was the death of them.	The epidemic that swept villages in the South Hams in 1880
60	1884	Oct-65	Danger rock cost them money.	When the Triumph struck the Samarang rock to the east of the Homestone buoy.
61	1884	Oct-65	Quack Dr. and Vicar.	When the Rev. Neville was accused of poisoning his housekeeper
63		Nov-65	He sailed away to a fortune.	The story of Sam Lake, a colleague of George Bidder.
64	1877	Nov-65	Methuselah of the sea.	When the crew preferred prison to sailing on the Truelove
65	1883	Nov-65	Charity without faith.	When the Town Council became involved in the charities, water supply and Feoffees.
67		Dec-65	He was the King of Castles.	The Castle Line and the Dartmouth to Cape Town mail ships.
69	1891	1965	Battle of the Embankment.	The story of the battle
70	1880s	Jan-66	Battling it out by Shanks pony.	The battle between you two Dartmouth runners
71	1880s	Jan-66	The colonel who went bust.	Alexander Ridgeway the builder of Shepleigh Court and owner of numerous Dartmouth properties
72		Jan-66	It was Roger’s – and out	He was Dartmouth’s toughest policemen
74	1903	Feb-66	All – rounder.	The cricketer whose last shot was a fatal one.
75	1903	Feb-66	The rugger row that split the town.
76	1904	Feb-66	Their protest came with kick.	The new ground and the play area protest
77		Feb-66	He saved this dying town.	If Dartmouth had been renamed Seale-Hayne during the 19^th century it would not have been surprising.
78	1903/4	Mar-66	Town Clerk who hardly was.	Harry Roberts and the Town Council.
79		Mar-66	It was a measly consolation	Silver Oar, the Royal Princes and the college, 1910 – 11.
80	1899	Mar-66	Why the railway never arrived.
82		Apr-66	When elections were rigged.	Dartmouth and its MP’s, 1701.
83	1914	Aug-66	Coal – lumpers locked out.	The coal-lumpers first strike
84	1928	Apr-66	Searching for the Angell’s.	84 year old William Allery and the angel millions
85		Apr-66	Ship that bowed in shame on a rock	The wreck of the English trader on the Checkstone rock.
86	1937	Aug-66	Mr. Zolo who beat a hasty retreat.	A member of the Dartmouth players who set sail with his wife one stormy night and drown on the bar at the entrance to Exmouth harbour.
87	1913	May-66	Time bombs were right on their side.	The German First World War U boats off Start Point.
88		May-66	The old man of building who had too much talk.	. When the Borough Engineer and Cllr were accused of corrupt practices.
89		May-66	Ghost of a great old house,	The family mansion of the Dimes, in the neighbourhood of Blackawton, destroyed fire
90		May-66	The Butterwalk became a slum	In danger of collapsing.
91		Jun-66	Fists were raised in church.	The Anglo Catholic vicar and prayers, Frederick Ryan.
93		Jun-66	The Robinson Crusoe was in seal skins	The ship prince of Wales and seal hunting in the Antarctic.
94		Jun-66	He did not learn his lesson.	Sid Pope and the council’s finances.
95		Jul-66	Treasurer that has launched 100 trips.	The Coco’s island treasure.
96		Jul-66	The ship they could have stayed.	HMS Britannias departure
98		Jul-66	Offer ends in south seas paradise	Saint George, the floating laboratory
99		Aug-66	The firemen that fired themselves	Who was in charge of the parade?
100		Aug-66	The pill pusher of Kingswear.	Quack medicines and claims, William Carey Ryder.
101	1830	Aug-66	Tied up by the freemen.	A revolution in local politics, Holdsworth V Seale for MP.
102		Aug-66	Les girls tamed the French.	Ladies rowing and Ann Glanville.
103		Sep-66	Libels at of the church.	Rev. Butler v Rev. Foster.
104		Sep-66	Barge that died at Redlap.	The wreck of the Lord Kitchener.
105		Sep-66	Rolling stone became lost	The story of the Rev. Franklin Hutchinson.
106		Sep-66	The buoy that wrecked a steamer.	Wrecking of the Broadmain.
107		Sep-66	The captains courageous	Captain Jim Curtis and Captain John Tolman.
108		Oct-66	Take-over of that failed.	When Charles Peak wanted to merge Dartmouth and Kingswear.
109		Oct-66	A day at the races in Dartmouth.	The revival of the Dartmouth steeplechase
110		Oct-66	Angry action over an act	Dartmouth’s street walkers and the contagious diseases act.
111		Nov-66	Shots that shattered a village.	The Blackawton shooting tragedy.
112		Nov-66	The never ending storm of 1916.
114		Nov-66	Shamed by yard fight.	Ship building and the Philips family.
115		Nov-66	Castle of triumph, tragedy.	When the Windsor Castle rammed the cost of Rica
116		Sep-66	Jemmy – burglar of old.	Theft from Hawks coal office.
117		Dec-66	The boy who leaked big secret	When the Bonaparte’s prison ship visited Brixham.
118		Dec-66	The 50 years of Christmas.	1900 to 1949.
121		Jan-67	Inspectors had the measure!	When the weights and measures men came to town.
125	1942	1967	Ten planes shattered the town’s peace.	1942 air raids on Dartmouth
127		Feb-67	Suicide of glory yacht.	The scuttling of the Westward
129	1945	Mar-67	The boy Hero of a river tragedy.	. Collision and sinking of Frank Alexander’s boat “Oh My”
131		Apr-67	The boat that circled world.
132		Apr-67	Convict made escape history
134		Apr-67	Ghost came back for daughter.	. Thomas Boone the ghost of Mount Boone.
135		May-67	Woman who would not listen.	Mrs. Van den Brock.
138		Jun-67	Red canoe brings disaster.	Mansands tragedy.
139		Jun-67	The family struck down by tragedy.	The Cornow family.
140		Jul-67	The big floating dock that didn’t.	The tale of Philips & son floating dock.
141		Jul-67	The channel conqueror.	When Tom Blower attempted to swim the English Channel both ways non stop.
143		Aug-67	Crippled ship brought the town shame.	S.S.Sutherland.
144		Aug-67	Miniature Harrods went crash	William Ajax Maygrove, shop owner.
146		Aug-67	They left regatta for disaster.	Wrecking of the “Islander”
148		Sept 12967	Diver who risked life for nothing.
149		Sept 12967	The “Holy Joe” who asked for jail	Rev. Joseph Johnson
150		Sept 12967	When voters held out their hands.	1859 By-election.
151		Oct-67	Out of the clutches of death.	A death on the river near Ditsum.
152		Oct-67	Hours wasted after M1 crash.	The M1 sub disaster.
153		Oct-67	Case of the kicked out Sergeants.	Fred Pound and John Back.
154		Oct-67	Family cut down by axe raider.	Murder in New Zealand of the Pook family from stoke Fleming.
155		Nov-67	The quick sell out of a family.	Lily and Kearney Radford.
156	1877	Nov-67	Prince’s saved the system	The two prince’s at the BRNC
158		Dec-67	The sailor who was saved by chronicle.	The sinking of HMS courageous.