The list gives a flavour of type of events that the Society organises. Events up to 2018 are described in individual reports which you can click to view. Also below is a link to photos of a special 2007 reunion of ex-pupils of Kingston village school, which closed in 1966
- April 2026 – Talk – “Just gone fishing – The West Country Cod Trade with Newfoundland” – Dr Jenny Moon.
- March 2026 – Talk – “Modbury and the Civil War” – Philip Photiou.
- February 2026 – Talk – “Plymouth’s Links with New Zealand”– Clive Charlton.
- January 2026 – Talk – “Pirates, Wreckers and Smugglers on the South Hams Coast” – Roger Barrett.
- December 2025 – Christmas party in the Reading Room
- October 2025 – Annual General Meeting The Reading Room. Complimentary welcome drink and canapes. Cash bar. Display of material from the archive.
- June 2025 – Guided Tour of Britannia Royal Naval College Dartmouth followed by lunch at Rockfish
- May 2025 – morning Guided History Walk around Ashburton led by volunteers from the Ashburton Museum followed by lunch.
- April 2025 – Talk – “The Plymouth Blitz” – Laurence Axworthy, Local Historian Plymouth .
- March 2025 = Talk – “Hornblower and the Wreck of the DUTTON” – Martin Read, University of Plymouth.
- February 2025 – Talk – “Health in Nelson’s Navy – an analysis of the skeletons of sailors and marines from the burial ground of the Royal Hospital Plymouth” – Dr Ceridwen Boston, Osteoarchaeologist.
- January 2025 Talk – “The Women’s Land Army in Devon” – Becks Pearson, Lympstone.
- December 2024 Christmas Party in The Reading Room. Complimentary fizz provided by KLHS. Festive buffet supper.
- November 2024 Talk – “The Edgcumbes: the Rise and Rise of a Fascinating South West family – and their Gentle Descent” – Clive Charlton, Local Historian Bere Alston.
- October 2024 AGM
- June 2024 – Boat trip and guided tour of Drake’s Island followed by lunch at Rockfish Cafe
- May 2024 Modbury history walk with Tony Price
- April 2024 Talk – “The Suffragette Story in the South West” – Pamela Vass, West Country Historian and Author.
- February 2024 – Talk – “Early Photography and the Plymouth Region” – Nigel Overton, Retired Curator (City and Maritime Heritage), Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery.
- February 2024 – Talk – “Shipwrecks Around Bigbury Bay” – Henry Wainwright, Easton.
- December 2023 – Christmas dinner in the Reading Room provided by Craig of the Modbury Inn.
- November 2023 – Talk – “The Remarkable Lady Shelley – diarist, socialite, traveller, devotee of the Duke of Wellington – and visitor to the South West” – Clive Charlton, Local Historian Bere Alston.
- October 2023 – AGM with display of children’s projects. Refreshments and welcome drink. Opportunity to pay membership subscription for 2023-24 and to sign up for Christmas Dinner on Thursday 14th December
- July 2023 – Group visit to Wonwell Court Farm Kingston, by kind invitation of Eve White followed by afternoon tea in the garden at West View.
- May 2023 – Guided History Walk around Plymouth Barbican and Sutton Harbour led by Nigel Overton, followed by lunch.
- May 2023 – An exhibition celebrating coronations 1902 – 2023 in St. James the Less Kingston Church
- April 2023 – Presentation of Photographs – “Historic South Dartmoor Railways” – Bernard Mills, Railway Historian.
- March 2023 talk – “Smuggling in Devon” – Robert Hesketh (Replacement for Talk – “The Suffragette Story in the South West” – Pamela Vass, West Country Historian and Author.)
- February 2023 talk – “Kingsbridge Workhouse” – Liz Hext, Kingsbridge Local Historian
- January 2023 Talk – “Victorian Plymouth” – Graham Naylor, Plymouth City Council.
- 15th December 2022 – KLHS Christmas Dinner in the Reading room
- November 2022 – Salcombe as a Schooner Port – Roger Barrett
- July 2022 – Thames Valley and Great Western Omnibus Trust visit
- May 2022 – Tavistock history walk
- May 2022 – 3000 years of history from the sea – diving and wrecks
- April 2022 – 120 years of farming at Prawle
- March 2022 – Maritime history of the Tamar
- February 2022 – US Navy in Salcombe 1943-45
- December 2021 – Christmas dinner Modbury Inn
- November 2021 – Devon place names
- October 2021 – AGM with presentation
- September 2021 – Social event ‘This and That’ village anecdotes and memories
- December 2020 – Christmas dinner
- July 2020 – Village history walk
- April 2020 – History that Hurts: Slavery, Looters and Blackshirts in Devon
- March 2019 – Historic Dartmoor railways
- February 2020 – History of Plymouth aviation and airports
- January 2020 – Film: 150 years Salcombe and Hope Cove lifeboats
- December 2019 – Christmas dinner and social
- November 2019 – Mayflower and Plymouth Barbican 1620
- October 2019 – 70 years of Kingston Fire Station
- August 2019 – Oldaport visit
- June 2019 – Higher Uppacott visit
- May 2019 – Plympton St. Maurice history walk
- April 2019 – History of Mapping Flete House and Flete Estate
- April 2019 – Visit to Langston
- March 2019 – Napoleon in Plymouth Sound 1815
- February 2019 – History of Stowford Paper Mill
- January 2019 – History and development of St. Luke’s Hospice
- Kingston 2018 the Beast from the East and other Notable Events
- Nov 2018 – William Cookworthy
- May 2018 – RAF Harrowbeer
- Feb 2018 – Dartmoor Tin and Bronze
- Jan 2018 Plymouth and the Titanic
- Dec 2017 – AGM
- Aug 2017 – Hope Cove Lifeboat
- Jun 2017 – Totnes Elizabethan House and Museum
- May 2017 – SW NHS Ambulance Trust
- May 2017 – Lacemaking
- Jan 2017 – The Salcombe Lifeboat Disaster
- Feb 2017 – The Three Hares
- 2017 Kingston then and Now slideshow
- Dec 2016 – AGM
- Nov 2016 – Our Daily Lead
- Sep 2016 – AGM invitation
- Jul 2016 – Morwellan Quay
- Jun 2016 – Defence of the Realm – 1000 years of fortifications within South Devon
- May 2016 – Eddystone Lighthouses
- Apr 2016 – History of Bigbury Golf Club
- Mar 2016 – Report
- January 2016 – The Beechey Boys – Brothers in War
- Dec 2015 – AGM
- Jun 2015 – Cookworthy Museum visit
- May 2015 – Kingston Fire Station
- Apr 2015 – Plymouth Breakwater
- Aug 2014 – Ugbrooke House visit
- Jun 2014 – Mothecombe House visit
- Feb 2014 – South West Coast Path
- Jan 2014 – The Barque ‘Ladakh’
- August 2013 – Port Eliot visit
- Jun 2013 – Robert Hesketh – Inn Signs of Devon
- Mar 2012 – Overbecks
- Jan 2012 – Prawle Point and the coast between Start Point and Salcombe Bar
- 2007 Kingston village school reunion
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