Calstock Parish Archive

11/09/2023

Calstock Church 1928 - Wow

30/08/2023

Hello! Not sure if you are all aware but there is another page - "Calstock Parish Archive Group" - there's a lot more "chatter" on there; lots of people posting various things and interacting. Please take a look 🧐

Or visit our Website: www.Calstockhistory.org.uk 😀

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20/03/2023

NEXT TALK: Join the Calstock Parish Local History Group Saturday 25th March for TALKING RUBBISH. Speaker Richard Westacott-Jones will discuss 19th & early 20th century household rubbish, with a background around public health at that time. You’re invited to bring old bottles along to be identified. MEET AT the Methodist Church at Albaston at 7.30pm. Members £1.50 Visitors £3. All Welcome.

23/01/2023

Join the Calstock Parish Local History Group on SATURDAY 28th JANUARY for a film & discussion about British farming. MEET AT Tamar Valley Methodist Church in Albaston. Doors 7pm, Film 7.30. ALL WELCOME. Members £1.50 Visitors £3; The film: FOOD FOR THOUGHT is part of Cornwall Climate Stories. This episode examines modern animal agriculture in Cornwall and the role regenerative farming is playing to combat climate change. Then Filmmaker Bryony Stokes of Calstock and local farmer Martin Howlett will lead a discussion with the audience about current and historic local farming practices. Martin and his family have farmed at Deer Park Farm in Luckett for 39 years and he is passionate about local British agriculture and the countryside. Martin is also the chair of the Tamar Valley AONB Partnership.

20/10/2022

Join the Calstock Parish Local History Group on Saturday 29th October for a talk about the development of some of our villages. Local historian Jill Lane will introduce With a View not to be Surpassed, her new book about Drakewalls, St Ann’s Chapel and Albaston, recently published by the Calstock Parish Archive. Much of the development of the area was for the workers at the mines and quarries flourishing in the second half of the nineteenth century. There was great distress when the mines and quarries closed at the turn of the century, but shops and businesses carried on. MEET AT the Methodist Church at Albaston at 7.30pm. All Welcome. Members £1.50 Visitors £3

20/07/2022

Come join Calstock Parish Local History Group at Kit Hill's Northern Quarries and the Incline — a guided walk led Stephen Docksey.
Saturday 30th July at 6.30pm
Cost: Donations for the History group please
Meet at the entrance to the quarry track, on the right above North View Car Park. Park either at this car park or at the summit car park.
Easy walking on tracks. One short descent & one short ascent. Leader will occasionally go off piste when the intrepid or interested will be expected to follow.
Wear stout walking shoes or boots.
For further information about the walk contact Stephen Docksey on 01822 854454
Booking is not essential but it would be helpful to know for numbers. Contact Jill Lane on 01822 833856 or [email protected]
Feel free to show up at the last minute and hope to see you there.