History

The Victorian Metal toilet Hidden in Thorn Park, Plymouth Tucked away in Thorn Park, Peverell, there is a quiet and unusual survivor from Victorian civic…

D-Day time capsule discovered behind false wall during renovation in St Budeaux A decorating job inside a property in Sunny Dene, St Budeaux has led…

Wine, Women and War: How Nelson’s Legacy Still Echoes Through Plymouth More than two centuries after the Battle of Trafalgar, the legacy of Vice Admiral…

Inside the Plymouth Shop Keeping a Dying Craft Alive The sound hits you the moment you walk through the door. Grinding wheels humming, leather scraping…

Mutley Plain, 1949. We take a look back at one of Plymouth’s streets through a stunning set of archive images and compare them to how…

Tucked away in a quiet corner of Plymstock, Radford Park looks, at first glance, like any other green space. A lake, trees, footpaths, and people…

Thousands of people look across Plymouth Sound every week and see the small stone tower standing proudly on the Mount Batten headland. Yet few realise…

Rising above Plympton, the remains of Plympton Castle still dominate the landscape, a clear reminder that this was once one of the most powerful sites…

Inside Plymouth’s historic Millfields sits a secret piece of British history. This olive green, octagonal pillar box is not just old it is believed to…

Inside Plymouth’s “Bottling Plant” Where the Past Might Not Be Past Right opposite the Plymouth Gin Distillery on the Barbican sits a building that’s lived…

Buckwell Street, Plymouth: The Hidden Medieval Well, Royal History, and What Still Remains Today Buckwell Street today is a fast-moving road on the edge of…

Plymouth’s policing history runs deeper than most people realise hidden in old buildings, surviving artefacts, and the quiet evolution of the city itself. For decades,…