The contents of the Dawlish Local History Group Archive are available to view. Please contact a member of the Committee to arrange access.

Below is a list of the subject titles in the Archive.

Albums

Archaeology

Ashcombe

Barton estate

Births, marriages and deaths: in parish registers, also includes family reconstructions pre 1837

Black swans

Boys Brigade

Carnival

Carter’s history: Notes on Old Dawlish 1588-1850 compiled by CARTER, F.J. pub. Dawlish Museum 1976 (unbound) + typescript version dated 1938.

Cholera

Churches

Coastguards; smuggling; piracy

Cockwood

Conservation survey 1998-9

Cricket

Dawlish Arts Festival

Dawlish Businesses

Dawlish growth C16-C20

Dawlish Gas & Coke

Dawlish Gazette

Dawlish name, derivation

Dawlish newspaper cuttings 1949-51

Dawlish photos and prints (buildings and local scenes)

Dawlish Pre-history

Dawlish quizes

Dawlish Societies

Dawlish Warren

Directories

District, Town and Urban District Councils

Douglas Bishop [of Fairfield House] and the points system. A case about a retail reward scheme 1940-48

Education

Estates and buildings

Farming

Fire Brigade

Fishing, bathing machines, beach and pier

Floods [see also weather]

Footpaths

Geology

Haldon Airfield

Health – Hospital

Holcombe

Industrial

Law & Order

Lawn

Legends

Lidwell

Library

Literary

Luscombe House and estate

Mamhead

Manor House

Maps

Militia, volunteers, yeomanry, home guard. Ring binder on shelf

Millenium survey of Dawlish groups

Museum

Newhay

Newspaper cuttings – mostly C19. See bound volumes

Oaklands Park

Old vicarage

People

Pidgley estate

Planning proposals 1960’s onwards

Post Office

Powderham

Prints of Dawlish: catalogues, locations etc.

Public houses

Railway

Regatta

Research

Roads, tollhouses and milestones

Royal celebrations

School trip to Germany 1956

Scouting

Sewage schemes

Shipwrecks and rescues

Slavery

Snow and ice [see also weather; floods]

Sport

Theatre; cinema; entertainment

Tourism

Vestry + Churchwarden accounts etc. (n.b. transcripts are in ledgers, kept separately)

Violet trade

Walks

Weather, storms etc. [see also floods; snow and ice]

Williams, Joseph, grocer and engineer, receipts 1841-50 – loaned by W.J.Williams

Wills etc [legal documents]

World War 2

17 Jan 2017