Bridging Barne Barton: The Island Stories

“A not-quite-public place called The Ledge: a stone, waterfront ledge in Barne Barton, nestled between the old stone gate of an MOD barracks and a creek at the peninsula’s edge. …

Images copyright of Fotonow CIC © 2016

Photographer Balazs Turos worked with Fotonow CIC on an Erasmus Internship in 2014 and documented the workers building the MVV waste to energy plant. His series The Workers was made …

A Fotonow led youth project visited MVV construction site in 2012 to see the combined heat & power plant close up. images copyright Fotonow CIC © 2012

We were sent a link to a really lovely article from 2009, conveying life in Barne Barton and also a mention of Melv Chislett, recently interviewed for The Island Stories), …

A photo from the collection of Kathy Cotton, Youth Worker in Barne Barton.  Kathy’s photos document a timeline and history of youth and community work in the area.

Thank you to Mark Davis for giving his permission to share these photos of his punk bank Sabotage, playing their first gig at the farmhouse youth club. Mark and his …

This edition of the Navy News, October 1968, looks at life for naval families on the estate, which it describes as “..among the largest and longest established in the Navy …

Images courtesy of The Box, Plymouth copyright The Herald

Last ferry crossing from Saltash 1961.

Bull Point Ratings Housing Estate – St Budeaux Site. Plans ‘Received by the Admiralty’ 1956 Plans submitted to the Admiralty 1956 to build 180 houses and 270 flats on St …

Bought on eBay by Fotonow CIC in 2018, the seller told us “The slides were bought many years ago, in Adelaide, South Australia, where I lived for 46 years. The …

A map from 1947 with copyright to the National Library of Scotland.

Map from National Library of Scotland, showing Devon and Cornwall boundaries as surveyed in the 1930s.

Emmeline Pankhurst is well known as the leader of the Suffragette movement, but her connection with and arrest in Bull Point, Plymouth in 1913 is less well known. Derek Tait …

A parish map from 1896 © National Library of Scotland

A lovely find in an old book ‘Rivers in Devon: From Source to Sea’ (Seeley & Co Ltd, London, 1893) the imposing Royal Albert Bridge at Saltash, drawn by A. Ansted, …

With thanks to The National Library of Scotland (all rights reserved) we have this wonderful map from 1889 showing Barne Farm in the St Budeaux parish. You can see Barne Barton is …

The hulks in Hamoaze, with the Royal Albert Bridge in the background (Plymouth) from scan of illustration from the journal ‘The Graphic’, volume XVII, no 433, March 16, 1878.

Early St Budeaux parish map from 1854-1863.