Hidden Heritage

HMS INDUS, off Wilcove?

DOCKYARD AND WARSHIPS....note the absence of North Yard, the KEYHAM STEAM YARD, still in build possibly. HMS DRAKE block on the parade ground is visible.

Happy New Year 2019!!!
Plymouth, UK

Sincere apologies to those who turned up for the last Sunday tour of 2018 at Whitsand Bay Fort. My car simply has taken too much strain and stupidly I left my phone at the new museum in Plymouth. Do feel free to contact me again for a rescheduled tour.

A huge thank you to our guests from Brazil along with the Ashton family who took a private tour at Whitsand Bay Fort today. Have a safe journey back!!

FEBRUARY 1912, the VECTIS is aground at ANDURN POINT, between HEYBROOK BAY and BOVISAND. There she stayed and is still there today. On a low water spring tide the site is well worth a visit from the shore. Quite safe for kids under control, lots of boiler coke, boiler firebricks, glass and pottery to be found as well as iron chain and bigger bits of unknown. Note RAME HEAD in left distance.

Wishing all a Merry Christmas. Thank you all for your support in 2018!!

RAME HEAD. What was this now long gone building used for? Coast guard store? Power generator for ? Seen here in 1970.

HMS DEFIANCE...UP THE RIVER LYNHER, by WEARDE QUAY

Do any of you require any Holly for Christmas? Grown inside Fortress Plymouth now ready to go!

Good morning all from Fortress Plymouth.
An exciting week of updates for you all this week. :)

Good Morning from Fortress Plymouth.
Who would like some December tours by candlelight and ghost hunts?

We have some real Christmas trees grown inside one of Plymouths Palmerston Fortifications now available to take away fot a donation to Fortress Plymouth, or we can deliver. Up to 24 feet height.

THE FORMER M.O.D. TRAINING AREA, North of CROWNHILL ROAD. For the last few years housing has ben encroaching from the top left, and in the next few months the area will be hacked in half with a large flyover and a new road linking the A38 to Derriford, seen in 2011

FORT STAMPFORD and the HOOE "loos." 2011

FORT STADDON, and the Butts of its adjoining .303 smokeless powder rifle range, PLYMOUTH SOUND, MOUNT BATTEN, CATTEWATER and PLYM, taken in 2011 - UK

One of Plymouth’s best preserved blitz damaged locations thankfully never repaired and a stark reminder of the power of shrapnel.
My youngest two couldn’t believe how iron could be torn up and melted by flying fragments of bombs.

A lone German bomber below a reconnaissance plane as it photographs the Dockyard and City. The images caught by these planes were used to pic targets and assess the effect of previous raids on the City.
Another of the WW2 created images from the #shadowsofourpast collection

Tremendous site and very accurate you deserve funding from the Arts council or lottery fund keep the good work up,

Thankyou sooo much guys for a wonderful weekend, very friendly and the food was superb .... And not forgetting the ghost hunt which was amazing would definitely be coming back very soon keep up the good work X

Thanks the guys at hidden heritage for a very interesting evening at Whitsand bay fort. Looking forward to the Plymouth war walk next week ! Keep up the great work guys�

Thanks for the 'ghost tour ' last night with our Austrian friends. They had a great time.

So interesting one of the very best facebook pages/groups there is

So glad we have you guys in Plymouth. Great tours and really friendly and knowledgeable. Thank you for keeping our amazing history alive.

Paul and his team of volunteers are doing a fantastic job with all their hard work searching out and restoring our lost heritage to its original state.

Join in on a tour and enjoy the amazing engineering and construction from Victorian times, the whole family will have an excellent tutorial day of wonder and hopefully tell all you friends how great it was

My first ever tour was very informative and well presented can't wait till next time

Great tour of Whitsand Bay Fort. I never knew it was there and knowledge of the subject area was brilliant. Highly recommended.

Got taken around by Timmy today.A lot of hard work has gone into the the whole fort.A really interesting experience.Thank you Paul and your small team of helpers for a wonderful job you have all done.Will definitely be back again.

Fascinating tour of blitz sites around Plymouth. 5 stars.

Fascinating tour of Whitsand Bay fort. Pauls knowledge and the work done by the volunteers has brought the place to life. Recommended!

Fantastic blitz walk around Stoke/Ford and Keyham - thanks.

Every Plymothian or visitor to the city should see the reality of life in the city in WW2 before it disappears forever. A great group doing an important job preserving recent history.. in an imaginative and fascinating way. Book onto a blitz walk!

Do you love Hidden historic sites that are still there, access them from the safety of your computer rather than trekking through miles of lanes and fields, overgrowth and countless pages of research, not to mention getting the landowners permission. Just enjoy the professional site appraisals and Photos and enjoy looking at artefacts and videos of some of these forgotten gems.

Brilliant,atmospheric & informative!

What better way to spend Easter Saturday with fantastic views of the bay too!

Brilliant tour. Loved every minute of it. Thank you to Paul and the team for all your hard work and effort in making these tours possible. Will definitely do one again xx

Awesome afternoon brilliant job u lot doing keep it up

Amazing work being done here to document our history! We did the blitz walk today with Paul and me, hubby and kids all thoroughly enjoyed it. We will be keeping an eye out for future events to join in with for sure. Thanks Paul.