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1 The Upham Ship Building book. Photocopy of handwritten ledger from 1856 to 1961 with vessel name, date keel laid and date launched, broad details of the vessel, costs incurred and payment effected - 370 Records
2 The Alan Lanfear papers – Summary sheet and photocopy of contents of ring binder A  Number One – trawler crew lists
3 The Alan Lanfear papers – Summary sheet and photocopy of contents of ring binder B Number 2 – crew lists L-Z
4 The Alan Lanfear papers – Summary sheet and photocopy of contents of ring binder C Brixham Trawler Apprentices 1891-1912 A. F. Lanfear
5 The Alan Lanfear papers – Summary sheet and photocopy of contents of ring binder D Owners and Skippers
6 The Alan Lanfear papers – Summary sheet and photocopy of contents of ring binder E Brixham Notes - held in Brixham Heritage Museum  
7 The Alan Lanfear papers – Summary sheet and photocopy of contents of ring binder F Galmpton Shipyard
8 The Alan Lanfear papers – Summary sheet and photocopy of contents of ring binder G Upham Yachts
9 The Alan Lanfear papers – Summary sheet and photocopy of contents of ring binder H Shipbuilding
10 The Alan Lanfear papers – Summary sheet and photocopy of contents of ring binder I Fishing Vessels
11 The Alan Lanfear papers – Summary sheet and photocopy of contents of ring binder J Brixham Shipbuilders
12 The Alan Lanfear papers – DFHS Correspondence Ring binder K not photocopied: summary sheet only. A note on Mr. Alan Lanfear
13 The Life of Walter Barnes. Photocopy of script of BBC Radio Empire and Western Regional broadcast 16 October 1938
14 List of Brixham built and registered vessels. By name with year built/type and DH/BM number where known. Source Mike Miller 3.01 held in Brixham Heritage Museum
15 Photocopy records held in Brixham Heritage Museum. Information by A. Small on BM285 COLLIE, Schooner POLLY, BM346 GUESS AGAIN, BM291 PROVIDENT, BM31 IRENIC.Article on the PROVIDENT Stars and Stripes and Green Burgee
16 Copy photograph Brixham Harbour with DH784/DH129 Blt 1874 48t cutter Stranded Teignmouth beach after collision SS Fort James: total loss
17 Copy photograph Brixham Harbour with DH241/BM108, DH277/BM120 CORMORANT, DH51 FLEETWING
18 Copy photograph Brixham Harbour with schooner and small boats
19 Copy photograph The fleet at anchor
20 Copy photograph Brixham Harbour with DH28 EBENEZER and DH290
21 Copy photograph BM52 AMETHYST and BM161 LYRA
22 Copy photograph DH66 WELCOME
23 Copy photograph 'The fleet'
24 Copy photograph Brixham Harbour with BM347 MAY QUEEN
25 Copy photograph of four sailing trawlers racing
26 Copy photograph Brixham Harbour with BM342
27 Copy photograph BM76 VIGILANCE (as yacht)
28 Copy photograph BM317 FERNLEAF, BM52 FORSETI, BM 27 REPLETE
29 Copy photograph BOY SID
30 Copy photograph BM161 VALERIAN and another racing
31 Copy photograph BM20 LEONARD and other at anchor
32 Copy photograph BM161 VALARIAN, BM337 PREVELANT
33 Copy photograph BM134 REVIVE
34 Copy photograph BM346 GUESS AGAIN
35 Copy photograph VIGILANCE, SILVER LINING, FERNLEAF/MANIQUIN
36 Copy photograph BM346 GUESS AGAIN, BM365 AURIAL LINING
37 Copy photograph VIGILANCE
38 Copy photograph BM346 GUESS AGAIN, BM18 MANIQUIN
39 Copy photograph BM76
40 Copy photograph BM25 MAID HONOUR
41 Copy photograph BM352 WILLIAM AND SAM
42 Copy photograph BM18
43 Copy photograph BM316 TOREADOR
44 Copy photograph Fleet setting sail
45 Copy photograph BM329 BOY SID
46 Copy photograph BM18
47 Copy photograph Brixham harbour full of vessels, view to the South
48 Copy photograph Fleet in the Outer Harbour
49 Copy photograph DH199 DH60
50 Copy painting BM17
51 Copy photograph BM346 racing
52 Copy photograph 3 boats racing
53 Copy photograph Boats in harbour
54 Copy photograph Brixham Harbour boats at low tide
55 Copy photograph Brixham Harbour boats at high tide
56 Copy photograph Brixham outer harbour
57 Copy photograph 2 boats lying on the beach
58 Copy photograph BM263 dressed overall with flags
59 Copy photograph BM52
60 Copy photograph Boats in harbour
61 Copy photograph The fleet 1868
62 Scan print Deodar 1987 (2 pictures)63 Scan print BM118 MANNEQUIN
64 Scan print Fleet off Tenby 1884
65 Scan print Jackman’s Yard on Breakwater Beach 1880
66 Scan print BM313 DEODAR rigged as a yacht
67 Scan print BM313 DEODAR rigged as a trawler
68 Scan print The staff of Jackman’s Yard
69 Scan print Launch of BM321 TERMINIST 1912
70 Scan print BM331LUCETTA
71 Scan print DEODAR as a trading vessel
72 Scan print DEODAR as a Lowestoft trawler
73 Scan print DEODAR under sail – converted back to trawler 1987
74 Scan print DEODAR in dry dock 1986/87
75 Scan print of postcard DEODAR in Stockholm, Sweden 1988
76 Scan print IBEX and other vessels
77 Scan print CHARMIAN – private yacht on sailing trawler lines
78 Scan print Ian Heath owner of the CHARMIAN on board
79 Scan print line drawing plans of VALERIAN
80 Scan print line drawing plans of VALERIAN
81 Scan print BM161 VALERIAN
82 Scan print Model in Brixham Conservative Club of BM161 VALERIAN
83 Scan print Painting by John Horsley of sloop CHARLES
84 Photcopy postcard Trawlers becalmed
85 Photcopy postcard Brixham inner harbour
86 Photcopy postcard Brixham harbour
87 Photcopy postcard the fleet
88 Photcopy postcard colour – waiting for a breeze
89 Photcopy postcard the fleet
90 Photcopy postcard outer harbour showing construction of breakwater
91 Photcopy postcard outer harbour
92 Photcopy postcard Berry Head
93 Photcopy postcard the fleet
94 Photcopy postcard colour – waiting for a breeze
95 Photcopy postcard Berry Head
96 Photcopy postcard Becalmed
97 Photcopy postcard Brixham inner harbour including BM61 and BM65
98 Photcopy postcard Brixham harbour showing boats bow on to quay
99 Photcopy postcard Brixham fish quay
100 Photcopy postcard Brixham inner harbour withy trawlers and coaster
101 Photcopy postcard the fleet making sail inside the breakwater
102 Photcopy postcard Brixham outer harbour, trawlers on moorings and ferry
103 Photocopy of poem In the track of the storm, David Prowse
104 Photocopy of poem Song of the fishermen, Devid Prowse
105 Photocopy of poem The gale in Torbay 11/1/1886 version 1
106 Photocopy of poem The gale in Torbay 11/1/1886 version 2
107 Photocopy of poem The wives of Brixham
108 Photocopy of poem The song of Brixham
109 Photocopy of poem The girls of little Brixham
110 Scan print BM346 GUESS AGAIN racing
111 Scan print BM 27 REPLETE, BM52 FORSETI, BM317 FERNLEAF racing
112 Scan print BM352 WILLIAM AND SAM 1928
113 Scan print BM163
114 Scan print BM25 MAID HONOUR 1928
115 Scan print BM346 GUESS AGAIN
116 Scan print BM161 VALERIAN 1929
117 Scan print BM134 REVIVE 1926
118 Scan print BM346, BM275, BM69, BM 25 racing 1927
119 Scan print BM18 MARGIN BM346 GUESS AGAIN racing
120 Scan print BM368, BM346 and other boats 1932 trawler race
121 Scan print BM134 REVIVE 1926
122 Scan print BM161 VALERIAN BM337 PROVIDENT 1929
123 Scan print marked LILY DOREEN, but more likely BM346 GUESS AGAIN
124 Photograph from original (with original) LILY DOREEN as yacht
125 Photograph from original LILY DOREEN as yacht
126 Correspondence with Brendan McMahon, with the story of the LILY DOREEN
127 Photocopy coloured postcard Waiting for a breeze The Brixham fleet
128 Photocopy postcard 21556F DH36 DH517 DH207 DH135
129 Photocopy postcard the fleet and breakwater 1868
130 Photocopy postcard 68514F The fleet in outer harbour 1919
131 Photocopy postcard Boats in inner harbour 1890
132 Photocopy postcard Norwegian ice boats in inner harbour 1868
133 Photocopy coloured postcard Brixham trawlers becalmed
134 Photocopy postcard Trawlwers off Brixham
135 Photocopy postcard the fleet alongside at Brixham BM76 (mainly motorised)
136 Photocopy coloured postcard vessels in inner harbour Brixham
137 Photocopy postcard the fleet alongside Brixham inner harbour quay
138 Photocopy painting a valley with small boat (Brixham before man?)
139 Photocopy postcard Brixham, town and harbour from the air
140 Photocopy postcard launching of SANSPARIL at Uphams Yard
141 Photocopy postcard BM73 alongside Brixham Southern Quay
142 Photocopy postcard 31147 Fishing Fleet Brixham in outer harbour
143 Photocopy postcard aerial view vessels in inner harbour
144 Photocopy postcard DAWN driven ashore (under Upham’s home) gale 1923
145 Photocopy postcard BM109 motorised outer harbour (site present fish quay)
146 Photocopy coloured postcard Fleet in outer harbour
147 Photocopy postcard Brixham inner harbour sailing trawlers and coaster
148 Photocopy postcard BM109 motorised in outer harbour yachts in background
149 Photocopy postcard BM16 (white hull) with other Trawlers in Brixham
150 Photocopy postcard Trawlers at low tide Brixham Harbour (showing stabilising legs)
151 Photocopy postcard Fleet in inner harbour BM129 BM44 BM255
152 Photocopy sepia photograph fisherman at the helm with another in foregroundDH104 FROLIC built Gampton 1886
153 Photocopy archive 00153 fisherman at the helm with another in foreground DH104 FROLIC built Gampton 1886
154 Photocopy photograph fisherman Richard Foale b.16.3.1896 d 8.3.1922 mate aboard LOVE AND UNITY when she was lost in Start Bay
155 Photocopy photograph fisherman William George Sanders
156 Photocopy photograph three fishermen and boy BM28 GUARD
157 Photocopy photograph two fishermen Alf Smith and Harold Soper on VALERIAN
158 Photocopy photograph fishermen at work – releasing cod end
159 Photocopy postcard Fish Market, Brixham with rays on floor
160 Photocopy postcard Fish Market, Brixham with fish laid out
161 Photocopy postcard copy archive 00160 Fish Market, Brixham
162 Photocopy postcard Fish Market, Brixham with rays on floor
163 Photocopy photograph Mayflower under sail
164 Photocopy photograph Mayflower under construction
165 Photocopy photograph Mayflower under construction
166 Photocopy photograph Mayflower under construction Fitting the shelf to interior frames
167 Photocopy photograph Mayflower under construction Fitting planks to frame
168 Photocopy certificate of discharge fishing trade Thomas Bulley Mead 31.7.1899
169 Photocopy certificate of discharge Cape Mail T. Mead 3.7.1990
170 Photocopies 7 handwritten certificates of good conduct for Thomas Mead in various positions on various Brixham trawlers 1890 through 1901
171 Endorsement to indenture for boy (by his father Joseph Nelson Mead) covering remuneration (proceeds of all she crabs and squids..) 7.2.1895
172 Photocopy assignment of assurance on life of Thomas W. Mead 29.5.1935
173 Photocopy apprenticeship indenture 30.11.1894 between Thomas Mead and John Wheaton
174 Photocopy handwritten song remembered by Dudley Simms. Cox’n Torbay Lifeboat
175 Photocopy of coloured hand-written note of boats, owners and skippers Annually 1919 – 1939 ?Winners of the Brixham Trawler Races?
176 Photocopy of 3 page typewritten article about the gift to Brixham of three cottages on the Strand (now Perrots Fish Merchant/Sea Fantasy Show/Tourist information office) and criticism of alleged abuse of covenant by authorities
177 Photocopy 7 pages from Brixham in Devonshire almanac. Undated but late 19th century (much information on Brixham buildings and institutions)
178 Photocopy press-cutting Victims of Battle of Eastern Scruff (unassigned and undated) TERMINIST and DILIGENCE in submarine attack
179 Photocopy press-cutting Oldtimer recalls regattas (undated and unassigned) Captain Hall Dialect
180 Photocopy 2 press-cuttings U-boat attacks and Boats names remembered(undated and unassigned)
181 Photocopy printed 4 page extract from Brixham in Devonia – pages 94/97Press report and poem Collision of DAZLER and SUSAN PATEY (undated)
182 Photocopy press-cutting Man 80 recalls sail trawlers (undated and unassigned)
183 Photocopy press-cutting Days when 300 sail trawlers used the port (undated and unassigned)
184 Photocopy 2 printed pages Brixham directory listing businesses by trade (undated and unassigned)
185 Photocopy of handwritten ledger listing freeholders and leaseholders of Brixham Parish. Michelmas 1771
186 Photocopy typewritten list of names form Brixham Protestation Return 1641
187 Photocopy press-cutting Names for fishing smack list (undated and unassigned)
188 Photocopy of typewritten copy of wording of the indenture assigning the by Vittery to Gilberte of lands and buildings of the Manor of Brixham styled Quay Lords 1759
189 Photocopy of 4 printed pages Brixham Parish from Haytor Hundred (Undated but probably mid-19th century (much information on Brixham buildings, institutionsa and names directory)
190 Photocopy press-cutting Loving hands care for old trawler TERMINIST (undated and unassigned)
191 Photocopy of portrait photograph of seaman and (?)son. Names and date unknown)
192 Press cutting Fishermen trawl their memories Herald Express 7.3.01 Compton Bowl for mules in the trawler race, mentions WE’LL TRY
193 Photograph and negatives LILY DOREEN half submerged
194 Photocopy photograph BM247 ELSIE MAY leaving Newlyn 1906National Maritime Museum 5.7.25 P72927
195 Photocopy photograph BM415 LILY DOREEN Brixham 12.8.1935National Maritime Museum P73011
196 Photocopy photograph BM415 LILY DOREEN Leaving Newly 1906National Maritime Museum P72928 5.7.25
197 Photocopy photograph BM346 GUESS AGAIN Leaving BrixhamNational Maritime Museum P73790 23..9.34
198 Photocopy photograph BM63 ENCOURAGE Leaving NewlynNational Maritime Museum P73930 31.5.26
199 Photocopy photograph BM63 ENCOURAGE 1926 Leaving Newlyn National Maritime Museum P72931 31.8.26
200 Photocopy photograph BM339 LEONA MINNIE 1913 Leaving Newlyn National Maritime Museum P73010 17.8.35
201 Photocopy photograph Overgang Brixham, before new fish market
202 Photocopy postcard A Brixham Mule ready for launching BM338 Upham Yard 1913
203 Photocopy photograph Trawler race
204 Photocopy postcard Boats in inner harbour 1868 tide out boats leaning
205 Photocopy postcard Brixham Outer Harbour 1924 Fleet at moorings
206 Photocopy postcard Brixham Outer Harbour 1924 First section breakwater (1843?)
207 Photocopy coloured postcard Brixham Harbour with boats (bows to quay)
208 Photocopy postcard Brixham trawlers waiting for a breeze 1868 (DH reg)
209 Photocopy postcard Inner Harbour Brixham with boats alongside
210 Photocopy photograph Brixam sailing trawlers at Tenby pre 1980
211 Photocopy photograph Trwalers on moorings c.1900
212 Photocopy photograph Inner harbour 1898
213 Photocopy photograph BM163 TORBAY LASS
214 Photocopy photograph Brixham Sailing Tawlers 1920s
215 Photocopy photograph BM registered sailing trawler (unclear)
216 Photocopy photograph Refit time trawlers stren on to quay in inner harbour
217 Photocopy postcard Sailing at Brixham Trawler race
218 Photocopy photograph BM63 ENCOURAGE
219 Photocopy photograph BM125 WINNIE
220 Photocopy coloured postcard Brixham Trawlers
221 Photocopy postcard Jackman’s Breakwater beach shipyard and fleet at morings in outer harbour
222 Photocopy photograph Brixham sailing trawler race BM134 (undated)
223 Photocopy photograph launch of BM321 TERMINUS
224 Photocopy photograph BM381 ALESSIE from Ramsgate
225 Photocopy photograph a Brixham hooker (single mast) at Brixham harbour
226 Photocopy coloured postcard Brixham Strand Quay with boats (undated)
227 Photocopy coloured postcard Brixham Strand and fish market with boats
228 Photocopy coloured photograph VIGILANT under sail
229 Photocopy coloured photograph BM161 VALERIAN
230 Photocopy postcard Outward Bound BM352 WILLIAM AND SAM
231 Photocopy postcard Southern Quay 1889 with boat
232 Photocopy postcard Middle Quay with schooners
233 Photocopy postcard Brixham regatta 1920’s with four trawlers racing
234 Photocopy postcard Brixham harbour with boats pre-1920
235 Photocopy colour painting (/) Trawler race 1933
236 Photocopy postcard crowds at Brixham regatta
237 Photocopy postcard Brixham harbour 1900s
238 Photocopy postcard Brixham harbour 1920s with coaster
239 Photocopy postcard Brixham harbour the new pier
240 Photocopy postcard Brixham harbour slip before Strand embankement built in 1898
241 Photocopy postcard Brixham harbour undated
242 Photocopy postcard aerial view Brixham harbour undated
243 Photocopy sepia postcard Brixham war memorial and boats – probably 1920s
244 Photocopy photograph Dewdney’s ship yard, Brixham – boat building
245 Photocopy postcard Brixham Southern Quay 1884 with prince William statue
246 Photocopy postcard Brixham 1896 Northerly aspect
247 Whiting hookers in Brixham harbour Upham’s yard
248 Photocopy postcard Eventide Brixham inner harbour to the South West with St. Peter’s Church and the Hill House
249 Photocopy postcard Breakwater Brixham in construction Jackmans Yard on Breakwater Beach
250 Photocopy postcard Fish market Brixham showing houses before shops
251 Photocopy postcard Fish market Brixham showing fish on the quay
252 Photocopy postcard Fish market Brixham showing fish on the quay
253 Photocopy photograph five fishermen sitting on the quay
254 Photocopy photograph 11 men on deck sail trawler sailing crew of FLOWERET (regatta race crew?)
255 Photocopy 3 photographs (from book?) of winch and main sheet chock BM161 VALLERIAN
256 Photocopy photograph (?) View Brixham from South West 1840 – 1852 with resevoir in foreground and harbour in distance
257 Photocopy photograph unloading a box of fish from a punt
258 Photocopy photograph 8 men scrubbing the bottom of a careened trawler
259 Photocopy photograph 2 men on deck mending nets
260 Photocopy photograph 4 men on deck 1911/1913 with winch and gear skipper and crew of BM95 REGARD – includes Alf Worth’s father)
261 2 men landing a basket of fish Harry Bedford and Dick Ansell
262 12 men and a boy – sailing crew BM168 EBENEZER Regatta trawler race (undated)
263 Photocopy photograph 4 men working in sail loft Identified as Ken Lear, W. Crowte, Sam Wheatons and Herman Thomas
264 Photocopy photograph Young Mens’ Bible Class 17 youths Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen
265 Photocopy photograph Building of MAYFLOWER Upham’s Yard 1956
266 Photocopy photograph the Strand, formerly Beach Road
267 Photocopy photograph (?) All Saintrs’ Church Brixham in 1883
268 Photocopy postcard Brixham Railway Station and train (undated)
269 Photocopy postcard Brixham Railway Station platform (undated)
270 Photocopy photograph Middle Street, Brixham with shops and fishermen’s cottages
271 Lithograph coloured of Brixham from the South West, harbour/Bay in distance
272 Photocopy coloured photograph William of Orange House 5 Middle Street, Brixham 1688
273 Photocopy photograph the Coffin House bottom Temperance Steps, Brixham
274 Photocopy postcard Start Point lighthouse
275 Photocopy photograph Eddystone Lighthouse
276 Historical information on present heritage sailing trawler fleet
277 List of relevant records kept by Mike Miller 6.3.01
278 Audio recording – Brixham Trawlermen Bill Friend, Dan Friend and Alf Smith
279 Video recording – DEODAR in Brixham 1995 and EXCELCIOR trawling
280 Video recording – PILGRIM’s Progress part 1 November 1999 – May 2000
281 Video recording – PILGRIM’s Progress part 2 May – July 2000
282 Video recording – PILGRIM’s Progress part 3 July 2000
283 Video recording – PILGRIM’s Progress part 4 August 2000
284 Video recording – PILGRIM’s Progress part 5 September – December 2000
285 Tape recording – Life in a Brixham trawler family - Mr. Lear (undated)Original with Alec Pine, 2 Barnfield Road, Brixham
286 Tape recording – Memories of a Brixham trawler man - Alf WorthOriginal with Alan Healey
287 Tape recording – Brixham poems of the sea – recorded by Alan HealeyOriginal with Alan Healey
288 Photocopy photograph Three crew members crew GRATITUDE being interrogated by German submarine in 1st world war, with text story
289 Video recording – PILGRIM’s Progress part 6 January – April 2001
290 Text report of BM163 TORBAY LASS salvage tow of schooner WELCOME 18 May 1935. Report by Mr. Alf Worth with sketch chart
291 VIGILANCE BM76 Official guide Janet and Bridget Cusack, 1999
292 Photographs from slides: Blacksmith’s shop, Brixham Fish Quay, Brixham from St. Peter’s Hill, belaying the warp -capstan on deck, BM356, sail making loft. From the collection of Bob Tricker.
293 Video recording – PILGRIM’s Progress part 7 May - June 2001 Sailing Trawler Race
294 Photocopy of Port of Brixham Regatta Programme 20/21 August 1926
295 Video recording - Alf Worth Remembers: audio/visual history. A 90 year old Brixham man talks about a series of pictures of old Brixham
296 Video recording - Sea Week at All Saint's Church Brixham, July 2000. Showing old sailing trawler pennants. Video by Jill Durn
297 Copy of article: The Lanfears - a Ramsgate Fishing family Bygone Kent volume 9 number 2  - February 1988.  [Alan Lanfear was the researcher behind the Brixham Sailing Trawler Archive]
298 Framed print of the proposed Breakwater, Brixham Harbour. Dated 1835 with hand written approval from Board of Trade dated 6th January 1877 -  Donated by Reuben Woodbridge
299 Old fish market with fish on floor C1920's
300 Old fish market C1960's
301 Old fish market showing fish barrels
302 Old fish market with fishermen and children



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