Brixham News -Weekend Manoeuvres at the Battery

Last weekend (9th & 10th June) Battery Gardens provided the setting for the Heritage Battery Groups presentation of the Battery through the ages. On Saturday they were helped in re-creating a sense of the past with Blitz and Peace's providing musical interludes with ukulele and vocal duets. More.....

Brixham News - Wartime Archives Open

On Monday 9th April Robbie Robinson welcomed everyone to the new Archive Building at Brixham Battery Heritage Centre. As the last remaining Second World War Costal Defence Battery the site gained the prestigious award of Scheduled Monument 3 years ago. Following this the Battery Heritage Group secured £50,000 of Heritage Lottery Funding to develop the new archive. More.....

BBC Devon Feature - War Film made in Devon

Paignton sign-writer Ashley Wing has co-written and directed a WWII action movie and hopes to embark on a career in film-making more.....

Brixham News - Brixham's Castle

Brixham's Castle proved to be a wonderfully unique piece of open air theatre, enjoyed by audiences on three consecutive August evenings, with the play about the Napoleonic Fort at Berry Head, performed in parts of its original setting. more.....

Brixham News - Between The Lines

By 11.00am the producer, director and camera crew had been up for hours preparing lighting and sets for the soldiers chasing across a field on the outskirts of Brixham. Following close behind them a German military vehicle was also taking part in a scene from a new film Between the Lines more.....

Brixham News - Veterans remember friends and take tea at Brixham Battery

Friday 11th August was a day of remembrance for the Veterans who came together at Brixham Battery Museum to take tea, cakes and listen to War Time melodies to lift their spirits having remembered lost comrades more.....

Herald Express - Wreaths will commemorate gun explosion

A mystery wartime explosion which killed six gunners at Corbyn Head in Torquay is being marked by two events in the Bay on August 11, the day they died 62 years ago more....

Brixham News - Brixham Battery Presents

On Saturday November 4th Brixham Battery is hosting a free talk/exhibition in the Methodist Community Hall, Fore Street, Brixham starting at 2.30pm. The talk entitled: 'Yanks in Devon and Cornwall in World War 2, and the return of the Veterans' will be given by Mr Jim Stanger, military historian from Plymouth, lasting one and a half hours more....

Herald Express - Tourism Chief Hears About Yanks in Devon

Wartime memories and a trans-Atlantic connection were revived at the Brixham Battery Heritage Centre where the guests included American-born Aviva Pearson, Torbay's new head of tourism.Centre supporters sponsored a free talk entitled "The Yanks in Devon and Cornwall in the Second World War" where the VIP speakers were Plymouth-based Jim and Margo Stanger more.....

Herald Express - Evacuees Join Party

The HISTORY department of Paignton Community and Sports College presented an inter-generational street party to mark the successful completion of The Evacuees project
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