A brand new continuous track of our original Cemetery Audio Trail. Designed specifically for those who are unable to visit the site.

NEW Plymouth Cemetery Audio Trail Continuous Track

Funded by the Mayflower 400 Community Sparks fund

Listen to Jerry Sibley [Custodian of the Plymouth Synagogue] talk about his first burial at the Gifford Place Cemetery and Diane Lawer tell us about Jacob Nathan Brock, known as John Brock who was manager of the Millbay Pier Rinkeries from 1909.
Compiled by Derek Frood & Ruth Mitchell
Sound Design by Ed Jobling
Original Music by Helen Porter

GiffordPlace Podcast 1

We talk to Raymond Batkin about the WW1 graves in Gifford Place and John Hershman tells us about the beginnings of his parents business - Drakes Jewellers, in Plymouth. They are both buried in Gifford Place.
Compiled by Derek Frood & Ruth Mitchell
Sound Design by Ed Jobling
Original Music by Helen Porter

Funded by the Mayflower 400 Community Sparks fund

GiffordPlace Podcast 2

Funded by the Mayflower 400 Community Sparks fund

Valerie Mellor remembers her parents Mark and Betty Gordon.
Tim Robins remembers his family esp. Hestor Robins OBE
And Adrian Cohen remembers his father Jack Cohen who ran the well loved joke shop in Plymouth's West End.
Compiled by Derek Frood & Ruth Mitchell
Sound Design by Ed Jobling
Original Music by Helen Porter

GiffordPlace Podcast 3

Endings: the 20th Century, 
Hyman David Abrams & Golda Weinberg
Audio created by Ruth Mitchell 
Voiced by Derek Frood & Ruth Mitchell
Sound Design StS, Stage technical Services www.stagetechservices.co.uk
Producer Fiona Fraser-Smith
more info at www.rippletheatreco.com
funded by the National Lottery through Arts Council England & Exeter City Council
Source material:
Friedlander, Evelyn Ed. (2002) The Jews of Devon and Cornwall Catalogue of Exhibition  The Hidden Legacy Foundation 
Fry, Helen (2013) The Jews of Exeter Halsgrove: Somerset
Fry, Helen (2012) Jewish Cemeteries of Devon. e-book
Susser, Bernard (1993) The Jews of South-West England: the rise and decline of their medieval and modern communities. The Exeter University Press:Exeter

Online the Exeter Synagogue Archive https://www.jewishgen.org/JCR-uk/Community/exe/history.htm

Cemetery Audio Trail

Chapter 3 Exeter

Decline & Revival: the nineteenth century 
Alexander Alexander and Charles Samuels
Audio created by Ruth Mitchell 
Voiced by Derek Frood, Ruth Mitchell & David Prescott
Sound Design StS, Stage technical Services www.stagetechservices.co.uk
Producer Fiona Fraser-Smith
more info at www.rippletheatreco.com
funded by the National Lottery through Arts Council England & Exeter City Council
Source material: 
Friedlander, Evelyn Ed. (2002) The Jews of Devon and Cornwall Catalogue of Exhibition  The Hidden Legacy Foundation
Fry, Helen (2013) The Jews of Exeter Halsgrove: Somerset
Fry, Helen (2012) Jewish Cemeteries of Devon. e-book
Susser, Bernard (1993) The Jews of South-West England: the rise and decline of their medieval and modern communities. The Exeter University Press:Exeter

Online the Exeter Synagogue Archive https://www.jewishgen.org/JCR-uk/Community/exe/history.htm

Chapter 2 Exeter

Beginnings: Introduction to the cemetery & the eighteenth century, 
the Ezekiel family
Audio created by Ruth Mitchell 
Voiced by Derek Frood, Ruth Mitchell & David Prescott
Sound Design StS, Stage technical Services www.stagetechservices.co.uk
Producer Fiona Fraser-Smith
more info at www.rippletheatreco.com
funded by the National Lottery through Arts Council England & Exeter City Council
Source material: 
Friedlander, Evelyn Ed. (2002) The Jews of Devon and Cornwall Catalogue of Exhibition  The Hidden Legacy Foundation
Fry, Helen (2013) The Jews of Exeter Halsgrove: Somerset
Fry, Helen (2012) Jewish Cemeteries of Devon. e-book
Susser, Bernard (1993) The Jews of South-West England: the rise and decline of their medieval and modern communities. The Exeter University Press:Exeter

Online the Exeter Synagogue Archive https://www.jewishgen.org/JCR-uk/Community/exe/history.htm

Chapter 1 Exeter

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This is a slightly edited version of our original Old Jewish Cemetery Audio Trail. It is presented here as one complete audio file. This will allow you to listen in the comfort of your own home.

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