Displaying 3 of 4 old photos of Clearbrook. View all Clearbrook photos
Clearbrook, from the Railway Bridge c1960
Clearbrook, the Village c1960
Clearbrook, Hoo Meavy c1960
Historic maps of Clearbrook and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Clearbrook maps
Historic map of Clearbrook
Illustrated Victorian map of Devon
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Displaying 1 of 2 books about Clearbrook and the local area. View all Clearbrook books
North Devon Living Memories
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Tiverton - A History and Celebration
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A section of this photograph was used by Peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate for one of the opening sequences in the programme Bagpuss. This was confirmed in 1978 when a Horrabridge resident wrote to the Bagpuss programme and received a reply from Mrs Joan Firmin giving an account of how the picture used came from an old postacrd album which now belonged to her.
The wheelwrights yard is shown on the left and the view is looking south to Station Road taken from the north side of the bridge. This scene has changed little in the last 100 years and is still recognisable today.
Shared on 28 January 2007
There doesn't seem to be many memories of the Trevethans - anyone help?
Shared on 22 April 2007
Five years at Kelly College with mediocre academic results and then off to Africa. layed in the Rugby teams and in the boxing teams. mORE OR LESS ENJOYED MY TIME THERE. GOING OFF ON BICYLCE RIDES AS SENIORS. SMOKING THE OCCASIONAL CIGARETTE . i REECENTLY MET A LADY WHO HAS SWUM COMPETIVELY IN THE NEW KELLY POOL WHO LIVED IN TAVISTOVK. MET ON A MOUNTAIN TRACK OVER LUNCH!! FOURTY YEARS DIFFERENCEW IN AGE. COURTNEY HOUSE WITH REX THOMPSET WHO WAS GOOD TO ME AS MY PARENTS WERE ABROAD. NO DOUBT DECEASED A LONG TIME AGO. HUGH HALLIDAY.
Shared on 13 December 2007
I was the resident Army R.Q.M.S. at Plasterdown Camp from 1963 - 1966 with a civilian staff ran the camp administration durin Territorial occupation and after, also Tregantle Fort in Cornwall, I would like to know if anybody remembers me , I am 83yrs old now.
Shared on 31 October 2007
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Clearbrook, inspired by Frith photos.
Around Plymouth Photographic Memories
The building of Mount Edgecumbe House was started by Piers Edgecumbe in 1539 and remodelled in the 17th and 18th centuries. It was badly damaged by German incendiaries in March 1941 and subsequently restored, but the highest tower in this picture was never rebuilt.
Around Plymouth Photographic Memories
In the centre is the Edgecumbes’ Winter Villa, which later became the convent and nursing home Nazareth House. It was completely rebuilt after a fire. The grassy area to the left is Devil’s Point, a popular picnic and walking spot.
Around Plymouth Photographic Memories
The broad channel between Drake’s Island and Mount Edgecumbe, known as The Bridges, is only navigable via one narrow channel, which is why ships always appear to take ‘the long way round’, following Drake Passage to the east and north of the Island, as the three-master in this picture is probably doing.
