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Countess Wear, Devon
Countess Wear maps
Historic maps of Countess Wear and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Countess Wear maps
Historic map of Countess Wear
Illustrated Victorian map of Devon
Historic Map of any Countess Wear postcode
Countess Wear books
Displaying 3 of 19 books about Countess Wear and the local area. View all Countess Wear books
Devon County Memories
Paperback
$30
South Devon Coast Photographic Memories
Paperback
$28
North Devon Coast Photographic Memories
Paperback
$28
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Memories of Countess Wear
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My Great Great Grandfather was born William Honey Cann. Born: March 12, 1845 in Topsham, England son of John Cann and Jane (Hill) Cann. (William Married - Ann Pidgeon, from England also!). Looking for more information on Cemeteries in this area. John Cann was the son of Samuel Cann & Charity (Arscott) Cann. Looking for information on location of where they... [more]
Shared on 25 April 2007
There was always the ghost stories...
In 1973 having just left school that summer, I started my State Registered Nurse training with tutor Miss Wilmot at this Southernhay Hospital.
Being a 'young lady' from Bristol my new colleagues and I were expected to live in the Nurses Home with a larger than life home matron Miss Hermitage. The Nurses Home was behind the hospital between Wynards... [more]
Shared on 15 February 2009
Snow snow and more snow winter 1946
1946 was a very bad winter, we were snowed in for weeks.The promised Christmas pantomime visit to the Theatre Royal in Exeter never materialised. It always seemed to happen like that in those days. The winters were very hard and my parents told me that when they were young they could remember the River Exe frozen solid and market stalls set... [more]
Shared on 08 January 2010
I was born in Lower Shillingford (Shillingford Abbot) in 1939. My grandparents Francis and Jane Wakely lived in Rectory Cottage, Higher Shillingford (Shillingford St George). My grandfather was gardener at the rectory. He was also the sexton at the church, gravedigger, bellringer and caretaker at the church.
At Christmas time we would walk from Lower Shillingford to Higher Shillingford a distance... [more]
Shared on 25 November 2008
Love is ... Lympstone in 1960, a village girl called Vera, me, a young marine who did not want to be a marine, a real family called Stone, the smell of the Exe, a kiss under a tree during a summer thunder storm, glow worms in the lanes as I walked back from leaving her home, a last kiss goodbye, a... [more]
Shared on 01 December 2008
My family moved to Brampford Speke in 1972 when I was two and we moved away in the summer of 1977 to Bristol. We lived in the bungalow opposite the village pub. I went to the village school and spent most of the time down by the river. I learnt to swim in the river too. I remember the hot summers... [more]
Shared on 22 August 2008
My parents ran the New Inn (now The Nobody Inn) when my grandmother died, and we moved from Higher Ashton to take over the tenancy. The Pub was owned by the St Annes Well Brewery who operated from Exeter. Many memories flow from those days. School with Miss Mary Wippell Mallet who had the typical bun hairstyle, and lived with her... [more]
Shared on 05 September 2008
The history of Exmouth Harbour and marina has altered beyond recognition in the last few years. In 1998 I went there as a complete novice deck hand and worked for the summer on the 55-foot trawler GY165 'Pacemaker'. We fished out in the channel and often landed our catch on the harbour, to the interest of the town's visitors. I lived... [more]
Shared on 17 October 2009
Extracts From Countess Wear & Devon books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Countess Wear, inspired by Frith photos.
Devon A Century Ago Photographic Memoiries
The men here are almost certainly after salmon. The Exe was one of Devon's richest salmon rivers, although as early as the 19th century concern was being expressed about the level of the stocks - vast numbers were taken when they were on their way upstream to spawn. The bridge was built in 1774.
This is an extract from Devon A Century Ago Photographic Memoiries.
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This view was taken from the building at the very end of Morton Crescent. To the immediate left is the Imperial Hotel, seen in its original architectural design, changed now after the fire in the 1970s.
This is an extract from Exmouth Photographic Memories.
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By the middle of the 20th century we see something resembling the modern scene. There is the more familiar red telephone box on the traffic island, a modern post box, and Belisha beacons to aid pedestrians wishing to cross the road. In the centre of the photograph is the white tower of the Pavilion Theatre. Much of the street furniture was removed by the start of the 21st century, leaving a more traffic-dominated Esplanade.
This is an extract from Exmouth Photographic Memories.
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