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Goveton maps
Historic maps of Goveton and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Goveton maps
Goveton photos
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Sherford| Kingsbridge| West Charleton| Woodleigh| Churchstow| Frogmore| Loddiswell| Chillington| Stokenham| Batson| South Pool| Slapton| Aveton Gifford| South Milton| Gara Bridge| Salcombe| Torcross| Collaton| Malborough| Bantham| East Portlemouth| Bigbury| Thurlestone| Strete| Beesands| Gara Rock| Bolberry| Blackpool| Hallsands| Hope Cove
Goveton area books
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Memories of Goveton
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Kingsbridge Grammar School
I attended KGS from 1952 - 1959.
The Old Grammar School seen in this picture had long been replaced by a much larger building in Westville, Kingsbridge.
For the first couple of terms, I remember walking in file from Westville, past the railway station, to this building where we sat on long benches and ate our school dinners.
It is a handsome building and now houses the William Cookworthy Museum.
Shopping in Fore Street, Kingsbridge
My memories relate to the 1950's when I spent school summer holidays with my grandmother, Lily Creber, and great aunt, Gladys Hill, at Windsor Road. There was an agricultural machinery repairer just around the corner, next to Church Street Post Office. Old machinery was stored in a yard at the bottom of Windsor Road, and being a pre-teen lad I used to explore the various items laying around! Grandmother owned the walled garden beyond the garages and I would walk through that garden to gain access to one of the alleyways that led up to the town. The one we used most was that which passed Lugger Brothers, Printers. We used to go to International Stores and buy sugar and prunes weighed out in blue paper bags! I also remember that Fore Street was two way traffic in those days! Western National buses on service 93 ground their way up the hill from after leaving the station yard with its black corrugated metal... Read more
Birthplace
My grandmother, Mary Honor Parsley, was born here in 'Ticket Wood in 1900, my mother Jacqueline Oldman too in 1925. Honor's mother was born Elizabeth Ford, sister to Philip the house owner I believe.
The big house is now gone and replaced with something much more contemporary!
Tackett Wood was/is the local Deb'n vernacular for the area.
Family Seat
Thanks for this photo. This was my family's home for a long time. Dan
Holiday Home
We had the use of a 3 bed detached home down here for 10 years, it was right at the top of the hill and we could see for miles in all directions. We would come down with suitcases and chill, our youngest was 1 and eldest 13, we had family members stay with us, met lovely christians on mudbury beach, and are still close friends with them. I would love watching the fields change, harvest, ploughed, hay bales, the trains, Canonteign Falls, and a £70 bill for a tyre, we had big tyres. Hope cove, ah, used to spend hours making dams and castles, loved Blackpool sands, the waves were great, what joy...
Kingsbridge 1950s 1960s
My memories of Kingsbridge are really from 1955 to 1966 during which period I attended the Junior School in Waterloo Road, the Secondary School in Foss Road and following the amalgation of the Grammar and Secondary Schools in 1964 the then Senior Department of the Comprehensive School in Kingsley Road and the many excellent teachers that gave me a solid grounding to achieve a very successful career in the Ministry of Defence. Kingsbridge then was a real market town in which Fore Street offered everything from toys at K&Ms, Spinks and Riches to numerous bakers,butchers, grocers and so many other shops that provided our needs. Transport was also available in the form of a Branch Line to South Brent and more important to me as a little boy by the Western National Omnibus Co Ltd because my dear late father Charles (Charlie) Hadfield was the Depot Manager from 1943 to 1966
Back to The Mid 1970's
1974-1975 I was a French assistant at Westlands School, Plainmoor in Torquay. I would often rent a cottage located in Woodleigh Road in Gara Bridge. This cottage belonged then to Mrs Wadstein who had a charming son named Charles. This family was extremely friendly and generous to me and I had a wonderful time at their place. I remember that a weekend cost 5 pounds! After living in Paris for 12 years and in Munich for 18 years, I am back in my home country the West of France, in a lovely town called Angoulême* famous for its Comic Strips Festival taking place each year in January. If anyone could give me news about the Wadstein family, I would be very pleased. Best regards from a friend of Britain Patrick Bouthinon * Isabelle of Angoulême was married to John Lackland and became queen of England.
