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Kingsbridge, Tackett Wood Cottages 1896
Ref: 38428
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.
Shared on 16 March 2009
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...
Shared on 25 February 2008
Kingsbridge, Fore Street 1918
Ref: 68603
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 shelter. The Thurlestone bus was painted in GWR chocolate and cream, whilst the bus to Salcombe was a single decker, route 105. Fore Street to day would be impossible for two way traffic, mainly because people appear to insist on driving everywhere and parking as close as possible to where they want to go! Laziness? Probably!! I still visit Kingsbridge and love the town dearly. I will always have fond memories.
Shared on 18 November 2007
Kingsbridge, Fore Street and Grammar School 1895
Ref: 35626
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.
Shared on 31 July 2007
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