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Parkham, Devon
Parkham maps
Historic maps of Parkham and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Parkham maps
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Illustrated Victorian map of Devon
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Parkham books
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Devon County Memories
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South Devon Coast Photographic Memories
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Devon A Century Ago Photographic Memoiries
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Memories of Parkham
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I was an evacuee to Parkham in 1943 and would love to hear from anyone who might have been there at that time. I had very happy memories of Parkham and attending the village school.
If anyone has memories of this period please contact me.
My email address is alecnav@hotmail.co.uk
Shared on 05 September 2009
Devon memories
As local village children we used to walk from Fairy Cross meeting other children from the council houses along the way and wind our way through the narrow lane, sometimes picking wild strawberries in summer - moving out of the way of cars that needed to pass us - usually on their way to church also - untill we arrived at... [more]
Shared on 11 June 2006
We lived in Headon's Cottage, Fairy Cross - it had been an old German doctor's cottage in the 1700s, a Doctor Wacerill who is buried in St. Andrew's churchyard, and his faded plaque was still above the front door - walls made of cob and thatched roof etc. We were just up the road from Portledge drive - my grandfather William... [more]
Shared on 11 June 2006
Well our address was quite easy ,
Fairy Cross,
Near Bideford,
North Devon.
Tel. Horns Cross 328 !!
Our mail always found us with no problems at all. There were not a lot of us there in those days. We lived in Headons Cottage, it used to have a thatch roof until it caught fire in the mid 1960s and was... [more]
Shared on 13 April 2008
I have such wonderful memories of going to Bucks Mills and staying in Kings Cottage with my grandparents and family. I used to go over to see Mamie Braund who lived in the old house on the opposite side of the road from the cottage, I loved to play with her old dog Dinah, a beautiful old Spaniel. Mamie used to... [more]
Shared on 02 April 2008
The earliest photo of me on Bucks Mills beach is in a pushchair from about 1951 -52! We were visiting for the day from my grandparents home in Bradworthy. In 1959 my grandparents, John and Gladys Dunn moved to Trundle Cottage (now Leat Cottage). For the next 9 years most of my Easter and summer holidays were spent there. I remember... [more]
Shared on 29 April 2008
My mum first came across Bucks Mills when we went for a bodyboarding holiday in Westward Ho! before the march of the mobile homes..! Next year we stayed in Driftwood in Bucks itself and did so for the next 7/8 years until my parents bought an old farmhouse in Broad Parkham. I have stayed in Bucks many times since with friends... [more]
Shared on 11 March 2008
I lived in the cottage at the right hand end of this picture, from 1987 to 1999, it made us sad when we had to leave.
Shared on 25 November 2006
Extracts From Parkham & Devon books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Parkham, inspired by Frith photos.
Devon Churches Photographic Memories
St James has a fine late-Norman south doorway and font. The rest of the church is 15th-century with early 16th- century aisles - the north one was built by the Risdons of Bableigh, and the south by the Giffards of Halsbury. The arcades are of Lundy granite; brought down from the top of Lundy island, the stone underwent a fifteen mile passage by sea... [more]
This is an extract from Devon Churches Photographic Memories.
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Barnstaple Photographic Memories
The Green is now built over. This picture shows the Union Workhouse. Subsequently, it would become the Alexandra Hospital, which remained in business until 1978 when the new North Devon General hospital was opened.
This is an extract from Barnstaple Photographic Memories.
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Barnstaple Photographic Memories
This picture faces the opposite direction to the previous one. The cabman's shelter seen in photographs 49616 & 64564 on pages 34 to 36 is still in place. On the left, The Golden Lion was a 17th century merchant's house. Today it is called The Bank inn. This district was known locally as The Hearts of Oak.
This is an extract from Barnstaple Photographic Memories.
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