Ansteys Cove
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Ansteys Cove books (26 available)
Barnstaple Town Walk Guide
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Torbay Photographic Memories
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Exmoor Photographic Memories
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Ansteys Cove memories
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An outing to Babbacombe Model Village
My wife Elizabeth and I went to Babbacombe on 1st April to give our granddaughter Anna a treat on her second birthday. We spent almost the whole day in Babbacombe Model Village which is close to the top of the cliff railway in this photo.
She loved to walk and run along the narrow paths between the model houses. She enjoyed gazing at the koi carp in the pond and kept going back to look at them. We took lots of photographs as we really enjoyed a happy day's outing.
There is a terrace at the top of the slope where we ate our picnic and looked down over the entire village. Its a beautiful place ...read more here
A memory of Babbacombe contributed by John Howard Norfolk
A KID'S HEAVEN AND HELL
A St Marychurch boy, I lived at Hampton Farm Cottage, St Marychurch... and I can still smell the tar and the salt from old fisher and other boats pulled up on Oddicombe beach... and I can still feel the beautiful shining pebbles.... Together with my friends Brian and Roy - just two of many wonderful pals - we would spend school holidays at the back of Hampton Farm, scrumping apples, making camp among the trees, eating wild strawberries and loganberries... and at various times of the year picking bluebells and mushrooms and trying to catch a rabbit (money for the skin)...collecting waste paper (pocket money again).. Oddicombe beach was my favourite... I could swim in rough water at the age of ...read more here
A memory of Oddicombe contributed by Frederick Watson
St Mary Chuch
I live in the USA, but my home was St Marychurch, a special place run by Catholic nuns during World War 2. I was barely two years old, and I was brought there with my five-year-old sister by my aunt, because my father was killed in action in a Lancaster bomber plane when returning back to England after a raid on Germany. My mother could not take care of us as she had a breakdown. We spent ten years at Marychurch with the refugees and even though I did not know the full consequence of war I can remember the siren and being lifted out of my bed by women in black and white hoods - the nuns. These Catholic nuns ...read more here
A memory of St Marychurch contributed by June Gatewood
Clog Morris Dancing at the Babbacombe Festival
A week long programme of events for the Babbacombe Festival included a display of clog morris dancing by the Heather and Gorse Clog Morris side from nearby Combeinteignhead, accompanied by a large band of four squeezeboxes and percussion.
The dancers performed in the evening at the Precinct close to the Dolphin pub. It didn't take long before a crowd gathered to watch including drinkers from the pub who brought their beers outside to sit on the benches and watch. There was an hour long display of dancing which the onlookers regularly applauded! Great fun, nice people and lovely weather for dancing - not too hot, just a gentle fresh breeze to keep both dancers and musicians cool on ...read more here
A memory of St Marychurch contributed by John Howard Norfolk
Extracts From Ansteys Cove & Devon books
Skirts and hair were shorter than ever before in the new decade! A two hour horse-drawn
carriage ride for four people cost two shillings (10p). A Spanish Oak planted as a cen-
trepiece when Victoria became Queen in 1837 was felled to make way for 1920s public
lavatories. Electric street lighting was in its infancy. The Belgian Urn on the Triangle was
presented by refugees in recognition of the town`s hospitality during the Great War.
An extract from from"Teignmouth Photographic Memories".
A more casual style
prevails in 1955. Now
the tower of St Michael`s
Church is more obvious,
following the destruc-
tion of
numbers 1 and 2
Esplanade (the Berkeley
and Esplanade Hotels) in
September 1942.
An extract from from"Teignmouth Photographic Memories".
Holidays at British resorts were thriving in the 1940s.
Large stacks of deck chairs punctuated the prom-
enade. Ice cream was delivered in aluminium boxes,
some can be seen beneath the serving hatch.
An extract from from"Teignmouth Photographic Memories".
Sweden. Small fish rejected by Icelanders
were brought to Teignmouth in Pike Ward`s
boat Elise. In 1900, 100 tons were brought in
for local consumption.
Over 20 ships were wrecked in the bay
between 1850 and 1917. A contemporary sign
near the Yacht Club HQ explains the legal
protection of Church Rocks Wreck, which was
discovered by local teenager Simon Burton
Frith’s Teignmouth The Promenade
during a snorkling expedition in 1975. A sig-
nificant bronze cannon lifted from the site led
to years of serious archaeological excavation,
revealing the scant remains of a 15th century
vessel embedded deep in the sand. Channel 4`s
`Time Team` have investigated the site, which is
restricted to designated divers. A host of fascinat-
ing relics recovered from the wreck can be seen
in Teignmouth Museum.
An extract from from"Teignmouth Photographic Memories".
By the 1960s, the glory days of the pier were coming to an end, with few of the talent
competitions, fashion parades, afternoon tea dances, charity balls and gala dinners of
late 1940s and 50s.
The following photographs taken from the pier benefit from close comparison.
An extract from from"Teignmouth Photographic Memories".