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An outing for a picnic by the Grand Western Canal with my granddaughter
Our granddaughter Anna Norfolk stays with us each Tuesday and Friday starting with breakfast and we try to keep her entertained with things to do around our home town of Tiverton. One recent February day felt like the first day of Spring so we planned an outing while making her favourite breakfast of fishfingers and tomatoes and toast.
We planned a sunny walk with her pushchair near the river view shown in this picture but first she wanted to play football in our lounge! Then we prepared Grandma and Grandad’s picnic. We got the “55 bus” from Tesco Express to West Exe then took Anna for a run around Heathcoats Factory shop with Grandma to choose material to ...read more here
A memory of Tiverton contributed by John Howard Norfolk
Heathcoat Community Centre
The Westexe Park sadly no longer has the beautiful flowerbeds featured in this 1955 view. I walked through this park today leading a party from the Tiverton Walk and Talk Group from the Heathcoat Community Centre. Even the grass has been neglected and has lots of mud and duck poo!
Our walk took us up Longdrag Hill and Patches Road on a circular route of around three miles. I found it pretty tough as I was pushing my granddaughter Annalise Norfolk in her pushchair! I was glad to get back to the level ground of the park where I could let her out of her pushchair - she loves to stand on the grass and be surrounded by inquisitive ...read more here
A memory of Tiverton contributed by John Howard Norfolk
Flying our kite at Knightshayes Court
Yesterday our family went for a walk around the parkland surrounding Knightshayes - a grand Victorian estate owned by the National Trust between Tiverton and Bolham and only a mile from our home in Hawks Drive. Although it was a damp January day, the views from the top of the main drive over the countryside were lovely. The house itself looks just like this picture apparently taken in 1896 ! The trees are bigger of course ! At the top of the grassy slopes we felt a stiff breeze so we tried flying our kite and our granddaughter Anna who is not yet two held on to the string and was fascinated by it!
A memory of Tiverton contributed by John Howard Norfolk
The Norfolk family move to Tiverton
Tiverton is an attractive market town in mid-Devon but I have to confess I had never heard of it until the first of the family moved here in 2005! Elizabeth and I were spending a weekend in Exeter with our son David and his partner Amanda and thought it would be nice to call in to have tea with cousin Robert in Tiverton. While we were there David and Amanda went for a walk around Robert's house and saw a newly built little house for sale and they fell instantly in love with it. In a matter of weeks they had bought it, given up their jobs in Milton Keynes and moved to Devon to look for a new life, ...read more here
A memory of Tiverton contributed by John Howard Norfolk
Extracts From Chettiscombe & Devon books
We are a few yards downstream from the view pictured above, and the people on the bridge have been replaced
by a lady. There is a horse-drawn farm implement to the right of shot. Chettiscombe is a most ancient place, being
mentioned in Domesday.
An extract from from"Tiverton Photographic Memories".
These cottages were at the lower end of St Andrew Street. They remained until the middle of the 29th century when they made way for council housing.
An extract from from"Tiverton - A History and Celebration".
These cottages were at the lower end of St Andrew Street. They remained until the middle of the 20th century, when they made way for council housing.
An extract from from"Tiverton - A History and Celebration".
Next door to the church
is this delightful Tudor
mansion, built in the mid
1500s. Since then, there
has been much addition
to it, but the integrity of
the old building has not
been compromised. It is
privately owned and not
open to visitors.
An extract from from"Tiverton Photographic Memories".
This view of the riverside
was taken from Bickleigh
Bridge. The lowering
skies are clearly standard
English holiday weather;
the cameraman is having
to fight his eternal battle
against bad light.
An extract from from"Tiverton Photographic Memories".