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Fairy Cross memories
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Simple Times
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 then replaced with slates. I remember the walls were made of cob and would crumble away if you kept running your toys or marbles into the same place!! The cottage had been a German doctor's house in the 1700s and his faded old plaque was still above the front door - Dr. Wacerill is buried at Alwington church yard - ...read more here
Contributed by Derek England
Devon memories
Sunday Walks
I was born in Axmouth and most Sundays we would have to walk out to Landslip Cottage. We all knew it as Anne's Cottage because the lady who lived there was called Annie Gapper. She would give my late Mum and Dad a cup of tea. I was one of nine in the family.
A memory of Rousdon contributed by N I Sweetland
Formerly Whitlands Cottages
The cottage used to be called Whitlands Cottages. In 1881 my great grandparents Mr & Mrs French lived at no 3, next door to Mrs Gapper.
A memory of Rousdon contributed by The Frith Memory Archivist
'Holiday House'.
I was born and lived the early years of my life in South Molton. My father had his own building firm there. In 1958 we moved to Croyde Bay my father having bought this large house on the cliffs above the bay for £1800. This photo shows it before it became a motel. He put a new roof on the property in tiles rather than the slates which were normally used at that time. He then converted the top floor into our new home and then still had the two floors below spare. He had seen films about the American motels and set about converting these floors into one bedroom units with combined living area to let to holidaymakers. He invented ...read more here
A memory of Croyde contributed by Steve Cundy
Extracts From Fairy Cross & Devon books
This view was taken from the building at the very end of Morton Crescent. To the immediate left is the Imperial Hotel,
seen in its original architectural design, changed now after the fire in the 1970s.
An extract from from"Exmouth Photographic Memories".
Motor vehicles have mostly
replaced horse-drawn
carriages by the first decade
after the Great War. Even
so, it is possible to linger in
the middle of the road - not
a pastime to be indulged
in on summer days in the
21st century. The bathing
machines have mostly
disappeared, to be replaced
by beach huts and changing
tents. By the time of the
1925 photograph, an early
telephone box has appeared
on the traffic island.
An extract from from"Exmouth Photographic Memories".
The channel into
Exmouths harbour remains
unchanged, but the rest of
this scene is now almost
unrecognisable. The docks
and cranes in the distance
have been swept away,
to be replaced by luxury
apartment blocks and new
shops. The bungalows to the
left were demolished quite
recently, and the site awaits
redevelopment as this book
was being written.
An extract from from"Exmouth Photographic Memories".
This delightful study of a cockle woman on the sands of the Exe estuary shows the importance of the shellfish industry to
the area. There are fewer such gatherers these days, and the estuary is better known for bird watching than cockling.
An extract from from"Exmouth Photographic Memories".
These residential bungalows lining the harbour have been mostly swept away by hostile tides and the developments of the
past century. The whole harbour and dockland area has been the subject of a major housing development over the past few
years, leaving photographs such as this one as the only evidence of what was there before.
An extract from from"Exmouth Photographic Memories".