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Barnstaple Town Walk Guide
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Torbay Photographic Memories
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Exmoor Photographic Memories
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Ogwell memories
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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
Springfield Terrace
This view shows my house. It is the one at this end of Springfield Terrace - you can see a number of the terrace chimneys peeping out over the top of the hill to the left. We overlook the River Torridge. You can see the old medieval bridge in the background. Our terrace was built around 1850 for the managers of the railway company (the old Torrington to Barnstaple railway ran just in front of our house until 1965. For the last few years the old track course has been converted to a new use - for cyclists, and renamed the Tarka Trail. Our houses have wonderful views from the middle and top floors over the river and the town of ...read more here
A memory of Bideford contributed by Terence Sackett
Extracts From Ogwell & Devon books
The Church of St Paul
has a 15th-century stone
pulpit and an Elizabethan
communion table. It was
restored in 1866-7 by
Sir George Gilbert Scott,
the populariser of High
Victorian Gothic who
also designed the Albert
Memorial and St Pancras
Station.
An extract from from"Devon Churches Photographic Memories".
The growing Victorian
population of East-
the-Water’s first place
of worship was a
prefabricated ‘iron
church’ built in 1881.
It was replaced by
St Peter’s, designed
by R T Hookway and
consecrated by the
Bishop of Exeter on 28
June 1890.
An extract from from"Devon Churches Photographic Memories".
According to an inscription on
one of the octagonal piers, the
north aisle was built in 1593,
although a church must have
existed here much earlier as
the font is 13th-century. The
chancel was rebuilt in 1865.
An extract from from"Devon Churches Photographic Memories".
The Lady Chapel
Window contains a rare
15th- century fragment
of glass known as the
‘Five Wounds Window’,
depicting the wounds of
Christ. The west window
was given by Queen
Victoria in memory of
her father the Duke
of Kent, who died in
Sidmouth in 1820. The
window was designed
in 1867 by Hughes
and depicts some of St
Nicholas` deeds.
An extract from from"Devon Churches Photographic Memories".
All Saints was built in
1837 on land donated
by Sir John Kennaway.
Construction cost
£3,000 of which
£1,500 was given by
Rev Joseph Bradney.
In 1869 Rev Baring
Baring Gould became
vicar; he was one of the
enormous tribe of Baring
Goulds, of whom the
most famous was Sabine
Baring Gould of Lew Trenchard.
An extract from from"Devon Churches Photographic Memories".