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The Nulty family at Kittitoe near Parracombe
I think I was 12 years old and living in Hatch End, Middlesex, when I first noticed a lovely girl of about my own age called Alison Nulty. She moved to Parracombe as her family wanted to start a chicken farm on a beautiful old house called Kittitoe. The Nulty family invited us to go and spend a few days with them at half-term soon after they settled in Devon.
I loved those few days there - we stayed up late playing pontoon in the barn by the light of an oil lamp and I was in love! Being 12 years old of course meant I didn't do anything about it although I did manage to get a photograph of her ...read more here
Contributed by John Howard Norfolk
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The Nulty family at Kittitoe near Parracombe
I think I was 12 years old and living in Hatch End, Middlesex, when I first noticed a lovely girl of about my own age called Alison Nulty. She moved to Parracombe as her family wanted to start a chicken farm on a beautiful old house called Kittitoe. The Nulty family invited us to go and spend a few days with them at half-term soon after they settled in Devon.
I loved those few days there - we stayed up late playing pontoon in the barn by the light of an oil lamp and I was in love! Being 12 years old of course meant I didn't do anything about it although I did manage to get a photograph of her ...read more here
A memory of Parracombe contributed by John Howard Norfolk
Woody Bay
I have a lot of information about Woody Bay from the 1880's to the 1980's. I lived there myself from 1968 to 1971 and had connections with the place after that.
Rather than ramble on for ages and ages, the simple answer is for me to give you my e-mail address (Mail@McIlhattons.com) and let anyone interested ask me questions direct.
Key words: Throckmorton, Bailey, Benjamin Greene-Lake, Smith, Lynton & Lynmouth Urban District Council, West, Marlowe, Woody Bay Hotel, Slattenslade, Elkie Brooks, Andrews, Kempf, Lynton & Barnstaple Railway, Law Society, Inkerman, Martinhoe, Parracombe, de Wichelhalse, folk stories, Valley of the Rocks, Lee Abbey, Hunters' Inn.
Alan Bruce.
A memory of Woody Bay contributed by First name Last name
Marilyn Pringle who lived at Woodlands in Sterridge Valley wrote this
We moved to Berrynarbor in 1964, and I left to go to university in 1970. My mum stayed in Sterridge Valley until about 1983 - I can't remember the exact dates.
I love this photo because you can clearly see Hagginton Hill. My friend and her family lived there. They had no mains drains and a lovely outside toilet. Outside toilet means no smells in the house! They had a hillside garden and I especially remember the gooseberries. I also remember the turkeys, and at this time of year (Christmas) the house smelt of singed turkey feathers.
I remember having a desire to swim every day in each summer holiday. We used to go to Watermouth and swim aross ...read more here
A memory of Berrynarbor contributed by Marilyn Clee
Extracts From Parracombe & Devon books
On the day Queen Victoria
died, the postmistress at
Lee`s old post office was
taking down a telegram
announcing the Queen`s
death when she was
struck by lightning in the
left eye and blinded.
An extract from from"Ilfracombe Photographic Memories".
Morte Point`s reputation as a sailors` graveyard was
never more deserved than on 26 October 1859 when
eight ships - the I`ll Try, the Matthew Thompson, the
Rose, the Thistle, the Hannah, the Clara, the Anne, and
the William Robertson, were lost. From one ship, all the
crew survived; from the other seven, all but four men
were lost.
An extract from from"Ilfracombe Photographic Memories".
It is thought that the first
ocean-going ships to visit
this harbour belonged to
the Phoenicians, who came
to trade for silver around
400BC.
An extract from from"Ilfracombe Photographic Memories".
The Velindra was just
one of the paddle
steamers that were
the lifeblood of
Ilfracombe`s tourist
industry in the latter
part of the 19th
century and the
first half of the 20th.
Before the building of
the pier, passengers
often had to be
ferried to and from
the steamers, which
anchored off Warp
House Point.
An extract from from"Ilfracombe Photographic Memories".
The slopes between Little Hangman and Sherrycombe, to the east, were often descended by
local women to gather laver (seaweed) from The Rawns. It was carried in 20lb bundles up
the steep cliffside and taken home to be cooked with vinegar and bacon. Laver is still served
in local cafes today.
An extract from from"Ilfracombe Photographic Memories".