Two Bridges
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Barnstaple Town Walk Guide
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Exmoor Photographic Memories
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South Devon Living Memories
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Amanda Apperley and David Norfolk get married
All the sevens - the seventh of the seventh of the seventh. 7th July 2007 was the lucky sevens date chosen by Amanda and David for their wedding. Family and friends were invited to The Two Bridges Hotel on Dartmoor for the ceremony, reception and evening dance. It was a beautifully sunny day at long last as we have been having rain nearly every day for a fortnight! This view taken in 1955 is little different from the hotel in 2007. There are no longer deck chairs at the front, the cars are more modern and there are geese roaming free in the grounds to the delight of David and Amanda's daughter Annalise. We had a fabulously happy and successful day, ...read more here
Contributed by John Howard Norfolk
Devon memories
Amanda Apperley and David Norfolk get married
All the sevens - the seventh of the seventh of the seventh. 7th July 2007 was the lucky sevens date chosen by Amanda and David for their wedding. Family and friends were invited to The Two Bridges Hotel on Dartmoor for the ceremony, reception and evening dance. It was a beautifully sunny day at long last as we have been having rain nearly every day for a fortnight! This view taken in 1955 is little different from the hotel in 2007. There are no longer deck chairs at the front, the cars are more modern and there are geese roaming free in the grounds to the delight of David and Amanda's daughter Annalise. We had a fabulously happy and successful day, ...read more here
A memory of Two Bridges contributed by John Howard Norfolk
Bowdens Cafe
The second building down on the right was Bowdens Cafe (now Fox Tor Cafe).....My Grandparents, George and Clare Moss had the cafe from 1946 and my parents took over in 1958 Eric and Clare Cragg....My Grandparents then moved to Duchy House and started a B&B. I remember a great childhood growing up in Princetown, playing by the leet and riding the ponies. I now live in Australia and have been here since 1963. Thank you for the lovely memories and photos of Princetown
A memory of Princetown contributed by Linda Bartlett
Duchy Hotel
This is a photo of The Duchy Hotel. This later became Dartmoor Prisons' "Prison Officers Mess". It has now become The Dartmoor National Park Visitor Centre. My dad was an officer or "screw" at Dartmoor Prison for many years and we used to have our Sunday lunch here. The kitchen and waiting staff were all convicts!
A memory of Princetown contributed by Ian Sutton
Extracts From Two Bridges & Devon books
Crockern Tor, a mile to the north, is the site of the Devon Stannary Parliament which sat from 1305 to 1749. Two Bridges is
at the junction of all the ancient packhorse trails that cross the moor, and was thus the obvious meeting place for miners
from all points of the compass.
An extract from from"Down the Dart Photographic Memories".
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".