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Sparnham House, 36 West Street
I was living in Sparnham House in 1960, but don't recall the umber mine you mention, though my father (Brian Baker) did say there had been one, once. Outside Sparnham there used to be a tap which was supplied by a ...Read more
A memory of Ashburton in 1960 by
Family Of Ewj Moloney, Lancing Solicitor D 1978
I was part of the St James the Less Players, the Parish church drama group, which started my career on the boards. The Downs,The Manor, The Park, The Clump, The Chalkpit..The Woods The Beach..were all ...Read more
A memory of Lancing by
Shirley Avenue
I lived as a child in Croydon. My memories were the shops, tea at Alders, a special treat of milk shake at Macdonalds (there was only one at that time and it tasted better!). There was a sweet shop at the bottom of Shirley Avenue where ...Read more
A memory of Croydon in 1980
The Fish Shop
When I was still going to school Ashburton High School I had a park time job at the Fish Shop at the Shirly Road shops I worked every day arfter school Monday to Friday, also all day Saturday, and I got paid 12 shillings for that, ...Read more
A memory of Addiscombe in 1958 by
The Bringing Of Buckland Lower Lodge Into The 20th Century.
I am Jeannette McNicol (nee Elliott). My brother John and I moved there with my parents ,when I was 13 years old and he was 12. I had found the house when we were having a picnic ...Read more
A memory of Buckland in the Moor by
War Time In Shirley
I was born in Croydon in 1936, and lived In West Way, Shirley. My mother could not bear to part with us, so we lived at home all through the war. A bomb was dropped into the garden next door. After six months it was discovered it had ...Read more
A memory of Shirley by
The Wills Family
Ambrose Wills, Inn Keeper and Farmer at the Ashberton Arms West Charleton, buried at the Church. His son George took on the pub and farm when the village was sold by the Marques of Northampton on the 22 of September 1919. ...Read more
A memory of West Charleton in 1900 by
Kennards
At the same time in Wimbledon, there was also another Kennards and like the poster said, he used to go to Kennards with his mum and nan and so did I (to the Kennards in Wimbledon). I was about 4 or 5 then, just after the war and when I first ...Read more
A memory of Croydon in 1957 by
Great Granny Worked Here?
I do not have a specific memory myself but I think my great-granny worked here. On the 1901 census she is listed as a kitchen domestic. At the time Lady Ashburton and her children Alexander and Lilian Baring and many other ...Read more
A memory of Buxted in 1900
Ash Burton Estate
Yes I remember going over from the junior school to pick up the lunch money from the golf club. I lived in Coleridge rd and I was 10 years old. Form junior school a also went to the secondary school that was in 1957 and was in Mr ...Read more
A memory of Addiscombe by
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Ashburton lies in the valley of the River Ashburn, which joins the Dart at Buckfastleigh.
Ashburton lies on the River Ashburn, and was declared a Stannary Town in 1285 by Edward I.
There are records of bull bait- ing in Ashburton as far back as 1174.
In grander and more prosperous days Ashburton was one of the region's strategic stannary towns.
Originally a religious foundation which was dissolved by Henry VIII in 1545, Ashburton Grammar School was refounded in 1593.
The River Ashburn rises high on Dartmoor and empties into the River Dart near Buckfastleigh, gurgling through Ashburton as it does so.
Brown Candover's spired church was built in 1845 by the first Lord Ashburton, replacing an earlier place of worship demolished the previous year.
In medieval times this area was known as Barton Cross.
The branch railway arrived in Ashburton in 1872, but did little to revive the town's fortunes.
Leaving Winchester Street and looking back at Morris's building behind the policeman, this was designed as Barton's Hotel by the architect for A B Scott's shop.
Some of the kerbstones which line Ashburton's narrow streets are made from fine pink marble, quarried locally.
In grander and more prosperous days Ashburton was one of the region's strategic stannary towns.
Off West Street, behind Sparnham House, was the site of one of Ashburton's two umber mines - the only ones in the country.
Travelling here in 1871 would not have been a venture to take lightly: it was nearly fifteen miles' distance on unmade roads from Ashburton.
Bull baiting is recorded in Ashburton as far back as 1174 and, you would imagine, posed a serious threat to life and limb in such a confined space.
Ashburton was the terminus of the nine-mile branch of the Buckfastleigh, Totnes and South Devon line, which was completed in 1872.
