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Tavistock, Devon
Tavistock maps
Historic maps of Tavistock and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Tavistock maps
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Tavistock books
Displaying 3 of 15 books about Tavistock and the local area. View all Tavistock books
Devon County Memories
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South Devon Coast Photographic Memories
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Devon A Century Ago Photographic Memoiries
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Memories of Tavistock
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Five years at Kelly College with mediocre academic results and then off to Africa. layed in the Rugby teams and in the boxing teams. mORE OR LESS ENJOYED MY TIME THERE. GOING OFF ON BICYLCE RIDES AS SENIORS. SMOKING THE OCCASIONAL CIGARETTE . i REECENTLY MET A LADY WHO HAS SWUM COMPETIVELY IN THE NEW KELLY POOL WHO LIVED IN TAVISTOVK.... [more]
Shared on 13 December 2007
I was the resident Army R.Q.M.S. at Plasterdown Camp from 1963 - 1966 with a civilian staff ran the camp administration durin Territorial occupation and after, also Tregantle Fort in Cornwall, I would like to know if anybody remembers me , I am 83yrs old now.
Shared on 31 October 2007
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A section of this photograph was used by Peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate for one of the opening sequences in the programme Bagpuss. This was confirmed in 1978 when a Horrabridge resident wrote to the Bagpuss programme and received a reply from Mrs Joan Firmin giving an account of how the picture used came from an old postacrd album which now... [more]
Shared on 28 January 2007
When i was 11 I started school at Tavistock, and met a lovely girl called Helen Desmond who became my best friend. Helen's family (sister Sandra and brother Jonathan) lived at the Bullers Arms and I used to stay there every weekend and during the holidays, until she had to go to a boarding school in 1973. Friday's we used to... [more]
Shared on 09 September 2009
On 15 May 1982 my husband Graham and I got married in the church on the tor. We had about thirty guests who all had to climb up the tor, and only one lady did not manage it. There had not been a wedding in the church for some months before this. Afterwards we all went to the Dartmoor Inn for... [more]
Shared on 19 December 2008
I remember moving to Milton Combe from Plymouth. It was in the middle of no where - how was I ever to survive - the last bus left Plymouth at tea time and took a tedious hour or so travelling through Clearbrook, Yelverton, Crapstone and Buckland, finally arriving at Milton Combe. The walk down the very steep hill to home!
Shared on 22 July 2009
My grandparents lived at Clearbrook, and as a child I used to spend nearly all of my summer holidays with them. I used to love going for rides on the train to Tavistock and Princetown. My gran took me on a train to Princetown just before the line closed. Other times I used to wander for miles over the moors and... [more]
Shared on 09 August 2009
There doesn't seem to be many memories of the Trevethans - anyone help?
Shared on 22 April 2007
Extracts From Tavistock & Devon books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Tavistock, inspired by Frith photos.
Devon A Century Ago Photographic Memoiries
Tavistock's wealth was generated in early Victorian times by the nearby Devon Great Consols mine, which was dug on land owned by the 7th Duke of Bedford. He used some of the profits to build Tavistock's Guildhall between 1848 and 1864.
This is an extract from Devon A Century Ago Photographic Memoiries.
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Devon Memories Photographic Memories
The delicate spire on the left was the Methodist church and is now demolished. The local constable poses stiffly in the left foreground. He may well have been a busy man - Tavistock had a reputation as a somewhat rough mining community, and the centre on Saturday nights could get a little lively.
This is an extract from Devon Memories Photographic Memories.
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Tavistock is an ancient stannary town, renowned for its 10th-century Benedictine abbey. It was once the largest producer of tin in Europe. The delicate spire on the left was the Methodist church and is now demolished. The local constable poses stiffly in the left foreground. He may well have been a busy man—Tavistock had a reputation as a somewhat rough mining community, and the centre on... [more]
This is an extract from Devon Pocket Album.
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