Teignmouth, Shaldon Bridge 1922
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Frith's Teignmouth Estuary and Harbour Mr Nathan selling fresh fish from a hand- cart and Mrs Belton serving winkles in paper cones from her tattered pram loaded with shellfish. And not forgetting the pasty man who marched about with a steaming tray of toothsome savouries, yelling `All `ot!` Some inhabitants teetered above subsist- ence level by dealing in contraband tobacco and liquor. The risk of being hung or shot failed to deter the smugglers, pursued by patrols of gun-carrying men until the for- mation of the Coastguard Service in 1822. Smuggling has never completely died out in this region. Safer livings were gained beyond river and sea when commercial growth pro- vided jobs in hotels, houses, shops, clubs and banks. Many women took in washing and squeezed their family into one room to vacate beds for paying guests in summer.
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