Caption For Woolsthorpe, The Village C1955
Woolsthorpe, but the village west of Grantham in rolling countryside right on the Leicestershire border; it has fine views of Belvoir Castle a mile away on its hill on the other side of the valley of the River Devon
Caption For Ottery St Mary, Broad Street 1938
To the left is the
confectionary shop of
H Bovett; then comes the
Volunteer Inn, and in the
distance the premises of the
East Devon Motor Company -
unchanged in use today, for it
is still
Caption For Exeter, In The Port 1896
Fishermen from all over Devon and Cornwall worked the cod stocks of the Grand Banks, and Topsham sent more ships across the Atlantic than any other port.
Caption For Calstock, Viaduct 1908
The construction workyard on the Devon bank has been cleared, but the wooden ketch 'Garlandstone' can be seen being built at James Goss's shipyard just behind the viaduct.
Caption For Beer, The Village 1892
Beer was the birthplace in 1788 of the smuggler Jack Rattenbury, who lived a life of adventure landing untaxed cargoes along much of the Devon coast.