Places
36 places found.
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- Torquay, Devon
- Salcombe, Devon
- Exeter, Devon
- Plymouth, Devon
- Ilfracombe, Devon
- Sidmouth, Devon
- Barnstaple, Devon
- Paignton, Devon
- Exmouth, Devon
- Dartmouth, Devon
- Teignmouth, Devon
- Tavistock, Devon
- Seaton, Devon
- Bideford, Devon
- Okehampton, Devon
- Dawlish, Devon
- Kingsbridge, Devon
- Totnes, Devon
- Newton Abbot, Devon
- Lynton, Devon
- Tiverton, Devon
- Budleigh Salterton, Devon
- Ashburton, Devon
- Axminster, Devon
- Honiton, Devon
- Ottery St Mary, Devon
- Ivybridge, Devon
- Crediton, Devon
- Great Torrington, Devon
- Buckfastleigh, Devon
- Northam, Devon
- South Molton, Devon
- Holsworthy, Devon
- Woolfardisworthy, Devon
- Millwey Rise, Devon
- Higher Dunstone, Devon
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Memories
314 memories found. Showing results 81 to 90.
The 697 Bus From Tiverton To Wellington Via Huntsham
I suppose one of the advantages of being "old" is having both the pensioner's free bus pass and the time to use it! So having retired to the middle of Devon with my wife Elizabeth in 2006 I ...Read more
A memory of Huntsham in 2008 by
Teignmouth Folk Festival 2008
A weekend long folk festival in June attracted crowds of spectators to the street entertainments around Teignmouth and also to the concert performances in the Carlton Theatre. Many of the entertainers were morris ...Read more
A memory of Teignmouth in 2008 by
The Real Family Of Axmouth Devon Uk
My Grandmother ELLEN REAL was born in Axmouth 1875. Her grandmother was a Lace Maker and one of a few lace makers who contributed to making Queen Victoria's Wedding Veil. My father (William Tom Sparkes) told me ...Read more
A memory of Axmouth in 1947 by
Sydney Wood
My father, Sydney Wood was born in Malborough in 1914. He moved away to get married in 1940 but always considered Malborough as home right up until his death in 1992. He always maintained that he was the young water carrier in this ...Read more
A memory of Malborough in 1920 by
Summer Holidays Spent With My Aunt In Weare Giffard
My happiest memories of childhood are the weeks spent with my aunt who lived in Weare Giffard. Coming from London I felt I had arrived in paradise. My aunt, lived in a bungalow called ...Read more
A memory of Weare Giffard in 1958
Staying At Mrs Robbins Guest House 1952
We, the Brown Family from Wembley Middlesex spent two wonderful holidays with Mrs Robbins on the front at Instow. Mrs Robbins had been our neighbour at Lonsdale Avenue Wembley before returning to her native Devon ...Read more
A memory of Instow by
Station Master Audley End
Not so much a memory as a request! My great-grandfather William Saward was Station Master at Audley End for 38 years, between 1857 and 1895. He lived in the Station House, where my grandfather Bertram was born and became a ...Read more
A memory of Audley End by
St Michael And All Angels Church Of England School
I would love to hear of anyone who went to Tatenhill school around the late 1940 into the 1950s. It was such a magical time with Miss Read our teacher who inspired us and fired our imagination. I ...Read more
A memory of Tatenhill in 1948
St Mary's School
It is believed that this was a training college for Church of England vicars and then it was subsequently used as an orphanage run by the Catholic Rescue Society and staffed by the Sisters of Chariry, a French order of nuns. During ...Read more
A memory of Gravesend in 1930 by
St Mary''s School Parrock Road Gravesend
St Mary's Boys returned from Ugbrook, Devon the estate of Lord Clifford to Gravesend when the war ended in 1945 and I was resident there until 1954. Although called a school it was in reality an orphanage. ...Read more
A memory of Gravesend in 1945 by
Captions
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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.
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.
Ashburton was the terminus of the nine-mile branch of the Buckfastleigh, Totnes and South Devon line, which was completed in 1872.
It was installed on a nearby hilltop in the year this picture was taken, before being transferred to Hartland in North Devon in 1955.
A place familiar to all train travellers through Devon, Dawlish nestles across the sides of a broad combe, with the railway line protecting the town from the sea.
The only other one in Devon is at Ashwater.
Before railways and metalled roads, there were only two main routes into Devon.
An expansive village, it sits on the River Devon, about a mile north of the Grantham Canal of 1797.
Nearing the coast, in a steep wooded combe 400 feet above the sea, Culbone's church is well-known to walkers along the Somerset and North Devon Coast Path , but is inaccessible by public road
As much as any other, this view illustrates the timelessness of North Devon.
These Cretaceous rocks mark the eastern end of the Devon and Dorset World Heritage Site that is popularly known as the Jurassic Coast.
Barclay's Bank, originally built for the East Cornwall Bank in 1885 with the town clock on its corner, placed there in 1922 and still running today; Lloyd's Bank (centre left), which took over the earlier Devon
With its steep, winding streets and pretty cottages, there is a definite hint of Devon or Cornwall about it.
This old woman is 'scratting' (scratching) the sands for the dark-coloured Devon cockles.
Golf was hardly played outside Scotland until the 1860s, when the first English club, the North Devon at Westward Ho!
By far the most important trade at Runcorn was china clay from Devon and Cornwall, bound for the Potteries.
The abbey was founded in 1132 by Baldwin de Redvers, afterwards Lord of the Island and Earl of Devon.
Here eleven generations of Kirkhams resided, and became involved with important offices in Devon.
It was 1,900 feet long and constructed from Devon limestone.
An expansive village, it sits on the River Devon, about a mile north of the Grantham Canal of 1797.
This old woman is 'scratting' (scratching) the sands for the dark-coloured Devon cockles.
Golf was hardly played outside Scotland until the 1860s, when the first English club, the North Devon at Westward Ho!
Burials were forbidden within the town, and a plague pit was opened at the southern end of Millgate near the bridge over the Devon.
This mansion on Lyme's western cliffs, a mile beyond Ware, was the far point on Jane Austen's walk from Dorset into Devon in 1804.
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