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A summer of fun<br />
Endless enjoyment across Devon<br />
We’ve arrived at what’s the culmination of the our annual<br />
calendar, with all manner of events being staged across<br />
our lovely county. The range of events is staggering, <strong>and</strong><br />
it can be a challenge getting round them all, but we do our<br />
best here at <strong>Devonshire</strong> magazine to ensure you have the<br />
most extensive information in both this magazine <strong>and</strong> on<br />
our 10 regional HUBCAST websites covering Devon.<br />
This issue we’ve been up to the northern<br />
edge of Dartmoor, somewhere that’s quite<br />
easily forgotten, especially with usual seaside<br />
obsession at this time of the year. South<br />
Zeal, South Tawton <strong>and</strong> Sticklepath were<br />
the villages visited, in many ways you get<br />
the impression they’ve escaped the ravages<br />
of time, being very true to what Devonian’s<br />
must have known centuries ago, apart from<br />
a spot of tarmac. South Tawton’s Tudor<br />
Church House is an interesting building,<br />
actually a very beautiful example of a church<br />
house. Parishes weren’t<br />
traditionally required<br />
to have a church house.<br />
However, when in the late<br />
Mediaeval period, pews<br />
were installed into churches,<br />
the resulting lack of space<br />
inside necessitated the<br />
building of church houses<br />
to accommodate guild <strong>and</strong><br />
community activities.<br />
Churches used to brew church ales, the<br />
proceeds allocated for parish expenses <strong>and</strong><br />
the relief of the poor, but as you can imagine<br />
consuming ales in the church wasn’t ideal.<br />
It’s also interesting to note that when stone<br />
masons arrived to build a church, it was<br />
a long-term process <strong>and</strong> they’d usually<br />
set about building a dwelling to provide<br />
accommodation prior to starting work on<br />
the church. The Tuckers Arms at Dalwood,<br />
Axminster, is one such example, many of<br />
these dwellings are ancient, many of which<br />
subsequently became ale houses.<br />
South Tawton Church House<br />
(Note - we’ve planned to feature South Tawton’s<br />
Church House in a future issue of <strong>Devonshire</strong><br />
magazine).<br />
With regard to South Zeal, we feature a<br />
Staycation at the historic Oxenham Arms,<br />
somewhere quite unexpected today because<br />
many of our great inns have been historically<br />
cleansed by the many pub chains who’ve<br />
dished out the ‘gastro’ treatment in the<br />
interests of profit. It seems to me that the<br />
‘gastro’ term has unsavoury connotations,<br />
surely there’s a better way<br />
to indicate or imply that it’s<br />
a pub serving good food <strong>and</strong><br />
ale than ‘gastro pub’?<br />
Returning to the Oxenham<br />
Arms, it’s a historical gem<br />
of significant importance -<br />
read all about it further on<br />
in our Staycation feature,<br />
which is also accompanied<br />
by a walk straight from the<br />
Oxenham Arms to Sticklepath <strong>and</strong> along the<br />
cascading river Taw.<br />
Don’t miss our extensive summer events<br />
diary (from HUBCAST) <strong>and</strong> our feature on<br />
Canterbury to whet your appetite perhaps for<br />
a trip further afield, <strong>and</strong> finally, not forgetting<br />
articles from our regular <strong>Devonshire</strong><br />
contributors.<br />
Wishing you a great summer<br />
Nigel Jones (Editor)<br />
@<strong>Devonshire</strong>Mag
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With Devon Wildlife Trust.<br />
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Enjoy great food & live music.<br />
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The City Gate at Exeter.<br />
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Marco Pierre White's, Plymouth.<br />
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Cosy Club, Exeter.<br />
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Dartmoor's Napoleonic prisoners.<br />
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Great places to indulge yourself.<br />
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Major events from HUBCAST.<br />
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By noted historian Ted Gosling.<br />
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The Oxenham Arms, South Zeal.<br />
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With the Editor <strong>and</strong> Alfie.<br />
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Essential home reference.<br />
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By <strong>Devonshire</strong>ʼs John Fisher.<br />
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Expounding from John Fisher.<br />
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The Editor visits Canterbury.<br />
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Bathing on the wing!<br />
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"Idyllic countryside" by J. East.<br />
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My Bitless Journey - Natalie Bucklar.<br />
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A day in the life of a bird - K.Watson.<br />
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With IFA Helen Mulvaney.<br />
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Voyage to the South American Pole<br />
International world first adventurers<br />
The Turner Twins have announced<br />
their latest expedition to The South<br />
American Pole of Inaccessibility.<br />
The adventure will see them visit the<br />
area where world renowned British<br />
explorer Percy Fawcett was last seen,<br />
whose disappearance was one of the<br />
greatest explorations of the 20th<br />
century. Starting on the north-west<br />
coast of Chile, The Turner Twins<br />
will cycle over the Andes mountains<br />
ascending 18kms by bike, cross the<br />
famous Atacama desert, traverse<br />
volcanoes <strong>and</strong> salt flats, navigate<br />
rivers on packrafts <strong>and</strong> then cross<br />
the world’s largest swamp area,<br />
The Pantanal. Once they have<br />
marked The South American Pole<br />
of Inaccessibility in the Brazilian<br />
state Mato Grosso, The Turner Twins<br />
will head north to pick up where<br />
Percy Fawcett was last located.<br />
“Percy Fawcett is also a fellow<br />
<strong>Devonshire</strong> born explorer <strong>and</strong> we<br />
have followed his explorations with<br />
great interest. With so much intrigue<br />
surrounding his disappearance, we<br />
are excited to venture to the same<br />
region <strong>and</strong> experience where he<br />
may have visited” commented Ross<br />
Turner. Hugo <strong>and</strong> Ross turned to<br />
adventuring 10 years ago following<br />
a severe neck injury Hugo endured<br />
during a freak diving accident. Since<br />
the injury, the identical twins have<br />
dedicated their life to research <strong>and</strong><br />
fund raising for spinal charity Wings<br />
for Life, an organisation setup to<br />
raise awareness <strong>and</strong> funding for<br />
those with serious spine <strong>and</strong> neck<br />
injuries.<br />
To follow their journey visit:<br />
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Drawings to Paintings<br />
Drawing for Alan Cotton is a way of<br />
thinking ahead to his paintings. In<br />
l<strong>and</strong>scape he fills dozens of sketchbooks<br />
with drawings <strong>and</strong> watercolours <strong>and</strong><br />
back in his Devon Studio, he uses them<br />
as starting points for his oils. Alan<br />
works along the dramatic coastline of<br />
Hartl<strong>and</strong>, very often getting perilously<br />
close to the vertiginous cliff edge. At his<br />
recent Retrospective Exhibitions at the<br />
University of Bath <strong>and</strong> the RAMM in<br />
Exeter, he included a room of drawings,<br />
mounted <strong>and</strong> framed, to show the<br />
starting points for his work. None of<br />
these were for sale, but they roused<br />
such interest, with many people asking<br />
to buy them that Alan has decided to<br />
mount <strong>and</strong> frame a collection of these<br />
for exhibition <strong>and</strong> sale at Messum’s<br />
Fine Art in Cork Street London. Alan’s<br />
exhibition of works on paper as well as<br />
oils starts Wednesday 13th <strong>September</strong><br />
<strong>and</strong> runs until 7th October.<br />
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Art society celebrating 41 years<br />
Over 150 new, original works of art<br />
from East Devon artists are expected<br />
to go on show in Ottery St. Mary in<br />
<strong>August</strong> at the annual exhibition of<br />
the Otter Vale Art Society. This is<br />
the society’s 41st anniversary year<br />
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At the end of <strong>September</strong>, Plymouth<br />
Area Police Choir <strong>and</strong> Sir Joshua<br />
Reynolds Choir are combining to<br />
give an evening’s entertainment in<br />
support of charities nominated by the<br />
organising Rotaries of Roborough<br />
<strong>and</strong> Tavistock. Both choirs will<br />
be singing a range of popular <strong>and</strong><br />
classic songs at St. Eustachius Church,<br />
Tavistock on Friday 29th <strong>September</strong><br />
<strong>and</strong> the members, including the<br />
President, well known East Devon<br />
artist Phil Creek, are working hard<br />
to make this exhibition their best yet.<br />
The Exhibition, to be held at the<br />
Institute, Yonder Street, between<br />
commencing at 7.30pm.<br />
Both choirs will be supporting the<br />
Plymouth <strong>and</strong> District Leukaemia<br />
Fund <strong>and</strong> Literacy in a Box Trust.<br />
The performance at St. Eustachius<br />
will also be in support of its seven<br />
hundredth anniversary.<br />
www.roborough-rotary.org.uk<br />
Friday 4th <strong>and</strong> Saturday 12th<br />
<strong>August</strong>, will showcase the latest<br />
work from the Society’s membership<br />
of about 80 local professional,<br />
semi-professional <strong>and</strong> amateur<br />
artists, including still life, portraits<br />
<strong>and</strong> l<strong>and</strong>scape paintings as well<br />
as sketches, drawings <strong>and</strong> three<br />
dimensional works of art. This<br />
year the Society has chosen to<br />
support the charity Hopiscare <strong>and</strong><br />
proceeds from the raffle, which<br />
include generously donated original<br />
artwork from several local, well<br />
respected artists, will be presented<br />
to the charity along with a donation<br />
from the Society. Alison Witchell,<br />
Publicity Officer said: “With such<br />
a wealth of local talent this vibrant<br />
<strong>and</strong> exciting exhibition is not to<br />
be missed <strong>and</strong> gives everyone the<br />
opportunity to enjoy affordable,<br />
unique pieces of artwork.<br />
www.ottervaleartsociety.com<br />
Up for a challenge?<br />
The Royal British Legion is looking<br />
for teams to take part in the Exmoor<br />
30:30, an event organised by Soldier<br />
30:30. The challenge for the physically<br />
fit, involves carrying 30lbs of kit over<br />
either 30 miles or 30km of the inspiring<br />
<strong>and</strong> beautiful Exmoor, navigating<br />
across varied terrain. It begins early<br />
on Saturday 14 October <strong>2017</strong> <strong>and</strong><br />
teams need to register at race control<br />
by 10pm on Friday 13 October. Sharon<br />
Wells, Events Manager says: “Since<br />
2009, this annual endurance event has<br />
supported The Royal British Legion<br />
<strong>and</strong> has been thoroughly enjoyed by<br />
all teams who took part. There are<br />
limited places <strong>and</strong> we look forward<br />
to teams signing up soon. Monies<br />
raised are vital to continue providing<br />
the help <strong>and</strong> support that the charity<br />
continues to do by safeguarding<br />
the welfare, interests <strong>and</strong> memory<br />
of the Armed Forces community.”<br />
Enter here: www.britishlegion.org.uk<br />
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Ballan wrasse <strong>and</strong> rock cooks<br />
Male cuckoo wrasse taken on the Eddystone Reefs near Plymouth Sound<br />
Help save our <strong>Devonshire</strong> wrasse!<br />
Can you believe it, these beautiful, tropical-looking fish are being taken from our reefs in Devon, driven by lorry<br />
to Scotl<strong>and</strong> to work as parasite cleaning agents in the salmon farming industry, denuding local reef<br />
habitats for a very long time afterwards of a valuable part in the ecological chain<br />
This summer, a new threat to Devon’s<br />
marine environment emerged. Thous<strong>and</strong>s<br />
of local fish, from a family of fish<br />
known as wrasse - are being removed<br />
from waters just off the south Devon coast.<br />
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The fish are then transported alive to<br />
Scottish salmon farms where they are<br />
being used as a ‘natural’ control against<br />
parasites, such as sea lice. Scottish salmon<br />
farms have an increasing problem with<br />
sea lice in intensive farming operations.<br />
Sea lice are naturally occurring parasites<br />
which attach themselves to salmon <strong>and</strong> can<br />
reduce their health <strong>and</strong> growth. When fish<br />
are farmed in high densities the problem<br />
is magnified.<br />
Sea lice are controlled in conventional<br />
fish farms through the use of chemicals<br />
<strong>and</strong> other techniques such as washing<br />
with warm water. Every three or four<br />
years, the parasites become resistant to<br />
chemical treatments <strong>and</strong> new ones need<br />
to be found. Currently there are no new<br />
chemical treatments on the horizon so<br />
there is an increased emphasis on use of<br />
‘cleaner fish’. Wrasse have been targeted<br />
for use as ‘cleaner fish’ <strong>and</strong> have been<br />
caught in very high numbers from other<br />
parts of the UK <strong>and</strong> transported to fish<br />
farms to reduce lice infections.<br />
Devon’s tropical-looking wrasse are long<br />
lived fish that thrive on the rocky shores<br />
of Devon, Dorset <strong>and</strong> Cornwall. They are<br />
carnivorous <strong>and</strong> mostly feed on shellfish.<br />
They are very variable in size: Ballan<br />
wrasse can grow up to an amazing 4kg in<br />
weight but most species are much smaller.<br />
The cuckoo wrasse is one of our most<br />
colourful UK fish <strong>and</strong> wouldn’t be out of<br />
place in the Great Barrier Reef. Males have<br />
a bright blue head <strong>and</strong> tail <strong>and</strong> a mixture<br />
Male corkwing wrasse with nest - photo taken off South Devon coast<br />
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of orange <strong>and</strong> blue coloured body. Wrasse<br />
are highly territorial species <strong>and</strong> reproduce<br />
slowly which means populations are very<br />
slow to recover after over-fishing.<br />
This summer, wrasse are being trapped in<br />
Plymouth Sound <strong>and</strong> Wembury Bay. Most<br />
of these waters are part of a Marine Protected<br />
Area known as Plymouth Sound <strong>and</strong><br />
Estuaries Special Area of Conservation.<br />
The removal of live wrasse for Scottish<br />
fish farms is thought to be a relatively new<br />
practice. Until now wrasse have not been<br />
commercially fished in Devon, however,<br />
dem<strong>and</strong> from Scotl<strong>and</strong> for parasite control<br />
has meant that five species are now being<br />
targeted, including: Corkwing, Ballan,<br />
Goldsinney, Cuckoo, <strong>and</strong> Rock Cook wrasse.<br />
Thous<strong>and</strong>s<br />
of wrasse are<br />
being removed<br />
from waters<br />
just off the<br />
south Devon<br />
coast<br />
Male corkwing wrasse - photo taken off Babbacombe<br />
A WRASSE CAMPAIGN<br />
Devon Wildlife Trust (DWT) launched a campaign in June calling for<br />
a ban on the live capture of Wrasse from Devon’s Marine Protected<br />
Areas (MPAs) - places which have been recognised for the richness<br />
of their marine nature.<br />
The campaign gives Devon residents the<br />
chance to voice their opposition by signing<br />
an on-line petition which asks for action to<br />
be taken by the county’s MPs.<br />
Recent controls on Devon’s wrasse fishery<br />
have been implemented by the Inshore<br />
Fisheries <strong>and</strong> Conservation Authority<br />
(IFCA), but DWT believes that these do<br />
not go far enough. It points to a similar<br />
wrasse fishery which took place in 2015<br />
in Dorset which saw 57,000 of the fish<br />
taken during just one 18-week period.<br />
Now the fear is that a similar operation is<br />
underway in Devon.<br />
Devon Wildlife Trust is concerned about<br />
the impact this will have on local wrasse<br />
populations <strong>and</strong> the wider marine environment.<br />
The charity’s Director of Conservation<br />
<strong>and</strong> Development, Peter Burgess said:<br />
“We’re calling for an immediate stop to this<br />
fishery. Wrasse are long-lived <strong>and</strong> highly territorial<br />
fish, so the removal of large numbers<br />
along the Devon coast will severely disrupt<br />
their populations – it could take decades for<br />
them to recover.”<br />
“Nobody yet knows what impacts wholesale<br />
removal of wrasse will have on our fragile<br />
marine reef ecosystems <strong>and</strong> the natural<br />
balance could be thrown into chaos. This<br />
could be devastating for not only the wrasse<br />
but habitats <strong>and</strong> species which depend on<br />
them for their survival.”<br />
DWT believes the recent moves by the<br />
Devon IFCA to partially control the fishery<br />
are an acknowledgement of the problem<br />
but don’t go far enough.<br />
Peter Burgess added:<br />
“It’s vital that we exercise the precautionary<br />
principle <strong>and</strong> halt the capture <strong>and</strong> removal<br />
of Wrasse from our most precious marine<br />
environments before long term damage<br />
is done.”<br />
“Devon wrasse populations are being<br />
threatened to solve the problems caused by<br />
commercial salmon fish farms hundreds of<br />
miles away in Scotl<strong>and</strong>. There is very little<br />
underst<strong>and</strong>ing of its longer term impacts<br />
on the health of this fascinating native<br />
species <strong>and</strong> the fragile reef environments<br />
the wrasse help to sustain. This is why<br />
we’re asking the people of Devon to help<br />
us stop the removal of thous<strong>and</strong>s of wrasse<br />
from the county’s Marine Protected Areas<br />
by signing our on-line petition.”<br />
How you can easily help<br />
1<br />
Sign our online petition NOW:<br />
http://wtru.st/DWTwrasse<br />
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SAM MASSEY at NOURISH FESTIVAL<br />
ANNA LAPWOOD - MUSIC IN THE CASTLE<br />
SIDMOUTH FOLK WEEK<br />
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KNIGHTS & DRAGONS<br />
Until 04 Aug - Join an<br />
original magical,medieval<br />
tale of knights,<br />
dragons,witches <strong>and</strong> wizards,<br />
Powderham Castle, Kenton,<br />
Exeter.<br />
OCCOMBE SUMMER<br />
ACTIVITY PACK<br />
Until 01 Sep - Come <strong>and</strong><br />
explore Occombe Farm<br />
with your very own activity<br />
pack! Torbay Coast <strong>and</strong><br />
Countryside Trust, Occombe<br />
Farm, Paignton, 10.00am to<br />
3.00pm.<br />
SUMMER AT THE DONKEY<br />
SANCTUARY<br />
Until 03 Sep - Don't miss<br />
our donkey adventure<br />
this summer, The Donkey<br />
Sanctuary Sidmouth, Slade<br />
House Farm, Sidmouth,<br />
9.00am to 5.00pm.<br />
SUMMER HOLIDAY<br />
FAMILY FUN!<br />
Until 03 Sep - Tons<br />
of summer family fun<br />
throughout the summer<br />
holidays with daily activities,<br />
World of Country Life,<br />
Exmouth, 10.00am to 5.00pm.<br />
RAINBOW ACTIVITY TRAIL<br />
Until 08 Sep - A trail<br />
suitable for pre-school<br />
aged children, East Devon<br />
Countryside Team, Seaton<br />
Wetl<strong>and</strong>s, Seaton, 10.00am<br />
to 4.00pm.<br />
BEAUTIFUL BUGS<br />
RUBBINGS TRAIL<br />
Until 08 Sep - Collect<br />
rubbings <strong>and</strong> find out<br />
interesting facts about the<br />
world of bugs, East Devon<br />
Countryside Team, Seaton<br />
Wetl<strong>and</strong>s, Seaton, 10.00am<br />
to 4.00pm.<br />
KID'S HOLIDAY CLUB DAY<br />
- COCKINGTON<br />
01 Aug - Journey themed<br />
activities including<br />
orienteering <strong>and</strong><br />
letterboxing, Torbay Coast<br />
<strong>and</strong> Countryside Trust,<br />
Cockington Visitor Centre,<br />
Torquay, 8.30am to 5.30pm.<br />
CHILDREN'S SEA FEST<br />
02 Aug - Young Visitors<br />
Activity Day, Sidmouth<br />
Museum, Sidmouth Museum,<br />
Sidmouth, 10.30am to<br />
3.30pm.<br />
MINI BEAST HUNTING<br />
02 Aug - Which bugs live in<br />
Cranbrook's green spaces?<br />
East Devon Countryside<br />
Team, St<strong>and</strong>ing dead trees at<br />
Post Coach Way, Cranbrook,<br />
2.00pm to 4.00pm.<br />
Jim Causley, Sidmouth Folk Week<br />
5th <strong>August</strong><br />
STOVER COUNTRY PARK<br />
02 Aug - Kiddies Activity -<br />
Pond Dipping & Mini beast<br />
Hunt, Stover Country Park,<br />
Newton Abbot, 2.00pm to<br />
4.00pm.<br />
BILLIONAIRE BOY -<br />
OUTDOOR THEATRE<br />
03 Aug - A br<strong>and</strong> new<br />
adaptation of David Walliams'<br />
extraordinary <strong>and</strong> touching<br />
comedy tale, RHS Garden<br />
Rosemoor, Great Torrington,<br />
5.00pm to 7.30pm.<br />
BUG HUNT AT SEATON<br />
WETLANDS<br />
03 Aug - Hunt for the<br />
bugs which call the<br />
wetl<strong>and</strong>s home, East Devon<br />
Countryside Team, Seaton<br />
Wetl<strong>and</strong>s, Seaton, 1.00pm<br />
to 3.00pm.<br />
KIDS HOLIDAY CLUB -<br />
OCCOMBE<br />
03 Aug - Farming <strong>and</strong><br />
gardening! Roll up your<br />
sleeves <strong>and</strong> come on down to<br />
the farm! Torbay Coast <strong>and</strong><br />
Countryside Trust, Occombe<br />
Farm, Paignton, 8.30am to<br />
5.30pm.<br />
A MARVELLOUS DAY ON<br />
THE MAER<br />
04 Aug - Come along to the<br />
Maer Local Nature Reserve<br />
<strong>and</strong> get creative! East Devon<br />
Countryside Team, The Maer,<br />
Exmouth, 10.00am to 2.00pm.<br />
Clock <strong>and</strong><br />
Watch Repair<br />
Expert <strong>and</strong> professional<br />
repairs to all types of<br />
clocks <strong>and</strong> watches.<br />
A wide range of watches<br />
<strong>and</strong> clocks also available<br />
for sale.<br />
D. J. Offord<br />
01626 364766<br />
FAMILY EXPLORERS<br />
CLUB<br />
05 Aug - Identify Birds, Bees<br />
<strong>and</strong> Butterflies at Occombe<br />
Farm with our ranger, Torbay<br />
Coast <strong>and</strong> Countryside Trust,<br />
Occombe Farm, Paignton,<br />
10.00am to 12.00am.<br />
FAERIE FOLK<br />
06 Aug to 11 Aug - There<br />
are rarely seen faerie folk<br />
living in the castle grounds,<br />
Powderham Castle, Kenton,<br />
Exeter.<br />
TOT'S GO WILD SUMMER<br />
CLUB<br />
07 Aug - Play- Wild play<br />
for wild tots at Occombe<br />
farm! Torbay Coast <strong>and</strong><br />
Countryside Trust, Occombe<br />
Farm, Paignton, 9.30am to<br />
11.00am.<br />
5 Union Street Newton Abbot<br />
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What's On: Aug & Sept 17<br />
THE BIG DRAW<br />
04 to 11 Aug - Be an Artist for an<br />
hour or two <strong>and</strong> have your work<br />
exhibited in the Gallery. 10am-4pm.<br />
FOLK WEEK AT KENNAWAY HOUSE<br />
04 to 11 Aug - Traders Galore, Cafe<br />
during the day <strong>and</strong> Music with Bar<br />
whenever possible. 10am-10pm.<br />
Tel. (01395)<br />
515551<br />
Sidmouth<br />
PETE ALLEN SOLO SHOW<br />
08 & 09 Aug - PETE ALLEN’s solo<br />
show - JAZZ - Folk Style! £8 on the<br />
door. 7pm-10pm.<br />
PETE ALLEN’S REEDS ‘N’<br />
RHYTHM<br />
27 Aug - Featuring the Pete Allen<br />
Jazz B<strong>and</strong> with Licenced Bar & Light<br />
snacks. 3pm-5.30pm.<br />
CALL 01395 515551 FOR MORE INFORMATION AND EVENTS<br />
www.kennawayhouse.org.uk<br />
Don’t miss…<br />
THE FUN KITCHEN<br />
Thursday 17 <strong>August</strong><br />
H<strong>and</strong>s-on Baking Workshops<br />
for Budding Mini Chefs<br />
The fun way for kids to learn to bake.<br />
Expert tuition. All equipment <strong>and</strong><br />
ingredients included - no extra charge.<br />
Places limited - register on the day.<br />
Further details on our website.<br />
PLUS, Fun with Spangles the Clown<br />
Performing on stage at 2.30pm.<br />
at Beer<br />
HAPPY<br />
DAYS<br />
PLUS • Authentic Steam Trains • Indoor & Outdoor Play Areas • Restaurant<br />
Beautiful Gardens • Model Railways & Shop • Crazy Golf • <strong>and</strong> much more!<br />
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WIND IN THE WILLOWS<br />
08 Aug - A truly wonderful<br />
outdoor theatre adaptation<br />
of Kenneth Grahams Wind<br />
In the Will, RHS Garden<br />
Rosemoor, Great Torrington,<br />
5.00pm to 7.25pm.<br />
CRAFTY CREATURES<br />
08 Aug - Make some crafts<br />
about the creatures who call<br />
A la Ronde home. A la Ronde,<br />
Summer Lane, Exmouth,<br />
11.00am to 4.00pm.<br />
KID'S HOLIDAY CLUB DAY<br />
- COCKINGTON<br />
08 Aug - Think you know<br />
Cockington? Think again!<br />
Explore mini beasts, trees<br />
<strong>and</strong> streams, Torbay Coast<br />
<strong>and</strong> Countryside Trust,<br />
Cockington Visitor Centre,<br />
Torquay, 8.30am to 5.30pm.<br />
FAMILY DROP IN<br />
ACTIVITY DAY<br />
08 Aug - Activities will<br />
include a combination<br />
of nature trails, art,<br />
games, practical activities,<br />
South West Lakes Trust,<br />
Love Summer Festival<br />
11th to 13th <strong>August</strong><br />
Launceston, 10.00am to<br />
3.00pm.<br />
STOVER COUNTRY PARK<br />
08 Aug - Kiddies Activity -<br />
'We're going on a bear hunt',<br />
Stover Country Park, Newton<br />
Abbot, 10.00am to 12.00am.<br />
ROCK POOL RAMBLE IN<br />
EXMOUTH<br />
09 Aug - Explore the<br />
mysterious world of<br />
Exmouth's rock pools, East<br />
Devon Countryside Team,<br />
Exmouth beach, Exmouth,<br />
1.00pm to 3.00pm.<br />
ROCK POOL RAMBLE IN<br />
SIDMOUTH<br />
11 Aug - Explore the<br />
mysterious world of<br />
Sidmouth's rock pools, East<br />
Devon Countryside Team,<br />
Jacobs Ladder, Sidmouth,<br />
2.00pm to 4.00pm.<br />
HIGH SCHOOL ROCKS<br />
11 Aug - This is probably the<br />
only theatre show aimed at<br />
the early teens! Babbacombe<br />
Theatre, Babbacombe Downs,<br />
Torquay, 11.00am to 1.00pm.<br />
FAMILY EXPLORERS<br />
CLUB<br />
12 Aug - Discover Berry<br />
Head National Nature<br />
Reserve <strong>and</strong> it's past <strong>and</strong><br />
present secrets! Torbay<br />
Coast <strong>and</strong> Countryside Trust,<br />
Berry Head National Nature<br />
Reserve, Brixham, 10.00am<br />
to 12.00am.<br />
ROBIN HOOD<br />
13 Aug to 18 Aug - Themed<br />
sessions take place twice<br />
a day, Powderham Castle,<br />
Kenton, Exeter.<br />
CONTINUED OVERLEAF...<br />
LOCAL FEE RATE AVAILABLE<br />
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For more information call 01395 513984 or visit www.stjohnsdevon.co.uk<br />
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NORTH DEVON EXPLORER Bank Hol Mon 28th Aug, £22<br />
WIDECOMBE FAIR Tues 12th Sep, £15<br />
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TOT'S GO WILD SUMMER<br />
CLUB<br />
14 Aug - Music- Come <strong>and</strong><br />
explore the rhythms of<br />
life in a morning of music<br />
for tots! Torbay Coast <strong>and</strong><br />
Countryside Trust, Occombe<br />
Farm, Paignton, 9.30am to<br />
11.00am.<br />
KID'S HOLIDAY CLUB DAY<br />
- COCKINGTON<br />
15 Aug - Could you survive<br />
in the wild? Put your survival<br />
skills to the test! Torbay<br />
Coast <strong>and</strong> Countryside Trust,<br />
Cockington Visitor Centre,<br />
Torquay, 8.30am to 5.30pm.<br />
STOVER COUNTRY PARK<br />
16 Aug - Family Bushcraft -<br />
Fire lighting <strong>and</strong> Campfire<br />
Cooking, Stover Country Park,<br />
Newton Abbot, 10.30am to<br />
2.00pm.<br />
AVDCS FAMILY EXPLORER<br />
DAY AT BRUCKLAND<br />
LAKES<br />
18 Aug - An afternoon of<br />
outdoor fun! East Devon<br />
Countryside Team, Bruckl<strong>and</strong><br />
Farm Reserve, Axminster,<br />
2.00pm to 4.00pm.<br />
THE PRINCESS AND THE<br />
PIG - OPEN AIR THEATRE<br />
18 Aug to 19 Aug - Following<br />
on from last years hugely<br />
successful production of The,<br />
Burrow Farm Gardens, Old<br />
Taunton Road, Axminster,<br />
11.00am to 12.05am (also<br />
at 3pm).<br />
FAMILY EXPLORERS<br />
CLUB<br />
19 Aug - Smallholding<br />
101 - Ever wanted to be a<br />
farmer? Come <strong>and</strong> learn the<br />
basics! Torbay Coast <strong>and</strong><br />
Countryside Trust, Occombe<br />
Farm, Paignton, 10.00am to<br />
12.00am.<br />
PIRATES & MERMAIDS<br />
20 Aug to 26 Aug - Join<br />
Captain Jack & his crew to<br />
see if they have managed<br />
to capture a mermaid,<br />
Powderham Castle, Kenton,<br />
Exeter.<br />
TOT'S GO WILD SUMMER<br />
CLUB<br />
21 Aug - Create - A morning<br />
of creation at Occombe<br />
Farm! Torbay Coast <strong>and</strong><br />
Countryside Trust, Occombe<br />
Farm, Paignton, 9.30am to<br />
11.00am.<br />
KID'S HOLIDAY CLUB DAY<br />
- COCKINGTON<br />
22 Aug - Come <strong>and</strong><br />
enjoy some Journey<br />
themed challenges at<br />
Cockington! Torbay Coast<br />
<strong>and</strong> Countryside Trust,<br />
Cockington Visitor Centre,<br />
Torquay, 8.30am to 5.30pm.<br />
COASTAL CRAFTS<br />
22 Aug - Make some seaside<br />
inspired crafts to take home,<br />
A la Ronde, Summer Lane,<br />
Exmouth, 11.00am to 4.00pm.<br />
THE SMARTEST GIANT<br />
IN TOWN - OPEN AIR<br />
THEATRE<br />
23 Aug - Open Air production<br />
of this children's favourite<br />
written by Julia Donaldson,<br />
Burrow Farm Gardens, Old<br />
Taunton Road, Axminster,<br />
11.00am to 12.05am.<br />
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FAMILY DROP IN DAY<br />
24 Aug - Activities will<br />
include a combination<br />
of nature trails, art,<br />
games, practical activities,<br />
South West Lakes Trust,<br />
Launceston, 10.00am to<br />
3.00pm.<br />
KID'S HOLIDAY CLUB DAY<br />
- COCKINGTON<br />
29 Aug - Explore<br />
Cockington's woodl<strong>and</strong><br />
mini beasts, tree trail <strong>and</strong><br />
stream wildlife! Torbay<br />
Coast <strong>and</strong> Countryside Trust,<br />
Cockington Visitor Centre,<br />
Torquay, 8.30am to 5.30pm.<br />
International Agatha Christie Festival, Torquay<br />
13th to 17th <strong>September</strong><br />
ROCK POOL RAMBLE AT<br />
LADRAM BAY<br />
24 Aug - Explore the<br />
mysterious world of Ladram<br />
Bay's rock pools, East Devon<br />
Countryside Team, Ladram<br />
Bay, Otterton, 1.30pm to<br />
3.30pm.<br />
STOVER COUNTRY PARK<br />
24 Aug - Kiddies Activity -<br />
Pond Dipping & Mini beast<br />
Hunt, Stover Country Park,<br />
Newton Abbot, 2.00pm to<br />
4.00pm.<br />
FAMILY EXPLORERS<br />
CLUB<br />
26 Aug - Life on the<br />
Seashore - Join us at<br />
Goodrington S<strong>and</strong>s! Torbay<br />
Coast <strong>and</strong> Countryside<br />
Trust, The Seashore Centre,<br />
Paignton, 10.00am to<br />
12.00am.<br />
BUG HUNT AT HONITON<br />
BOTTOM<br />
28 Aug - Find out what lives<br />
in the meadows <strong>and</strong> stream.<br />
East Devon Countryside<br />
Team, Honiton Bottom,<br />
Honiton, 1.00pm to 3.00pm.<br />
Joey the Lips<br />
at AbbFest 22nd to<br />
24th <strong>September</strong><br />
TOT'S GO WILD SUMMER<br />
CLUB<br />
28 Aug - Build- Straw, sticks<br />
or brick. What will your<br />
little tot build their house<br />
from? Torbay Coast <strong>and</strong><br />
Countryside Trust, Occombe<br />
Farm, Paignton, 9.30am to<br />
11.00am.<br />
SUMMER CRAFTS<br />
29 Aug - Make a selection<br />
of fun crafts to take home,<br />
A la Ronde, Summer Lane,<br />
Exmouth, 11.00am to 4.00pm.<br />
STOVER COUNTRY PARK<br />
30 Aug - Kiddies Activity -<br />
Earth Walk, Stover Country<br />
Park, Stover Country Park,<br />
Newton Abbot, 1.00pm to<br />
3.00pm.<br />
DINOSAUR FOSSIL DAY<br />
30 Aug - Young Visitors<br />
Geological Activity<br />
Day, Sidmouth Museum,<br />
Sidmouth, 9.30am to 3.30pm.<br />
KIDS HOLIDAY CLUB -<br />
OCCOMBE<br />
31 Aug - Unleash your<br />
creative side with a day of<br />
wild arts <strong>and</strong> crafts <strong>and</strong><br />
music! Torbay Coast <strong>and</strong><br />
Countryside Trust, Occombe<br />
Farm, Paignton, 8.30am to<br />
5.30pm.<br />
Classical<br />
Music<br />
LAST NIGHT OF THE<br />
PROMS (BROADCAST)<br />
09 Sep - The Gateway, Fore<br />
Street, Seaton, 7.15pm to<br />
10.00pm.<br />
KRISTIAN LINDBERG<br />
(PIANO)<br />
15 Sep - Classical Piano<br />
Recital; music by Bach,<br />
Mozart, Rachmaninov <strong>and</strong><br />
Chopin, NADSA Concerts,<br />
Courtenay Centre, Newton<br />
Abbot, 7.30pm to 9.45pm.<br />
THE GALAEZZI ENSEMBLE<br />
17 Sep - The ensemble<br />
perform pieces by Mozart,<br />
Eler <strong>and</strong> Krommer, Jeanie<br />
Moore MVO, The Duke of<br />
Cornwall Hotel, Plymouth,<br />
3.00pm to 4.00pm.<br />
MUSIC IN THE CASTLE -<br />
ORGAN & RECORDER<br />
29 Sep - Music for Organ<br />
& Recorder with Anna<br />
Lapwood - Organ & Fatima<br />
Lahham-Recorder, Music in<br />
the Castle, The James Wyatt<br />
Music Room, Exeter, 7.30pm<br />
to 9.30pm.<br />
CONTINUED OVERLEAF...
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REVOLUTIONARY HERO<br />
29 Sep - Victor Aviat,<br />
Conductor; Alex<strong>and</strong>er<br />
Janiczek, Violin,<br />
Bournemouth Symphony<br />
Orchestra, Great Hall, Exeter,<br />
7.30pm to 9.30pm.<br />
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PLYMOUTH RECORD &<br />
CD FAIR<br />
05 Aug - Knowledgeable<br />
local vendors selling quality<br />
vinyl, CD's <strong>and</strong> music<br />
memorabilia, Exeter Record<br />
& CD Fair, Lower Guildhall,<br />
Plymouth, 10.00am to<br />
3.00pm.<br />
ANTIQUES VALUATION<br />
DAY - SIDMOUTH<br />
10 Aug - A no fee/obligation<br />
verbal appraisal of your<br />
Antiques & Collectables,<br />
Bearnes Hampton <strong>and</strong><br />
Littlewood, Kennaway House,<br />
Sidmouth, 2.00pm to 4.00pm.<br />
ANTIQUES VALUATION<br />
DAY - HONITON<br />
10 Aug - A no fee/obligation<br />
verbal appraisal of your<br />
Antiques & Collectables,<br />
Bearnes Hampton <strong>and</strong><br />
Littlewood, Thelma Hulbert<br />
Gallery, Honiton, 10.00am to<br />
12.00am.<br />
ANTIQUES & JEWELLERY<br />
VALUATION DAY -<br />
TORQUAY<br />
11 Aug - A no fee/obligation<br />
verbal appraisal of your<br />
Antiques,Collectables &<br />
Jewellery, Bearnes Hampton<br />
<strong>and</strong> Littlewood, Livermead<br />
House Hotel, Torquay,<br />
10.30am to 12.30am.<br />
ANTIQUES VALUATION<br />
DAY - SIDMOUTH<br />
17 Aug - A no fee/obligation<br />
verbal appraisal of your<br />
Antiques & Collectables,<br />
Bearnes Hampton <strong>and</strong><br />
Littlewood, Kennaway House,<br />
Sidmouth, 2.00pm to 4.00pm.<br />
ANTIQUES VALUATION<br />
DAY - HONITON<br />
17 Aug - A no fee/obligation<br />
verbal appraisal of your<br />
Antiques & Collectables,<br />
Bearnes Hampton <strong>and</strong><br />
Littlewood, Thelma Hulbert<br />
Gallery, Honiton, 10.00am to<br />
12.00am.<br />
ANTIQUES VALUATION<br />
DAY - KINGSBRIDGE<br />
05 Sep - A no fee/obligation<br />
verbal appraisal of your<br />
Antiques, Collectables,<br />
Jewellery, Bearnes Hampton<br />
<strong>and</strong> Littlewood, Harbour<br />
House, Kingsbridge, 10.00am<br />
to 1.00pm.<br />
ANTIQUES VALUATION<br />
DAY - SOUTH MOLTON<br />
07 Sep - A no fee or<br />
obligation verbal appraisal of<br />
your Antiques & Collectables,<br />
Bearnes Hampton <strong>and</strong><br />
Littlewood, Geoffrey Clapp<br />
Associates, South Molton,<br />
10.00am to 1.00pm.<br />
EXETER RECORD & CD<br />
FAIR<br />
09 Sep - Knowledgeable<br />
local vendors selling quality<br />
vinyl, CD's <strong>and</strong> music<br />
memorabilia, Exeter Record<br />
& CD Fair, Corn Exchange,<br />
Exeter, 9.30am to 3.30pm.<br />
ANTIQUES VALUATION<br />
DAY - TAVISTOCK<br />
21 Sep - A no fee/obligation<br />
verbal appraisal of your<br />
Antiques, Collectables,<br />
Jewellery, Bearnes Hampton<br />
<strong>and</strong> Littlewood, The Bedford<br />
Hotel, Tavistock, 10.00am<br />
to 1.00pm.<br />
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ROY 'CHUBBY' BROWN<br />
11 Aug - Tickets are £20.50<br />
<strong>and</strong> £22.50, Exmouth Pavilion,<br />
The Esplanade, Exmouth,<br />
7.15pm.<br />
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23 Sep - The Gateway, Fore<br />
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10.30pm.<br />
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MARKET<br />
Until 26 Sep - Elizabethan<br />
costumed Charity <strong>and</strong> Craft<br />
market, Totnes Elizabethan<br />
Market, Civic Square, Totnes,<br />
9.00am to 3.00pm.<br />
COFFEE AND CRAFTS BY<br />
THE QUAY<br />
12 Aug - Our popular craft<br />
fair <strong>and</strong> coffee morning<br />
returns, Headway Devon, The<br />
XCentre, Exeter, 11.00am to<br />
4.00pm.<br />
Roy 'Chubby' Brown at Exmouth Pavilion<br />
11th <strong>August</strong><br />
SIDMOUTH PRODUCE &<br />
CRAFT MARKET<br />
Until 06 Oct - Every Friday.<br />
Local Crafts <strong>and</strong> Produce,<br />
Kennaway House, Coburg<br />
Road, Sidmouth, 9.00am to<br />
4.00pm.<br />
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SHEEP'S FLEECE<br />
19 Aug - Our experts are on<br />
h<strong>and</strong> for you to try spinning,<br />
knitting <strong>and</strong> felting, A<br />
la Ronde, Summer Lane,<br />
Exmouth, 11.00am to 4.00pm.<br />
SEPTEMBER CRAFT FAIR<br />
08 Sep to 10 Sep - The West<br />
Country is a popular base for<br />
many craftsmen <strong>and</strong> women<br />
given the range , RHS Garden<br />
Rosemoor, Great Torrington,<br />
10.00am to 4.00pm.<br />
ARTISAN CRAFT MARKET<br />
23 Sep - Browse the local,<br />
h<strong>and</strong>made delights on the<br />
stalls <strong>and</strong> find a special treat,<br />
A la Ronde, Summer Lane,<br />
Exmouth, 10.25am to 4.00pm.<br />
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05 Aug - Bags of fun, don't<br />
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Yarcombe, Church Lane,<br />
Yarcombe, 5.00pm to<br />
11.50pm.<br />
DOGGY DAY OUT IN THE<br />
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12 Aug to 13 Aug - Over 30<br />
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pet related products <strong>and</strong><br />
services, Miss Ivy Events,<br />
Mount Edgcumbe, Saltash,<br />
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20 Aug - A fun community<br />
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Miss Ivy Events, Bedford<br />
Square, Tavistock, 10.30am<br />
to 4.00pm.<br />
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11th & 12th <strong>August</strong><br />
ARTISAN & FOOD MARKET<br />
27 Aug - An exclusive<br />
selection of food <strong>and</strong> artisan<br />
exhibitors, Miss Ivy Events,<br />
Mount Edgcumbe, Saltash,<br />
10.30am to 4.00pm.<br />
ALL THINGS VINTAGE &<br />
LOVELY SUMMER FETE<br />
28 Aug - Miss Ivy's much<br />
loved All Things Vintage<br />
& Lovely Summer Garden<br />
Fete, Miss Ivy Events, Kitley<br />
House, Yealmpton, 10.30am<br />
to 4.00pm.<br />
SIDMOUTH WI FAYRE<br />
02 Sep - Great variety<br />
of stalls, crafts<br />
& demonstrations,<br />
Refreshments, Free<br />
Admission, Sidmouth WI, All<br />
Saints Church Hall, Sidmouth,<br />
10.00am to 12.15am.<br />
VINTAGE MARKET<br />
02 Sep to 03 Sep - An<br />
exclusive selection of<br />
exhibitors selling vintage<br />
<strong>and</strong> retro products, Miss Ivy<br />
Events, Mount Edgcumbe,<br />
Saltash, 10.30am to 4.00pm.<br />
DARTMOOR FAMILY DAY<br />
10 Sep - Fun family day<br />
on Dartmoor, Miss Ivy<br />
Events, Two Bridges Hotel,<br />
Princetown, 10.30am to<br />
4.30pm.<br />
GREAT BRITISH COUNTRY<br />
APPLE WEEKEND SHOW<br />
23 Sep to 24 Sep - Over<br />
50 food, gift & artisan<br />
exhibitors, Miss Ivy Events,<br />
Cotehele, Saltash, 10.00am<br />
to 4.30pm.<br />
Festivals<br />
FOOD & DRINK<br />
COFFEE FESTIVAL<br />
04 Aug to 06 Aug - South<br />
West Coffee Festival,<br />
Powderham Castle, Kenton,<br />
Exeter.<br />
SUMMER PICNIC<br />
11 Aug - Help us celebrate<br />
Enid Blyton's birthday<br />
with this great picnic in<br />
the Garden, RHS Garden<br />
Rosemoor, Great Torrington,<br />
2.00pm to 4.00pm.<br />
SIDMOUTH FOOD<br />
FESTIVAL<br />
19 Aug - Local food <strong>and</strong><br />
drink producers, many<br />
quality stalls, indoor <strong>and</strong><br />
outside, Sidmouth Farmers<br />
Market, Kennaway House,<br />
Sidmouth, 10.00am to<br />
4.00pm.<br />
REAL ALE, ENGLISH WINE<br />
AND CIDER WEEKEND<br />
29 Sep to 01 Oct -<br />
Rosemoor's fourth Real Ale<br />
<strong>and</strong> Cider Weekend will<br />
feature a range of interesting,<br />
unusual <strong>and</strong> imminently real<br />
ales <strong>and</strong> ciders. RHS Garden<br />
Rosemoor, Great Torrington,<br />
12.00am to 5.00pm.<br />
GENERAL<br />
LIFEBOAT WEEKEND IN<br />
AID OF THE R.N.L.I.<br />
05 Aug to 06 Aug - Held in<br />
aid of the RNLI, this popular<br />
event is a celebration of the<br />
Clovelly lifeboat, Clovelly,<br />
Estate Office, Clovelly,<br />
10.00am to 5.00pm.<br />
SIDROCKS DAY<br />
09 Aug - A Geology Walk<br />
with a difference. Learn<br />
songs, walk <strong>and</strong> sing<br />
along, Sidmouth Museum,<br />
Sidmouth, 10.00am to<br />
4.00pm.<br />
Rosemoor's<br />
<strong>September</strong> Food Fair<br />
17th <strong>September</strong><br />
RED ROCKS DAY<br />
16 Aug - Special fossils,<br />
rock <strong>and</strong> mineral displays,<br />
Sidmouth Museum,<br />
Sidmouth, 10.35am to<br />
3.30pm.<br />
LUPTON HOLISTIC<br />
FESTIVAL EVENING SHOW<br />
19 Aug - "Journey to the<br />
Unknown" - an unmissable<br />
evening! Lupton House,<br />
Brixham, 6.45pm to 9.15pm.<br />
LUPTON HOUSE HOLISTIC<br />
FESTIVAL <strong>2017</strong><br />
19 Aug to 20 Aug - A<br />
beautiful family festival<br />
including music, workshops,<br />
kids activities & more,<br />
Lupton House, Brixham,<br />
10.00am to 5.00pm.<br />
RED ARROWS AT<br />
SIDMOUTH SEAFRONT<br />
25 Aug - A fantastic display<br />
including a Battle of Britain<br />
Memorial Flight,The Red<br />
Arrows - RAF, The Esplanade,<br />
Sidmouth.<br />
POWDERHAM COUNTRY<br />
SHOW<br />
27 Aug to 28 Aug - Country<br />
Show, Powderham Castle,<br />
Kenton, Exeter.<br />
LOBSTER AND<br />
CRAB FEAST, 10TH<br />
ANNIVERSARY!<br />
03 Sep - Clovelly celebrates<br />
its famous lobsters <strong>and</strong><br />
crabs sustainably caught<br />
by its fisherman, Clovelly,<br />
Estate Office, Clovelly,<br />
10.00am to 5.00pm.<br />
HISTORY OF POLTIMORE<br />
HOUSE TALK AND TOUR<br />
23 Sep - Learn the<br />
interesting history of this<br />
fascinating historic house,<br />
Poltimore House <strong>and</strong><br />
Grounds, Poltimore, 2.00pm<br />
to 4.30pm.<br />
WALKING FESTIVAL<br />
23 Sep to 29 Sep - Discover<br />
glorious East Devon - daily<br />
guided <strong>and</strong> special interest<br />
walks, Kennaway House,<br />
Coburg Road, Sidmouth,<br />
10.00am to 5.00pm.<br />
DEVON AIR AMBULANCE<br />
DRAGON BOAT FESTIVAL<br />
24 Sep - Our Dragon Boat<br />
Festival is an excellent team<br />
building event, Devon Air<br />
Ambulance Trust, Exeter<br />
Quay, Exeter, 10.00am to<br />
4.00pm.<br />
MUSIC<br />
FOLK WEEK AT<br />
KENNAWAY HOUSE<br />
04 Aug to 11 Aug - Traders<br />
Galore, Cafe during the day<br />
<strong>and</strong> Music with Bar whenever<br />
possible! Kennaway House,<br />
Coburg Road, Sidmouth,<br />
10.00am to 10.00pm.<br />
THE BIG DRAW<br />
04 Aug to 11 Aug - Be an<br />
Artist for an hour or two <strong>and</strong><br />
have your work exhibited in<br />
the Gallery, Kennaway House,<br />
Coburg Road, Sidmouth,<br />
10.00am to 4.00pm.<br />
EXETER SOUL<br />
WEEKENDER<br />
05 Aug to 06 Aug - An<br />
unmissable weekend of<br />
Northern Soul & Motown,<br />
Crazy 4 Soul, Exeter, 2.00pm<br />
to 1.00am.<br />
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BLACKDOWN HILLS BEER<br />
& MUSIC FESTIVAL<br />
11 Aug to 12 Aug -<br />
Celebrating 21 years of our<br />
fab local festival, Blackdown<br />
Hills Beer <strong>and</strong> Music Festival,<br />
Cherry Hayes Farm, Honiton.<br />
MIRANDA SYKES<br />
CONCERT<br />
16 Sep - Acclaimed singer<br />
<strong>and</strong> bassist in concert,<br />
Poltimore House <strong>and</strong><br />
Grounds, Poltimore, 6.30pm<br />
to 10.00pm.<br />
Garden<br />
ENID BLYTON'S THE<br />
FAMOUS FIVE<br />
Until 31 Aug - The Famous<br />
Five go on a Garden<br />
Adventure, RHS Garden<br />
Rosemoor, Great Torrington,<br />
10.00am to 6.00pm.<br />
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SHOW<br />
19 Aug - Something for<br />
everyone. Entry £2.50<br />
Children under 16 Free,<br />
Sid Valley Horticultural<br />
Society, Sidford Sports Field,<br />
Sidmouth, 2.00pm to 5.00pm.<br />
PLANT HERITAGE LATE<br />
SUMMER FAIR<br />
23 Sep to 24 Sep - This<br />
popular Plant Fair has grown<br />
in size <strong>and</strong> interest since it<br />
was first held at Rosemoor<br />
a decade ago. RHS Garden<br />
Rosemoor, Great Torrington,<br />
10.00am to 3.00pm.<br />
FARMERS MARKET<br />
09 Sep - The Farmers<br />
Market is run by volunteers<br />
from Vision Group Sidmouth,<br />
Kennaway House, Coburg<br />
Road, Sidmouth, 9.00am to<br />
1.00pm.<br />
Heritage<br />
FAIRLYNCH MUSEUM<br />
<strong>2017</strong> EXHIBITIONS<br />
Until 30 Aug - Acclaimed<br />
museum illustrating local<br />
area’s history. Open Easter-<br />
Oct, not Mons, Fairlynch<br />
Museum & Arts Centre,<br />
27 Fore Street, Budleigh<br />
Salterton, 2.00pm to 4.30pm.<br />
AXMINSTER HERITAGE<br />
CENTRE - FREE ENTRY<br />
Until 10 Sep - Come<br />
<strong>and</strong> discover Axminster<br />
its stories through time,<br />
displays of its industry,<br />
Axminster Heritage, Thomas<br />
Totnes Rare Breeds<br />
outst<strong>and</strong>ing in our field<br />
Funny Girl, the musical at Theatre Royal, Plymouth<br />
1st to 5th <strong>August</strong><br />
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Garden OPEN FOR CHARITY<br />
Adults £3.50 Child £1 Car<br />
Park No Dogs, Yonder Hill<br />
Garden, Colaton Raleigh,<br />
1.30pm to 4.30pm.<br />
LOCAL PRODUCE SHOW<br />
13 Aug - Staged in<br />
conjunction with Great<br />
Torrington Horticultural<br />
Society. Enter your<br />
homegrown produce. RHS<br />
Garden Rosemoor, Great<br />
Torrington, 10.00am to<br />
6.00pm.<br />
RHS GARDEN ROSEMOOR<br />
FLOWER SHOW<br />
18 Aug to 20 Aug - Rosemoor<br />
will host its first ever Flower<br />
Show in <strong>2017</strong>. RHS Garden<br />
Rosemoor, Great Torrington,<br />
10.00am to 6.00pm.<br />
Markets<br />
SEATON ARTISAN MARKET<br />
05 Aug - Beautiful arts &<br />
crafts, upcycled & unique<br />
products from artisans,<br />
Seaton Artisan Market,<br />
Thury Harcourt Place,<br />
Seaton, 10.00am to 2.00pm.<br />
FARMERS MARKET<br />
19 Aug - The Farmers Market<br />
is run by volunteers from<br />
Vision Group Sidmouth,<br />
Kennaway House, Coburg<br />
Road, Sidmouth, 9.00am to<br />
1.00pm.<br />
SEATON ARTISAN MARKET<br />
02 Sep - Beautiful arts &<br />
crafts, upcycled & unique<br />
products from artisans,<br />
Seaton Artisan Market,<br />
Thury Harcourt Place,<br />
Seaton, 10.00am to 2.00pm.<br />
Whitty House, Axminster,<br />
10.00am to 4.00pm.<br />
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ANIMALS<br />
01 Aug to 31 Aug - In <strong>August</strong><br />
we are telling the stories of<br />
our furry friends, A la Ronde,<br />
Summer Lane, Exmouth,<br />
11.00am to 4.00pm.<br />
F W MEYER: LANDSCAPE<br />
GARDNER TO ROBERT<br />
VEITCH<br />
03 Aug - Evening Lecture by<br />
Carolyn Keep, Devon Gardens<br />
Trust, Devon Rural Archive,<br />
Shilstone, Modbury, 6.45pm<br />
to 8.30pm.<br />
MEMORIAL AND WREATH<br />
LAYING<br />
06 Aug - Dunkeswell Airfield<br />
Memorial Service, South<br />
West Airfields Heritage Trust,<br />
Propellor Memorial, Honiton,<br />
12.00am to 12.20am.<br />
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15 Aug - Tour of Shilstone<br />
House <strong>and</strong> Gardens by Abi<br />
Gray followed by cream tea<br />
at DRA, Devon Rural Archive,<br />
Shilstone, Modbury, 2.00pm<br />
to 4.00pm.<br />
SIDMOUTH MODEL<br />
RAILWAY EXHIBITION<br />
22 Aug to 24 Aug - Sidmouth<br />
Station Model Railway, Photo<br />
Exhibition <strong>and</strong> Railway<br />
Memorabilia, Sidmouth<br />
Museum, Kennaway House,<br />
Sidmouth, 10.00am to<br />
4.00pm.<br />
Woofstock<br />
5th <strong>August</strong><br />
HIDDEN HOUSE<br />
SEPTEMBER: CREATIVE<br />
CRAFTS<br />
01 Sep to 30 Sep - Discover<br />
the crafts of Jane <strong>and</strong> Mary<br />
<strong>and</strong> the items they created.<br />
A la Ronde, Summer Lane,<br />
Exmouth, 11.00am to 4.00pm.<br />
BEAUTIFUL BOUQUETS<br />
01 Sep to 29 Oct - Local<br />
artists have created unique<br />
flower bouquets using<br />
different material. A la Ronde,<br />
Summer Lane, Exmouth,<br />
11.00am to 4.00pm.<br />
THE LIME KILNS OF<br />
SOUTH DEVON<br />
07 Sep - Evening Lecture by<br />
John Risdon, local historian,<br />
Devon Rural Archive,<br />
Shilstone, Modbury, 6.45pm<br />
to 8.30pm.<br />
HERITAGE OPEN DAY<br />
09 Sep - Enjoy free entry to<br />
A la Ronde house, grounds<br />
<strong>and</strong> tea room. A la Ronde,<br />
Summer Lane, Exmouth,<br />
10.30am to 5.30pm.<br />
SID VALE ASSOCIATION<br />
LOCAL HISTORY MEETING<br />
11 Sep - Promoting research<br />
into the history of the Sid<br />
Valley, Sid Vale Association,<br />
SVA HQ, Sidmouth, 7.00pm<br />
to 9.00pm.<br />
TIME FOR TEA AND SOME<br />
TALES OF AXMINSTER<br />
12 Sep - Jim Rowe, Lord<br />
of the Manor of Axminster<br />
tells some more 'Tales<br />
of Axminster', Axminster<br />
Heritage, Thomas Whitty<br />
House, Axminster, 2.00pm<br />
to 3.30pm.<br />
GUIDED TOUR OF<br />
SHILSTONE<br />
19 Sep - Tour of Shilstone<br />
House <strong>and</strong> Gardens by Abi<br />
Gray followed by cream tea<br />
at DRA, Devon Rural Archive,<br />
Shilstone, Modbury, 2.00pm<br />
to 4.00pm.<br />
Opera<br />
CARMEN ON THE<br />
LAKE (OPERA CINEMA<br />
SCREENING)<br />
14 Sep - Carmen on the Lake<br />
(Opera cinema screening)<br />
from Lake Constance Austria,<br />
The Gateway, Fore Street,<br />
Seaton, 7.00pm to 10.00pm.<br />
Rally<br />
& Motor<br />
PECO LOCO WEEK &<br />
BANK HOLIDAY RAILWAY<br />
GALA<br />
21 Aug to 28 Aug - Weeklong<br />
series of railway events<br />
with guest locos on the<br />
railway, Pecorama, Underleys,<br />
Beer, 10.00am to 5.00pm.<br />
VINTAGE CLASSIC<br />
VEHICLE RALLY<br />
17 Sep - Over 100 vintage<br />
& classic vehicles plus<br />
all the usual fun & daily<br />
activities! World of Country<br />
Life, Exmouth, 10.00am to<br />
5.00pm.<br />
Theatre<br />
MUSICALS<br />
LEGENDS OF THE WEST<br />
END<br />
Until 28 Sep - Two hours<br />
of back to back musicals,<br />
Babbacombe Theatre,<br />
Babbacombe Downs, Torquay,<br />
8.15pm to 10.30pm.<br />
PLAYS<br />
MAGIC OF THE STARS<br />
Until 05 Sep - The all new<br />
family show opens its<br />
doors for the <strong>2017</strong> season,<br />
Babbacombe Theatre,<br />
Babbacombe Downs, Torquay,<br />
8.15pm to 10.30pm.<br />
WUTHERING HEIGHTS BY<br />
EMILY BRONTE<br />
Until 02 Aug - Part of the<br />
longest running rep season<br />
in the UK, Manor Pavilion<br />
Theatre & Arts Centre, Manor<br />
Road, Sidmouth, 8.00pm to<br />
10.00pm.<br />
THE BIRDS BY CONOR<br />
MCPHERSON<br />
03 Aug to 04 Aug - Part<br />
of the longest running<br />
rep season in the UK,<br />
Manor Pavilion Theatre<br />
& Arts Centre, Manor<br />
Road, Sidmouth, 8.00pm to<br />
10.00pm.<br />
TWELFTH NIGHT<br />
05 Aug - Open Air Theatre,<br />
Folksy Theatre, Connaught<br />
Gardens, Sidmouth, 2.00pm<br />
to 4.30pm & 7.00pm to<br />
9.30pm.<br />
ANGELS IN AMERICA<br />
(NATIONAL THEATRE)<br />
PART 2<br />
11 Aug - The Gateway, Fore<br />
Street, Seaton, 7.00pm to<br />
11.20pm.<br />
THE BIRDS BY CONOR<br />
MCPHERSON<br />
12 Aug to 16 Aug - Part<br />
of the longest running<br />
rep season in the UK,<br />
Manor Pavilion Theatre<br />
& Arts Centre, Manor<br />
Road, Sidmouth, 8.00pm to<br />
10.00pm.<br />
THE MERRY WIVES OF<br />
WINDSOR<br />
16 Aug - Powderham Castle,<br />
Kenton, Exeter.<br />
TITUS ANDRONICUS (RSC<br />
STREAMING)<br />
17 Aug - The Gateway, Fore<br />
Street, Seaton, 7.00pm to<br />
10.30pm.<br />
RELATIVE VALUES BY<br />
NOEL COWARD.<br />
17 Aug to 23 Aug - Part<br />
of the longest running<br />
rep season in the UK,<br />
Manor Pavilion Theatre<br />
& Arts Centre, Manor<br />
Road, Sidmouth, 8.00pm to<br />
10.00pm.<br />
THE MIKADO<br />
24 Aug - By Gilbert <strong>and</strong><br />
Sullivan, performed by<br />
Illyria, RHS Garden Rosemoor,<br />
Great Torrington, 6.00pm to<br />
9.00pm.<br />
L<strong>and</strong>ram Bay Rockpool Ramble<br />
24th <strong>August</strong><br />
BIRTHDAY SUITE BY<br />
ROBIN HAWDON<br />
24 Aug to 30 Aug - Part<br />
of the longest running<br />
rep season in the UK,<br />
Manor Pavilion Theatre<br />
& Arts Centre, Manor<br />
Road, Sidmouth, 8.00pm to<br />
10.00pm.<br />
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What's On: Aug & Sept 17<br />
Visit Dartmouth Museum<br />
OUTDOOR THEATRE<br />
PETER PAN<br />
28 Aug - Join us for an<br />
afternoon performance of<br />
Peter Pan, Moorl<strong>and</strong> Garden<br />
Hotel, Yelverton, 2.30pm.<br />
ABSENT FRIENDS BY<br />
ALAN AYCKBOURN<br />
31 Aug to 06 Sep - Part<br />
of the longest running<br />
rep season in the UK,<br />
Manor Pavilion Theatre<br />
& Arts Centre, Manor<br />
Road, Sidmouth, 8.00pm to<br />
10.00pm.<br />
LAYING THE GHOST<br />
04 Sep to 09 Sep - Fast<br />
paced <strong>and</strong> witty comedy<br />
involving a love triangle <strong>and</strong><br />
Superman.., Salterton Drama<br />
Club, Salterton Playhouse,<br />
Budleigh Salterton, 7.30pm<br />
to 10.00pm.<br />
MAGIC OF THE STARS<br />
06 Sep to 18 Oct - The all<br />
new family show opens its<br />
doors for the <strong>2017</strong> season,<br />
Babbacombe Theatre,<br />
Babbacombe Downs, Torquay,<br />
8.15pm to 10.30pm.<br />
YERMA (NATIONAL<br />
THEATRE)<br />
08 Sep - The Gateway, Fore<br />
Street, Seaton, 7.00pm to<br />
9.00pm.<br />
HOUSE GUEST BY<br />
FRANCIS DURBRIDGE<br />
14 Sep to 22 Sep - Part<br />
of the longest running<br />
rep season in the UK,<br />
10th Lobster & Crab Festival, Clovelly<br />
3rd <strong>September</strong><br />
Manor Pavilion Theatre<br />
& Arts Centre, Manor<br />
Road, Sidmouth, 8.00pm to<br />
10.00pm.<br />
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• H<strong>and</strong>s on displays, quizzes <strong>and</strong> activities<br />
for all the family<br />
• Wet or dry bring the kids, under 12’s FREE<br />
• Watch WW2 film of D-Day preparations,<br />
screened in a replica air raid shelter<br />
Find us in the Butterwalk.<br />
Open all year - Summer 10-4pm (Sun/Mon 1-4pm)<br />
Winter 12-3pm (closed Christmas <strong>and</strong> New Year)<br />
Welcome Home! A Newman family treasure returns to Dartmouth<br />
Lin Churchill dressed as a 19th Century Lady <strong>and</strong><br />
two Chairmen, Bill Hunt <strong>and</strong> Fred Radcliffe<br />
‘Call the Chairmen’ - perhaps the words of a CEO<br />
of an international conglomerate seeking to<br />
speak with the heads of a couple of integrated<br />
companies; it was also a cry from the Butler<br />
some 200 years ago for the bearers of the family<br />
Sedan Chair which was then a regular means<br />
of transport for the wealthier families of many<br />
towns, not just Bath or London.<br />
Dartmouth’s own Sedan Chair has now come<br />
home to the Museum. At the start of the 19th<br />
Century the Newmans - one of several important<br />
local families trading across the Atlantic <strong>and</strong> into<br />
the Mediterranean <strong>and</strong> bringing wealth <strong>and</strong> jobs<br />
to the town - owned this Chair. This has remained<br />
with them throughout about two centuries with a<br />
brief break of 5 years in the 1930s. Sir Geoffrey<br />
has now given it to Dartmouth Museum. The<br />
timing is particularly special as this year the<br />
lucrative trade in fish <strong>and</strong> its products is being<br />
researched <strong>and</strong> celebrated throughout Devon.<br />
Dartmouth was one of the principle ports involved.<br />
The ships from Devon sailed to Newfoundl<strong>and</strong><br />
<strong>and</strong> frequently called in at Irel<strong>and</strong> on the way,<br />
with people, tools <strong>and</strong> clothing<br />
to help set up bases from which<br />
the fish processing could be<br />
undertaken. The products, dried<br />
cod <strong>and</strong> ‘Trayne oil’ (pressedout<br />
fish oil) were then taken to<br />
the Iberian Peninsula <strong>and</strong> the<br />
Mediterranean <strong>and</strong> the ships<br />
then went to Oporto in order to<br />
top up their holds with Port - that<br />
lovely red stuff! This became<br />
known as the ‘Triangular Trade’.<br />
The Chair has suffered<br />
surprisingly little over the<br />
many decades <strong>and</strong> was taken<br />
for conservation by Richard<br />
Jaeschke of Taunton last <strong>August</strong>. The extensive<br />
<strong>and</strong> very specialised work was made possible by<br />
a magnificent donation from Michael Brenchley<br />
in memory of his late wife Christine who had<br />
been the Museum’s Education Officer but sadly<br />
died last year. This was complemented by a grant<br />
from ‘Invest in Devon’ arranged by Councillor<br />
Jonathan Hawkins.<br />
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The Chair arrived at the Guildhall on Thursday<br />
6th July <strong>and</strong> was greeted by the Mayor who was<br />
accompanied by Sir Geoffrey <strong>and</strong> by Michael<br />
Brenchley. Assisted by members of the Dartmouth<br />
Players, dressed in livery, the chair made the<br />
journey down Victoria Road, across Royal Avenue<br />
Gardens <strong>and</strong> round the Boatfloat on its way to<br />
the Museum, led by the Town Crier. It is now<br />
housed in the Museum’s Holdsworth Room. The<br />
Holdsworths were another of the major trading<br />
families for some centuries.<br />
The Atlantic <strong>and</strong> Mediterranean trading routes<br />
Could this help solve Dartmouth’s perennial<br />
parking problem? How about a line of Chairs<br />
for rent in Royal Avenue Gardens? One lady has<br />
already asked if she can hire it to go shopping<br />
in town...<br />
Written by Cdr. David Lingard, Chairman of<br />
Dartmouth Museum.<br />
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Th r e eDEVONSHIRE ladies<br />
Fi <strong>and</strong> Kate Lyford <strong>and</strong> Rosemary Baker - outside the front grounds of Poltimore House<br />
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Floral display from a member of Club on the Exe - Floral Contemporary Design Group<br />
HUBCAST spotlight on: POLTIMORE HOUSE<br />
On my travels the other day I’d popped over to Poltimore House after<br />
seeing a local event they’d promoted on HUBCAST.co.uk<br />
flower festival was being staged in the old<br />
A house, <strong>and</strong> Irene (one of the volunteers)<br />
invited me over after a phone call, in order to<br />
take a look. You have to remember that Poltimore<br />
has an important part to play in local history, it’s<br />
where the Treaty of Exeter was signed during<br />
civil war (Poltimore House is a short distance<br />
from Broadclyst, near Exeter). It was enjoyable<br />
walking through the dilapidated rooms, viewing<br />
the displays, but what impressed most was the<br />
team of voluntary helpers at the event, such a<br />
friendly, cheerful, down-to-earth bunch of people<br />
that makes visiting an event like this pure joy.<br />
You have to marvel at their motivation, donating<br />
their time effort <strong>and</strong> often money to help the<br />
general cause, whatever it may be, they should<br />
be applauded. It's true to say that in Devon this<br />
effort is repeated across thous<strong>and</strong>s of clubs,<br />
societies, charities <strong>and</strong> businesses. More power<br />
to their elbow I say, what would we do without<br />
all these people, Devon certainly would be much<br />
poorer! - Editor<br />
If you'd like to become involved, The Friends<br />
of Poltimore House are always looking for new<br />
volunteers <strong>and</strong> members:<br />
poltimore.org/get-involved/the-friends<br />
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Great Night Out<br />
Enjoy FOOD <strong>and</strong> LIVE MUSIC at your local venue<br />
LIVE MUSIC<br />
BRIDGE JAZZ CLUB<br />
02 Aug - Pete Canter & Friends & Jam<br />
Session £6 or £4 jammers, Pete Canter,<br />
Exeter Phoenix, Exeter, 8.30pm to 11.00pm.<br />
JOEY THE LIPS<br />
02 Aug - The nation’s funkiest 10 piece<br />
b<strong>and</strong> with an insanely loyal local following,<br />
Sheldon Open Air Theatre, Sheldon, Exeter,<br />
8.00pm to 10.00pm.<br />
ALLISON ADAMS TUCKER<br />
02 Aug - Californian vocalist <strong>and</strong> recording<br />
artist singing her jazz driven songs,<br />
Speakeasy Torquay, Toorak Hotel, Chestnut<br />
Avenue, Torquay, 8.30pm to 11.00pm.<br />
SIDMOUTH FOLK WEEK<br />
03 to 11 Aug - Find full list of events on<br />
HUBCAST.co.uk, Sidmouth Folk Week, Ham<br />
Marquee, Sidmouth.<br />
THE MAGIC BADGERS<br />
04 Aug - The Black Horse, 30 Fore Street,<br />
Sidmouth, 9.30pm to 12.00am.<br />
SKY LIZARD<br />
05 Aug - The Black Horse, 30 Fore Street,<br />
Sidmouth, 9.30pm to 12.00am.<br />
Seabass fishcake bits, The Wild Caper<br />
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KAREN SHARP WITH THE CRAIG<br />
MILVERTON TRIO<br />
06 Aug - An evening of easy listening jazz<br />
by Karen Sharp <strong>and</strong> the Craig Milverton<br />
Trio, Plymouth Jazz Club, The Royal British<br />
Legion Club, Plymouth, 7.30pm to 10.30pm.<br />
VINE & DANDY<br />
07 Aug - The Black Horse, 30 Fore Street,<br />
Sidmouth, 9.30pm to 12.00am.<br />
STONEFOX<br />
08 Aug - The Black Horse, 30 Fore Street,<br />
Sidmouth, 9.30pm to 12.00am.<br />
PETE ALLEN SOLO SHOW<br />
08 Aug to 09 Aug - Jazz - Folk Style! £8 on<br />
the door, Kennaway House, Coburg Road,<br />
Sidmouth, 7.00pm to 10.00pm.<br />
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RED SKY<br />
10 Aug - The Black Horse, 30 Fore Street,<br />
Sidmouth, 9.30pm to 12.00am.<br />
Make a night of it!<br />
HOPE COVE SOUTH DEVON<br />
& RESTAURANT<br />
STONEFOX ROCK BAND<br />
10 Aug - Blues, funk & rock! (£8 on the<br />
door), Kennaway House, Coburg Road,<br />
Sidmouth, 7.00pm to 10.00pm.<br />
ROADHOGS<br />
11 Aug - Free Live Entertainment...not to<br />
be missed! The Black Horse, 30 Fore Street,<br />
Sidmouth, 9.30pm to 12.00am.<br />
JULIE DUNN<br />
12 Aug - Jazz, Latin <strong>and</strong> Blues, The<br />
Axminster Arts Cafe, Axminster, 11.00am<br />
to 1.00pm.<br />
JUST MISBEHAVIN’<br />
13 Aug - Swing jazz to finish your weekend<br />
in style, Just Misbehavin’, The Point Bar &<br />
Grill, Exmouth, 6.00pm to 8.30pm.<br />
LIVE MUSIC<br />
13 Aug - Harbottle & Jonas - folk duo,<br />
Bowmers Restaurant, 7 High Street,<br />
Budleigh Salterton, 7.30pm to 10.30pm.<br />
THE DARKSIDE OF PINK FLOYD<br />
18 Aug - More than just an ordinary Pink<br />
Floyd tribute b<strong>and</strong>, Babbacombe Theatre,<br />
Babbacombe Downs, Torquay, 7.30pm to<br />
9.30pm.<br />
Nicki Dee<br />
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MUSIC IN THE GARDEN<br />
19 Aug - South Sea Bubble: Liz Pannell<br />
(violin) <strong>and</strong> Robert Wheaton (guitars &<br />
vocals), Axminster, 11.00am to 1.00pm.<br />
JUST MISBEHAVIN’<br />
23 Aug - Opening music event for the<br />
Dartmouth Regatta, Just Misbehavin’, The<br />
B<strong>and</strong>st<strong>and</strong>, Dartmouth, 8.30pm to 11.00pm.<br />
SOUNDS OF THE SIXTIES SHOW WITH<br />
THE ZOOTS<br />
25 Aug - Experience THE Sixties show that’s<br />
wowing audiences around the world, The<br />
Zoots, Palace Theatre, Paignton, 7.00pm to<br />
11.00pm.<br />
HIDDEN<br />
26 Aug - Four piece b<strong>and</strong>: Blues,<br />
Contemporary Folk & Popular, Axminster<br />
Arts Cafe, The Axminster Arts Cafe,<br />
Axminster, 11.00am to 1.00pm.<br />
THE COUNTRY SUPERSTARS<br />
EXPERIENCE<br />
26 Aug - A journey back through time<br />
meeting some of the icons who shaped<br />
Country music, Babbacombe Theatre,<br />
Babbacombe Downs, Torquay, 7.30pm to<br />
9.30pm.<br />
JAZZ IN THE AFTERNOON<br />
27 Aug - Featuring the Pete Allen Jazz B<strong>and</strong>,<br />
Kennaway House, Coburg Road, Sidmouth,<br />
3.00pm to 5.30pm.<br />
OLD HAT JAZZ BAND<br />
30 Aug - Old Hat play stomping <strong>and</strong><br />
swinging songs of 20s <strong>and</strong> 30s jazz,<br />
Speakeasy Torquay, Toorak Hotel, Torquay,<br />
8.30pm to 11.00pm.<br />
INTO THE SHADOWS<br />
02 Sep - Into the Shadows recreate the<br />
unique sound of The Shadows, Babbacombe<br />
Theatre, Babbacombe Downs, Torquay,<br />
8.00pm to 10.00pm.<br />
RICKY ROMAIN - SITAR JUGALBANDHI<br />
02 Sep - Sitar Jugalb<strong>and</strong>hi, Axminster,<br />
11.00am to 1.00pm.<br />
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Live Music<br />
Friday 15th <strong>September</strong><br />
NEIL MAYA QUARTET<br />
The Beehive, Honiton<br />
Thursday 10th <strong>August</strong><br />
DERVISH & DAOIRI FARRELL<br />
Sidmouth Folk Week, The Ham, Sidmouth<br />
Saturday 2nd <strong>September</strong><br />
RICKY ROMAIN<br />
Axminster Arts Cafe, Axminster<br />
INTO THE SHADOWS<br />
03 Sep - Tickets are £16.50 <strong>and</strong> £18.50,<br />
Exmouth Pavilion, The Esplanade, Exmouth,<br />
7.30pm.<br />
THE BRUBECK PROJECT<br />
03 Sep - The Neil Maya Quartet with Matt<br />
Carter showcase the music of Dave Brubeck,<br />
Plymouth Jazz Club, The Royal British<br />
Legion Club, Plymouth, 7.30pm to 10.30pm.<br />
KINGSBRIDGE JAZZ CLUB AT AVETON<br />
GIFFORD<br />
05 Sep - Renowned American jazz pianist<br />
Jeff Barnhart’s Sweet & Hot Quartet<br />
(UK/USA), Kingsbridge Jazz Club, The<br />
Fisherman’s Rest, Aveton Gifford, 6.30pm<br />
to 10.00pm.<br />
BRIDGE JAZZ CLUB<br />
06 Sep - Pete Canter & Friends<br />
Jam Session £6 or £4 jammers, Pete Canter,<br />
Exeter Phoenix, Exeter, 8.30pm to 11.00pm.<br />
DAVID HAMILTON’S ROCK N ROLL BACK<br />
THE YEARS<br />
08 Sep - Tickets are £21 <strong>and</strong> £23, Exmouth<br />
Pavilion, The Esplanade, Exmouth, 7.30pm.<br />
JUST MISBEHAVIN’<br />
08 Sep - Swing dance music at this popular<br />
late night Exeter venue, Just Misbehavin’,<br />
The Sorry Head, Exeter, 10.00pm to 11.55pm.<br />
THE ESKIES & SUPPORT: THE LEYLINES<br />
08 Sep - A unique br<strong>and</strong> of folk noir/gypsy<br />
jazz, The Beehive, Dowell Street, Honiton,<br />
8.00pm to 10.30pm.<br />
DAVID HAMILTON’S ROCK N ROLL BACK<br />
THE YEARS<br />
09 Sep - This two hour show that will<br />
transport the audience on a journey back in<br />
time, Babbacombe Theatre, Babbacombe<br />
Downs, Torquay, 7.30pm to 9.30pm.<br />
DINING OFFERS<br />
3 Tapas <strong>and</strong> one glass of wine<br />
£10 | per person | Tues<br />
Tagines<br />
£10 | per person |Thurs<br />
2 for 1 on main meals before 6pm -<br />
booking required<br />
Mention ‘DEVONSHIRE’ when booking a<br />
table for 4 <strong>and</strong> get a free bottle of wine<br />
Table Bookings t. 01752 651300<br />
STAMPITA<br />
09 Sep - Folk Songs <strong>and</strong> Tunes, The<br />
Axminster Arts Cafe, Axminster, 11.00am<br />
to 1.00pm.<br />
THE BRUBECK PROJECT - THE NEIL<br />
MAYA QUARTET<br />
15 Sep - This superb jazz quartet<br />
authentically plays Dave Brubeck Quartet<br />
originals, The Beehive, Dowell Street,<br />
Honiton, 8.00pm.<br />
THE ROCK SECTION<br />
16 Sep - Progressive Rock, Ska & Reggae,<br />
The Axminster Arts Cafe, Axminster,<br />
11.00am to 1.00pm.<br />
Just quote '<strong>Devonshire</strong>' for all dining offers<br />
THE<br />
MALTSTERS<br />
ARMS<br />
DINING OFFERS<br />
Rump Steak & a bottle of red wine<br />
£25 | 2 persons | Mon nights<br />
Mussels Marinière & Dessert<br />
£25 | 2 persons | Wed | 6.30-8.30pm<br />
Why not come join us in Woodbury,<br />
<strong>and</strong> enjoy a drink in our child-friendly<br />
beer garden this summer?<br />
Table Bookings t. 01395 232218<br />
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16 Sep - A night of Rock Classics & melodic<br />
symphonic rock by the best ELO Tribute<br />
b<strong>and</strong>, Babbacombe Theatre, Babbacombe<br />
Downs, Torquay, 7.30pm to 9.30pm.<br />
DINING OFFERS<br />
Traditional 2 Course Sunday Roast<br />
£11 | per person | Sun | from 12 noon<br />
Afternoon Cream Teas<br />
£3.95 | per person | daily<br />
Lunches <strong>and</strong> Light Bites<br />
from £6.95 | daily<br />
Evening Bar <strong>and</strong> Restaurant Dinners<br />
from £11.95 | daily<br />
Menus online at www.theoxenhamarms.com<br />
Vegetarian meals available<br />
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Bruschetta al pomodoro<br />
con mozzarell a, Marcell os<br />
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MUSSELS, MUSCADET, AND CAMPARI<br />
22 Sep - A perfect paring of food, wine <strong>and</strong><br />
song. £17 Call to book 01752 500008, Jolly<br />
Jacks, Mayflower Marina, Plymouth.<br />
TAPESTRY STARRING NIKKI DEE<br />
22 Sep - Carole King’s Tapestry In Concert<br />
is performed by award winning Nicki Dee,<br />
Babbacombe Theatre, Babbacombe Downs,<br />
Torquay, 7.30pm to 7.30pm.<br />
FLY YETI FLY<br />
23 Sep - Folk Duo of Originals, plus<br />
Covers, The Axminster Arts Cafe, Axminster,<br />
11.00am to 1.00pm.<br />
JAZZ IN THE AFTERNOON<br />
24 Sep - Featuring the Pete Allen Jazz B<strong>and</strong>,<br />
Kennaway House, Coburg Road, Sidmouth,<br />
3.00pm to 5.30pm.<br />
SQUEEZE PLUS SUPPORT<br />
29 Sep - Tickets are £30.50, Exmouth<br />
Pavilion, The Esplanade, Exmouth, 8.00pm.<br />
STEVE KNIGHTLEY WITH EXMOUTH<br />
SHANTY MEN<br />
29 Sep - A concert of folk, roots, traditional<br />
<strong>and</strong> world music influenced by the sea,<br />
Exmouth Shanty Men, Ocean, Exmouth,<br />
7.30pm to 9.45pm.<br />
THE MODS (60’S 70’S CLASSIC HITS)<br />
30 Sep - The Mods - 1st class musicianship,<br />
spirit, fun & entertainment guaranteed, The<br />
Gateway, Fore Street, Seaton, 7.30pm to<br />
11.00pm.<br />
WANNABE - THE SPICE GIRLS SHOW<br />
30 Sep - Featuring your favourite hits the<br />
Wannabe show recreates the era of Girl<br />
Power, Babbacombe Theatre, Babbacombe<br />
Downs, Torquay, 7.30pm to 9.30pm.<br />
Jolly<br />
Jacks<br />
waterfront bar bistro<br />
DINING OFFERS<br />
Mussels, Kick Muscadet Back <strong>and</strong> Michael & Relax Campari<br />
A perfect pairing of food, wine <strong>and</strong> song<br />
(full menu also available)<br />
£17 | per person | 22 Sep<br />
Plymouth Graduation Week<br />
Phone to reserve your table | 18 to 23 Sep<br />
Pie & Pud Evenings<br />
£13.50 | per person | Oct | Mon eve<br />
Great<br />
Table Bookings t. 01752 500008<br />
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City Gate<br />
EXETER<br />
City Gate’s a cheerful place to chill<br />
We bring you great stays from across Devon<br />
Overnight Stay<br />
Being a university city, Exeter’s badly<br />
in need of hotel accommodation, so<br />
it’s great to see another refurbished<br />
hotel in Exeter, brought totally upto-date<br />
with all facilities <strong>and</strong> decor.<br />
I’ve always wondered what the Iron<br />
Bridge part of Exeter is, <strong>and</strong> if you<br />
take a walk underneath the bridge,<br />
there’s a lower level road that was<br />
probably the old medieval North<br />
City Gate’s a fine old coaching inn<br />
<strong>and</strong> is blessed with a lovely dining/<br />
beer garden that has the ancient city<br />
wall running alongside. It’s been<br />
refurbished to a very high st<strong>and</strong>ard,<br />
the rooms being comfortable, chic<br />
<strong>and</strong> extremely well appointed with<br />
all you could need. Rooms even have<br />
their own coffee machine <strong>and</strong> also<br />
something every hotel should have,<br />
are, nothing’s too much trouble <strong>and</strong><br />
they genuinely seemed to care about<br />
making you comfortable. On the<br />
evening of our arrival, live music<br />
had been laid on in the garden.<br />
It’s truly incredible to reflect that<br />
ancient Romans were here 2,000<br />
years ago <strong>and</strong> built the wall you’ll<br />
sit next to whilst having a glass of<br />
something. sWhy the city council<br />
softening greenery meaning that on<br />
warm evenings you can relax outside.<br />
Inside City Gate, you’re treated to<br />
welcoming, spacious <strong>and</strong> stylish<br />
rooms, just the place to enjoy lunch<br />
whilst in town, or for evening dinner.<br />
I have to confess, I really liked the<br />
whole ‘feel’ to City Gate, whoever’s<br />
been responsible for the interior<br />
design/refurbishment certainly<br />
Chicken liver parfait, grape &<br />
onion chutney, toasted brioche<br />
Corn-fed chicken breast, roasted<br />
new potato, crushed peas, fine<br />
beans, caper <strong>and</strong> shallot dressing<br />
Grilled fillet of Bream, roasted<br />
summer vegetables, triple<br />
cooked chips, garlic butter<br />
Smoked salmon, caper &<br />
shallot dressing, pea shoots<br />
Gate approach road to the city, now<br />
called Lower North Street, linking<br />
up to Northernhay Street, which<br />
veers off at 90 degrees, taking you<br />
up to Queen Street. The Iron Bridge<br />
appears to span a mini valley, with<br />
the City gate situated at one end of<br />
the bridge.<br />
a fridge containing fresh milk for<br />
your tea. The decor was lovely also,<br />
the bedroom having a ‘designer’<br />
feel to it, being both stylish <strong>and</strong><br />
cheerful. I particularly liked the ensuite<br />
facilities which were excellent.<br />
One aspect you cannot fail to notice<br />
is how friendly <strong>and</strong> helpful the staff<br />
haven’t made much more of the city<br />
walls as an attraction is puzzling<br />
<strong>and</strong> should be rectified because they<br />
are impressive. Much are currently<br />
roped off due to maintenance issues.<br />
City Gate’s outdoor space is cool,<br />
with comfortable chairs, garden<br />
heaters, warm lighting along with<br />
knows their craft. Food sampled was<br />
all excellent as were the house wines,<br />
making for an enjoyable overnight<br />
stay. City Gate is a great new venue<br />
for lunches <strong>and</strong> dinner <strong>and</strong> is a chic<br />
boutique hotel for those traveling<br />
to our metropolis. A visit is heartily<br />
recommended - Editor.<br />
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Great Devon eateries<br />
The<br />
Otterton<br />
Fresh food prepared & cooked on the premises<br />
using local ingredients from our own farm shop<br />
• Fish l<strong>and</strong>ed by our own fishing boats • Sunday carvery 12-8pm<br />
• Bar serving superb local beers <strong>and</strong> fine wines<br />
• 15 quality rooms for bed <strong>and</strong> breakfast<br />
• Garden & childrens play area • Dogs welcome (designated areas)<br />
• Courtesy 7 seat minibus available locally with prior arrangement<br />
• Breakfast 7-10am, Lunch 12-2.30pm, Dinner 5-9pm<br />
• S<strong>and</strong>wich Menu 12-5pm, Buffet 5-9pm (except Sundays)<br />
FORE STREET • OTTERTON • DEVON • EX9 7HB 01395 568416 www.kingsarmsotterton.co.uk<br />
THE<br />
COTTAGE<br />
HOTEL<br />
& RESTAURANT<br />
HOPE COVE SOUTH DEVON<br />
Special Summer Breaks available<br />
for <strong>Devonshire</strong> Magazine readers<br />
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THE<br />
COTTAGE<br />
HOTEL<br />
A charming traditional family-run hotel in a spectacular<br />
& RESTAURANT<br />
coastal location. HOPE COVE Relaxing SOUTH DEVON holiday atmosphere with excellent<br />
cuisine <strong>and</strong> an established reputation for hospitality <strong>and</strong><br />
service. With sun terraces <strong>and</strong> gardens down to the beach.<br />
THE<br />
COTTAGE HOTEL<br />
& RESTAURANT<br />
HOPE COVE SOUTH DEVON<br />
THE<br />
COTTAGE HOTEL<br />
& RESTAURANT<br />
HOPE COVE<br />
SOUTH DEVON<br />
Hope Cove<br />
Kingsbridge<br />
Devon TQ7 3HJ<br />
T: 01548 561555 info@hopecove.com www.hopecove.com<br />
A PLACE FOR<br />
EATING<br />
DRINKING<br />
AND MEETING<br />
WITH A VIEW OF LYME BAY<br />
PYNE'S SIDMOUTH DEVON 01395 513047<br />
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The Oxenham Arms<br />
Hotel & Restaurant<br />
The most beautiful Devon restaurant, set in<br />
a former 12th century monastery<br />
Stunning restaurants, lunches, afternoon<br />
teas, evening dinners, Sunday lunches<br />
Function room, luxury four poster<br />
accommodation, parking, 4 acres of<br />
grounds, Dartmoor walks <strong>and</strong> views<br />
Open daily from 11am to 11pm<br />
AA Gold<br />
Dinner<br />
Award<br />
<br />
01837 840244 South Zeal, EX20 2JT (25 mins. from Exeter) www.theoxenhamarms.com<br />
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FOOD <strong>and</strong> DRINK<br />
The Restaurant Inspector<br />
Visits:<br />
Marco Pierre White Steakhouse Bar & Grill<br />
Top floor of Crown Plaza, Plymouth City Centre<br />
MPW<br />
Steakhouse<br />
Bar & Grill<br />
16oz T Bone Steak<br />
- 28 day aged<br />
menu sampled<br />
Starters<br />
Homemade bread & olives<br />
Mains<br />
10oz T-Bone Steak - 28 day<br />
aged from Campbell Brothers<br />
Pudding<br />
New York Baked Cheesecake<br />
Strawberry<br />
Drinks<br />
Salentein Primus Malbec<br />
Valle de Uco, Mendoza 2013<br />
An elevating experience<br />
Itʼs true you can eat excellent<br />
food at home, so you could argue<br />
that dining out has to provide<br />
much more to compensate you<br />
for restaurant food prices.<br />
Having a few hours away<br />
from your home environment,<br />
enjoying unfamiliar views, <strong>and</strong><br />
experiencing attentive service,<br />
not forgetting great food,<br />
these are vital ingredients that<br />
can make for a special dining<br />
experience.<br />
My visit to Marco Pierre Whiteʼs<br />
Steak house Bar & Grill was<br />
one such occasion, arriving<br />
on Saturday evening at Crown<br />
Plaza in Plymouth (formerly the<br />
Holiday Inn) which is a high rise<br />
building sitting just behind the<br />
lighthouse on the Hoe. Whatʼs<br />
instantly evident when you arrive<br />
at the top floor to dine, are the<br />
views out across Plymouth,<br />
which allow your eyes much<br />
scope to w<strong>and</strong>er across the<br />
rooftops <strong>and</strong> the historic naval<br />
seascape. Itʼs something you<br />
just canʼt see at ground level,<br />
the views are stunning.<br />
In terms of the food, the mains<br />
selection did provide something<br />
for everyone, although I was<br />
keen to sample their 28 day aged<br />
T-bone steak meal, particularly<br />
as this restaurant is br<strong>and</strong>ed as<br />
a Steak house.<br />
In short, the steak meal was<br />
properly excellent, <strong>and</strong> at last,<br />
a baked cheesecake (not one of<br />
those disgusting cold set gelatin<br />
versions), <strong>and</strong> of course, a topnotch<br />
Malbec to accompany the<br />
meal. The meal was simple <strong>and</strong><br />
critically, extremely satisfying,<br />
not something you can say of<br />
many fine-dining meals. Add in<br />
fabulous views, superb service<br />
<strong>and</strong> itʼs easy to recommend to<br />
you an entertaining, memorable<br />
evening out!<br />
Salentein Pr!mus Malbec, Valle de Uco,<br />
Mendoza, Argentina 2013<br />
A vertiable super-star, this wine has to be<br />
tried to believe how good it tastes<br />
Nikolay Todorov, a really excellent<br />
waiter, having come all the way from<br />
his homel<strong>and</strong> in Bulgaria to work at the<br />
Steakhouse. Great staff can really make an<br />
evening special for diners, it’s an essential<br />
ingredient to the whole dining experience<br />
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that shouldn’t be underestimated.<br />
New York Strawberry Cheesecake (baked)<br />
Accompaniments to the T-Bone steak meal<br />
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Great Devon eateries<br />
award winning restaurant • award winning marina<br />
With all the best local produce from l<strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong> sea,<br />
Jolly Jacks is the place to be.<br />
A warm welcome <strong>and</strong> ambience we guarantee,<br />
a sunny terrace to enjoy the sea.<br />
From breakfast to dinner <strong>and</strong> all in-between,<br />
from 9 till 9 we reign supreme.<br />
Fine wines real ales <strong>and</strong> spirits galore,<br />
<strong>and</strong> a perfect free pace to park your car<br />
153 Vauxhall Street<br />
Plymouth PL4 0DF<br />
01752 651300<br />
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Now accepting Gourmet<br />
Society <strong>and</strong> Tastecard<br />
Jolly<br />
Jacks<br />
waterfront bar bistro<br />
Fresh West Country Fish<br />
& Shellfish<br />
Succulent Steaks & Duck<br />
Menu Updated daily<br />
See website for todays Menu<br />
Kick Back & Relax<br />
Great<br />
Food, Company<br />
& Location !<br />
Fresh West Country Fish<br />
• Delicious food from l<strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong> sea served & fresh Shellfish all day, every day<br />
• Friendly <strong>and</strong> welcoming • Independent restaurant<br />
Succulent Steaks & Duck<br />
• Traditional Sunday Lunches<br />
• Check website for live Menu music Updated & events daily<br />
• FREE secure parking • Dog & Child friendly<br />
• Lovely outside See website terrace for todays Menu<br />
• Bookings for Christmas & New Year now being taken<br />
tel: 01752 500 008 www.jollyjacks.co.uk<br />
Mayflower Marina • Richmond Walk • Plymouth • PL1 4LS<br />
Open for Dinner Tuesday to Saturday from 6.30pm<br />
Open for Dinner Tuesday to Saturday from 6.30pm<br />
Also open on Sundays - 6th & 27th <strong>August</strong><br />
Also open on Sundays - 6th & 27th <strong>August</strong><br />
Radway Place, Vicarage Road, Sidmouth, EX10 8TL<br />
Radway Place, Vicarage Road, Sidmouth, EX10 8TL<br />
Tel. 01395 519494<br />
Tel. 01395 519494<br />
Live online Bookings www.neilsrestaurant.com<br />
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FOOD <strong>and</strong> DRINK<br />
The Restaurant Inspector<br />
Visits:<br />
Cosy Club<br />
Southernhay Gardens, Exeter<br />
Cosy Club Roasted Chicken Breast Oriental Sesame Noodles<br />
Bar & Restaurant<br />
menu sampled<br />
Starters<br />
Garlic Tiger Prawns<br />
Avocado, Tomato & Chilli Dip<br />
Mains<br />
Thai Veggie Burger<br />
Roasted Chicken Breast<br />
Oriental Sesame Noodle<br />
Pudding<br />
Chocolate Bread &<br />
Butter Pudding with rum<br />
<strong>and</strong> raisin custard<br />
Thai Veggie Burger<br />
Hospital foodʼs never been so good!<br />
Itʼs not everyday you enjoy<br />
hospital food, but at the Cosy Club,<br />
this was the case, great food <strong>and</strong> a<br />
glowing interior that supported a<br />
buzzing, cool ambiance (the Cosy<br />
Club’s situated in an old hospital<br />
in Southernhay Gardens).<br />
Initially on scanning the menu,<br />
Iʼd mentally discounted what to<br />
expect from the food offerings,<br />
itʼs appeared to be a restricted<br />
menu, but with somehow all the<br />
mains <strong>and</strong> starters seemed to be<br />
of interest - you know how it is,<br />
many times you can pick up the<br />
menu <strong>and</strong> fail to be inspired, but<br />
not so here.<br />
do so already), in order to avoid<br />
being l<strong>and</strong>ed with something<br />
that will probably upset your meal,<br />
especially with some food outlets<br />
in Exeter pushing £14 glasses of<br />
red wine recently.<br />
We decided to try the Thai Veggie<br />
Burger for our vegan friends, <strong>and</strong> it<br />
has to be said that even for a nonvegan,<br />
it was tasty <strong>and</strong> enjoyable.<br />
The other mains tasted were the<br />
Roast Chicken Breast <strong>and</strong> Oriental<br />
Sesame Noodles, the chicken meal<br />
was lovely, but special mention<br />
goes to the Oriental Sesame<br />
Noodles which had smoky, deep<br />
flavours, it was a truly lovely dish,<br />
top marks! Editor<br />
A relic from its days as an eye hospital<br />
<strong>and</strong> original plasterwork (right)<br />
Drinks<br />
House South African Shiraz<br />
To kick off, Garlic Tiger Prawns<br />
<strong>and</strong> also Avocado, Tomato & Chilli<br />
Dip starters where chosen, all in a<br />
ʻTapasʼ theme, so smaller portions<br />
allowing you to mix <strong>and</strong> match.<br />
Top marks here, both provided<br />
a delicious introduction to the<br />
meal ahead. Weʼd ordered the<br />
house Merlot by the glass, this<br />
was obviously a cheap wine, being<br />
harsh - thereʼs no excuse these<br />
days for pushing poor quality<br />
wines on paying customers. It<br />
was duly sent back - they returned<br />
with a South African red that<br />
theyʼd recently added to their<br />
range, which was far superior<br />
<strong>and</strong> palatable. Be prepared to ask<br />
for a sample before committing<br />
to a glass of wine (you probably<br />
It’s chic, cool, hip, there’s a definite buzz - great original touches - see eye<br />
testing machine (above) <strong>and</strong> retained heritage plaster - it’s got soul!<br />
Cosy Club have clever interior designers as<br />
the dining area was cheerful, atmospheric,<br />
retro <strong>and</strong> relaxing, it all works really well<br />
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Tomato & Chilli Dip Pudding with rum <strong>and</strong> raisin custard<br />
not on the<br />
menu!<br />
unusual<br />
wall<br />
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RESTAURANT<br />
Great Devon eateries<br />
THE<br />
ORANGERY<br />
RESTAURANT<br />
An excellent licensed daytime restaurant with<br />
views of Powderham Castle Deer Park<br />
Open 7 days a week for breakfast,<br />
lunch <strong>and</strong> afternoon tea<br />
Located at the County Store site<br />
on the Powderham Castle Estate<br />
Easily accessible with parking provided<br />
free of charge to patrons of the restaurant<br />
THE<br />
MALTSTERS<br />
ARMS<br />
Matt, Sam & the staff welcome you to<br />
their family friendly village pub.<br />
Excellent fresh food cooked & prepared<br />
just for you at affordable prices.<br />
Our large function room is the prime location<br />
for all of your corporate & private events.<br />
Visit our website to view our<br />
current menu & events:<br />
www.themaltstersarms.com<br />
South Town, Kenton, Exeter, Devon, EX6 8JE Phone: 01626 891639 Open 7 days a week<br />
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THOUSANDS OF CAPTURED<br />
FRENCHMEN were<br />
imprisoned in Devon during<br />
the Napoleonic wars which,<br />
off-<strong>and</strong>-on, ran between 1803<br />
<strong>and</strong> 1815. Eleven thous<strong>and</strong> of<br />
them died here during their<br />
incarceration <strong>and</strong> are buried in<br />
mass graves at Dartmoor prison.<br />
The French prisoners on Dartmoor<br />
by John Fisher<br />
So too are 271 American sailors captured<br />
during the 1812 American war.<br />
Initially they were put into military prisons<br />
<strong>and</strong> prison ‘hulks’, derelict ships anchored<br />
in estuaries. Conditions on these hulks<br />
were appalling with overcrowding, poor<br />
diet, crude sanitation <strong>and</strong> little in the way<br />
of exercise or fresh air.<br />
Prison ship 'The <strong>Devonshire</strong>'<br />
Many of these hulks were in Plymouth <strong>and</strong><br />
too close for comfort to Plymouth Docks<br />
<strong>and</strong> the temptation for hundreds of highlyqualified<br />
young marins to break out <strong>and</strong><br />
‘liberate’ one or two of His Majesty’s menof-war<br />
in a getaway.<br />
Death rates rose to an unacceptable level<br />
<strong>and</strong> it was decided to build an escape-proof<br />
prison on l<strong>and</strong>. The Plymouth hulks were<br />
emptied one at a time <strong>and</strong> the local militia<br />
escorted the prisoners <strong>and</strong> their possessions<br />
as they were marched out of the city <strong>and</strong><br />
up onto the moor.<br />
It's not what you'd consider the most cheerful looking place, Dartmoor Prison was<br />
originally built to accommodate Napoleonic prisoners of war, but it must have been<br />
very welcome to prisoners after a prolonged stay on one of the prison ships<br />
The prison that awaited them, then as now,<br />
was a forbidding looking place: grey <strong>and</strong><br />
cheerless it had been built from Dartmoor<br />
granite by local labour in the middle of<br />
nowhere <strong>and</strong> as far as could be judged<br />
on that late, May afternoon in 1809 as<br />
the first contingent arrived, it also looked<br />
escape-proof.<br />
ocean waves changed into granite during a<br />
tempestuous storm, <strong>and</strong> you will then form<br />
an idea of what Dartmoor is like.”<br />
But to those ragged, pale-faced men escaping<br />
those sodden, cheerless, wooden hell-holes<br />
that had contained some of them for years,<br />
it must have looked like a paradise.<br />
The entrance to Dartmoor Prison<br />
In describing Dartmoor’s rolling hills<br />
<strong>and</strong> valleys at that time, a Monsieur Jules<br />
Poulain, a Frenchman who is said to have<br />
lived at Princetown to be near a friend who<br />
was confined there, wrote, ”Think of the<br />
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The plan of Dartmoor prison<br />
Tyrwhitt’s own Herne Hole quarry supplied<br />
all of the cut stone for the construction of<br />
the prison <strong>and</strong> he was also granted the<br />
licence to hold a market <strong>and</strong> a fair at his<br />
creation of Prince’s Town (later to become<br />
Princetown) at which prisoners could trade<br />
their rations, h<strong>and</strong>icrafts, clothes <strong>and</strong> other<br />
personal possessions for money. The money<br />
was then used to gamble or to buy vegetables<br />
from the locals who flocked to the town on<br />
market days.<br />
The building as then built (<strong>and</strong> shown in<br />
our print) cost £130,000 <strong>and</strong> is described<br />
in the architect’s notes thus:<br />
The outer wall encloses a circle of about 30<br />
acres - within this is another wall which<br />
encloses the area in which the Prison<br />
st<strong>and</strong>s - this area is a smaller circle with<br />
a segment cut off. The prisons are five<br />
large rectangular buildings each capable<br />
of containing more than 1,500 men ; they<br />
have each two floors, where is arranged a<br />
double tier of Hammocks slung on cast-iron<br />
pillars, <strong>and</strong> a third floor in the roof, which<br />
is used as a promenade in wet weather<br />
Dartmoor prison was the<br />
brain-child of a man called<br />
Thomas Tyrwhitt, a wellconnected,<br />
well-heeled Old<br />
Etonian, Oxford graduate<br />
<strong>and</strong> son of an Essex vicar.<br />
Mr. Tyrwhitt (later to<br />
receive a knighthood)<br />
seems to have done<br />
rather well out of the<br />
deal which was helped<br />
by the fact that he was<br />
secretary to the Prince<br />
of Wales on the Duchy<br />
Estates <strong>and</strong> shared with<br />
him his (Tyrwhiit’s) dream<br />
of turning Dartmoor into<br />
a prosperous place by draining all the bogs,<br />
clearing away all those tiresome rocks <strong>and</strong><br />
boulders so that thous<strong>and</strong>s of acres of<br />
golden corn might be planted <strong>and</strong> the moor<br />
transformed to become “the bread basket<br />
At the end of the 19th century oak from some of Plymouth’s<br />
‘hulks’ was used in the sub-structure of the st<strong>and</strong>s for<br />
Wimbledon’s Centre Court - a more fitting end perhaps,<br />
for some of Engl<strong>and</strong>’s once noble ‘wooden walls’.<br />
of the West Country”. His other crackpot<br />
schemes included laying iron tracks across<br />
the wildly undulating terrain from Dartmoor<br />
to Plymouth so that horses could pull his<br />
wagons loaded with granite to the docks.<br />
There are besides two other spacious<br />
buildings, one of which is a large hospital,<br />
<strong>and</strong> the other is appropriated to the Petty<br />
Officers. The entrance is on the western side,<br />
the gateway, built of solid blocks of granite.<br />
No sooner had they settled in than the French<br />
began to organise. They conducted their own<br />
courts, <strong>and</strong> devised their own punishments<br />
for misdemeanours. Most remarkably of<br />
all perhaps, the French prisoners in the UK<br />
formed no fewer than twenty-six Lodges<br />
<strong>and</strong> Chapters of Freemasons in Engl<strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong><br />
elsewhere. The one in the neighbourhood of<br />
Dartmoor was at Ashburton, <strong>and</strong> the only<br />
evidence of it is an undated certificate granted<br />
to one Paul Carcenac, described as Assistant<br />
Commissary, the Lodge being described as<br />
"Des Amis Reunis" (the Re-united Friends).<br />
Many of the prisoners of war were allowed<br />
out on parole, "upon condition that he gives<br />
his parole of honour not to withdraw one<br />
mile from the boundaries prescribed there<br />
without leave: that he will behave himself<br />
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decently <strong>and</strong> with due regard to the laws of the<br />
Kingdom, <strong>and</strong> also that he will not directly<br />
or indirectly hold any correspondence with<br />
France during his continuance in Engl<strong>and</strong>."<br />
The Devon towns set aside for prisoners<br />
on parole were Ashburton, Okehampton,<br />
Moretonhampstead <strong>and</strong> Tavistock, whilst<br />
periodically French officers were also billeted<br />
at Tiverton.<br />
The behaviour of 150 who lived there was<br />
described in an official report as “exemplary”<br />
but then added, “Some of them have made<br />
overtures of marriage to women in the<br />
neighbourhood which the magistrates have<br />
very properly taken pains to discourage”.<br />
One thinks perhaps of WW2 <strong>and</strong> the impact<br />
some American Servicemen had on some<br />
communities who described them as being<br />
“over-sexed, over-paid <strong>and</strong> over here”. There<br />
must have been many a Devon lass who fell<br />
under the Gallic charms of their lodgers.<br />
Printed warnings came not a moment too<br />
soon <strong>and</strong> were pasted up across the Moor for<br />
the benefit of anyone who could read whilst<br />
church pulpits were used to reinforce the<br />
message <strong>and</strong> remind all parties of the rules<br />
of engagement.<br />
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN<br />
That all such prisoners are<br />
permitted to walk or ride on the<br />
Great Turnpike Road within<br />
the distance of one mile from the<br />
extreme parts of the Town (not<br />
beyond the bounds of the Parish)<br />
<strong>and</strong> that if they shall exceed such<br />
limits or go into any field or cross<br />
road they may be taken up <strong>and</strong><br />
sent to prison <strong>and</strong> a reward of 10<br />
shillings (50 pence) will be paid<br />
for apprehending them.<br />
And further that such prisoners<br />
are to be in their lodgings by 5<br />
o'clock in the winter <strong>and</strong> 8 o'clock<br />
in the summer months.<br />
A NOT-SO-GREAT ESCAPE<br />
At the Devon Summer Assize, 1812, Richard<br />
Tapper, described as of Moretonhampstead,<br />
Carrier, Thomas Vinnacombe <strong>and</strong> William<br />
Vinnacombe (his brother) of Cheriton Bishop,<br />
described in the indictments as Smugglers,<br />
were indicted <strong>and</strong> convicted for aiding <strong>and</strong><br />
assisting, with divers other persons unknown,<br />
the escape of the following persons:<br />
Casimer Baudouin, an officer in the French<br />
Navy; Allain Michel <strong>and</strong> Louis Hamel, Captains<br />
of Merchant Vessels ; Pierre Joseph Dennis,<br />
a Second Captain of a Privateer; <strong>and</strong> Andrew<br />
Fleuriot, a Midshipman of the French Navy,<br />
to escape from Moretonhampstead.<br />
Escape from Topsham<br />
The five Frenchmen paid £25 down, <strong>and</strong> then<br />
£150 on the day they broke their parole <strong>and</strong><br />
made a dash for the sea <strong>and</strong> freedom.<br />
They were taken on horseback, down from<br />
Moretonhampstead, suitably disguised, to<br />
Topsham on the estuary below Exeter, <strong>and</strong><br />
placed in a large boat described as eighteen<br />
feet long.<br />
Alas, with five escapees, <strong>and</strong> the three<br />
smugglers on board, they ran into trouble<br />
not far from Exmouth, when <strong>and</strong> where the<br />
boat grounded on the bar <strong>and</strong> they were<br />
spotted <strong>and</strong> rounded-up.<br />
The Frenchmen were returned to Dartmoor,<br />
the ‘smugglers’ to prison in Exeter.<br />
Dartmoor had been filled to capacity in less<br />
than a year after its completion. Matters<br />
became worse with the arrival of American<br />
prisoners (allies of the French) in April 1813,<br />
<strong>and</strong> outbreaks of diseases - pneumonia,<br />
typhoid <strong>and</strong> smallpox, became widespread.<br />
In total about 6,500 American sailors were<br />
imprisoned at Dartmoor, mostly naval<br />
prisoners, <strong>and</strong> impressed American seamen<br />
discharged from British vessels: about 1,000<br />
of them were black.<br />
Both the French <strong>and</strong> the American wars<br />
finished in 1815, <strong>and</strong> repatriations began<br />
but before that came to pass there was<br />
what has been dubbed a massacre of seven<br />
American prisoners (<strong>and</strong> some 60 seriously<br />
wounded) when guards opened fire at a crowd<br />
of prisoners which they believed (mistakenly)<br />
to be on the point of ‘causing an affray’.<br />
The prison then remained empty until 1850,<br />
when it was rebuilt as a convict gaol for the<br />
most hardened criminals, who were sentenced<br />
to long terms of hard labour. When the prison<br />
farm was being established in about 1852,<br />
all the prisoners' remains were exhumed<br />
<strong>and</strong> re-interred in two cemeteries behind the<br />
prison. There they still lie, more than 11,000<br />
Frenchmen <strong>and</strong> 271 Americans.<br />
Their epitaph reads:<br />
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori: a line<br />
from Horace's Odes that can be translated as,<br />
"It is sweet <strong>and</strong> proper to die for the fatherl<strong>and</strong>.”<br />
Wilfred Owen used the line in his similarly<br />
titled poem, "Dulce et Decorum Est", it is now<br />
often referred to<br />
as "the Old Lie”.<br />
JOHN FISHER<br />
Each prisoner was assigned a residence <strong>and</strong><br />
received a fixed sum for his maintenance. He<br />
was allowed to engage in any kind of business<br />
or occupation. Many taught languages or<br />
carved trinkets, chess pieces or model ships<br />
from animal bone.<br />
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Tilly <strong>and</strong> the Time Machine<br />
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We seem to be awash with celebrities<br />
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the Time Machine <strong>and</strong> I felt bad.<br />
This is a great read, with gentle <strong>and</strong><br />
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the past <strong>and</strong> only she can save him…<br />
Will they make it back in time for tea?<br />
Tilly is a resourceful, practical girl<br />
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FASHION & BEAUTY<br />
Oh dear, flyaway hair on the moors<br />
A glance at this photo of a<br />
Dartmoor pony stirs the memory<br />
back in time to the 80s, those<br />
iconic Timotei adverts, sun lit,<br />
flowing, long blond hair.<br />
A time I hasten to add, when<br />
the internet didn’t exist (hard<br />
to comprehend now I know!) <strong>and</strong><br />
the good old telly was our central<br />
interface to the rest of the world<br />
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which showed up in brick form).<br />
Sadly, it appears that Timotei is<br />
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shelves (unless I’ve unknowingly<br />
been reading Fake News again!).<br />
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ART EXHIBITIONS<br />
<strong>August</strong> & <strong>September</strong> 17<br />
John Hammond - 'A Gentle Splash' - Marine House at Beer<br />
EXHIBITION: SIGNPOST 6: A STRING<br />
OF THEORIES<br />
Until 04 Aug - Showcasing students<br />
work from around Plymouth,<br />
Peninsula Arts, Cube3 Gallery,<br />
Plymouth, 10.00am to 5.00pm.<br />
LIFE IN COLOUR<br />
Until 16 Aug - Colourful drawings<br />
<strong>and</strong> paintings by local artist Justin<br />
Clark, Town Mill Arts, The Courtyard<br />
Gallery, Lyme Regis, 10.30am to<br />
4.30pm.<br />
EVOLVER PRIZE <strong>2017</strong><br />
Until 26 Aug - Showing 100 selected<br />
works to celebrate the 100th edition<br />
of Evolver, Thelma Hulbert Gallery,<br />
Elmfield House, Honiton, 10.00am<br />
to 5.00pm.<br />
Mark Rochester - 'Hot Summer’s Afternoon'<br />
Hybrid Gallery, Honiton<br />
ENID BLYTON EXHIBITION<br />
Until 28 Aug - A fascinating insight<br />
into one of the most popular<br />
children's writers, RHS Garden<br />
Rosemoor, Great Torrington, 10.00am<br />
to 6.00pm.<br />
DINNY POLLARD'S EXHIBITION OF<br />
LANDSCAPES<br />
Until 02 Sep - Water-based oil<br />
paintings of l<strong>and</strong>scapes; the sea <strong>and</strong><br />
cliffs around this area, Axminster<br />
Arts Cafe, Axminster, 9.00am to<br />
4.00pm.<br />
INTO THE WILD ABYSS<br />
Until 03 Sep - This exhibition<br />
brings together contemporary artists<br />
Gordon Cheung, Rui Matsunag, Royal<br />
Albert Memorial Museum - RAMM,<br />
Queen Street, Exeter.<br />
Studio Gallery<br />
Exhibition<br />
Solo Show<br />
19 Aug to 30 Sep<br />
Mark Fielding’s recent<br />
paintings of Venice, Devon<br />
<strong>and</strong> Cornwall.<br />
Caffe Gallerie, 61 Cornwall Street,<br />
Plymouth PL1 1NS<br />
www.markfielding.co.uk<br />
Award Winning Art Gallery<br />
& Picture Framers<br />
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Mike Jackson<br />
13 Aug & 24 Sep - Meet charismatic<br />
artist Mike Jackson <strong>and</strong> his colourful<br />
army of loveable characters.<br />
Summer Sundays<br />
Artists painting include Mark Bell,<br />
Tamsin Evans <strong>and</strong> Louise Bougourd.<br />
See website for all event details<br />
www.haddongalleries.co.uk<br />
Find us on Torquay’s harbourside:<br />
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Peter Goodhall & Bryan Dawkins<br />
12 to 20 Aug<br />
Denise Thomas 25 to 31 Aug<br />
Rob Crisp 01 to 11 Sep<br />
Artbeat, Zan Nye & Various Artists<br />
15 to 24 Sep<br />
Favell Beven-Arti 25 Sep to 02 Oct<br />
We welcome enquiries from artists<br />
wishing to exhibit. Please contact us.<br />
01395 515551 Coburg Road, Sidmouth<br />
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John Hammond SWAc<br />
Solo Show ‘Irresistible Locations’<br />
23 Sep to 06 Oct<br />
This exhibition reflects<br />
John’s enviable task of seeking<br />
out special <strong>and</strong> inspirational<br />
spots to capture with his<br />
brushes <strong>and</strong> paint.<br />
www.marinehouseatbeer.co.uk<br />
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Susan Paradise - 'Chloe' - Kennaway, Sidmouth<br />
THE SUMMER SHOW<br />
Until 10 Sep - The 62nd annual<br />
Summer exhibition of craft work by<br />
Devon Guild Members - Free, Devon<br />
Guild of Craftsmen, Riverside Mill,<br />
Bovey Tracey, 10.00am to 5.30pm.<br />
SEA LIFE: GLIMPSES OF THE<br />
WONDERFUL<br />
Until 17 Sep - Catch a glimpse<br />
of the magic <strong>and</strong> mystery of the<br />
world under the sea, Royal Albert<br />
Memorial Museum - RAMM, Queen<br />
Street, Exeter.<br />
SUMMER EXHIBITION<br />
Until 23 Sep - The Annual multiple<br />
Artist Extravaganza! Artwave West,<br />
Morecombelake, 10.00am to 5.00pm.<br />
SEA SENSE<br />
01 Aug to 06 Aug - Art exhibition<br />
by The House Group, Harbour<br />
House, The Promenade, Kingsbridge,<br />
10.00am to 5.00pm.<br />
OTTER VALE ART SOCIETY 41ST<br />
ANNUAL EXHIBITION<br />
04 Aug to 12 Aug - The 41st Annual<br />
Art Exhibition of the Otter Vale Art<br />
Society. Admission £1:00, The Otter<br />
Vale Art Society, The Institue, Ottery<br />
St Mary, 10.00am to 5.00pm.<br />
GILL ELLIOTT SCHOOL OF<br />
PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION<br />
05 Aug to 19 Aug - A creative<br />
photographic exhibition of work<br />
from pupils of Gill Elliott, Pecorama,<br />
Underleys, Beer, 10.00am to 5.00pm.<br />
SUMMER SUNDAYS - MARK BELL<br />
06 Aug - Local artist exhibits <strong>and</strong><br />
paints in Haddon Galleries, Haddon<br />
Galleries, 6/7 Victoria Parade,<br />
Torquay, 11.00am to 4.00pm.<br />
STOKE GABRIEL ART GROUP<br />
EXHIBITION<br />
07 Aug to 13 Aug - The annual<br />
exhibition of members original<br />
artwork, Stoke Gabriel Art Group,<br />
The Village Hall, Stoke Gabriel,<br />
10.00am to 8.00pm.<br />
CONTINUED OVERLEAF...<br />
Mike Jackson - 'Torquay Knitting Circle'<br />
Haddon Galleries, Torquay<br />
Claire Smith - 'Broad S<strong>and</strong>s, South Devon'<br />
Artwave West, Morcombelake<br />
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Caroline Appleyard<br />
Until 02 Sep<br />
A solo show featuring this<br />
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ART EXHIBITIONS<br />
<strong>August</strong> & <strong>September</strong> 17<br />
Jenny Murphy - 'Party in the Terrace' - GalleryFAB, Newton Abbot<br />
Catherine Osbond - 'Summer Solstice'<br />
East Devon Art, Sidmouth<br />
DERRIFORD ART CLUB 15TH ANNUAL<br />
EXHIBITION<br />
11 Aug to 14 Aug - 15th Annual<br />
exhibition of paintings by Derriford<br />
Art Club, Derriford Art Club,<br />
Clearbrook Village Hall, Yelverton,<br />
1.00pm to 3.30pm.<br />
ART AT KENNAWAY HOUSE<br />
12 Aug to 20 Aug - A joint exhibition<br />
by Peter Goodhall <strong>and</strong> Bryan<br />
Dawkins, Kennaway House, Coburg<br />
Road, Sidmouth, 10.00am to 5.00pm.<br />
SUMMER SUNDAYS - MIKE JACKSON<br />
13 Aug - Charismatic artist exhibits<br />
<strong>and</strong> paints, Haddon Galleries, 6/7<br />
Victoria Parade, Torquay, 11.00am<br />
to 4.00pm.<br />
ART GALLERY AND GIFT SHOP<br />
16 Aug to 20 Aug - Exhibition of<br />
Original Art, Prints, Cards <strong>and</strong> range<br />
of Quality Souvenirs/Gifts, Art of<br />
the Jurassic Coast, Bomb Shelter,<br />
Beer, 10.30am to 5.00pm.<br />
ART EXHIBITION BY BRIXHAM ART<br />
SOCIETY<br />
19 Aug to 26 Aug - Exhibition of<br />
paintings, <strong>and</strong> all for sale, Brixham<br />
Society of Art, Scala Hall, Brixham,<br />
10.00am to 6.00pm.<br />
GALMPTON BARN ART GROUP 7TH<br />
ANNUAL ART EXHIBITION<br />
19 Aug to 28 Aug - An Exhibition of<br />
original paintings, Galmpton Barn<br />
Art Group, Barn Hall, Galmpton,<br />
Brixham, 10.30am to 5.00pm.<br />
BUDLEIGH SALTERTON ART CLUB'S<br />
39TH ANNUAL SUMMER EXHIBITION<br />
19 Aug to 28 Aug - Public Hall,<br />
Budleigh Salterton, 10.00am to<br />
6.00pm.<br />
SUMMER SUNDAYS - PAUL KB<br />
20 Aug - Join us as Paul KB exhibits<br />
work <strong>and</strong> paints, Haddon Galleries,<br />
6/7 Victoria Parade, Torquay,<br />
11.00am to 4.00pm.<br />
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Folk Week Exhibition 05 to 13 Aug<br />
Devon Open Studios 09 to 24 Sep<br />
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BARRY KELLY<br />
04 to 19 Aug<br />
Sunny S<strong>and</strong>s. Stormy Skies.<br />
SUMMER EXHIBITION<br />
Until 31 Aug<br />
Mixed Show by our<br />
gallery favourites.<br />
JULIE ELLIS<br />
15 Sep to 07 Oct<br />
Inner L<strong>and</strong>scapes.<br />
art prints sculpture jewellery<br />
art prints sculpture jewellery<br />
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Mark Fielding - 'Working Boat, Gr<strong>and</strong> Canal, Venice'<br />
Caffe Gallerie, Plymouth<br />
DEVON ARTIST NETWORK SUMMER<br />
SHOW<br />
21 Aug to 28 Aug - This exhibition<br />
will focus both on new <strong>and</strong><br />
established Devon artists, Devon<br />
Artist Network, RedPod Arts at The<br />
Clay Factory, Ivybridge, 10.00am to<br />
4.00pm.<br />
ART AT KENNAWAY HOUSE<br />
25 Aug to 31 Aug - By Denise<br />
Thomas - Photography <strong>and</strong> mixed<br />
media, Kennaway House, Coburg<br />
Road, Sidmouth, 10.00am to 5.00pm.<br />
Caroline Appleyard - 'Fireworks'<br />
- Mayne Gallery, Kingsbridge<br />
DRIVEN TO ABSTRACTION<br />
25 Aug to 06 Sep - Joint<br />
photographic exhibition of latest<br />
work by Tricia Scott <strong>and</strong> Lois<br />
Wakeman, Town Mill Arts, The<br />
Malthouse Gallery, Lyme Regis,<br />
10.30am to 4.30pm.<br />
SIDMOUTH SOCIETY OF ARTISTS<br />
CHARITY EVENT<br />
26 Aug - Outdoor art exhibition at<br />
Connaught Gardens in aid of FORCE<br />
& KENNAWAY HOUSE, Sidmouth<br />
Society of Artists, Connaught<br />
Gardens, Sidmouth, 10.00am to<br />
5.00pm.<br />
SEATON JUBILEE ARTISTS GROUP<br />
EXHIBITION<br />
26 Aug to 01 Sep - Local Artists<br />
Exhibit in our Station Gallery,<br />
Pecorama, Underleys, Beer, 10.00am<br />
to 5.00pm.<br />
ART AT KENNAWAY HOUSE<br />
01 Sep to 11 Sep - A solo exhibition<br />
by Rob Crisp, Kennaway House,<br />
Coburg Road, Sidmouth, 10.00am<br />
to 5.00pm.<br />
CONTROLLED BURNING<br />
05 Sep to 17 Sep - Paintings,<br />
printmaking, mixed media <strong>and</strong><br />
installation by Anita Reynolds,<br />
Harbour House, The Promenade,<br />
Kingsbridge, 10.00am to 5.00pm.<br />
THE ARTISTS' GARDEN EXHIBITION<br />
07 Sep to 24 Sep - Over 80 of the<br />
South West's most talented artists<br />
are involved in this exciting, RHS<br />
Garden Rosemoor, Great Torrington,<br />
11.00am to 6.00pm.<br />
THE TALE<br />
08 Sep to 24 Sep - A journey of<br />
discovery across Torbay, Situations,<br />
Torquay Museum, Torquay, 9.30am<br />
to 7.00pm.<br />
DEVON OPEN STUDIOS<br />
09 Sep to 24 Sep - 250 Artists<br />
Open Studios in 160 venues across<br />
Devon for 16 days in Sept, Devon<br />
Artist Network, TAAG, Teignmouth,<br />
11.00am to 6.00pm.<br />
Barry Kelly - 'Approaching South S<strong>and</strong>s' - Brownston Gallery, Modbury<br />
EXETER'S FINE ART: MODERN<br />
12 Sep to 12 Oct - This diverse<br />
selection features two works by the<br />
British Pop Art movement artist,<br />
Royal Albert Memorial Museum -<br />
RAMM, Queen Street, Exeter.<br />
Miro - 'Balance on the Horizon'<br />
Brook Gallery, Budleigh Salterton<br />
ART AT KENNAWAY HOUSE<br />
16 Sep to 24 Sep - Annual<br />
exhibition <strong>and</strong> sale by 12 local<br />
artists, Kennaway House, Coburg<br />
Road, Sidmouth, 10.00am to 5.30pm.<br />
51 High Street Honiton<br />
t. 01404 43201<br />
www.hybrid-devon.co.uk<br />
Escape<br />
Until 26 Aug<br />
Mark Rochester, Dylan Lloyd<br />
The places we go to escape; the immersive<br />
garden <strong>and</strong> cliff edge.<br />
Featured Maker: Bridget Macklin<br />
Ceramic vessels created using<br />
materials relating to the place that<br />
inspired them. Work will include<br />
vessels made with Honiton clay.<br />
ARTBEAT<br />
16 Sep to 24 Sep - A lively<br />
exhibition by 12 talented local<br />
artists, Artbeat, Kennaway House,<br />
Sidmouth, 10.00am to 5.30pm.<br />
'PENCIL ME IN' ARTISTS BIRD<br />
EXHIBITION<br />
22 Sep to 23 Sep - A art exhibition<br />
celebrating Birds, using the medium<br />
of pencil, Pencil Me In, RSPB,<br />
Exeter, 10.00am to 4.30pm.<br />
JOHN HAMMOND SWAC SOLO SHOW<br />
23 Sep to 06 Oct - New work by<br />
John Hammond, Marine House at<br />
Beer, Fore Street, Beer, 10.00am to<br />
5.30pm.<br />
SUMMER SUNDAYS - MIKE JACKSON<br />
24 Sep - Charismatic artist exhibits<br />
<strong>and</strong> paints, Haddon Galleries, 6/7<br />
Victoria Parade, Torquay, 11.00am<br />
to 4.00pm.<br />
FAVELL BEVEN-ARTI<br />
25 Sep to 02 Oct - A solo exhibition,<br />
Kennaway House, Coburg Road,<br />
Sidmouth, 10.00am to 5.00pm.<br />
GEORGE HUTCHINSON<br />
25 Sep to 02 Oct - A solo exhibition,<br />
Kennaway House, Coburg Road,<br />
Sidmouth, 10.00am to 5.00pm.<br />
E X H I B I T I O N S<br />
Budleigh: Tues-Sat 10.30-5.00 Sun 2.00-4.30<br />
www.brookgallery.co.uk 01395 443003<br />
The Return of the<br />
Modern Masters<br />
11 Aug to 16 Sep - We have signed<br />
original prints from some of the<br />
most famous artists of their time.<br />
Featuring Joan Miro, Marc Chagall,<br />
Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque,<br />
Salvador Dali, Henry Moore,<br />
Ben Nicholson, Alberto Giacometti.<br />
For this, other talks <strong>and</strong> events visit:<br />
www.brookgallery.co.uk<br />
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TONIC GALLERY<br />
Salcombe, Devon<br />
SUMMER EXHIBITION<br />
until 23 rd <strong>September</strong><br />
TONIC GALLERY<br />
Salcombe, Devon<br />
Edge of the Tide Light 25 x 17cm<br />
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Edge Latest of the collection Tide Light 25 of x 17cm works by artist<br />
Latest collection Latest of works collection Greg by Ramsden artist of works SWAc. by artist<br />
Greg Latest Ramsden collection Greg SWAc. Ramsden of works SWAc. by artist<br />
Greg www.tonicgallery.co.uk<br />
Ramsden SWAc.<br />
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www.gregramsden.co.uk<br />
07733225662<br />
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Edge of the Tide Light 25 x 17cm<br />
Latest collection of works by artist<br />
Greg Ramsden SWAc.<br />
Edge of the Tide Light 25 x 17cm<br />
www.tonicgallery.co.uk<br />
Latest collection of works by artist www.gregramsden.co.uk<br />
Greg Ramsden SWAc. 07733225662<br />
www.tonicgallery.co.uk<br />
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Established Gallery favourites<br />
including Stephen Bishop,<br />
Feona Ness, Martin Goold,<br />
Amy Albright <strong>and</strong> Jeannette Hayes<br />
PPS, will feature alongside some<br />
inspirational artworks by visiting<br />
artists: Textured aerial l<strong>and</strong>scapes<br />
by Claire Smith <strong>and</strong> narrative<br />
paintings of architectural structures<br />
<strong>and</strong> interior spaces by Lizzy<br />
Bridges. Beautiful panels coated<br />
with an oil <strong>and</strong> beeswax glaze by<br />
Bill Zima <strong>and</strong> h<strong>and</strong> embroidered<br />
pieces by Shelley Morrow.<br />
The Exhibition runs<br />
until 23 rd <strong>September</strong><br />
Open Tuesday to<br />
Saturday, 10am-5pm<br />
or by appointment<br />
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Regular Art Group 21 st Sep to 30 th Nov<br />
Abstracting the L<strong>and</strong>scape 22 nd to 23 rd Sep<br />
Silver Clay Jewellery 13 th Oct<br />
Experimenting in Mixed Media 3 rd Nov<br />
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‘Virtuoso’ - 26x20cm<br />
‘Stillness, Str<strong>and</strong>-on-the-Green’ - 80x90cm<br />
john hammond swac<br />
Irresistible Locations<br />
Solo show of 35 new paintings<br />
Saturday, 23rd <strong>September</strong> to Friday 6th October<br />
John Hammond has been represented by<br />
Marine House at Beer since 2001. This<br />
show entitled Irresistible Locations is John’s<br />
tenth solo show with Marine House. This in<br />
itself underlines the evergreen popularity of<br />
John’s work to an ever-widening body of fans.<br />
The title ”Irresistible Locations” reflects<br />
John’s enviable task of seeking out special<br />
<strong>and</strong> inspirational spots to capture with his<br />
brushes <strong>and</strong> paint. Many, such as Beer,<br />
cathedral interiors, busy wet urban streets,<br />
river scenes, Venice, Tuscany <strong>and</strong> rural<br />
Engl<strong>and</strong> are compositions he frequently<br />
revisits <strong>and</strong> is re-inspired by the location<br />
perhaps in a different season, time of day<br />
or weather; the permutations are endless!<br />
However, resting on his laurels is not John’s<br />
style, so new locations which intrigue him<br />
are very much part of his modus oper<strong>and</strong>i.<br />
For this new exhibition John has produced a<br />
body of work capturing the changing Thames<br />
just west of London. Evocative spots such<br />
as Str<strong>and</strong> on the Green near Chiswick are<br />
revealed to great delight by his deft brush<br />
work <strong>and</strong> colour selection.<br />
A second grouping which has truly excited<br />
him is his splendid studies of musicians<br />
playing in cafés <strong>and</strong> bars.<br />
Then of course there are perennial favourites<br />
such as Beer <strong>and</strong> cathedral interiors. In<br />
all, a wonderful <strong>and</strong> stimulating grouping<br />
of paintings.<br />
For a colour catalogue released in early<br />
<strong>September</strong> <strong>and</strong> an invitation to the launch<br />
day from 11.00 - 5.30 on Saturday 23<br />
<strong>September</strong>, please contact Marine House<br />
on 01297 625257. The paintings will be on<br />
our website, www.marinehouseatbeer.co.uk<br />
from early <strong>September</strong> <strong>and</strong> will be for sale<br />
from the release of the catalogue.<br />
‘Autumn, Late Afternoon’ - 30x26cm<br />
‘Making Ready’ - 26x40cm<br />
‘Patterns of Gold’ - 60x60cm<br />
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New exhibitions at the Brownston Gallery, Modbury<br />
presenting two up-<strong>and</strong>-coming Devon artists<br />
BARRY KELLY<br />
SUNNY SANDS. STORMY SKIES<br />
4 - 19 AUGUST <strong>2017</strong><br />
In this his first major solo exhibition,<br />
talented young artist Barry Kelly takes us on<br />
a journey round the coast <strong>and</strong> countryside<br />
of South Devon revisiting old childhood<br />
haunts <strong>and</strong> seeing them anew through the<br />
eyes of his young son.<br />
“Beautiful, full-sun skies radiating heat <strong>and</strong><br />
light across the bay. I love seeing how it<br />
brings out turquoise <strong>and</strong> greens, making<br />
our waters seem wonderfully inviting <strong>and</strong><br />
refreshing. In stark contrast, huge, heavy<br />
clouds form quickly after a period of good<br />
weather. The atmosphere changes as the<br />
clouds gather <strong>and</strong> turn the sea even greener.<br />
When the rain finally comes, it creates<br />
beautiful patterns on the surface of the<br />
water, seen at its best when you are in it,<br />
bobbing around, feeling completely<br />
immersed”.<br />
Each painting starts with a simple h<strong>and</strong>made<br />
sketchbook, filled with notes <strong>and</strong><br />
drawings. Barry records what he can see,<br />
hear, feel, smell <strong>and</strong> even taste when the sea<br />
spray is really splashing high. He then goes<br />
back to his studio where he begins the long<br />
process of applying gesso, glazes, textures<br />
<strong>and</strong> script into the wet paint until he has<br />
painted his way back to the sea.<br />
Contact the gallery for a colour brochure<br />
<strong>and</strong> invitation to the Private Views.<br />
The exhibitions can be seen on our website<br />
www.thebrownstongallery.co.uk<br />
Long Grass <strong>and</strong> Lemonade<br />
Floating Past<br />
Approaching South S<strong>and</strong>s<br />
JULIE ELLIS<br />
INNER LANDSCAPES<br />
15 SEPTEMBER - 7 OCTOBER <strong>2017</strong><br />
Julie Ellis is an exciting young artist who is fast making her mark. Her<br />
hauntingly beautiful oil paintings tell stories where fables <strong>and</strong> memories<br />
collide. Past <strong>and</strong> present intermingle in the hazy light where the<br />
tangible remains fleeting <strong>and</strong> unattainable. These stunning pieces are<br />
ambiguous, intriguing <strong>and</strong> totally inspiring.<br />
thebrownstongallery<br />
Far <strong>and</strong> Wide<br />
36 Church Street, Modbury, Devon PL21 0QR tel - 01548 831338<br />
www.thebrownstongallery.co.uk<br />
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Alan Cotton<br />
Oils <strong>and</strong> Works on Paper<br />
Messumʼs Fine Art<br />
12th <strong>September</strong> to 6th October <strong>2017</strong><br />
Alan Cotton has many books of drawings, watercolours <strong>and</strong> pastels, from his travels around the world. They are<br />
his source material for his oil paintings completed back in his Devon studio, but he has always been reluctant<br />
to let them go. At his Retrospective Exhibitions at Bath <strong>and</strong> Exeter, however, he included a gallery of framed<br />
drawings. None of these were for sale, but they aroused such interest about the process of drawing into the<br />
finished paintings, that he felt that works on paper, with many of the paintings resulting from them, would<br />
make a fascinating <strong>and</strong> very informative exhibition of his work.<br />
In the past many people have caught the train from Exeter St David’ <strong>and</strong> come to the opening of Alan’s<br />
Exhibition. Then spent a day in the capital, before catching an early evening train back to Exeter.<br />
The exhibition opens at 11am with an all day Private View on Tuesday 12th <strong>September</strong>, when Alan will be<br />
there to greet everyone. The exhibition then continues until Friday 6th October.<br />
Messum’s Fine Art 28, Cork Street London W1S 3LJ Tel. 020 7437 5545<br />
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The Ship Canal<br />
Bridgewater Bay to Beer<br />
by Ted Gosling with thanks to Mike Clement<br />
The Copper Bolt fixed in the wall of Axmouth church is still there, inside the<br />
Tower of the Church itself, a reminder of an age gone by. And so we come<br />
to probably the most ambitious scheme of them all, the plan for making a<br />
Ship Canal between the Bristol <strong>and</strong> the English Channel, in order to avoid the<br />
dangerous navigation round L<strong>and</strong>s End, especially in the winter.<br />
Thomas Telford was commissioned to make<br />
the survey, helped by Captain Nicholls <strong>and</strong><br />
James Green. They used the levels of Green’s<br />
earlier scheme, but even then they must have<br />
moved quickly, for their preliminary report was<br />
published in mid-<strong>August</strong>, after a meeting on the<br />
9th June 1824 in London.<br />
A subscription list was immediately opened.<br />
west of the 1809 route, <strong>and</strong> proposed a Ship<br />
Canal of 15 feet deep, 90 feet wide <strong>and</strong> capable<br />
of being navigated by ships of two hundred tons<br />
register. There would be 30 locks from Stolford<br />
in Bridgewater Bay, to Beer. The cost, including<br />
two harbours, was estimated at £1,712,844;<br />
the revenue at £210,847 p.a. <strong>and</strong> the expenses<br />
at £22,000 p.a.<br />
course skirting the shore to the village of Seaton;<br />
thence running parallel with the Axe River, to<br />
Colyford, where it crosses the River Coly, a mile<br />
south of the town of Colyton thence continuing in<br />
the vale of the Axe, by Whitford, to the River Yarty,<br />
which it crossed by an aqueduct; thence half a mile<br />
west of the town of Axminster, <strong>and</strong> across the little<br />
river Kilbridge to Hurtham, where it quits the valley<br />
<strong>and</strong> proceeds north ways a mile east of Chard, to<br />
its summit level. Hence its course is over a flat<br />
<strong>and</strong> uninteresting country for the space of twelve<br />
miles <strong>and</strong> a half, without a lock; thence it passes<br />
Thornfalcon, <strong>and</strong> across the navigable River Tone<br />
by an aqueduct, about five miles east of Taunton.<br />
The line from the Tone runs parallel, for some miles,<br />
The full report followed in December <strong>and</strong> was<br />
adopted at a meeting at the London coffee-house<br />
on the 16th. The engineers chose a line to the<br />
The parliamentary line of this intended Ship Canal,<br />
commences in the English Channel at Beer Roads,<br />
Seaton Bay, whence it takes a north - eastwardly<br />
with the intended Bridgewater, which it passes<br />
on its west side, <strong>and</strong> thence north - westwardly<br />
Wembdon, to the River Parrett, along the shore of<br />
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which it continues to Combwich where it leaves<br />
the river, <strong>and</strong> running direct to Stolford locks down<br />
into Bridgewater Bay, in the Bristol Channel.<br />
The Canal will be forty four miles <strong>and</strong> five furlongs in<br />
length; in the first eleven miles <strong>and</strong> three quarters,<br />
from Seaton Bay, it rises 245 feet, by twenty-nine<br />
locks, to low water in the Bristol Channel. By the<br />
section here described, it would seem as though<br />
the levels had been mis-stated by us, or that an<br />
error had been committed in taking them; but the<br />
apparent discrepancy is to be accounted for by the<br />
different rise of the tides in the two channels. At<br />
Bridgwater Bay in the Bristol Channel, the ordinary<br />
spring tides are 36 feet 6 inches, <strong>and</strong> the high<br />
spring tides rise 40 feet; while in Seaton Bay, in<br />
the English Channel, the ordinary Spring tides<br />
are but 12 feet, <strong>and</strong> the high spring tides seldom<br />
exceed 15 feet 6 inches, so that the latter in the<br />
Bristol Channel are higher by 2 feet than in the<br />
English channel whilst the low water line is 22<br />
Feet 7 inches below it.<br />
At the same time as he has surveyed the Exeter<br />
& Uphill line in 1769, Whitworth had studied<br />
early 1790s, Whitworth himself was called back<br />
to re-survey this old line to the Parrett, which he<br />
again found practicable.<br />
In august 1793, the idea was revived as the Chard<br />
Canal, not to be confused with the Chard Canal<br />
authorised in 1834 <strong>and</strong> later built.<br />
Another survey was then made by Josiah Easton,<br />
<strong>and</strong> a rather different <strong>and</strong> more expensive route<br />
was worked out. This was proposed as a line from<br />
the English Channel at Axmouth near Seaton, via<br />
Axminster, Chard, Ilminster, Creech St Michael,<br />
Bridgewater, Huntspill <strong>and</strong> Congresbury to<br />
the collieries at Backwell near Nailsea, where it<br />
would join another from Backwell via Yatton, to<br />
Uphill, near Weston-Super-Mare, which has also<br />
been suggested, perhaps by a different set of<br />
promoters. There would be a branch from the<br />
main line near Chard to Crewkerne, <strong>and</strong> another<br />
form West Hatch to Ruggin near West Buckl<strong>and</strong>,<br />
Wellington.<br />
These plans were brought before a meeting on<br />
29th <strong>August</strong> 1794, <strong>and</strong> approved; a Committee<br />
River Axe from the air 1972<br />
project, many meetings <strong>and</strong> much bargaining<br />
ensued between the promoters of the Chard,<br />
the Bristol <strong>and</strong> Western, (now called the Bristol<br />
<strong>and</strong> Taunton) <strong>and</strong> the Gr<strong>and</strong> Western. A year<br />
later the Chard agreed to join the Bristol <strong>and</strong><br />
Taunton near Taunton, still with the Crewkerne<br />
<strong>and</strong> Ruggin branches, the canals to be of the<br />
same depth of 5ft, <strong>and</strong> width of 30ft at top.<br />
The Chard promoters evidently thought that<br />
this agreement for a through English-Bristol<br />
Channels line might eliminate the Gr<strong>and</strong> Western<br />
scheme, for they reported in <strong>August</strong> 1795 that<br />
they “might be further extended to Wellington,<br />
<strong>and</strong> to near the town of Tiverton”. The Western<br />
committee obtained an Act, <strong>and</strong> the other two<br />
plans lay dormant.<br />
Between 1809, <strong>and</strong> 1821, several more attempts<br />
were made to revive the English <strong>and</strong> Bristol<br />
Channels Canal, <strong>and</strong> it was even suggested at<br />
one stage to reject the barge Canal, <strong>and</strong> go for<br />
a small ship canal for vessels of 120 tons, a figure<br />
which would cover most of the coasting craft at<br />
that time. This would start, not in the Parrett, but<br />
from a wet-dock at Combwich, which is above<br />
Bridgewater, <strong>and</strong> would be the mouth, <strong>and</strong> run<br />
by Bridgewater <strong>and</strong> Langport, up the Parett Vale<br />
to a summit near Chard, <strong>and</strong> down the Axe Valley<br />
past Axminster to Seaton, where there would<br />
be another dock, with a resort harbour at Beer.<br />
Except for the northern section, this line south<br />
of Langport closely followed Whitworth’s of 1769.<br />
The estimate was £1,330,084 of which £150,000<br />
was for the resort harbour at Beer.<br />
River Axe estuary <strong>August</strong> 1877<br />
The next thing of local interest is a small piece,<br />
which reads as follows; Axmouth is a station<br />
of the survey made in 1837 to ascertain the<br />
difference of level between the Bristol <strong>and</strong> English<br />
Channels, <strong>and</strong> to establish marks by which any<br />
future movement of the l<strong>and</strong> may be detected.<br />
For this purpose a Copper Bolt has been fixed<br />
in the wall of Axmouth Church, <strong>and</strong> another in<br />
a Granite block on the ground.<br />
another route across Somerset from the Parrett<br />
near Langport to Seaton, which did not however,<br />
enter the sea. During the Canal mania of the<br />
was appointed, <strong>and</strong> a decision taken to apply<br />
for an Act. Because the proposed line covered<br />
part of the same course as the Bristol - Taunton<br />
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Stepping onboard a Fred Olsen ship is like a home<br />
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I have travelled several times<br />
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The ships themselves are<br />
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places like Rouen, with its<br />
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picturesque harbour. We<br />
were lucky enough to arrive<br />
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the ease of accessing this just<br />
a short stroll from the ship, it<br />
was an utter joy!<br />
Travelling on smaller ships gives<br />
the opportunity to meet new<br />
friends easily <strong>and</strong> also means<br />
the staff onboard really do get<br />
to know you as people rather<br />
than just a cabin number. I<br />
lose count of the number of<br />
times we’ve entered a bar or<br />
restaurant on board <strong>and</strong> our<br />
favourite tipples were already<br />
being prepared with a smile.<br />
A large part of any cruise is the<br />
food, <strong>and</strong> we happily enjoyed<br />
many fine meals both in the<br />
main restaurants <strong>and</strong> the<br />
buffet. An insider tip would<br />
be to request one of the smaller<br />
restaurants for dinner as you<br />
receive a very intimate meal<br />
<strong>and</strong> service - we really enjoyed<br />
this in the Spey Restaurant on<br />
board Balmoral!<br />
The cabins, although not huge,<br />
are very comfortable <strong>and</strong><br />
afford every essential <strong>and</strong> the<br />
cabin staff are a delight, they<br />
really are there on-h<strong>and</strong> to<br />
ensure that you never want<br />
for anything.<br />
There are plenty of lounges<br />
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<strong>and</strong> watch the scenery float by<br />
or curl up with a good book,<br />
or you could attend one of<br />
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As a Fred Olsen guest I always<br />
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What other than a four-poster bed, the bedrooms are well-appointed<br />
The back of the Oxenham Arms, the moors in the background. It's<br />
pure walking country, right from outside the front door<br />
Mediaeval granite porch<br />
STAYCATION<br />
The Oxenham Arms<br />
South Zeal<br />
Devon<br />
EX20 2JT<br />
01837 840244<br />
theoxenhamarms.com<br />
The Oxenham Arms is a veritable historic gem,<br />
with a 5,000 year old menhir situated in the snug<br />
<strong>and</strong> laying claim to such illustrious visitors as Drake,<br />
Dickens, Nelson to name just a few.<br />
It's easy to overstate the importance<br />
of historic sites in Devon, <strong>and</strong> as a<br />
county, Devon has more than its<br />
fair share of these. In terms of old<br />
<strong>Devonshire</strong> inns, many over the past<br />
few decades have been destroyed<br />
by the 'gastro' craze, having interiors<br />
radically altered to cater for this<br />
The resident cat - Merlin<br />
burgeoning market. Thankfully the<br />
Oxenham Arms has survived it all<br />
<strong>and</strong> st<strong>and</strong>s out as a shining beacon<br />
to all that's great about old inns.<br />
Situated in the South Zeal, originally<br />
the building was a monastery that<br />
then became Burgoyne Manor for<br />
around 100 years, before being purchased<br />
by the Oxenham brothers<br />
in the late 1400s <strong>and</strong> subsequently<br />
being renamed Oxenham Manor. In<br />
1477 the manor <strong>and</strong> monastery were<br />
leased out <strong>and</strong> the manor became<br />
The Oxenham Arms, which 540 years<br />
later still exists today.<br />
Visitors include Sir Francis Drake,<br />
Admiral Nelson, Charles Dickens, as<br />
well as Prince Charles, The Rolling<br />
Stones <strong>and</strong> David Bowie in the present<br />
day. They've all supped in the<br />
bar <strong>and</strong> stayed in the guest rooms!<br />
If you're looking for somewhere<br />
really interesting to stay, I'd chal-<br />
Citrus cured salmon with fennel salad <strong>and</strong> chive cream<br />
Heritage Tomato Salad with Oxenham Arms sourdough bread<br />
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The snug where the menhir resides, see bottom right<br />
The ship in the left corner alludes to Captain Oxenham who was<br />
Drake's first officer<br />
History surrounds you<br />
lenge you to come up with anywhere more unique.<br />
The village of South Zeal serves as a great base<br />
for venturing out to the many interesting sites in<br />
this part of Devon. It's on the northern foothills of<br />
Dartmoor <strong>and</strong> looking out from the back garden,<br />
the moors loom up in front of you. It's true walking<br />
country here <strong>and</strong> the variety of walk available<br />
is excellent, there are river walks, moorl<strong>and</strong> walks,<br />
village walks, indeed all manner, with many historic<br />
attractions along the way such as<br />
the Tudor Church House just 1/2 mile<br />
down the road at South Tawton, or the<br />
excellent Finch Foundry at Sticklepath<br />
all reachable by foot from the Oxenham<br />
Arms, (see river Taw walk overleaf), or<br />
you could take a trip in the car up the<br />
road to Okehampton to see the castle or<br />
even a bit further to Lydford Gorge. The<br />
countryside's fantastic <strong>and</strong> at the end of<br />
the day, you return to experience a truly<br />
unique old inn.<br />
In terms of accommodation, it's all provided<br />
at a very high level, beautiful oak fourposter<br />
beds with extremely comfortable<br />
mattresses <strong>and</strong> bedding. Everything's<br />
spotlessly clean <strong>and</strong> well thought out, so<br />
your stay will be comfortable <strong>and</strong> relaxing.<br />
The imposing entrance porch to the Oxenham Arms, added in<br />
the mediaeval period to the original monastic facade<br />
In terms of their food offering, the menu<br />
provides a good range of options for<br />
the guest <strong>and</strong> food is of an excellent<br />
quality, both interesting <strong>and</strong> diverse.<br />
There are the favourites such as pie <strong>and</strong><br />
mash (the pie being<br />
homemade <strong>and</strong> delicious),<br />
or you can<br />
opt for one of the more<br />
exotic menu options. Local<br />
food provenance is excellent<br />
<strong>and</strong> in all honesty<br />
you should be very happy<br />
with your evening dining<br />
experience.<br />
A st<strong>and</strong>ing stone here in the breakfast room<br />
Homemade Oxenham Arms pie with<br />
mash, crushed peas <strong>and</strong> gravy<br />
Roast Devon chicken breast with garden There's an elephant in the room!<br />
herb gnocchi, asparagus & chicken velouté Actually it's an ancient menhir that shares the snug<br />
with you. The total height is at least 25 feet! It was<br />
carved by Neolithic Man around 5,000 years ago (1,000<br />
years before Stonehenge). It projects downwards <strong>and</strong> also<br />
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Woodbine berries (honeysuckle)<br />
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The path leading up to the moorl<strong>and</strong><br />
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River Taw walk<br />
DEVONSHIRE<br />
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This part of Devon is criss crossed with walks<br />
of all type, moorl<strong>and</strong> walks, river walks,<br />
historic walks, it's all there on the northern<br />
edge of Dartmoor <strong>and</strong> around Okehampton.<br />
This river Taw walk is an extremely pretty <strong>and</strong><br />
peaceful one, taking you from Finch Foundry's<br />
car park, down across a wooden footbridge over<br />
the river Taw, <strong>and</strong> upstream for a while, before<br />
Finch Foundry, a magnificent piece of social<br />
<strong>and</strong> engineering history that's worthy of several<br />
hours investigation alone.<br />
As always, I advise an OS map to prevent you<br />
taking the wrong route <strong>and</strong> some drinks can<br />
be h<strong>and</strong>y, as refreshment is available only at<br />
the start or end of this circular walk. Don't<br />
forget your NT cards also for getting into Finch<br />
Foundry. Editor<br />
Chaffinch on the gate - much is under tree<br />
cover, so great if it's very sunny<br />
The tea stained river Taw<br />
cutting up onto the moor. You can then either<br />
nip up further onto the moor <strong>and</strong> continue<br />
your walk to the east <strong>and</strong> return via the road<br />
or take the westward route, down the side of<br />
the valley, back down to the riverside <strong>and</strong> then<br />
return along the valley floor. If taking the latter<br />
route, it's woody <strong>and</strong> shady, so in hot weather<br />
will allow you to escape the full blast of the<br />
sun if it happens to be out at the time of your<br />
visit. And of course, don't miss popping in to<br />
The garden at Finch Foundry<br />
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Depends on<br />
your decided route.<br />
OS map extremely<br />
useful.<br />
Steep <strong>and</strong><br />
uneven, heavy going in<br />
places.<br />
It's<br />
really worthwhile<br />
taking a ruck sack<br />
with some water<br />
as refreshment's at<br />
start or end of walk.<br />
<br />
A very fine pub in Sticklepath<br />
"dogs always welcome" stated<br />
by the front door, what more<br />
would you want if you're a dog<br />
owner? You can also visit the<br />
Taw River Inn over the road who<br />
are equally dog-friendly, if you<br />
require refreshment before or<br />
after your walk.<br />
The steep descent leading down the valley side to the river below, four legs are much better than two<br />
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Great places to visit on the northern edge of Dartmoor<br />
Finch Foundry<br />
Ol' Blue Eyes in the castle The fascinating Finch Foundry with lovely gardens at the back Forging ahead!<br />
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Okehampton Castle<br />
Lydford Gorge<br />
Church House<br />
The Church House at South Tawton which is just up the road from South<br />
Zeal. Apparently it was built to stop parishioners getting drunk in the church<br />
on the church ale. Sounds like church was a lot of fun once.<br />
It's an interesting name for a Deerhound - 'Stuart', but it works,<br />
somehow? A fine creature that apparently, if he gets a whiff of a<br />
deer, is off at the speed of light <strong>and</strong> there's no stopping him, here<br />
enjoying Okehampton Castle with his canients<br />
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Why wool helps improve your sleep<br />
How we sleep <strong>and</strong> the effect this has on our time<br />
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Over the long-term our health<br />
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There are many factors to<br />
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Certainly, if you've used polyester<br />
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Sleeping in wool bedding<br />
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• The average adult requires<br />
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skin moisture levels above<br />
the recommended 30 to 50<br />
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discomfort to pull you out of<br />
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moisture content of the<br />
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Improve your home to<br />
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Expert tips from Chris Tattersall,<br />
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Ensure your room is well<br />
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The average person perspires<br />
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They seem like the most obvious ideally phones should be placed<br />
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A point of view!<br />
Nelson’s Column<br />
by JOHN FISHER<br />
Mediterranean Vistitor?<br />
SHORT SNOUTED SEAHORSES are a<br />
distinct rarity hereabouts but one was found<br />
off the coast of Devon last month by experts<br />
from Plymouth’s National Marine Aquarium,<br />
carrying out a survey of undersea grasses.<br />
Hippocampus hippocampus to give the solitary<br />
swimmer his (or her)* proper name, was<br />
spotted in a seagrass meadow which is<br />
ofttimes used as a nursery for seahorses<br />
<strong>and</strong> cuttlefish. But this species is more<br />
commonly seen in Mediterranean waters<br />
<strong>and</strong> begs the question is this another sign<br />
of ocean warming?<br />
Hidden painting discovery awaits uncovery*<br />
FASCINATING DISCOVERY OF A PAINTING<br />
at the Devon & Exeter Institution, situated<br />
on the city’s Cathedral Green.<br />
It came to light - well, almost - when a<br />
painting which usually hangs in the Outer<br />
Library – Lustleigh Cleve by the Exeter painter,<br />
Francis Stevens (1781–1823) was removed<br />
for restoration.<br />
Intriguingly, removal of the painting<br />
has revealed another canvas - previously<br />
thought to be a hollow wall - which has been<br />
overpainted. Programme Manager Emma<br />
Dunn told us “Our conservation team will be<br />
conducting an analysis to reveal its secrets<br />
<strong>and</strong> if any members have information we<br />
would love to hear from them”.<br />
Two soldiers of fortune<br />
THOSE 22,888 OLD ROMAN COINS - “The<br />
Seaton Down Hoard” - that have been doing<br />
the rounds at road shows across Devon in<br />
recent weeks are now back at the Royal Albert<br />
Memorial Museum, (RAMM) Exeter, where<br />
they are on permanent display.<br />
At the earlier Ottery St. Mary roadshow,<br />
Peter Harris, a one-time bombardier with<br />
the Royal Artillery <strong>and</strong> now a member of the<br />
town’s Heritage Society, brought along a coin<br />
he once found in Libya during his National<br />
Service days <strong>and</strong> wondered whether there<br />
was a match for it amongst the hoard.<br />
Peter (pictured right, aged 19-years) told us<br />
he found his coin whilst sunbathing on a<br />
Our picture shows A View near Crediton<br />
by F.R. Lee, which has been loaned by the<br />
Royal Albert Museum, in Exeter whilst<br />
restoration of the Francis Stevens picture<br />
is happening. Fully restored, it will appear<br />
at their forthcoming exhibition A Wild <strong>and</strong><br />
Wondrous Region shortly before Christmas.<br />
Meanwhile only the bottom edge of the overpainted<br />
canvas is visible whilst members<br />
puzzle over what the painting might depict<br />
<strong>and</strong> why their antecedents decided on a coverup.<br />
Watch this space.<br />
*Does the word uncovery (noun of to uncover)<br />
actually exist? Yes, it does. No correspondence,<br />
please -Ed.<br />
*Females lay eggs of course but here the males<br />
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beach near the ruined Roman city of Leptis<br />
Magna. “I just lay back on the s<strong>and</strong> with<br />
my h<strong>and</strong>s behind my neck <strong>and</strong> there it was,<br />
sticking into me.”<br />
Assistant Curator Tom Cadbury was able<br />
to find an identical coin from amongst the<br />
display <strong>and</strong> told Peter<br />
that it showed the<br />
head of the Emperor<br />
Constantine, (272 AD<br />
- 337 AD) the first<br />
Roman emperor to<br />
claim conversion to<br />
Christianity. He was<br />
also a man who had done his National Service<br />
when he too was a 19-year old, but this time<br />
serving the Legion - in Britannia!<br />
Who lost that little coin on that Libyan beach<br />
all those years ago will never be known -<br />
or who hid - <strong>and</strong> then never returned - for<br />
that extraordinary hoard of Roman coins<br />
in East Devon. But the reverse of many of<br />
those Constantinian coins bears the legend<br />
Gloria Exercitus, which will doubtless have<br />
comforted both Peter Harris <strong>and</strong> Constantine<br />
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But here’s the thing...<br />
Where have all the deckchairs gone?<br />
DECKCHAIRS - 250 of them to be precise<br />
- have been conspicuous by their absence<br />
along the promenade of John Betjeman’s<br />
favourite seaside resort this summer.<br />
Image courtesy Peretti Publishing<br />
The resort is Sidmouth,<br />
where East Devon<br />
District Council has<br />
invited tenders for the<br />
deckchair concession,<br />
the previous owner<br />
of said concession<br />
apparently having<br />
ab<strong>and</strong>oned it prior to<br />
the start of the current<br />
season.<br />
In Betjeman’s day of<br />
course there were two<br />
basic kinds of deckchair.<br />
They had been patented<br />
<strong>and</strong> made by one John<br />
Thomas Moore of<br />
Macclesfield (1864-1929).<br />
The first. ‘The Waverley’,<br />
was much like the kind we know today <strong>and</strong><br />
which he described in his promotional<br />
literature as “the best ship or lawn tennis<br />
chair”.<br />
The ‘Hygienic’ on the other h<strong>and</strong> was “a<br />
rocking chair, valuable for those with<br />
sluggish <strong>and</strong> constipated bowels. Its action is<br />
perfect massage without the toilsome labour.”<br />
We underst<strong>and</strong> that the Sidmouth deckchairs<br />
will be of the more conventional ‘Waverley’<br />
type.<br />
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Say goodbye to those sultry Devon nights<br />
Keeping cool in Devon in 1880, when world<br />
temperature records began<br />
WHILST CLIMATE CHANGE DENIALISTS<br />
<strong>and</strong> various other interested parties continue<br />
to kick what they call “the on-going debate”<br />
into the long grass, Devon, along with the<br />
rest of the UK is getting steadily warmer.<br />
Last year was the hottest year ever recorded<br />
for the planet <strong>and</strong> scientists say human<br />
activity is to blame. The <strong>2017</strong> figures for<br />
Devon so far can only be guessed at.<br />
Direct temperature measurements stretch<br />
back to 1880, but scientific research indicates<br />
the world was last this warm about 115,000<br />
years ago <strong>and</strong> that the planet has not<br />
experienced such high levels of carbon<br />
dioxide in the atmosphere for 4-million years.<br />
Cool solutions<br />
Now is the time perhaps for the boater to<br />
be re-born - in Sunny Devon why not? And<br />
whilst we’re at it why shouldn’t we be the<br />
first to popularise cheap, folding h<strong>and</strong> fans<br />
- sponsored by advertisers. These have been<br />
widely available <strong>and</strong> used extensively on the<br />
continent this summer, especially in the Paris<br />
Metro <strong>and</strong> Berlin’s U-bahn network - but so<br />
far unseen in the UK.<br />
Sensible, low-tech, ‘green’ solutions to keeping<br />
cool are needed <strong>and</strong> have to start somewhere<br />
with someone - so why shouldn’t that be<br />
in Devon with our hundreds of thous<strong>and</strong>s<br />
holidaymakers in 2018?<br />
Bring back the boater?<br />
There are 226 so-called ‘Blue Plaques’ in<br />
Devon - more than any other county in the<br />
South West - each of them marking either an<br />
historic event or the dwelling place of some<br />
of the county’s most interesting people.<br />
Like Sir Humphrey Gilbert, half brother of<br />
Sir Walter Raleigh, who lived at Greenway,<br />
on the Dart, <strong>and</strong> was part of a remarkable<br />
generation of <strong>Devonshire</strong> men, who combined<br />
the roles of adventurer, writer, soldier <strong>and</strong><br />
mariner.<br />
On <strong>August</strong> 5, 1583, he claimed Newfoundl<strong>and</strong><br />
as Engl<strong>and</strong>’s first overseas colony but tragedy<br />
struck during a storm on the return voyage<br />
to Plymouth aboard his ship, The Squirrel.<br />
Last sight <strong>and</strong> sound of him was when the<br />
accompanying vessel, The Golden Hind no<br />
less had come within hailing distance: he was<br />
seen sitting in the stern reading a book <strong>and</strong><br />
the crew heard him shout, “We are as near<br />
to heaven by sea as by l<strong>and</strong>!” <strong>and</strong> he lifted<br />
his palm to the skies to illustrate his point.<br />
His Blue Plaque is on the South Embankment<br />
at Dartmouth, close to the intersection of<br />
Oxford Street <strong>and</strong> contains those final words.<br />
JOHN FISHER<br />
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CANTERBURY<br />
It's where post-Roman Christianity was founded in Britain<br />
Canterbury is know for its central<br />
place in British Christianity, it's<br />
where St <strong>August</strong>ine arrived after<br />
being sent by Pope Gregory the<br />
Great to lead a mission to Christianise<br />
Saxon King Aethelberht.<br />
It was an immense help that the<br />
King's wife, Bertha (the daughter<br />
of the King of Paris) was already<br />
a Christian, worshiping at St Martin's<br />
Church in Canterbury (the<br />
oldest parish church in the entire<br />
English-speaking world - a future<br />
issue of <strong>Devonshire</strong> sees us visit<br />
St Martin's Church). <strong>August</strong>ine<br />
l<strong>and</strong>ed at the Isle of Thanet in<br />
597 <strong>and</strong> shortly afterwards King<br />
Aethelberht was converted <strong>and</strong><br />
found l<strong>and</strong> outside the city walls for<br />
<strong>August</strong>ine to establish a monastery.<br />
It's interesting to note that in the 3rd<br />
<strong>and</strong> 4th centuries many Celts had<br />
already converted to Christianity,<br />
it was the settling pagan tribes<br />
(Anglo-Saxons) post Roman evacuation<br />
that were the target of these<br />
missionaries. Canterbury has been<br />
a well-trodden pilgrim destination<br />
for centuries, with Becket's shrine<br />
being a major attraction. And of<br />
course, who hasn't heard about<br />
Geoffrey Chaucer's 14th century<br />
classic, The Canterbury Tales.<br />
Canterbury has served as both the<br />
capital of Celtic Cantiaci <strong>and</strong> also as<br />
the capital of the Jute Kingdom of<br />
Kent. (Jutes were one of the three<br />
most powerful Germanic peoples,<br />
the others being the Saxons <strong>and</strong><br />
the Angles).<br />
Canterbury's King's School is<br />
worthy of note, being the oldest<br />
extant school in the world, founded<br />
in 597 (extant - continuously open).<br />
If you enjoy visiting English towns,<br />
Canterbury is a pure delight, the<br />
shopping areas are pretty, many<br />
shops <strong>and</strong> restaurants situated in<br />
historic, half-timbered buildings<br />
<strong>and</strong> there's no shortage of places<br />
to dine, having a continental feel<br />
with much street side outdoor<br />
seating. It's very pretty, with the<br />
Ancient walkways <strong>and</strong> buildings The remains of the abbey (cathedral in the distance) Previous bishops<br />
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Don't miss taking a guided canal tour or just hiring a boat with the children<br />
The shopping is lovely <strong>and</strong> olde worlde<br />
river Stour threading through the<br />
town as well as attractive canals<br />
(guided boat rides are available),<br />
<strong>and</strong> happily, there's been not too<br />
much encroachment by 20 & 21st<br />
century buildings within the centre.<br />
The two busty ladies (top left)<br />
were found on a building right<br />
next to Canterbury Cathedral, I<br />
suspect mediaeval Engl<strong>and</strong> was<br />
both extremely trying but also full<br />
of robust humour. God protect us<br />
from the extreme political correctness<br />
we suffer today not forgetting<br />
those bile-ridden internet trolls!<br />
Canterbury is full of historical treasures,<br />
<strong>and</strong> if you love our ancient<br />
architecture, then ambling round<br />
the old city is a delightful experience.<br />
In fact, it's one of the most<br />
visited cities in the UK, <strong>and</strong> with<br />
good reason.<br />
If you haven't visited before <strong>and</strong><br />
would like to make a weekend of it,<br />
I'd advise getting in your car early<br />
in the morning whilst the roads<br />
are quiet <strong>and</strong> making haste, as it's<br />
a fair old journey, actually around<br />
230 odd miles from Exeter. Also, if<br />
you're taking a dog along, the Best<br />
Western hotel at Canterbury makes<br />
a good base from which to explore<br />
the city. But be assured, Canterbury<br />
is one of those places that you'll<br />
want to revisit again, there's so<br />
much to see <strong>and</strong> enjoy. Editor<br />
A slightly wonky building,<br />
surprising that it hasn't<br />
fallen down!<br />
Romanesque early Norman staircase at the King's School<br />
(featured in a future issue of <strong>Devonshire</strong> magazine)<br />
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1. The lovely river Stour runs through leafy parkl<strong>and</strong><br />
within the town centre, the river's crystal clear <strong>and</strong><br />
you can watch fish idly me<strong>and</strong>er in the currents.<br />
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2. Abbot Fyndon's Great Gate. The abbey gatehouse<br />
was rebuilt in 1301 to 1309 by Abbot Fyndon.<br />
Charles Ist of Engl<strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong> Queen Henrietta<br />
Marie slept in the chamber within, following<br />
their marriage in 1660. The gate suffered major<br />
damage from German bombs in WWII <strong>and</strong> had<br />
to be rebuilt.<br />
3. St Martin's Church - the first church to be founded<br />
in Engl<strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong> the oldest church in the entire<br />
English speaking world - we will feature both the<br />
abbey <strong>and</strong> St Martin's church in a future issue of<br />
<strong>Devonshire</strong> magazine.<br />
4. The canal feeding back into the river Stour.<br />
5. Smiths Almshouse 1657<br />
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6. The vaulted cellar of Eastbridge Hospital of St<br />
Thomas the Martyr. Founded in the 12th century to<br />
welcome pilgrims to the shrine of St Thomas Becket.<br />
7. The flinted front facade of Eastbridge Hospital.<br />
8. Much of Canterbury consists of half timbered<br />
houses, here you can see an elaborate king post<br />
type roof inside Easterbridge Hospital.<br />
9. The Westgate, the largest surviving city gate in<br />
Engl<strong>and</strong>, built around 1379, one of seven mediaeval<br />
gates in Canterbury, this is the last survivor.<br />
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1. Coat of arms for the<br />
Diocese of Canterbury,<br />
a diocese covering<br />
eastern Kent, founded<br />
by St <strong>August</strong>ine in 597.<br />
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3. Canterbury was accessed by six city gates in the<br />
Middle Ages, the Westgate being important as it<br />
controlled the traffic <strong>and</strong> pilgrims travelling down<br />
from London. It's certain that a Roman gate stood<br />
on the same site.<br />
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2. The City Arms of<br />
Canterbury - three<br />
black choughts, arms<br />
ascribed to Thomas<br />
Becket. 2<br />
4. Right - priories <strong>and</strong> abbeys in Devon, the lower Exe<br />
was a particularly heavily populated in this respect,<br />
with religious institutions at Cowick, Exeter, Polsoe<br />
<strong>and</strong> Marsh Barton. Map courtesy of St <strong>August</strong>ine's<br />
Abbey, Canterbury - English Heritage.<br />
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Foreground - the remains of<br />
St <strong>August</strong>ine's Abbey, with<br />
Canterbury cathedral in the distance<br />
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You'd better strike-up a canter!<br />
5. The derivation of the word 'canter' is unproven, but it was said that Canter derives from<br />
Canterbury in relation to the pilgrims attempting to get inside the city walls before the<br />
gates were closed for the evening. Pilgrims would be keen to make for establishments such<br />
as Eastbridge Hospital, which weren't hospitals in the modern sense, rather establishment<br />
providing hospitality to pilgrims in the form of food, drink <strong>and</strong> bed for the night. In mediaeval<br />
times, it would have been dangerous being left outside the city walls for the evening.<br />
6. The river Stour running through Canterbury is as clear as gin, it's a chalk stream <strong>and</strong> provides<br />
an extremely rich environment for all manner of fish. Below, dace, bottom, a pike, lurking<br />
between weeds, both spotted in the city centre parts of the river.<br />
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nature notes<br />
Swallow<br />
water bombing<br />
If you happened to have watched<br />
swallows skimming across a patch<br />
of water, you may have noticed the<br />
occasional splash, something you<br />
wouldn't expect from such precise<br />
flyers.<br />
It's always an inspirational sight to see these<br />
plucky little birds darting through the sky, when<br />
you consider how far they travel <strong>and</strong> how they<br />
carry out much of their activity on the wing,<br />
you have to be amazed by them.<br />
The occasion of observing <strong>and</strong> taking the main<br />
image was in June this year, I was at the Seaton<br />
Wetl<strong>and</strong>s nature reserve situated on the river<br />
Axe estuary on one of those evenings when<br />
the air is still <strong>and</strong> warm, <strong>and</strong> the light clean<br />
<strong>and</strong> relatively soft as the sun lowers in the sky.<br />
Looking northward from the hide, swallows<br />
could be seen racing across the marshes in<br />
their usual manner, putting on an amazing<br />
display of aeronautic skills as they plucked<br />
insects from the air.<br />
Occasionally, I noticed behavior I'd seen before,<br />
where a swallow would break off <strong>and</strong> dive for<br />
the water. Previously I'd taken this to be where<br />
they were skimming very close to the surface<br />
of the water, picking off flies hatching out<br />
of the surface film, but the camera revealed<br />
much more than could be seen easily with<br />
the naked eye.<br />
If you look at the main image above which<br />
tracks the swallow's flight (see close up on<br />
the left), it shows the swallow actually hitting<br />
the water, something you'd think was quite<br />
dangerous, considering that wet feathers are<br />
heavy, but the bird does actually manage to<br />
rise from this dunking <strong>and</strong> regain flight.<br />
And yes, upon looking-up this activity, it turns<br />
out that the swallow is bathing on the wing,<br />
by hitting the surface several times, its feather<br />
get whetted enough to be able to clean them<br />
sufficiently. I suppose this is much safer than<br />
stopping by a puddle <strong>and</strong> bathing, as the swallow<br />
would very much be prey to larger predatory<br />
birds waiting for their opportunity, particularly<br />
as the swallow would be stationary. It's hard to<br />
imagine any bird of prey being acrobatic enough<br />
to catch a swallow on the wing though, perhaps<br />
that's why their flight seems so erratic, developed<br />
to make capture impossible by predators.<br />
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Seaton Wetl<strong>and</strong>s nature reserve, you can<br />
see the octagonal building above right,<br />
which is the bird hide<br />
Camera stuff - Olympus EM1 mk2, 75-300mm<br />
lens, here a burst of images has been taken,<br />
they've then been composited in Photoshop<br />
to show the actual sequence of motion as<br />
the swallow hits the water, <strong>and</strong> subsequently<br />
flies off again, with whetted feathers. Focus<br />
was achieved in manual mode using focus<br />
peaking, h<strong>and</strong> held, electronic focussing<br />
would have proved unreliable for this<br />
sequence. Note, 2 frames are missing after<br />
leaving the water, as they would have<br />
overlapped the other images, but the speed<br />
of leaving the water is much slower as the<br />
swallow fights to regain motion.<br />
Another occasion - the moment of impact<br />
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GARDENING<br />
The Best Eating Ever<br />
by Nigel Jones<br />
If you're lucky enough to have access to a patch of ground - a hard thing<br />
these days I know, but if you do, it's possible to have the best food you're<br />
ever going to experience. No plastic wrapping your food, just natural<br />
food fresh from the ground. The fight you have in the garden I find is<br />
the proliferation of slugs that are able to bulldoze seedlings <strong>and</strong> young<br />
plants in a single night, reducing your efforts to minute green stumps.<br />
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natural environment, all the more inviting at this time of the year - Editor.<br />
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The diary of lady farmer, Janet East<br />
tablecloths, beautiful rose<br />
filled bowls, scones, jam <strong>and</strong><br />
clotted cream <strong>and</strong> chickens<br />
me<strong>and</strong>ering through the<br />
undergrowth. Too many flies<br />
around for that <strong>and</strong> stinging<br />
nettles.<br />
The telephone rings.<br />
“Good morning, Yellingham<br />
Farm”<br />
“Oh, hello, do you take single<br />
women?” Oh no not another<br />
one!<br />
‘Yes of course”. I replied.<br />
What ensued was the life<br />
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“Well you see Mrs. East, I am<br />
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after many years of work, work,<br />
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She continues...<br />
“I was in the dentist this week<br />
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magazine <strong>and</strong> I was smitten. It<br />
was amazing, the photographs<br />
were so good, there was<br />
bunting everywhere in the<br />
orchards, ladies sat under<br />
parasols at tables dressed with<br />
Visit the countryside... it's idyllic!<br />
linen tablecloths, drinking<br />
elderflower cordial, making<br />
floral table decorations, sheep<br />
<strong>and</strong> cattle grazing in the<br />
background. I thought... I need<br />
some of this idyllic country life -<br />
what better place than a farm”.<br />
This lady sounded so lovely.<br />
You know what it is like, you<br />
have this vision of what a<br />
person looks like from the<br />
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accent. I imagined her to be<br />
in her 60’s, shy, but someone<br />
who had dedicated her life to<br />
others. There was a hint of her<br />
being slightly old fashioned but<br />
totally unselfish with sound<br />
morals. I was to be proved right.<br />
I tried to explain that we were a<br />
working farm <strong>and</strong> whilst in my<br />
eyes it is beautiful <strong>and</strong> idyllic,<br />
magazines often depict life in<br />
the countryside as a dream<br />
to be realised, but things are<br />
not always so perfect. Oh my<br />
goodness, she even asked me<br />
if I made embroidered linen<br />
pot covers for my homemade<br />
jam. Heavens... I haven’t even<br />
made any homemade jam this<br />
year, let alone made linen jam<br />
pot covers! I was not put off<br />
<strong>and</strong> was so keen to welcome<br />
this lovely lady to Yellingham<br />
Farm <strong>and</strong> try to match her<br />
expectations <strong>and</strong> let her<br />
experience our wonderful, yet<br />
hard working life. She booked<br />
there <strong>and</strong> then. As I put the<br />
phone down, I began to worry<br />
to death that I could not live<br />
up to the image that these<br />
glossy magazines portray. Yes,<br />
I have a beautiful orchard but<br />
it does not have lovely tables,<br />
The day dawned. Christine<br />
arrived. Small car, dark blue,<br />
immaculately clean <strong>and</strong> as I<br />
was soon to appreciate, just<br />
like it’s owner (not small <strong>and</strong><br />
blue though!). Christine was<br />
in her 60’s, very grey hair,<br />
bordering on white, nice bob<br />
haircut, rather on the portly<br />
side, glasses, traditional “A”<br />
line linen skirt <strong>and</strong> floral short<br />
sleeved cotton top <strong>and</strong> s<strong>and</strong>als.<br />
At this time of the year the<br />
entrance to the farm does look<br />
lovely with huge colourful<br />
hanging baskets everywhere,<br />
pots of begonias <strong>and</strong> fuchsias,<br />
intermingled with my favourite<br />
gorgeous smelling roses. It is<br />
a real picture. Christine’s first<br />
impression of the farm was<br />
good <strong>and</strong> she was smiling from<br />
ear to ear, like a young child<br />
experiencing her first holiday.<br />
When making the booking<br />
she made it very clear that she<br />
wanted to participate in farm<br />
life <strong>and</strong> be involved as much as<br />
possible but, having met her, I<br />
was not sure how easy this was<br />
going to be as her constitution,<br />
both mental <strong>and</strong> physical, was<br />
unlikely to hold up to the tasks<br />
I had in mind. The weather<br />
was good <strong>and</strong> the shearer was<br />
booked <strong>and</strong> the hay was nearly<br />
ready to bale. Two hot, sweaty,<br />
long jobs. Oh dear, maybe, I<br />
need to re-think <strong>and</strong> consider<br />
the benefits of making bunting<br />
in the orchard after all.<br />
After checking in, a lovely cup<br />
of tea, <strong>and</strong> a general chat, I<br />
asked Christine if she would<br />
like a quick walk around<br />
the farm with me to get her<br />
bearings <strong>and</strong> underst<strong>and</strong><br />
what we farm <strong>and</strong> what was<br />
planned for the week. She was<br />
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so excited. The first hurdle was<br />
that she didn’t own a pair of<br />
welly boots <strong>and</strong> certainly never<br />
wore trousers. Wellies I could<br />
sort, trousers, not a hope in<br />
hell, she was a generous size<br />
16 - good job her skirts met the<br />
top of the wellies otherwise<br />
there were going to be a few<br />
leg issues. We walked along<br />
the River Tale which borders<br />
the farm, with 4 border collies<br />
<strong>and</strong> Tilly, my beautiful jet<br />
black sprocker, the Swallows<br />
following us, dipping up <strong>and</strong><br />
down <strong>and</strong> it was pretty “idyllic”.<br />
I daren’t break this magical<br />
moment for Christine by telling<br />
her that tomorrow was going to<br />
be hard, smelly work - we were<br />
shearing.<br />
The morning was beautiful -<br />
not a cloud in the sky. The<br />
shearers were setting up<br />
<strong>and</strong> my guest told me how<br />
excited she was to be watching<br />
shearing for the first time in<br />
her life - perhaps she thought<br />
once it was over, I would be<br />
sat spinning in the evening<br />
<strong>and</strong> then knitting a beautiful<br />
jumper. I told myself not to<br />
worry <strong>and</strong> broke the news that<br />
it was all h<strong>and</strong>s on deck <strong>and</strong><br />
that she would be rolling wool<br />
with me - it fell on deaf ears<br />
as she had no idea what was<br />
in store. Still dressed in a skirt<br />
<strong>and</strong> pretty blouse we made our<br />
way down to the barn which<br />
was extremely noisy with every<br />
sheep baaing as loud as they<br />
could. She was clearly deafened<br />
by the sound. I quickly showed<br />
her how to roll a fleece <strong>and</strong> by<br />
the horrified look on her face<br />
this was not something she was<br />
not going to take to easily. The<br />
2 shearers were working fast,<br />
it was hot, <strong>and</strong> it wasn’t long<br />
before the fleeces were coming<br />
off the sheep quicker than<br />
we could roll them. Christine<br />
was trying hard, but she was<br />
rolling 1 fleece to my every<br />
4 <strong>and</strong> rather than being nice<br />
<strong>and</strong> tight, they were huge <strong>and</strong><br />
loose. There was also another<br />
problem, she started to scratch<br />
her arms <strong>and</strong> soon they were<br />
very red <strong>and</strong> looked sore. I<br />
quickly recognised she had a<br />
problem - she was allergic to<br />
wool <strong>and</strong> particularly lanolin.<br />
I had to limit the damage so<br />
I suggested that I carried<br />
on rolling wool on my own<br />
<strong>and</strong> would she just like to go<br />
indoors, wash <strong>and</strong> change<br />
<strong>and</strong> then keep the shearers<br />
plied with cold drinks. With<br />
a great big smile on her face,<br />
she returned to the yard with<br />
a tray of cold drinks <strong>and</strong> for<br />
the next hour pestered the<br />
shearers every 10 seconds to<br />
see if they wanted more drinks.<br />
Bless her, she was so concerned<br />
for their welfare as the sweat<br />
dripped from their faces onto<br />
the sheep - even if they were<br />
fed up with her concerns, they<br />
never showed it. In the quiet of<br />
the evening, I saw her sat in the<br />
orchard, doing nothing, totally<br />
content with all my dogs sat at<br />
her feet, no tables with linen<br />
tablecloths, floral china tea<br />
service <strong>and</strong> homemade cakes...<br />
Just total peace <strong>and</strong> quiet.<br />
Over the next couple of<br />
days, the hay got made, the<br />
bales stacked onto trailers<br />
<strong>and</strong> brought in <strong>and</strong> another<br />
hard, long farming task was<br />
completed successfully in<br />
beautiful weather. Given it<br />
was impossible to think that<br />
Christine could even lift one<br />
small hay bale, she relished the<br />
task once more of supplying<br />
drinks to the lads as the heat<br />
of the sun took its toll. That<br />
evening I joined her <strong>and</strong> sat<br />
watching the sun set over<br />
our pond below the orchard.<br />
Christine’s week on the farm<br />
was drawing to a close. Had she<br />
enjoyed it? Did the expectations<br />
she dreamed of when she was<br />
reading the glossy magazine in<br />
the dentists come to fruition?<br />
I wanted to ask her, but at that<br />
moment down at the pond,<br />
something special was going on<br />
in her mind which I didn’t want<br />
to disturb. We sat in silence for<br />
a while longer before she said<br />
in her quiet soft voice:<br />
“Thank you Janet for sharing a<br />
tiny part of your life with me”.<br />
A pause. Oh no here comes the<br />
truth - she’s disappointed. I<br />
have shattered her image of the<br />
“idyllic countryside” she had set<br />
her heart on experiencing.<br />
“It has been more beautiful <strong>and</strong><br />
fulfilling than I could have<br />
imagined. I may not have been<br />
much help to you, but letting<br />
me be the drinks monitor made<br />
me feel useful <strong>and</strong> wanted. I<br />
Janet East is the proprietor<br />
at Yellingham Farm, also<br />
running a Farmhouse B&B<br />
establishment<br />
www.yellinghamfarm.co.uk<br />
01404 850272<br />
now realise the magazine<br />
was selling a dream. You<br />
have let me share in what the<br />
countryside is really all about”.<br />
I felt humbled as this dear lady<br />
was putting her old suitcase<br />
into the boot of her car, dressed<br />
in yet another "A" line skirt<br />
<strong>and</strong> pretty blouse. The dogs<br />
had come to love her <strong>and</strong> were<br />
fussing around her feet <strong>and</strong> I<br />
felt that she had formed a real<br />
bond with them <strong>and</strong> with us. I<br />
had a little present for her, no,<br />
not bunting or homemade jam,<br />
but the wellies she had worn<br />
all week. She was delighted -<br />
again like a child receiving a<br />
wonderful Christmas present.<br />
Maybe I need to write to that<br />
glossy <strong>and</strong> tell them what it’s<br />
really like at the sharp end -<br />
probably wouldn’t get printed<br />
<strong>and</strong> it wouldn’t attract lovely<br />
people like Christine. I wonder<br />
if she ever wore those wellies<br />
again?<br />
PS A week later I received a<br />
beautiful David Austin rose<br />
called the Shepherdess. The<br />
card just said Thank You. C<br />
x - Janet<br />
FARM CALENDAR<br />
AUGUST<br />
• Wean all the lambs from<br />
the ewes<br />
• Monitor the ewes closely,<br />
particularly their udders as<br />
their milk subsides<br />
• Apply Anti Fly Strike Spray<br />
to all sheep - Fly Strike is<br />
horrendous<br />
• Purchase straw for the<br />
winter - boys, you can stack<br />
it this year, I’m 60 now!<br />
• Top fields where grass has<br />
got too long <strong>and</strong> straggly.<br />
• Advertise <strong>and</strong> sell pedigree<br />
lambs<br />
• Trim back hedges around<br />
all gateways<br />
• Enjoy the sun <strong>and</strong> the<br />
garden during this<br />
relatively quiet month on<br />
the farm - it will probably<br />
rain!<br />
SEPTEMBER<br />
• Carefully inspect all ewes<br />
in preparation for tupping<br />
next year, particularly<br />
udders, teeth <strong>and</strong> feet<br />
• Cull any ewes which had<br />
problems lambing or too<br />
old<br />
• Purchase new Black Welsh<br />
Mountain Rams - new<br />
bloodline required<br />
• Start to select lambs for<br />
slaughter - check weight,<br />
fat class <strong>and</strong> confirmation<br />
• Book Hedge Trimmer ready<br />
to do all hedges in October<br />
• Inspect <strong>and</strong> dig out all<br />
ditches before the winter<br />
<strong>and</strong> rains arrive<br />
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My Bitless Journey<br />
when an adult wasn’t watching!<br />
But as an adult I had always used<br />
a bit until last year. Then one day<br />
(<strong>and</strong> I do actually feel a bit stupid<br />
for not thinking of this earlier) I<br />
asked myself ‘Why exactly do I<br />
ride with a bit?’. And I realised<br />
that it was because I always had,<br />
that’s what horses’s are ridden in,<br />
it’s traditional <strong>and</strong> that’s what I’d<br />
grown up with. I was working with<br />
a new horse called Gemma who<br />
was petrified of the bridle being<br />
put on <strong>and</strong> being taken off, I was<br />
training her to accept the bit <strong>and</strong><br />
gently, slowly it was working. Until<br />
a light bulb went on <strong>and</strong> instead of<br />
training her to accept something<br />
she clearly didn’t like, I thought I<br />
should make it even better for her<br />
<strong>and</strong> not use the bit at all.<br />
mouthpieces <strong>and</strong> tried my best to<br />
make things better by designing<br />
bits that were more comfortable.<br />
But I had completely missed the<br />
point about not using them at<br />
all! Because horses wear bits, it’s<br />
tradition, that’s what I’d always<br />
done <strong>and</strong> bitless bridles are those<br />
inappropriate long-shanked<br />
hackamores or cross unders that<br />
don’t release the pressure quick<br />
enough, right?<br />
I was wrong <strong>and</strong> I am happy to<br />
admit it, despite having hardly<br />
any behaviours from the horses<br />
that they found the bits aversive,<br />
a couple of horses who would<br />
rub their noses on their forelegs<br />
stopped this immediately. And<br />
not one horse has been different<br />
to ride bitless compared to when<br />
they wore a bit, showing that<br />
having metal in their mouth<br />
was unnecessary after all. There<br />
are numerous styles of bitless<br />
bridle available, they don’t all<br />
create huge pressure on the head<br />
<strong>and</strong> because we generally don’t<br />
pull on the reins to steer <strong>and</strong><br />
stop anyway, the riders can still<br />
communicate in exactly the same<br />
way as before, just without the risk<br />
of causing accidental pain to the<br />
horse’s mouth.<br />
Happy Riding!<br />
Natalie x<br />
I have never really been one for<br />
gadgets with horses, I stopped<br />
using any form of noseb<strong>and</strong> other<br />
than a loosely fitted cavesson<br />
about 18 years ago, asking myself<br />
‘Why is the horse opening its<br />
mouth?’ <strong>and</strong> removing the cause,<br />
rather than just strapping it shut.<br />
I also stopped using stables for<br />
routine management around 20<br />
years ago, only using them for<br />
medical reasons or to get ready<br />
for riding. I have successfully<br />
competed in county level showing,<br />
affiliated show jumping <strong>and</strong><br />
national championship level 2<br />
day eventing with horses that<br />
have lived in a field 24/7. Even<br />
the night before a competition!<br />
For riding without a bit, I was<br />
relatively slow on the uptake. As<br />
a young kid I would sometimes<br />
ride without a saddle <strong>and</strong> bridle<br />
but this was usually just for fun<br />
Then, better late than never, I didn’t<br />
look back. Gemma went from a<br />
horse who would shy away from<br />
even a headcollar to walking up<br />
to me in the field <strong>and</strong> practically<br />
putting it on herself. Her once<br />
untouchable ears became a<br />
source of pleasure for her, she<br />
now loves having them rubbed.<br />
So now the penny had well <strong>and</strong><br />
truly dropped for me <strong>and</strong> I started<br />
riding another horse in Gemma’s<br />
bitless bridle. And then shortly<br />
after this I decided that all those<br />
expensive bits that I had made<br />
for all the horses were going<br />
to be hung on a hook. All that<br />
effort I went to designing <strong>and</strong><br />
manufacturing bits to make the<br />
horses more comfortable was<br />
thrown out of the window. I had<br />
looked at all the bits available<br />
with their joints that protruded<br />
in the roof of the mouth, the<br />
chunky metal <strong>and</strong> asymmetrical<br />
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by Ken Watson<br />
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omeone once said that if Man<br />
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bird covers, mostly, feathered flying<br />
creatures, but within that group<br />
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So consider the song bird.<br />
Having survived the night, food<br />
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Here they differ, some specialise<br />
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for food is a continuous pressing<br />
urgency of the day, <strong>and</strong> may even<br />
involve dashing home with as much<br />
food as can be carried, <strong>and</strong> all the<br />
time looking over his shoulder for<br />
his h<strong>and</strong>s keeping his own kind<br />
away <strong>and</strong> carving out a territory<br />
of his own.<br />
They manage according to their<br />
lifestyles. Some are solitary feeders,<br />
creeping under foliage like the wren,<br />
others feed in groups <strong>and</strong> either<br />
rely on one of their number to spot<br />
danger or appoint a lookout who<br />
has a vocabulary indicating levels<br />
of danger; at the top warning all<br />
make a run for it. Even this has<br />
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branch is vulnerable; <strong>and</strong> certain<br />
wily birds, often Corvids or Parrots,<br />
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when everyone scarpers, calmly<br />
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by Richard Woodward<br />
a great height onto a hard rock to<br />
crack it open, it is ingenuity all the<br />
way. We have all seen the seagull<br />
drumming on the grass to imitate<br />
rain <strong>and</strong> trick worms into coming<br />
to the surface, but others beat that<br />
for ingenuity. Crows have actually<br />
used us by placing a hard nut on a<br />
pedestrian crossing when lights are<br />
red for traffic to crush it <strong>and</strong> then<br />
retrieving it when the red comes<br />
round again. In my young days milk<br />
bottles with cardboard lids were left<br />
on the doorsteps <strong>and</strong> tom tits soon<br />
learned to peck them open <strong>and</strong> eat<br />
the cream, but not the milk which<br />
they could not digest. Yet the most<br />
macabre is the vultures in Zimbabwe<br />
who perch on the fence bordering<br />
a minefield <strong>and</strong> wait for a deer to<br />
tread on a l<strong>and</strong>mine, then flying in<br />
for the feast.<br />
predators determined to make him<br />
part of their daily diet. Think of this<br />
<strong>and</strong> you have part of the picture,<br />
<strong>and</strong> if he is a songbird never mind<br />
about enemies, he has enough on<br />
so they have a good look round<br />
before any burial or even carry out<br />
a false burial or sneak back <strong>and</strong><br />
re-bury. I tell you it’s everyone for<br />
itself out there.<br />
seeds ripen. Yet some foods need<br />
preparation. From the crow who<br />
takes a hard morsel <strong>and</strong> dunks<br />
it in water, to the gull who, often<br />
repeatedly, drops a mollusc from<br />
On top of all this the song bird must<br />
practise his song. It is said that<br />
nestlings listen to their father’s song<br />
from the age of two days <strong>and</strong> learn.<br />
His song is important <strong>and</strong> must be<br />
perfect. But the search for food is<br />
the continuous pressing urgency of<br />
the day. The bird must eat well to<br />
be sexually desirable, to have the<br />
vigour to control territory or keep<br />
up with the flock, dodge predators,<br />
or when the merciless cold of the<br />
winter night settles on his roost,<br />
to have enough fat on his bones to<br />
keep him warm <strong>and</strong> survive. Then<br />
his day will have been a success<br />
against all the odds that nature can<br />
throw at him. - K. Watson<br />
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drawdown plans have no limit on<br />
cash withdrawals <strong>and</strong> therefore this<br />
situation is ripe for things to get out<br />
of control. One of the main risks<br />
of drawdown plans is the risk of<br />
ruination (the risk of outliving your<br />
assets), whereby a combination of<br />
unfavourable investment conditions<br />
<strong>and</strong> excessive withdrawals could<br />
wipe-out your pension fund<br />
completely <strong>and</strong> leave you without<br />
a vital source of retirement income.<br />
A regular check on the level of your<br />
income <strong>and</strong> an analysis of how<br />
sustainable your current income<br />
is in existing investment conditions<br />
is therefore vital to your financial<br />
situation. An annual check up<br />
can indicate if you are taking too<br />
much out of the pension pot <strong>and</strong><br />
can help you to decide on a level<br />
of withdrawal which attempts to<br />
be both adequate <strong>and</strong> sustainable<br />
over the next 12 months. Veering<br />
off track can mean that you start to<br />
eat into your pension pot <strong>and</strong> this<br />
might be painful to put right if the<br />
situation is neglected for too long.<br />
Keeping track of your income is<br />
extremely important, especially if<br />
you need your fund to be available<br />
to a surviving spouse.<br />
Current longevity<br />
tables are<br />
demonstrating<br />
that life expectancy<br />
continues to<br />
increase<br />
Current longevity tables are<br />
demonstrating that life expectancy<br />
continues to increase. For instance,<br />
currently, a couple aged 65, in good<br />
health, would need their pension<br />
drawdown plan to provide income<br />
for at least *31 years <strong>and</strong> there is a<br />
50% chance of living beyond this<br />
point. As you can see, retirement<br />
is a long term situation <strong>and</strong> your<br />
investment <strong>and</strong> pensions may have<br />
a long term investment horizon. As<br />
we all know, an awful lot can change<br />
both politically, legislatively <strong>and</strong><br />
economically over 3 or 4 years. Over<br />
the longer term you may even find<br />
yourself in a completely different<br />
financial l<strong>and</strong>scape. The world is a<br />
very different place now compared<br />
with 10 years ago. Sometimes a<br />
financial check-up can prevent you<br />
taking a very detrimental course<br />
of action that could lead to tax<br />
difficulties, investment nightmares<br />
<strong>and</strong> inflexibility in your retirement<br />
income. Therefore, taking stock<br />
regularly is important. In terms of<br />
investment funds, again, what was<br />
suitable years ago might not be the<br />
best place to be invested at the<br />
moment. In later retirement, you<br />
may not be able to deal with asset<br />
allocation <strong>and</strong> rebalancing funds<br />
regularly <strong>and</strong> therefore, unbeknown<br />
to you, excessive <strong>and</strong>/or unwanted<br />
risk may creep into your pension<br />
fund.<br />
Moreover, it's important to be able<br />
to compare your options regularly -<br />
although annuity rates are not very<br />
attractive at the moment, I dare say,<br />
that, sometime in the future, this<br />
product might become a good deal<br />
more attractive. Once interest rates<br />
move into an upward cycle, annuity<br />
rates might become more attractive.<br />
As you go through retirement you<br />
are also more likely to suffer health<br />
issues which may qualify you for<br />
enhanced/impaired annuities <strong>and</strong><br />
therefore it's important to continue<br />
to consider all retirement options.<br />
For some clients, simply dealing<br />
with the investment dem<strong>and</strong>s of<br />
drawdown might become too<br />
burdensome in later retirement.<br />
For some, however, the death<br />
benefits available under drawdown<br />
Helen Mulvaney<br />
BA (Hons), Dip M, DipPFS<br />
Proprietor of<br />
RICHMOND INDEPENDENT<br />
will continue to be the most<br />
attractive option for them <strong>and</strong><br />
therefore growing <strong>and</strong> nurturing<br />
the fund will be important to family<br />
wealth <strong>and</strong> might be a strong<br />
reason to remain in drawdown.<br />
The important point is that no-one is<br />
the same; different situations, family<br />
needs, health, tax <strong>and</strong> a whole heap<br />
of other issues means that your<br />
financial situation is unique to you<br />
<strong>and</strong> needs to be regularly reviewed<br />
<strong>and</strong> updated <strong>and</strong> it's probably a<br />
lot less painless than a trip to the<br />
dentist !<br />
Helen Mulvaney<br />
* Information for Just (enhanced <strong>and</strong><br />
impaired annuity providers) based<br />
on female life age 65 <strong>and</strong> in good<br />
health.<br />
The article is for information only,<br />
it is recommended that you seek<br />
independent advice before taking<br />
any action.<br />
Helen has been advising<br />
clients in the East Devon<br />
for the past 26 years <strong>and</strong><br />
specialises in the provision<br />
of retirement <strong>and</strong><br />
investment advice.<br />
richmondindependent.co.uk<br />
helen@richmond-ifa.com<br />
01395 512166<br />
Richmond Independent is a trading name of<br />
Investment & Financial Solutions Partnership<br />
LLP which is authorised <strong>and</strong> regulated by the<br />
Financial Conduct Authority<br />
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