Emma Hamilton’s family
WITH TRAFALGAR DAY AND NELSON very much in evidence in this issue it seems entirely appropriate to introduce the readers of this column to Lily…
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Rule Britannia!
AT FIRST GLANCE IT MAY NOT LOOK MUCH LIKE A SHIP, perched high and dry on a hill overlooking Devon’s beautiful Dart estuary but this…
The Bishop and the Business of Slavery
In 1863, 30 years after parliament abolished slavery in the British Empire and at the height of the American civil war to end slavery, the…
What’s in a name?
WESTWARD HO! in North Devon (population 2,112) is the only place in Great Britain with an exclamation mark in its name. It derives from the…
The Sea Shall Not Have Them
SURVIVAL TIME for a fighter pilot who baled out into the winter sea off the coast of Devon during the early years of WW2 could…
Burying cables in Devon
IT’S ALL ABOUT REDUCING VISUAL IMPACT on the environment and it’s the start of a £500-million initiative being led by the National Grid. New design…
There were kippers then…
HITACHI ARE BUSY in Japan making the component parts of 29 new trains to serve the West Country. Comes 2018 the first of this new…
Dust
THE SPANISH PLUME that did so much to sodden our summer this year we could have done without. But at least we were spared the…
Portillo’s brush with Exmouth
MICHAEL PORTILLO’S popular BBC television series ‘Great British Railway Journeys’ pulled into sunny Exmouth this summer and met up with the well-known Exmouth artist Ray…
Devon’s bridges poo-poohed
Why not the Clapper bridge at Postbridge for instance? NOT ONE of Devon’s many beautiful bridges has made it onto the Top Ten list published…
Those magnificent belles in their bathing machines
THE ITSY BITSY TEENIE WEENIE yellow polka dot bikini first came to the attention of the bubble-gum generation of the early 60s via teenage heart-throb…
Ducks in danger
FEEDING BREAD TO DUCKS is a pastime enjoyed by many but it is bad for them, says the Canal & River Trust, who are responsible…