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1957 Devon General AEC Reliance, VDV 798, seen here at the Mid Devon classic bus running day held at Tiverton on 1/9/24.
We headed down to Devon on the bike for a couple of days to enjoy the good weather. This is Dartmouth harbour.
Former Royal Blue Plaxton bodied Leyland Leopard 2454 (SFJ 154R) is seen here in Devon General dual purpose livery inside Torquay depot. The poppy red band was later continued around the front.
Still going over some Sony images from a few years back. As photographers we love certain types of light, but sometimes when we travel we arrive at places at midday with blue skies, so we have to make do.
Still really like this though as photos are memories too...
Plymouth is a port city and unitary authority in South West England. It is located on the south coast of Devon, approximately 36 miles (58 km) south-west of Exeter and 193 miles (311 km) south-west of London. It is bordered by Cornwall to the west and south-west.
Plymouth's early history extends to the Bronze Age when a first settlement emerged at Mount Batten. This settlement continued as a trading post for the Roman Empire, until it was surpassed by the more prosperous village of Sutton founded in the ninth century, now called Plymouth. In 1620, the Pilgrim Fathers departed Plymouth for the New World and established Plymouth Colony, the second English settlement in what is now the United States of America. During the English Civil War, the town was held by the Parliamentarians and was besieged between 1642 and 1646.
Throughout the Industrial Revolution, Plymouth grew as a commercial shipping port, handling imports and passengers from the Americas, and exporting local minerals (tin, copper, lime, china clay and arsenic). The neighbouring town of Devonport became strategically important to the Royal Navy for its shipyards and dockyards. In 1914, three neighbouring independent towns, viz. the county borough of Plymouth, the County Borough of Devonport, and the urban district of East Stonehouse were merged, becoming the County Borough of Plymouth. In 1928, it achieved city status. During World War II, due to the city's naval importance, the German military targeted and partially destroyed the city by bombing, an act known as the Plymouth Blitz. After the war, the city centre was completely rebuilt. Subsequent expansion led to the incorporation of Plympton, Plymstock, and other outlying suburbs, in 1967.
The city is home to 262,100 (mid-2019 est.) people, making it the 30th-most populous built-up area in the United Kingdom and the second-largest city in the South West, after Bristol. It is governed locally by Plymouth City Council and is represented nationally by two MPs. Plymouth's economy remains strongly influenced by shipbuilding and seafaring but has tended toward a service economy since the 1990s. It has ferry links to Brittany (Roscoff and St Malo) and to Spain (Santander). It has the largest operational naval base in Western Europe, HMNB Devonport, and is home to the University of Plymouth. Plymouth is categorized as a Small-Port City using the Southampton System for port-city classification.
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Bright green fields, sheeps, beautiful beaches and sea, all the elements of Devon seems to be together here!
Croyde, Devon, England, UK
Lynmouth is a village in Devon, England, on the northern edge of Exmoor. The village straddles the confluence of the West Lyn and East Lyn rivers, in a gorge 700 feet (210 m) below Lynton, which was the only place to expand to once Lynmouth became as built-up as possible. Both villages are connected by the Lynton and Lynmouth Cliff Railway which works two cable-connected cars on gravity, using water tanks.
The two villages are a civil parish governed by Lynton and Lynmouth Town Council. The parish boundaries extend southwards from the coast and includes hamlets such as Barbrook and small moorland settlements such as East Ilkerton, West Ilkerton and Shallowford.
The South West Coast Path and Tarka Trail pass through, and the Two Moors Way runs from Ivybridge in South Devon to Lynmouth; the Samaritans Way South West runs from Bristol to Lynton and the Coleridge Way from Nether Stowey to Lynmouth.
Lynmouth was described by Thomas Gainsborough, who honeymooned there with his bride Margaret Burr, as "the most delightful place for a landscape painter this country can boast".
Stained glass window in memory of Alfred Northey Harvey fourth son of Sir Robert Harvey, knight , and Alida Marie, Lady Harvey his deceased wife , born 6th August 1892 , died 23rd March 1899
His father wrote "On August 6th of this year, our dear son Alfred Northey was born. Alfred, generally called "Baby," and by dear "Tito" and Emile, "Jimmy," from his birth occasioned intense delight to the boys and to Lilita, and has been a bright ray of sunshine in our house, and even now in the dark days so soon after dear "Tito's" death, he is a source of consolation to us, and we thank God for leaving him with Emile and Lilita to be a solace in our sorrow"
(His father Sir Robert Harvey JP DL 1847 – 1930) was born in nearby Truro to Samuel Harvey, a tailor. He was apprenticed to William's engineering works at Truro and in 1872 went to Bolivia to work in the Tocopilla Copper Mines . In 1875 he moved to Iquique, which was then in Peru, became involved in the production of saltpetre, becoming a prominent British producer in Bolivia, Peru and Chile
During the War of the Pacific, Harvey was captured at the Battle of San Francisco. Due to his expertise in the nitrate industry, he was recruited to work for the Chilean government.
In 1881, when the Chilean government privatized the nitrate industry, Harvey became managing partner for the firm of J. T. North and Harvey, which he had established with John Thomas North, who was often called the Nitrate King.
c1880 he married in Iquique Alida MarÃa daughter of Émile Godefroy of Pessac, Bordeaux who had made millions in Peru also as a saltpetre producer.
Children - 1 daughter & 5 sons
1. child born / buried in Truro
2. Dame Alida Luisa (Lilita) 1883 - 1943 a noted harpist m Sir Harry Ernest Brittain 1873 — 1974 of Headley Hants, journalist and Conservative MP who m2 1961 Muriel Leslie Dixon
3. Robert Godefroy (Tito) 1884 - 1895 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/544S0y8e5R
4. Sir Samuel Emile DL 1885 – 1959
5. Alfred Charles b/d 1891 buried at Brompton cemetary
6. Alfred Northey 1892 - 1899
In March, 1886, Alida became ill, and they decided to return via relatives in Bordeau to England. Later after living in Kensington 1887 - 89 Sir Robert became a landowner in Cornwall and Devon buying the Trenoweth estate and many properties in the Totnes area including Dundridge House in the parish of Harberton in the Spring of 1890 . They also had a house in London & frequent trips abroad
In 1897, he was High Sheriff of Devon and in 1900 Sheriff of Cornwall, making an unsuccessful attempt to become MP for Truro. He was knighted by King Edward VII at Marlborough House on 9 February 1901.
- Church of St Andrew, Harberton Devon
I couldn’t stop singing and whistling the Beatles song ‘Eleanor Rigby’ the whole 30 minutes or so I spent photographing the church of St John the Baptist in Instow, Devon. An early morning shot showing the town of Appledore making the backdrop.
The 15c stone pulpit has a slender stem and figures in niches with nodding ogee canopies alternating with running vine decoration on columns, it is all rather rudely carved like folk art; the stone flight of steps is late 19c / early 20c and has a wrought iron balustrade.
- Church of St George, Dittisham Devon
Gerald Massey CCL www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1480107
Dartmouth is a town and civil parish in the English county of Devon. It is a tourist destination set on the western bank of the estuary of the River Dart, which is a long narrow tidal ria that runs inland as far as Totnes. It lies within the South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and South Hams district.
Dart Lifeboat Station was reopened in 2007, the first time that a lifeboat had been stationed in the town since 1896. It has initially been kept in a temporary building in Coronation Park.
In 2010, a fire seriously damaged numerous historical properties in Fairfax Place and Higher Street. Several were Tudor and Grade I or Grade II listed buildings.
The Port of Dartmouth Royal Regatta takes place annually over three days at the end of August. The event sees the traditional regatta boat races along with markets, fun fairs, community games, musical performances, air displays including the Red Arrows and fireworks. A Royal Navy guard ship is often present at the event. Other cultural events include beer festivals in February and July (the latter in Kingswear), a music festival and an art and craft weekend in June, a food festival in October and a Christmas candlelit event.
The Flavel Centre incorporates the public library and performance spaces, featuring films, live music and comedy and exhibitions.
Bayard's Cove has been used in several television productions, including The Onedin Line a popular BBC television drama series that ran from 1971 to 1980. Many of the scenes from the BBC's popular series Down to Earth, starring Ricky Tomlinson, were filmed at various locations around the town.
Notable tourist attractions include the Dartmouth Royal Naval College, Bayard's Cove Fort, Dartmouth Castle and the Dartmouth Steam Railway which terminates at Kingswear on the opposite bank of the river.
Boat cruises to nearby places along the coast (such as Torbay and Start Bay) and up the river (to Totnes, Dittisham and the Greenway Estate) are provided by several companies. The paddlesteamer PS Kingswear Castle returned to the town in 2013. The South West Coast Path National Trail passes through the town, and also through extensive National Trust coastal properties at Little Dartmouth and Brownstone (Kingswear). The Dart Valley Trail starts in Dartmouth, with routes either side of the River Dart as far as Dittisham, and continuing to Totnes via Cornworthy, Tuckenhay and Ashprington. The area has long been well regarded for yachting, and there are extensive marinas at Sandquay, Kingswear and Noss (approximately one mile north of Kingswear).
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hire boats on the pebble beach of ladram bay, devon. post rain, the light and colours were fantastic
The north aisle has a ceiled wagon roof with moulded ribs and foliage bosses; the plaster between the ribs has been painted to imitate fan vaulting, possibly in 1822.
- Church of St Mary, Dunsford Devon
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From the top of the course for the Crediton Crunch 10k 2017
A rough join.
Hay, rapeseed, yellow, hills,
red earth, farm, pallet, wood.
#Palette.