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Post by scrumpypete on May 16, 2017 5:16:52 GMT
Last ones, Dave, There was an abattoir backing onto Crown and Anchor Way... behind that butchers' shop there in the 1912 photo (vague, but looks to be "Rook Bros")... when my dad was a tacker back in the 20/30's. They used to have a bath of blood behind the wall to deter kids like him climbing over.
That building (flats?) opposite the church was "Starkey Knight and Ford"s brewery back along.
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Post by Dave on May 16, 2017 17:43:47 GMT
Hi Pete don’t worry I do not get bored easily and love hearing old facts about anywhere that is local. I went to school in Newton with a Pete Blackmore but lost track of him when I left.
I was born in Newton and lived there until I was twenty five and then moved to the Bay. To me as a young child Paignton also seemed miles away and I used to hate being driven past the old gas works, even shutting the car window did not keep the stink out.
The other picture house you went would have been the old Odeon that was across the road from the old Tesco store, as kids we went there every Saturday morning for the kids show that was put on.
Newton once had three pictures houses; the other one was at the bottom of Queen Street. It closed I’m sure before I was born ( see last picture) but I went in there when I was young when t was a large shop and you knew it had been a picture house due to the sloping floor.
Old Jock got it wrong I’m afraid as 15 people were killed in 1940 when a bomb was dropped on the Railway cottages acoss the road from the Queens Hotel, one of them was a family member.
www.devonheritage.org/Places/Newton%20Abbot/CasualtiesofthebombingofNewtonAbbot.htm
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Post by scrumpypete on May 17, 2017 5:51:34 GMT
You are quite right about a couple of things... it wasn't 'Jock' that was wrong about the injured in the bombing - I got it wrong. And yes, I recall going into the shop that was the old cinema. I think it sold furniture - which was odd for a sloping floor. But I'm no doubt wrong again.
A couple more tid-bits...The gas company (oh what a smell, eh) had vehicles that were powered by their gas... there would be a 'bag' on the roof which would gradually deflate during the day's usage. There's a photo extant somewhere. Torquay had an unusual tram system in that originally the electrical pick-ups were spaced at 6 foot intervals (so you couldn't span the contacts, presumably) rather than overhead wires or 'live' tracks. There is a photo here of a tram on Torquay seafront . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torquay_Tramways
As I said - I never met the 'other' Peter B, but my friend Tom Breedon sometimes mentioned him. Is his name familiar?
I see 'your' Madge Mellors has gone - is it the Burger King now? What happened to the Queens Hotel? I thought it was on the corner of Queen Street. I used to have sherry there with colleagues... oh so grown up. But that was 50 years ago, and now Queen Street looks squalid. Sign of the times, as you say.
Anything more would be 'chatter', and I don't want to hi-jack your post. If I've anything of real import I'll get back to you.
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Post by Dave on Aug 18, 2017 17:08:31 GMT
The world around us is for ever changing and so is the very place we call home. we have all seen many of those changes take place over the years, some for the better, others for the worse. One place many of us enjoy spending time at is Young's Park Goodrington and I for one am not old enough to know it any other way than how it looks now.
But below is a picture of an old post card from the early 1900's with a view next to it showing how it looks today, what a major change and the lake seen in the post card is what is the boating lake today.
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Post by Dave on Mar 30, 2020 10:54:11 GMT
It is very possible that one or two of the images below have all ready been posted on this thread. Due to the coronavirus lock down and being stuck indoors, I have spent some time changing the font size on every thread in the Torbay Room to make them easier to read. I had this set of photos in a folder and thought it was time I added them to this thread. I will over the coming days and weeks try and change the font size on as many other threads as possible that are in other rooms on the Daveworld Site
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Post by browners on Feb 7, 2021 15:48:53 GMT
Hiya all , I have been researching family tree stuff for my wife, and she recalls as a young child staying with relatives who lived in a cottage behind an ice cream shop and factory in Winner St, Paignton. We have located a Antonio DiMeo who is listed as a ice cream maker with an address of 73 Winner St. My wife's family were local to this area , and english, but lived in a tiny cottage behind the shop. But we are struggling with names of the occupants or people that used to work there, as she can only recall referring to them as Ginny and Nan. I was wondering if anyone on this site can help and shed some light on this to help us progress it further. Its totally driving me nuts trying to find out stuff. The wife's father was local to this area , with a name of Leslie Cole, but we are again having problems getting any address or family history for him.
thanx, Chris Brown
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Post by tarnagra on Jan 10, 2023 15:08:41 GMT
excellent. having been born in the globe inn during the war reading your blurb and photos bought back memories galore, my father Tommy davies was the licensee of the globe and was also captain of Paignton rugby club in there 20s=30s. right opposite the pub was a sweet shop called Parker run by a mother and daughter (she was also a Sunday school teacher at the methodist church at palace ave. I can remembering in to their shop with my three . penny piece and my sweet coupon ,there were 6 siblings raised in that 2 bedroom pub. plus mum and dad and sometimes my grandmother Knox . one of my sisters worked in tellers for a while until she took up nursing. my brother started his careera s a news paper reporter on the Paignton observer. many memories bought back by you many thanks. conway davies
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Post by Dave on Jan 10, 2023 18:45:45 GMT
excellent. having been born in the globe inn during the war reading your blurb and photos bought back memories galore, my father Tommy davies was the licensee of the globe and was also captain of Paignton rugby club in there 20s=30s. right opposite the pub was a sweet shop called Parker run by a mother and daughter (she was also a Sunday school teacher at the methodist church at palace ave. I can remembering in to their shop with my three . penny piece and my sweet coupon ,there were 6 siblings raised in that 2 bedroom pub. plus mum and dad and sometimes my grandmother Knox . one of my sisters worked in tellers for a while until she took up nursing. my brother started his careera s a news paper reporter on the Paignton observer. many memories bought back by you many thanks. conway davies
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