Bygones Collection (page 2)

County Garage in Bitton Park Road, Teignmouth in October 1972

Bygones snow scene - New Road, Brixham at its town centre junction with Fore Street, in December 1967. A Christmas tree stands outside the town hall

Beach huts strewn around Paignton beach in March 1973

Luke and Hubbard Motor Cycles with a couple of their bikes in Torquay in the 1950s

The old linotype machines in use at the Braddons Hill Road West offices of the Herald in the early 1980s. Torquay Newspaper

Torquay Road at Hollacombe in 1868 showing the first gasworks buildings. Notice the narrow road and the ford at the bottom of the hill

The Odeon cinema in Abbey Road, Torquay in January 1988 with Dirty Dancing and Fatal Attraction were topping the bill

Sheep pens at Newton Abbot market in the 1950s

Royalty Cinema in Dartmouth which closed in August 1986

Behind the counter at Paigntons new post office in Torquay Road in November 1973

House in Park Hill Road, Torquay partly destroyed by a bomb during an air raid. 29th May 1944

Harold Wilson at Oldway Mansion in Paignton in May 1972 for the centenary of APAC

Abbey Place, Torquay in the 1960s showing the landmark elm which was felled in 1980

Baronnes Margaret Thatcher accompanied by Patrick Nicholls (left) during a visit to the L F Harris factory Triumph motorcycles Newton Abbot 27th May 1987

Colony Cinema and restaurant in Lower Union Lane, Torquay shortly before it closed. 1985

Cheese and Onion fair at Newton Abbot in September 1971

Postwar pre-fabs in Cadewell, Torquay in the 1960s

The Co-Op store in Torquays Union Street which was demolished in the 1970s to make way for a brand new Co-Op department store.Circa 1920

Torquay Uniteds head groundsman Fred King and Dave Easton, commercial manager, clearing snow in 1985

Singer Anita Harris at Torbay Hospital League of Friends fete. June 3 1992

Biggest catch of pilchards ever landed at Brixham in February 1972

A clutter of traffic lights, belisha beacons and a big old tree at Abbey Place at the bottom of Fleet Street, Torquay in the early 1960s

The buildings which would become the Inn on the Quay at Goodrington being cleared and renovated in October 1987

Derelict 19th century cottage in Swan Street, Torquay before its demolition in the 1930s

Tor Hill Road, Torquay in 1970 looking down the hill towards Castle Circus

Bygone pic of Castle Circus, Torquay in the snow in January 1978

Hollicombe gas works in Preston, Paignton in 1972 after most of the buildings had been demolished

Bygones snow scene - Torquay, Jan 1962

Oxen Cove in Brixham in 1984 when it was a quiet backwater

The City of Lincoln Lancaster (which now forms part of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight), closely followed by XL 317 Vulcan flying over Lincoln, with Lincoln Cathedral clearly visible

Actor Ray Winstone (left) filming "That Summer in Torquay"
Actor Ray Winstone (left) filming " That Summer in Torquay" in 1979 with Julie Shipley, Tony London and Emily Moore

Jenny 1, the mechanical elephant on Paignton seafront in July 1957

November 1953 showing the installation of new traffic lights in Brunswick Square, Torquay. Shops Billboard for Nescafe Vauxhall cars

Actor Sid James celebrating his 19th wedding anniversary with his wife Valerie Ashton in Torquay in August 1971

Prefabs in Wallace Avenue, Torquay. When they were demolished the families were relocated to Plainmoor 1950s

A Trent Motor Traction Company tableau movers through the crowds in Derby Market Place part of the The Hospital Carnival. Circa 1925

A Trent Motor Traction Company tableau movers through the crowds in Derby Market Place part of the The Hospital Carnival. Circa 1925

The toy department at the Co-Op store in East Street, Derby in the build up to Christmas. November 1985

Interior of the Silverdale Co-op 1st January 1966

Dixons Holiday Camp. Brixham 1950s

Hollicombe gasworks in October 1967

Torquay regatta Fairground workers take a break. Circa 1910

Allotments at Shedden Hill, Torquay. Circa 1930s

Brixham Harbour, May 1954

Courtenay Street William Radcock and Sons, FW Woolworths, Newton Abbott shops December 1966

Gas masks being issued at Upton School. 27th August 1939

Sir Frederic Mackarness Bennett MP for Torquay seen here electioneering. 1st July 1955

Bathers in Castle Cove, Dartmouth picture in 1964

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