Devon Collection (page 2)

Brixham trawlers gather for the annual blessing of the sea in October 1953

June 1949 - Buckfastleigh Races

The demolition of the Marine Spa, Torquay. 28th May 1971

Coaches and cars mingle in the Lymington Road coach station, Torquay, in August 1951

The old Torquay coach station shelter being dismantled in May 1971

Bygone pictures of South Devon College, Paignton taken between 1965 and 1967

Imperial Hotel, Torquay 14 November 1963. t a white seagull flies over the Imperial
Imperial Hotel, Torquay 14 November 1963.t a white seagull flies over the Imperials West Wing as two of the Beatles - George Harrison and Ringo Starr - take the air on their balcony

Conservative MP Anthony Steen, centre, with his wife Carolyn and Labour candidate Graham Morris in the 1983 election for the South Hams constituency 9th June 1983

Its March 1970 and work has begun extending the harbour at Brixham to provide improved fish landing facilities. Oxen Cove has yet to be reclaimed

Hollicombe gas works. 1936

Winner Street, Paignton before the fire of June 1927

Torquay Pavilion front view, in 1971. Showing bus, bus stop and pavilion with theatre posters

Comedian Mike and Bernie Winters and their supporting cast ready for the summer season at the Princess Theatre, Torquay in 1973

Map of the world, laid out in concrete in the grounds of Audley Park school, Torquay in 1939. The map is figurative with the Americas on the right

Printers of the Herald Express in 1991 with the press which used to roll up to seven times a day. Newspaper printing

Homes on Stentiford Hill, Torquay shortly before their demolition in 1964

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

Bygones Snow Scene - Frozen Dawlish fountain 1963

Four year old Jeremy Wilkinson with the newly born filly foal sired by Arabian stallion Rustum Bey from a wild Dartmoor mare

Views of Brixham Harbour, Devon. 12th April 1957

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