Tag: history

Beating the Bounds!
Living in the Past?
Friday – Lucky or Unlucky?
Newton Abbot in Old Pictures: The Globe Hotel in 1981
Spy photos, air pollution & Tomorrow’s World
Newton Abbot in Old Pictures: Alexandra Theatre & Market Street, 1981
The first commercial flight of a BA Concorde
So, where did Syd Barrett get the idea to call his new band ‘Pink Floyd’?
The Hall’s of Penzance – a family mystery and tragedy: a birth in Cornwall, a marriage in Devon and a death in Hong Kong – how are they linked?
Vintage Switzerland – Geneva: city and modern housing developments in 1978
Imagine a river with gentle sloping banks, boats, gardens and cafés running through the centre of Newton Abbot. It nearly happened.