Monthly Archives: December 2023

‘Upstream Thinking’ project has many benefits.

Posted on 18/12/2023 by Tango Alpha

More than 40,000 native trees are being planted for farms and landowners to help reduce land run-off and improve natural water quality as part of South West Water’s catchment management programme, Upstream Thinking. The trees, which were provided by the … Continue reading →

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A Devonshire poem about the Piskies.

Posted on 12/12/2023 by Tango Alpha

Here is an amusing poem in the local dialect by J C Harding, who spent his final years in the ‘White House’, which I believe was the name of the Bideford workhouse. Mr Harding filled an exercise book in his … Continue reading →

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