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Recipe for a very lovely fruit cake courtesy of Steve of Blazey’s, Mill Street .
250g soft butter 250g light muscavado sugar 4 eggs 250g self raising flour 250g raisins 250g sultanas 125 g glacé cherries, halved 1tsp mixed spice 1 tbsp brandy Grease an 8″ tin and line the base with greaseproof paper. Combine … Continue reading
Fly the Tarka Trail.
Fly the Tarka Trail on Google Street Map The 33 mile section, between Braunton and Meeth, of the 163 mile Tarka Trail regional route has gone live on Google Street View. This means that anyone with access to the internet … Continue reading
Immature student
Have you ever bored yourself rigid with “Someday I will” thoughts? Someday I will be skinny, someday I will leave this terrible job, and someday I will travel the world. Well my ‘someday’ was “Someday I’ll be a social worker”. … Continue reading
Posted in Local People, Training
Tagged Bideford, bideford buzz, devon, North Devon, petroc, social work, studies
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Wreck at Westward Ho!
SS4329 : Wreck on Westward Ho! beach, near to Westward Ho!, Devon, Great Britain. The Geograph Britain and Ireland project aims to collect geographically representative photographs and information for every square kilometre of Great Britain and Ireland. Wreck on Westward … Continue reading
Posted in History, Shipping
Tagged Bideford, bideford buzz, Northam burrows, Sally, Westward Ho!
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August 2011 Mind the hot embers!
The goods train used to go through Victoria wharf and load and unload goods. The line went to the Devon Trading Company. They had their own sawmill and steam lorries which I remember. There were big fire pans underneath the … Continue reading
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Loxdown Cross. – Transport history in the Torridge Valley.
Loxdown Cross is now just a picnic site off the A386 mid way between Bideford and Torrington, but it hides a legacy of travel from pre-history to the present day. Long before there was any pathway up the valley of … Continue reading
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July 2011 The Bideford Free Public Library and the librarian
(I came across this the other day in the North Devon Journal for 20th August 1891. We all know the present librarian is nothing like the one described here – but when are we going to get real fires back … Continue reading
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Tagged Bideford, bideford buzz, Interesting fact, library, News
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When the tide comes in
I’m not talking about sandy beaches or rock pools, but the saltmarshes above the Iron Bridge and beside the river Yeo. Here, an hour or so after the tide approaches the top of Westward Ho! beach, salt water is sweeping … Continue reading
June Edition – Landscape Gallery.
Picture of the wreck “Sally” Westward Ho! Beach Beach Patterns. Hartland Quay in winter.
Posted in Photography
Tagged devon, Hartland Quay, North Devon, Patterns, Sally, Westward Ho!
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Gallery – Landscape
Posted in Photography
Tagged devon, Landscape, May, Peppercombe Beach, southwest, UK, Welcombe beach
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