by Yvonne Hellin-Hobbs | Aug 5, 2022 | People, Decorated Villagers, Featured Articles
Bryan Dunford received an MBE, Member of the British Empire, in 1989, as part of the Queen’s Birthday Honours list, for his service in the RAF as a helicopter Engineering Authority. Bryan began his career as an RAF Apprentice at Halton in 1957. After initial training...
by Yvonne Hellin-Hobbs and The Hub Team | Jul 22, 2022 | People, A Celebration of Bishopsteignton Women, Decorated Villagers
Christine Hill moved to Bishopsteignton in 2010 but had been coming to the village for holidays since her childhood. Her parents owned a house and a chicken farm above the village, which her aunt and uncle ran, and that’s where her childhood summers were spent on...
by Yvonne Hellin-Hobbs | Jul 1, 2022 | People, Decorated Villagers
As the Chief Executive of Huntleigh Healthcare PLC, a technology based healthcare and scientific group in the UK, John was involved, along with a specialised team of engineers, in overseeing the development, manufacturing, education, promotion and the training of...
by Yvonne Hellin-Hobbs | Jun 24, 2022 | Decorated Villagers, A Celebration of Bishopsteignton Women, People
Fran and her husband Nigel have lived in Bishopsteignton for over 44 years and for most of that time she has been volunteering for various charities and good causes. In 2018 she was nominated for a British Empire Medal in the New Year Honours List. Fran had earned her...
by Yvonne Hellin-Hobbs | May 20, 2022 | People, Decorated Villagers
The first honour that was awarded to Sir Andrew Ridgway was when he passed out of Sandhurst at the age of twenty. He passed out first in the Order of Merit and was awarded the Queen’s Medal. It was presented to him on the Sovereign’s Parade by HRH Princess Margaret....
by Yvonne Hellin-Hobbs | Dec 3, 2021 | A Celebration of Bishopsteignton Women, Featured Articles, People
Sheila Robbins, née Skinner was born in County Cork in Ireland in January 1932, to Sydney Parnell Skinner, a Sergeant in the Royal Engineers and Margery Mary Davey. When Sheila was very young, the family moved back to Bishopsteignton where her father had been born....
by Yvonne Hellin-Hobbs | Aug 20, 2021 | People
Introduction In the Spring of 2021 Bishopsteignton Heritage received a message from Paddy O’Gorman from Dublin, asking if anyone had any information on his grandfather, Robert Collier, who had tragically died in the village in 1972. After appeals on social...
by Yvonne Hellin-Hobbs | Aug 10, 2021 | Bishopsteignton Players, Oral Histories
In 2021 Yvonne Hellin Hobbs interviewed Sheila Robbins about the early days of the Bishopsteignton Players, showing her the photographs and press reviews that Sheila had collected in a scrapbook back in the 1960s, which resideds in the Bishopsteignton Heritage...
by Yvonne Hellin-Hobbs and Dawn Rogers | Jul 17, 2021 | Organisations, Bishopsteignton Players, Featured Articles
In September 1959 a meeting of those interested in starting a village drama group was held at Radway House, Radway street, courtesy of Colonel and Mrs Rooth. Those attending this meeting (clockwise from top in the above picture) were: Bob Caldwell, Jane Caldwell,...
