Molly Coombe Photograph Competition 2023
Winners Places Category and Overall Winner Photos in this category could be taken anywhere within the parish boundries. Examples could include the exterior or interior of buildings, views from a vantage point, businesses past and present etc. ...
Colin Back Part 6: Village Hall and Vicarage
In the cottage on the opposite side of Dove’s (grocery shop) lived Mr and Mrs Northam. Mrs Northam was well known for her ‘Devonshire Readings’ (stories spoken in old Devon dialect). The village hall would be full when she was appearing. As a child, I remember...
Betty Aplin’s Memories of the Bishopsteignton Modern Wives
Interview Part 1 Betty introduces her life in Bishopsteignton before discussing the Modern Wives. https://www.bishopsteigntonheritage.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/2023-01-20-OHI-Betty-Aplin-P1.mp3 Betty was born in Bishopsteignton in 1935 and has lived in the...
Colin Back Part 5: Friends and Businesses
Next door to us was (grandad) Nilson; he had a grinding stone in the form of a wheel for sharpening tools and knives. It had a handle to turn the wheel with the stone going through a reservoir of water. If I did exactly as I was told i.e. fast or slow, I could turn...
Colin Back Part 4: Scars and other aides-mémoires
I still have two physical scars from my time at Bishopsteignton School. One from a burn when I put my arm over the rail that surrounded the ‘tortoise’ coke stove next to Miss Hawkins desk, the stove was for heating the infants classroom; the other is a scar under the...
Colin Back Part 3: Education and Environment
Most of the men in the village grew produce for their families. If they did not have a garden then a corner of a field would do or like my father, many had an allotment in Forder Lane. As well as vegetables for every season, many of the men also grew rows of Sweet...
Bishopsteignton Modern Wives 1968-1982
The first meeting of the Bishopsteignton Modern Wives was held on the 23rd of January 1968, in the village’s St John the Baptist Church. There were 21 women in attendance, and the first Chair was Mrs B. Grant. The group as explained by Mrs Grant at this first...
Colin Back Part 2: visitors, neighbours and games
Colin Back Born and Raised part 2 (8 minutes) https://www.bishopsteigntonheritage.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/33247-Colin-Back-part-2.mp3 Fore Street was always the hub of the village with mum’s walking their children to and from school then joining grans,...