While responses to the Coronavirus Lockdown develop over the weeks, we want to record thoughts and actions in...
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Day Ninety-One
While responses to the Coronavirus Lockdown develop over the weeks, we want to record thoughts and actions in...
Day Ninety
While responses to the Coronavirus Lockdown develop over the next few weeks, we want to record thoughts and actions in...
Millennium Paintings
During the Millennium Celebrations for the year 2000, a project was put forward for the children of Bishopsteignton...
Day Three
Day Two
Dig For Victory
Context and Background The ‘Dig for Victory’ campaign was vital to help keep the country fed well and healthy during...
Day One
Geoffrey Theodore Garratt M.B.E. MA
Early Life Geoffrey Theodore Garratt was born 7 November 1888, in Little Tew, Oxfordshire [1]. Son of...
Evacuees
With the start of the Second World War came Operation Pied Piper. This was the plan to evacuate civilians from...
John William Beer
Early Life John William Beer was born June 1922, in Bishopsteignton, Devon. Son of Willam Henry Beer and Mary...
Raymond Sidney Evans
Early Life Raymond Sidney Evans was born July 1924 in Crediton, Devon. Son of Sydney (Sidney) James Evans, born 22...
Lewis Back
Early Life Lewis Back was born 6 August, 1905 in Bishopsteignton, Devon. Son of John James Back and Lavinia...
John Michael Dixon
Early Life John Michael Dixon was born April, 1922 in Epsom, Surrey. Son of Harold Parson Dixon and Lena...
Frederick Charles Paget
Early Life Frederick Charles Paget was born 28 May, 1910 in Dursley, Gloucestershire. Little is...
Thomas Henry Saunders
Early Life Thomas Henry Saunders was born in 1910, son of George and Edith Saunders. Little else is known about...
The Millennium Celebrations
The Millennium Book The Story of Bishopsteignton Village Millennium 2000 This brilliantly illustrated book traces the...
John Edward Hulland
Early Life John Edward Hulland (known as Jack) was born 29 June, 1922 in Bishopsteignton, Devon. Son of Edward...
Harold Biffen
Early Life Harold Biffen was born June, 1921 in Reigate, Surrey. Son of Walter and Helen Biffen (née...
Richard George Patrick Bernard Dyer
Early Life Richard George Patrick Bernard Dyer was born January 1925, in Newton Abbot, Devon. There is little...
George Valentine
Early Life George Valentine was born in April, 1921 in West Derby, Lancashire. He was the son of John and Ellen...