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Here at BH we would like to hear from anyone who would like to contribute to an article about how you or your family or business has dealt with lockdown, and how you are intending to continue as we start to come out of lockdown and things open up again. We want to...

May has been busy on the Dig for Victory plot which is situated on the community plot at Michaels Field. The Ministry of Agriculture during the war years and just after issued a series of monthly guides to provide all the information needed to those who wanted to grow...

Against all the odds of Lockdown, BH managed to organise and stimulate a very memorable VE Day in Bishopsteignton. The original idea of involving as many as possible of the village activity groups to create their own projects for the celebrations was carried through...

So, how is the Lock Down affecting you? We at BH have unfortunately had to postpone our VE Day programme for the time being, but hopefully, later in the summer, we can resurrect some of the events and party like it's 1945! Meanwhile we have started a new page on the...

Unfortunately, due to the current crisis we have been forced to cancel the Jam and Jerusalem talk by the W.I. on Wed 25th March. We hope to bring you this and lots of other events later in the year, when this crisis has passed. We were due to have our programme of...

Following a second programme meeting with various representatives of village interest groups, lots of events and projects have been agreed on and the printed programme content is almost completed. Events start in March and continue through to December, although some...

Great news here at BH! We have had a successful result in our Heritage Lottery Fund bid for our VE Day programme. We can now plough ahead with our proposed year of events, talks, displays, workshops etc. Hopefully we can produce a programme by the end of February to...

HOORAH! We have reached our 100th published post, after just a year of being live. Thank you so much to all our researchers and authors and all the input you have had. Our latest publications include one on Edith Quantick, in her own words....

Thank you to all our wonderful volunteers and researchers who came to our Xmas social yesterday, and thank you to Michael J Smith and the team at the Old Commercial Inn for making us so welcome. It was great to catch up with you all and to introduce new people to our...

It is with great regret that we mourn the passing of Maggie Sullivan, who died peacefully on Nov 30th. Maggie was a well-loved personality in the village and was very involved with the Bishopsteignton Museum in earlier years. She was responsible for building the model...