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peteBLUEttr · Super Guru

Never new you were that old pug!....

pug · Guru

When as a teen in the 70s we moved down to Devon as Dad had stopped playing football he worked the farms in and a round copplestone to winkleigh. what a place to spend your teen's we razed hell the girls the beer an the farm cider did I mention the beer the bikes there was this chap always around with a camera in hand snapping away for years. I only found out years after he was a pro name of James Ravilious. Them old Bike photos are from the same Art's Archive as his stuff Hear is some of his work first pic is centre is smithy [RIP] me left binny right an swavy in back he caught shot's of people in every day life the lone rider in the field with the tree is my old man I remember the day that was took I was stood next to him when he took it an it was first time the old man had let me ride brand new xl 250 he is on my xl185 in the pic. other ones are people I new back then we hung out at the transport café in winkleigh or the pub...............

Pug

-- Edited by pug on Sunday 24th of April 2016 07:00:12 PM

TTRfan · Super Guru

Wow - wonderful old photos Pug! How did you get them - are they online somewhere?

I have a book of James Ravilious photos called Down the Deep Lanes which really captures the essence of my formative years growing up in rural Cornish/Devonshire back waters.

pug · Guru

Brian Lots on
http://www.beaford-arts.org.uk/
Go into the Archive there is work by James Ravilious an lot's more they are in a small size print as they want you to buy them at a £10 a pop for a print in the Beaford old Archive pull them down they come up just about ok to look at full screen in Windows Photo Viewer
Ravilious work go's for a lot more but they are all worth a look if you pull them down

http://www.beafordoldarchive.org.uk/

Can you guess where this is still a fuel garage there today it's over your way Brian

TTRfan · Super Guru

Courtlands Cross on the way into Exmouth - now a BP station I think?

Cubber · Super Guru

The Mote Lodge Filling Station, Heavitree - 1920s
1923 Harry Edmunds Courtenay filling station
1939 George William Blanchon motor engineer
1956 Arthur Lionel Underhill filling station.
1967 The Mote Service Station under J S S James
1973 The Mote Service Station
In the early 1930s the garage was a filling station, and the base for an animal transport business. They also offered driver tuition, hired cars and lorries, and let lock up garages.

DEV Exeter, Mote Garage Heavitree c1920 (Medium).jpg

confuse wink confuse biggrin

Martyn

Edited to show smaller picture

-- Edited by Cubber on Sunday 24th of April 2016 08:59:31 PM

Cubber · Super Guru

Sorry - that picture is a bit large.

I think this is the modern version

Martyn

TTRfan · Super Guru

Clever clogs!!! wink

pug · Guru

Yep the Tesco fill an stop Heavitree

An hears one looking down the road before the age of the car I think

TTRfan · Super Guru

I wonder why the boy is standing in the road - trying to get run over by the horse and cart confuse

Cubber · Super Guru

According to the Heavitree local site that photo is of Fore Street as was in 1905.

Not quite pre-car but they were not all that common. smile

This is the same road in 1973

Fore%20Street%201973.jpg

The site with the info is:- http://www.heavitreelocalhistorysociety.co.uk/articles.html and scroll down a few pages.

Martyn

pug · Guru

Ok martyn / Brian how about this one I would never have guest there was pumps there at one time your side Exeter.............. An look a 2nd set of pumps just up the road from the Tesco site in the pic hear you can see the ESSO sign down the road

-- Edited by pug on Tuesday 26th of April 2016 07:14:17 PM

TTRfan · Super Guru

Pink House corner?

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/search/Pink+House+corner,+near+exmouth/@50.6611391,-3.4275759,16.71z

Cubber · Super Guru

The first one is:-

Gallows Cross - Heavitree

Devon's place for executions until 1795

The second one is:-

Thorn's Garage, Heavitree 1950s
Thorn's Garage started as a china, ironmonger and cycle agent in the first war. By 1956, John Thorn and Sons were an ironmongers, radio and television engineers and motor engineers, with five Shell pumps between the shop and Fore Street, Heavitree. The 1967 Kelly's indicates that Thorn's have become Lloyd's Bank. In the 1940s and 50s many people had radios powered by accumulators - they were a glass container, 6 inches square, 9 inches tall, with a carrying handle. Thorn's was a charging point for the batteries costing 4d for a weeks charge and small boys would collect the batteries for their neighbours for a small fee.

Martyn

pug · Guru

By god martyn you no your stuff no pumps in this one come on Brian bet you stop at the lights hear often Got any ideas..........................

ttr steve · Super Guru

Loving all this old time stuff smile smile smile

Cubber · Super Guru

That latest one, Martyn, is now the staggered junction of Rifford Road, East Wonford Hill, Sweetbrier Lane and Honiton Road. aww

It was an area prone to flooding due to the Northbrook which rises near Little Gratnor field, Stoke Hill, flows down the valley through Polsloe as the Mincinglake Brook or Whipton Brook, and was locally known as 'The Panny'.

It flowed under the bridge and across the Topsham Road on its way to the Exe. The bridge disappeared when the road between the bridge and Gallows Corner was widened in August 1932. blankstare

Martyn

TTRfan · Super Guru

I should have known - passed it every day on the way to Heles School back in the day but not really recognisable from the photo!

pug · Guru

I got one or two more............... you would never think they would turn a garage in to ................... wonder where the bikers hung out afterwards......................

Cubber · Super Guru

That one is:-

The Exeter Garage in Heavitree Road
That photo shows a motorcycle gathering at the Exeter Garage.
The site was previously that of Edward Rogers Thomas & Sons, sculptors.
It was close to the Exeter Corporation Transport Office and bus depot, which were the sheds for the electric trams up until 1931.
The garage was replaced by the now familiar Pyramids Swimming Pool, which opened in 1941.

Martyn

TTRfan · Super Guru

Never have guessed that!

Anyone remember Alby Plain's breakers in one of the cellars on the Quay?

pug · Guru

It's to easy for you martyn this is early 1900s crediton hard core bikes all the way to London. closer to home the photo's are better quality as well

Cubber · Super Guru

TTRfan wrote:
Anyone remember Alby Plain's breakers in one of the cellars on the Quay?

I have no idea confuse where that company was situated, despite knowing the area quite well.

Mrs Cubber and I bought lots of interesting lamps, stained glass windows, furniture, rugs, etc. from the Cellars when we moved to Devon.

What was it that Alby Plain was breaking, Brian?

Martyn

TTRfan · Super Guru

We would have been buying Lambretta spares from him so it was around 1967-9......

An Aladdin's cave - literally a cave .... or cellar....

http://www.alamy.com/stock-photo/exeter-quayside.html

pug · Guru

Ok tonight's Devon town is .............................. around 1930

TTRfan · Super Guru

Honiton?

But there used to be a Moore's garage in Crediton where my bro' worked doing body repairs.....

peteBLUEttr · Super Guru

Yep thats Honiton, you can see St Pauls church on the left there.

Cubber · Super Guru

This book must have sold a lot of copies if one ended up at Crediton biggrin

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Martyn

pug · Guru

No martyn I don't have that one but I will look out for it.

2nd Town of the night is..................

Brian hears Moors of crediton on there first pitch just down the road from Treens on Mill street around 1910 then on there 3nd spot around 1950

where you would have seen them my grand dad mums side was the landlord of the White swan 1936 - 1958 told me them f**king lights on wires across the street use to swing all over the place in the wind at night use to near make you sick walking around

-- Edited by pug on Wednesday 27th of April 2016 07:12:17 PM

Pug - I edited so that we could all see the rather large pictures properly. They wouldn't show on my PC!

Martyn

pug · Guru

Martyn
Have some I just cant get to go to the site it just craps out whats a good size to put up plus I don't want to put to much on an crash the site

Pug

-- Edited by pug on Wednesday 27th of April 2016 08:22:59 PM

Cubber · Super Guru

Martyn, the size of a picture really shouldn't exceed the maximum size, in pixles, of the average screen resolution.

Standard sizes of screens range from 800x600 through 1024x768, 1152x864, 1280x768 up to 1680x1050 generally.

I think a picture size of small 640x480, medium 800x600, large 1024x768 is best.

For a hand held device then 240x320 is acceptable but a tad miniscule for a PC.

The last pictures you put on were massive so I resized them to 1024 pixels max. width for easy viewing.

Martyn

pug · Guru

I'm not the best on a pc martyn have lot's in old scanned albums hear some shots I cant find on line so I'm marking them for now like this one

lovey old garage in.................................... better pic of Moors Crediton. mind I do like the Doctored pic's as well.......... The red Baron

-- Edited by pug on Wednesday 27th of April 2016 09:28:25 PM

TTRfan · Super Guru

pug wrote:
Brian hears Moors of crediton on there first pitch just down the road from Treens on Mill street around 1910 then on there 3nd spot around 1950
where you would have seen them my grand dad mums side was the landlord of the White swan 1936 - 1958 told me them f**king lights on wires across the street use to swing all over the place in the wind at night use to near make you sick walking around

I recall the entrance to where Trev worked was right opposite Treens in Mill St with I think a showroom below. Trev lived in a flat above Treens for a few years.

Just seen your 1950s photo - that's where he worked biggrin

Brian

pug · Guru

Moors last two shops where centre of the High Street Brian ?? Treens was Sam Reeds Garage with a show room an more work shops opposite. see what Trev has to say Sam might have been in with Moors I don't know but would like too. this shot is looking out of Crediton treens on left the power pole is the road fork. an was just pulled out last year an swapped for a new one this fire made way for the new building that was part of the Garage

Pug

TTRfan · Super Guru

Ah - thanks for the memory shake up Pug - yes, it was Reeds he worked for biggrin

Brian

"Dazed and Confused" - I blame all those chemicals I have been inhaling disbelief

Cubber · Super Guru

Lovely old photos, Martyn.

Are they all digital or do you have the originals, negatives, slides, plates or similar?

Martyn

pug · Guru

Martyn I have lot's of the originals, negatives, slides, plates grand Dad an great grand dad use to be a keen snappers along with a mate called albert labbett there have been 2 books of prints from Crediton an around by him. Dad just gave them a lot of the glass slides film an print in swap if they got them on digital back in the early 90s. they only took about half I still have lots of old film an glass plates under the stairs in box's nice an safe will get them swapped over to digital at some point as well but its not going to be cheap.

pug

pug · Guru

last old three garages I have come across in the albums .................. but I know there is more there is a album missing what had just car an bike stuff in it

Pug