Moor Links June/July issue 2021

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Outdoor life It seems that outdoor space has never been so important. Back in April and May, we could socialise in our gardens, and restaurants and cafes embraced al fresco eating, making the most of outside spaces, with tables even sanctioned to spill out onto pavements, continental style. The weather hadn’t quite caught up then, so thermals and woolly hats were often essential wear for the evenings, not to mention the rainy days, but there has always been something wonderful about eating outside - from picnics, BBQs and street food to the ‘new normal’ at our local eating venues. Although by the time you read this you’ll be able to eat inside again, it’s possible we may all have developed a lasting taste for al fresco.

The deadline date for any inclusions in the August/ September issue of Moor Links will be 1 July 2021. For all editorial enquiries please contact Our local people have both recently embarked on outdoor ventures: Ben Stevens has launched a new outside restaurant venue, Enchanted Woods; and Chris Bunney is Rosemary via email: rosemary.best@linksmagazines.co.uk

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training for a 14-day expedition across 170 tors and rocks in aid of Dartmoor Search and Rescue Team Tavistock. It doesn’t get more outdoors than our feature article, as John Bailey offers a tantalising glimpse of the gardens of Wheal Jenny in his fascinating account of their transformation. While our charity focus, The Chernobyl Children’s Lifeline, explains the huge benefits a four-week respite break in the UK can bring to child victims of the Chernobyl disaster.

In addition to this our What’s On section is brimming with indoor and outdoor activities: Tavistock Carnival, charity open gardens, outdoor theatre, the Four Nations Ceremony, sporting events, walks, talks, workshops and exhibitions, plus markets, fetes and fairs.

Front cover image by Chris Bunney, bunneyphotography.co.uk – see Local People for Chris’s ‘biggest Dartmoor challenge ever’ in aid of Dartmoor Search & Rescue Team Tavistock

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41 Music & Art

8 Local People

45 Food & Drink

13 Health & Wellbeing

49 Trade Secrets

16 Charity 18 Gardening

52 O utdoors & Active

22 Farming News

54 History

23 Naturalist

56 Local Authors

24 Law

57 Book Review

25 Community News

58 Tech Help

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FEATURE

Magnolia ‘Felix Drury’

From the West End to the Wild West: the path to ‘Wheal Jenny’ On a plateau, nestling in the hills, hidden away 500 feet above the River Tamar, stood ‘Wheal Jenny’ - an unusual wooden house surrounded by mature gardens, seemingly planted with a galaxy of desirable trees, shrubs and herbaceous plants. With similarities to JMW Turner’s painting Crossing the Brook, it John Bailey had a commanding view of the river, the old railway viaduct linking Devon and Cornwall and the ancient quays of Calstock.

Plymothian by birth, I’d been living in a place that couldn’t be more different – Soho, in London’s West End. As ‘The Soho Gardener’, I was designing and creating gardens from there; roof gardens, atriums and courtyards for film companies and ad agencies. However, from 2000, due to family responsibilities, I found myself increasingly back in the West Country and had decided to look for a country property. In ‘the smoke’, the constraints of the ‘bijou rectangle’ had long instilled in me the desire to garden on a greater scale, imagining an elysian idyll where plants painted their own pictures within a natural landscape. And, importantly, somewhere I could indulge my passion for bamboos. So, eventually, after many years of searching, in the autumn of 2008 I found myself gazing in disbelief at the very manifestation of my dream.

The moniker ‘Wheal Jenny’, was coined after the Medieval/ Edwardian silver and lead mine nearby. The vendors, Tony and Pam Neave, had been gardening earnestly here since 1982, completely transforming what was once a market garden 6

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site and totally blank canvas, into the opulent garden that now confronted me; a legacy beyond measure. The Neaves’ planting near the house occupied approximately one acre, leaving a further five and a half acres of wild uncultivated countryside; wooded and steeply sloping in parts, with a spring meandering through the foot of the valley. At the front, the aforementioned river view faces north-west - the sun setting full square in front of the house by midsummer. Below the plateau, at the sides, are many acers, magnolias, oaks, birches, a huge Cornus controversa ‘Variegata’ (the wedding cake tree), cherries and mature eucalypts, as the garden unfolds through short wooded walks towards a pergola, greenhouse and vegetable garden before ending, (in this direction at least) at another ridge – a 40 to 50-foot drop, like a giant ha-ha... the old railway cutting!

Leaving the conservatory at the side, and crossing the terrace, a gate leads into an arboretum, now augmented and ameliorated with numerous stands of different bamboos between the trees. Turning right, up towards the top of the ground, a raised bank clothed with ancient oaks and carpeted with ferns, stretches as far as the eye can see. This top run, and much of the valley below, was almost impenetrable.

Massive brambles erupted from the tops of trees - bracken and nettles were everywhere; ash, beech, birch, hazel, holly and oak, jostling as rogue seedlings. To facilitate traversion of the slopes, pathways were needed, cut slalom fashion - across terrain that in places would prove to be deep stratal slate, on very precipitous ground.

When my contractor and I first surveyed the site together, hacking our way through the jungle at the very top, the most breathtaking view imaginable was revealed. Buzzards circled below, their mewing cries punctuating the silence. “Nice

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place for a seat,” ventured my companion. “How about a big chestnut deck?” I countered. Pause. In unison: “Wow!” Below the deck, walkways and linking pathways were fashioned with three large staircases built from railway sleepers linking the newly formed ‘tranches’ of land; simple oak topped benches positioned throughout. A most revealing advantage of the steep terrain is the ability to look at plants from different viewpoints and angles whilst travelling through the garden – above, parallel and below.

At the bottom of the valley runs a spring risen from higher ground - gurgling down in cascades and waterfalls as it runs behind a fascinating tree covered ‘island’ - then downstream, entering a natural bowl-shaped amphitheatre. In spring, thousands of Narcissus princeps carpet the ground here.

Contemplating this ‘Rivendell’ landscape with wonder, I realised that by rerouting the stream slightly, we could make a natural pool.

At the tail, another deck - the overflow from the pool forming an impressive waterfall underneath and behind, as the stream, now a torrent, sped its way through a culvert towards the Tamar below.

Upward again, under the vast canopy of a line of enormous beeches - a ‘kissing gate’ leads directly into the most amazing garden feature - a 40’ deep gorge - the old railway ... a ‘cutting garden’, dear Mr Beeching having decommissioned the line in 1968. Untouched for fifty years, its sheer sides embroidered with native ferns, and massive slabs of exposed slate, dripping with jewel-like droplets of water. The floor, a carpet of ferns, moss and ivy, in a woodland of native trees, self-seeded in the detritus of the years - their monstrous, moss covered, claw-like roots invading the surface of the snaking pathway.

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Originally, and unbelievably dug by hand by Dartmoor prisoners in the 1880s, here it was now: an emerald, verdant underworld - roamed by deer, badgers, foxes et al, with bats silently negotiating the gloaming.

Twelve years on, after continuous planting and development, with occasional valued help from horticultural students and volunteers, Wheal Jenny has evolved into a very beautiful, naturalistic, wild landscape garden. A recent visitor amusingly described it as ‘The Eden Project, without the bubble wrap’.

The old railway is planted with a luscious cornucopia of tree ferns, bamboos, palms and other exotics. The excavated foundations of an old cattle shed are now transformed into a firepit courtyard, replete with ‘Versailles tubs’ fashioned from old stillages filled with hydrangea ‘Ayesha’. Circular tables made from old cable drums are positioned throughout the walks, with comfortable seating to enable visitors to linger and enjoy the many different vistas. Throughout the garden, hundreds of rhododendrons, camellias, magnolias, hydrangeas and many other rare trees and shrubs luxuriate in the ethos.

Over 550 bamboos - including the new blue caned Borinda species from Tibet, contribute evergreen visual grace and elegance; stirred by the merest kiss of a breeze, their gentle susurrus also enhancing the soundscape of the valley.

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LOCAL PEOPLE

Alfresco cuisine Lockdown has had its difficulties for all of us, but for Ben Stevens it has been a very eventful year, leading to a brandnew venture - ‘Enchanted Woods’ outdoor dining experience at Horrabridge.

As 2020 got underway, Ben had recently started working at The Green, a luxury wedding venue in Cornwall. With a strong background in hospitality catering and business management, he had been appointed to develop complementary services for the venue, and was just about to launch a new health and wellbeing package when the pandemic struck. Redundancy followed swiftly, and with only five months in his current employment he became one of the people who ‘fell through the cracks’ in the emergency job and income protection schemes, leaving him with no income. Having moved into Tavistock ten days before the first national lockdown, Ben found himself in a new town with no local family or friends and no work. He had never previously been out of work and

couldn’t remember ever really spending time on his own; as his mental health started to suffer, he signed up for online therapy and so began an incredible soul-searching time of self-discovery.

Ben says that out of the many communities he has lived in, the people of Tavistock have proved the most friendly and supportive. One day he posted on a local Facebook group page that he was new to the area and wondered if anybody was interested in talking, making friends or even going for socially distanced walks. Replies flooded in, his Facebook connections grew exponentially overnight, and the wealth of support made a huge difference. Soon after, Ben started sharing pictures of his cooking at home and this Facebook audience suggested he cook for them. While exploring ways he could create his own new job, he was offered an opportunity to take over the Lemon Grove Café in the evenings when it was normally closed.

And so, in the summer of 2020, Ben’s Bystro came into being, graduating from take-away meals to a sit-down evening menu that was fully booked for 11 weeks.

Ben is no stranger to knock-backs, hard work and thinking on his feet. He has worked his way up the hospitality career ladder, ever since he was attracted to its variety and

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unpredictability during school work experience at a Newquay hotel. After studying hotel management at Cornwall College, Ben spent over ten years working front-of-house, and managing several restaurants for other people, but always aspiring to run his own venue. In a bid to expand his experience, Ben chose to move into the kitchen, managing to get a position with Kevin Viner, recipient of the very first Michelin Star in Cornwall. Over the next few years Ben worked in several other hotel and restaurant kitchens around Cornwall often putting in 80 to 90 hours per week.

Whilst working as an area manager with Chartwells, Ben gained an immense amount of business knowledge, helping the Cornwall school meals contract go from £1 million loss per year to £1 million profit. This enabled him to set up a successful consultancy specialising in marketing, branding and coaching for hospitality SMEs, and motivated him to

launch three restaurants of his own. This led to an amazing first year, followed by an incredibly challenging second year where he was working an unsustainable 120 hours per week to keep the business afloat. In the end he chose to close the businesses. The experience took its toll both physically and mentally, but he slowly picked himself up and took up management positions at Marco Pierre White’s Steakhouse Bar and Grill and then at The Theatre Royal Plymouth, before being sought out for the role at The Green.

Despite the challenges of the last year, Ben has seemingly flourished. As well as settling into his new town and launching a new pop-up restaurant, he has also fallen in love. Introduced through a mutual friend on Facebook, Leanne is a massage therapist studying for a master’s degree in psychology, and together they are launching a brand-new and exciting project, Enchanted Woods.

When I went to meet Ben, we sat and talked in the small meadow which is

now the site for Enchanted Woods, complete with a huge wood-fired oven, a bath-tub barbeque, a hardstanding for a small marquee, a composting toilet, and a firepit surrounded by massive logs to sit on. The idea is that with the ease of lockdowns people will probably want to eat outside in the fresh air, and the concept is already proving popular as three of the first five Sunday lunch feasts are already sold out. Longer term plans for the rustic venue include outdoor weddings, private events, teambuilding and coaching sessions, and even a mini-folk festival when rules allow, but for now you can bring your own wine and enjoy a relaxed Sunday feast in these idyllic surroundings.

Rosemary Best

Sunday lunch costs £20 per person; for more details and to reserve places go to www.enchanted-woods.co.uk You can also try Ben’s street food outside Stannary Brewing Company in Tavistock on Saturdays.

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My biggest Dartmoor challenge ever

Photo by Chris Bunney

Chris Bunney is planning to hike 400km across the whole Dartmoor Ordinance Survey map, visiting 170 tors and rocks during the 14-day expedition in aid of Dartmoor Search and Rescue Team (Tavistock), starting at Yelverton Rock on 2 August.

Although Chris lives in Plymouth, Tavistock has become almost a second home for his frequent walking expeditions. After 41 years working for a communications company with a fairly sedentary career behind a desk and commuting long distances, he took early retirement at 60; his new-found freedom opened up possibilities with walking trips on Dartmoor coming high

up the list. As a licentiate member of Master Photographers Association, Chris excels in wedding photography, as well as landscapes - in fact, it was photography that first introduced him to moor walking, when he started volunteering to instruct young people in photography as a new skill for The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award (DofE). Before long, he had been co-opted onto helping with expeditions, and ended up leading the silver award group. Safety was always a key element to ensure his DofE group knew how to operate in the changing moors environment and Chris spent an increasing amount of time exploring Dartmoor, challenging himself to walk the same three-day routes he expected his group to complete.

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Chris now takes up the story, explaining how he ended up taking on his biggest Dartmoor challenge ever!

What’s the challenge?

It started as a 60-tors-at 60-in-60-hours challenge to celebrate retiring and hitting 60 – that had a certain ring to it. But then Covid put paid to that so I needed another option. Basically, it got out of hand - I told a few people and before I knew it, I had committed myself to a very long walk! It got so difficult to choose, I decided why not just include everything on the Ordinance Survey map - yep, every tor and a few well-known rock stacks.

What inspired me to take the challenge?

Well, a sort of paying it forward. I intend to spend a lot of time on Dartmoor and it’s possible I, like many others, may need help one day. So, when I saw a Facebook post asking for volunteers to join the DS&RT Tavistock team to support fundraising, it was a perfect match. Then the small issue of a Covid pandemic crushed plans for fundraising events and I decided to use the time to plan and train for a charity challenge to help raise funds.

Why? To raise £20,000 to help DS&RT Tavistock achieve £50,000 to replace its failing operations vehicle. So, a

target and a hike on a scale I have never achieved before! DS&RT probably needs little introduction - a team of highly skilled and very professional volunteers who train every week and respond at the drop of a hat to provide emergency help when contacted by the police.

DS&RT is critical in locating, treating and extracting casualties from Dartmoor, as well as supporting urban searches for lost and vulnerable people. It also relies totally on donations.

What’s the plan?

Training – I need lots of that so I started a challenge within a challenge: step-ups with a 65-pound backpack, one hour a night, five nights a week – it’s mentally tough as well as physically. Being in a garage doesn’t help much either!

Staying within a local area during lockdown, I walked the Devon lanes, averaging 15km a day; I couldn’t wait to get back on the open moor and build up to walking with a 65-pound backpack.

Hopefully I’ll be fit enough by the time I start! I also need to complete some ‘test’ walks, and I’ve never been wild camping so that’ll be an experience - plus route planning, de-risking, kit preparation, as well as publicity, giving talks and maybe writing an e-book. The reality of the challenge is starting to hit home!

figure: please scan the QR code and make a donation, or sponsor me (if you already have then a huge thank you), and share my challenge with friends and on social media. It’s a tough ask in the current circumstances, however as we come out of lockdown Dartmoor is set to see a huge influx of visitors and locals, and any of them may need DS&RT. Can you be someone who has helped keep the search teams operational? I’m really excited and maybe a little scared about the challenge, but proud to be part of a team that could be the difference between life and death for someone.

Thank you, Chris

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Blood pressure Jo Coldron explains why it is important to have your blood pressure checked regularly to avoid long-term problems.

As a GP I must send out so many messages to patients to update their blood pressure (BP) – some days I feel like I’m obsessed with it, but that’s because it’s both very important for our long-term health, and usually causes no early identifying symptoms - so unless you’re looking for it a high blood pressure can go unnoticed for many years. The reason it’s important is that a high blood pressure, ongoing for months or years, puts extra strain on the body’s systems and is a risk factor for heart attacks, strokes, dementia and kidney disease among other things. Because high blood pressure can exist for many years without causing any symptoms, even though it’s gradually causing problems in the background, we are asked to try and make sure we take a blood pressure reading every 5 years or so for all our patients who are over 40. So, if we send you a message asking you to ‘update your BP’, that may be the only reason.

For many patients we strive to have much more regular BP checks. Patients who have illnesses that already put them at a higher risk of heart attacks, strokes and kidney disease, for example diabetes, schizophrenia, previous mini-stroke, rheumatoid arthritis and many others. Patients who are on certain medications, for example the combined contraceptive pill or HRT, and of course anyone who has already been identified as having high or borderline blood pressure, whether or not they are on blood pressure medication should have their BP monitored at least yearly.

What we do with the BP results depends on two things – the result AND the patient. There is no one number that is a definite threshold for saying below this your BP is fine and above this your BP is high and you need medicines. Blood pressure is part of the complex story for each individual patient and only one of the risk factors impacting our long-term health.

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Chernobyl Children’s Lifeline Providing life-saving respite for young people Who are we and why we do what we do?

Thirty-five years ago, on April 26th 1986 at 1.23am, Reactor 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station exploded.

As a consequence of the explosion, radioactive elements fell across Belarus and the Ukraine with the fallout continuing to affect the people of these countries for hundreds, if not thousands, of years. Our charity, the Chernobyl Children’s Lifeline, was established and registered in 1992 by the late Victor Mizzi OBE to support children and their families from Belarus and Ukraine, forever affected by the world’s worst nuclear disaster. The radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear explosion has caused numerous and varying health issues for the population which will last through generations to come. As well as thyroid cancer, bone cancer, leukaemia, and other non-oncological conditions, many people continue to experience

severe psychological distress directly linked to the effects of Chernobyl. This in turn often causes medical conditions which can then develop to become serious and even life threatening.

The main aims of our charity are: To bring child victims of the Chernobyl disaster to the UK for recuperative breaks of up to four weeks - close to 50,000 children and young adults have benefitted from staying with host families since our inception in 1992.

To provide on-going supplies of multivitamins and basic healthcare products, school uniforms, stationery, learning aids, special needs items, clothing, shoes and toiletries to the children on their return.

To work with our Belarusian and Ukrainian partners to locate children who will benefit from a recuperative care break.

To help children too sick to travel by providing chemotherapy medicines to Children’s Cancer Hospitals in Minsk, Gomel, Mogilov and Brest regions, support with medicines and equipment for Baby Home No 1 in Minsk, assist numerous social centres (temporary foster care facilities), individual foster families, and centres for children with special needs as well as several orphanages.

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Their health is so much improved; it is wonderful to see.”

While the children live at home, they are constantly eating contaminated food - and caesium or other radioactive elements may be building up in their

bodies. They are all at high risk of developing cancer, heart disease, or serious respiratory or digestive problems. The time they spend with a host family in the UK may help to prevent this by boosting their immune system and reducing the levels of contaminates in their system. They are not infectious in any way and no child is allowed to travel without a certificate of good health.

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So, do you think you could join us? There are so many ways to become involved with Chernobyl Children’s Lifeline - you could offer to be a host family (if you have a spare room) or to support us with our fundraising efforts, so we can offer this opportunity to as many children as possible. It’s a great thing to do and extremely rewarding; you will join a fabulous group of like-minded people.

We have a number of Lifeline links

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Plants that soothe the senses never fail to delight and relax.

Listen to rustling stems of bamboos or tall miscanthus grasses that move in the slightest breeze, or bring in the sound of moving water with a little feature like a self-contained fountain. Grow your own aromatherapy, with fragrant flowers such as roses, lavender, jasmine, honeysuckle, lilies, and chocolate cosmos, as well as plants with aromatic foliage that are deliciously scented when crushed. Herbs like camomile and lemon balm can be made into calming herbal teas, too.

Watching wildlife provides relaxation and fascination, and you can easily entice bees and butterflies with their favourite plants like cosmos, verbascum, hebe, hyssop and butterfly

bush (Buddleja). This latter plant is renowned for growing large, but newer varieties like the ‘Buzz’ series are compact in habit and suit even the smallest of gardens. Add a comfy seat or two for relaxation and wildlife-watching and you’ll have a perfect wind-down spot right on your doorstep.

A great way to save work and encourage wildlife is to have what’s become known as a ‘lazy lawn’. If you have a lot of grass and don’t need it all regularly cropped, simply go easy with the mower, and this year you could be listening to the buzz of bees and chirping of grasshoppers rather than the humming of mowers. A real win-win route to relaxation in the garden.

Gardens to visit One of the big post-lockdown joys is being able to visit gardens again. Some have restricted hours, or require visitors to pre-book, so always check websites or phone before you travel. As well as our local favourites such as The Garden House, Buckland Abbey, Cotehele, and Keith Wiley’s plant paradise at Wildside, there are private gardens opening

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Lavender should be lightly trimmed after flowering to remove dead flower stems and shoot tips.

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Better times ahead I always look forward to the onset of spring as it signals the end of a long Dartmoor winter and holds so much promise of new life and a potential window into how our sheep, cows and calves will do going forward. But the farm at this time of year does put you through the wringer and by the end of May I am worn out, and can’t wait to get off the farm for a few days and have a break. Our first outing is usually to Devon County Show with the kids and our team of Whiteface Dartmoor sheep, to do battle in the show ring. It’s great to see the other exhibitors and friends, and always a good release after a long winter. You share war stories from your winter campaigns on the farm, celebrate victories and losses alike. Then you come home after three days, tired, a little bit hung over, but revitalised as you realise this lonely existence isn’t so bad after all – it’s a great chance to bring the farming community together.

Sadly, it won’t be happening at the usual time at the end of May due to Covid; it has been moved to July with a different format, breaking the showing down into three individual days, so the stock don’t need to stay on site and to allow social distancing. However, it’s great it can go ahead, and I won’t be taking sheep myself this year as I have been asked to judge the Scotch Blackface breed at the show. All I have to do is turn up looking presentable, be treated to a lovely lunch and judge the sheep. I just hope I can persuade Gem to drive as the 22

Scotch boys like to have a celebratory whisky after the judging and if I have done my job right, I may get invited to join them! We will also get away on a short non-agricultural related break at some point before the summer holidays.

Gemma and the boys appreciate Devon County Show, but a proper get away with no farming distractions will hit the spot - probably meeting up with friends in a camp site somewhere on the coast, hopefully in good weather!

This spring’s long, dry, cold spell was getting a bit concerning back in April.

It was great for lambing sheep as the lambs were born dry and clean with the sun on their backs which helps so much.

The trouble is the ground dried right out and we were short of grass, it was cold with almost daily frosts through April, holding back any growth in our fields as well as your gardens. The ewes were hungry once they had lambs at foot and although we were taking out extra feed,

it wasn’t until May that we had any significant rain so the ewes could start to gain some weight. We were glad of it when it came as we were pretty desperate, but let’s just hope that now the rain has come, it knows when to stop!

Usually, early summer is a time when we can take things a bit easier - we are literally waiting for the grass to grow before we have to start harvesting our hay and silage. We have our sheep to shear and everything has to be seen and tended to, but as everything thrives in the early summer sun, the moor comes to life. As all the ewes and cows disappear in the vast Dartmoor landscape, those short, wet winter days and the cold dry spring seem a long way off.

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Birdsong - with a focus on warblers The chiffchaff started calling in our garden on March 28th and a couple of days later one settled in the uppermost branches of a nearby hawthorn. Silhouetted against the sky we were able to watch the whole of its body pulsate with each pulse of its two-note serenade or in other words ‘singing its heart out’. Although we may tend to think of the romance of a cock bird attracting his mate with his song, remember there is also a lot of macho posturing, territorial disputes and naked aggression towards rivals! The demands of flight require a rigid fuselage for wings and their powerful muscles to operate so you may not know that the ribs of birds cannot move up and down to pump air in and out of the lungs as they do in mammals. (Anyone who has carved a chicken or turkey at the dinner table will have been cutting these muscles (breast meat) away from the breast bone of the rib cage.) Instead, birds have a series of air-sacs, like bellows that pump the air through the lungs, and the two largest are located under the wings so the movement of the wings also facilitates breathing and thereby song production too.

Chiffchaffs are among the earliest singers from a large family of birds known as the warblers, small birds noted for the variety of their repertoire. The latest Collins guide lists 63 species, of which 14 breed in the UK and are the most likely to be encountered. They are all small birds (11-15 cm long) mainly feeding on insects, and with milder winters they may be extending their range from the European mainland. With a few notable exceptions most are either brown, yellow or green in colour and they are difficult to distinguish visually. As they frequent dense vegetation, with only fleeting excursions into the open, we have to rely on their songs for identification.

Warblers are very good value in terms of decibels produced per gram of weight! The next warbler to listen out for will be the blackcap whose song is introduced by a series of churring notes preceding a remarkably musical warble. Cetti’s warbler, a relatively new arrival to this country, has an even louder version though I am not sure whether I am confident enough to identify its song. However the plaintive descending melody of the willow warbler is distinctive, as is the mid volume song of the whitethroat, a species that will sing from an open position. Both were relatively common but no longer appear in our garden.

I must also mention the even smaller wren (not a warbler) which can still surprise me as it rattles off its rasping staccato from somewhere nearby. Astonishingly, if a recording of this is played at a slower speed (as is often done to make the ultrasonic calls of bats audible to our ears) it is heard to compose of a ‘whoop whoop whoop’ ululation reminiscent of gibbons in a tropical environment!

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Tavistock is open for you!

Let’s ‘Be Safe’ whilst we ‘Escape’ to Tavistock and truly enjoy ‘Exploring’ the town once more.

It has been wonderful to see people out enjoying the town. You can be assured of a safe visit, with open spaces to escape to and explore, plus plenty of ways to be Covid-secure.

Our businesses are thrilled to have you back! Along with some new businesses joining the bustling high street and beautiful planters along the pavements, some of our empty properties have had a makeover and the shopping streets have never looked better. Colourful window vinyls adorn shop windows, reassuring visitors with safety messages and celebrating what is special about the town. Encouraging safe adventures in town or further afield and great shopping opportunities, they

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also showcase artwork from talented local students – a wall of art well worth a visit alone!

You can now pick up a Tavistock Gift Card from any participating business and add funds to it yourself in your own time. Our new initiative ‘Load this card’ makes it even easier to give the gift of Tavistock. With over 50 places where you can spend it, this makes a great gift for any occasion throughout the year. To find out more see www. tavistockgiftcard.co.uk Tavistock BID is now in the final year of its second term, which ends on 31st August 2021. We are busy preparing

for a renewal ballot which will be held in June and end on July 15th. Our new business plan for the next five years has been circulated to all levy-paying businesses and can be viewed at www. visit-tavistock.co.uk/bid. Since the BID began in 2011, we have delivered a wide range of projects and services to make Tavistock more attractive and better promoted, as well as hosting events attracting thousands of visitors.

More recently, due to the pandemic, we have been at the heart of coordinating business support and helping businesses access grants.

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Tamar & Tavy Gig Club excited to be rowing again!

After a year without rowing due to Covid restrictions, members of Tamar & Tavy Gig Club were eagerly looking forward to getting back on the water as soon as outdoor sport returned at Easter. The club put robust Covid-secure procedures in place following national guidelines for a safe return to sport, but decided to start slowly with a small number of crews and build up gradually. For once, there was no shortage of volunteers to clean boats and equipment, check safety gear and generally tidy up a boat shed which had been gathering cobwebs for the last year. Although many club members had found different ways to keep up their fitness, others had been wondering whether their rowing kit would still fit, so there were slightly mixed feelings in the run up to the first row! Ladies’ captain, Denise Nixon, took part in the first rowing session on a lovely sunny evening and said: “It was fantastic to be back in the boat with my crew mates, although I know I’m going to ache tomorrow!”

The club had to postpone a planned rowing expedition to the Caledonian Canal in Scotland last summer and missed out on two Scillies World Gig Championships, and many other events which are a big part of the rowing calendar. Club chair, David Egerton, said: “We have worked hard to maintain a sense of club identity over this challenging last year, and it’s great to see crews back together again. Our traditional wooden gigs

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belong in the water, not in a dusty boat shed, and we’re hoping that racing regattas may eventually return later this summer.

Meanwhile, we’re just happy to be back out on the beautiful River Tamar.”

Gig rowing is a team sport, rowing traditional Cornish pilot gigs, and our family-friendly club caters for members from all walks of life, from 12-year-olds to 80 plus - no experience is necessary, just enthusiasm. We have weekly rowing sessions for ladies, men, and juniors with organised social rows and excursions further afield. Now more than ever, the benefits to both physical and mental wellbeing of healthy outdoor exercise and a closer connection to nature are really important, so if you are looking for a new challenge, a new way to keep fit, or just want to enjoy the tranquillity and wildlife on the river, why not give gig rowing a try?

Tamar & Tavy Gig Club would love to welcome new members to our purpose built facilities at Weir Quay, and are running free taster sessions this summer where you can just come and have a go. For more information, please see www.tamarandtavygigclub.co.uk or email: info@ tamarandtavygigclub.co.uk.

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Tavistock RDA Carriage Driving Group At the 1952 Olympic Games, polio sufferer Lis Hartel, won silver in the dressage. Her victory snowballed therapeutic horseback riding across Europe. In under 15 years, 23 groups existed in the UK alone, from which emerged the Riding for the Disabled Association (RDA). Today the RDA president is Princess Anne, daughter of such a great exponent of carriage driving, the late HRH Prince Philip.

The Tavistock RDA carriage driving group provides adults and young people with the opportunity to learn the skill of carriage driving, instilling a sense of

Devon Air Ambulance - cleared for take-off! hanks to a number of generous donations from members of the local community, together with substantial ones from Mansbridge Balment and the Rapid Relief Team, we have raised the £1650 required to see a night landing site established in Yelverton. Once the project to install the necessary equipment at the Memorial Hall field in Meavy Lane has been completed, we’ll let everybody know how the service will operate.

Yelvercare services resume Since the start of the pandemic, Yelvercare has had to restrict journeys with clients to essential journeys only.

Now that most of those who need our services have had the opportunity to be vaccinated, those restrictions have been lifted and Yelvercare is once again accepting requests for transport for any reasonable purpose.

self-worth and achievement, satisfaction and fun. To enable the sessions to run we are looking for a band of volunteers to support our group, whether it be to work with the pony or our participants.

To get an instant feel, a quick internet search of RDA photos will leave you in no doubt of what we share and enjoy... the many smiles tell it all. Whatever your skills, you will have something to offer us - please join us and make a difference. Our motto is ‘it’s what you do that counts’. To learn more, do please give me, Janet, a call on 01822 834115.

And Yelvercare’s popular Lunch Club will return! From July onwards, the Lunch Club will meet twice a month, on the first and third Wednesday of the month. Anyone interested in attending is invited to ring the YelverCare number, 07775 695864, between 10am and 1pm Monday to Friday.

Wildflower meadow Buckland Monachorum Parish Council has been approached to see if we would be willing to establish wild flower meadows on some of the ground we manage around Yelverton. Having looked at the idea, we have selected a piece of land which might be suitable between the entrance to Briar Tor and the fire station. This would involve not regularly mowing the area and allowing wild flowers to establish, thereby providing a suitable habitat for birds, bees and other wildlife. Wildflower meadows take a few years to establish and are not ‘neat and tidy’ so we thought one relatively small area would act as a trial, and if successful could be expanded to include other areas if supported by the community.

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To do this properly, we need a few willing volunteers to act as ‘stewards’ of the area, do the odd bit of ‘maintenance’ and generally keep an eye on progress.

If you are interested in improving our biodiversity and would like to volunteer for this project, please let the Clerk know (clerk@bmpc.info) and if there is support for the idea, we can set the wheels in motion. If you would like to know more about wildflower projects like this, the organisation Plantlife (www.plantlife.org.uk) is a great place to start.

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Dartmoor Border Morris Meavy-based Dartmoor Border Morris has been in lockdown, like the rest of the country, since March last year, and although we have kept in contact and played tunes at home, I think to be honest we may have forgotten half our dance moves. So, when we are released from lockdown in mid-June, we will have to assess how ‘rusty’ our dancing is before doing public performances. However, once social distancing has been lifted, we intend to practise until it hurts! We have missed our Morris dancing, as well as playing our music. We couldn’t even dance at the waking of the season as the sun rises over Dartmoor on May Day. Dartmoor Rescue Group has missed us too, as we should have been collecting for the group all of last year! At the time of writing, we currently haven’t any summer bookings because of Covid, but all is not lost as we have bookings for the autumn for the postponed Royal Cornwall Show and Widecombe Fair. If you want to check on our progress during the summer, have a look at our Facebook page or dartmoorbordermorris.com to see where we might turn up next.

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We are Tavistock’s very own Morris dancing side, and we dance in the border style with sticks, bells, top hats and tatter coats. We love to laugh and have fun when we’re together, plus it’s a good work out! We haven’t been able to get together and dance for a year and a half, so now is the perfect time for anyone wishing to give it a try to join us.

We are waiting to welcome new dancers or musicians. No experience of Morris dancing is necessary; there will be plenty of rusty participants dusting off their sticks and we will be teaching the routines again from scratch. If you have Thursday evenings free and you would like to give something new and a little bit quirky a try, contact Squire Sam either by email: sam. sidbotham@btinterent.com or on 01822611259.

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I’m not referring to the tiny, feathered variety in the garden but the indomitable ladies who joined the Women’s Royal Naval Service. Specifically, ladies who joined up between 1946 and 1981 and did their basic training at Training Depot Burghfield/ HMTE Burghfield/HMTE Dauntless/HMS Dauntless/Reading.

but also to reunite ladies with old friends, share anecdotes and relive exciting moments. So if you, your mum, granny, aunt, godmother or even next-door-neighbour donned a blue suit and aimed for a life on the ocean wave, please get in touch on either ddpwrens@gmail.com or 07765 435295/0771 990 9844.

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TIME FOR NATURE CHALLENGE Until March 2022 Celebrating DNPA’s 70th anniversary, Time for Nature encourages people to discover, enjoy and protect landscapes. Download an activity sheet or pick one up at a DNPA visitor centre, and choose your activities.

For more information go to www.dartmoor. gov.uk.

MOOR OTTERS ARTS TRAIL Summer 2021 ‘Otter spotters’ can find 81 sculptures of otters with cubs by following trails in Okehampton, Lydford & Tavistock; Ashburton, Buckfastleigh & Princetown; Bovey Tracey, Haytor, Moretonhampstead & Chagford; the Yelverton area; Plymouth’s Mayflower Trail. For more information visit www.dartmoor.gov.uk/moorotters or join the Moor Otters Facebook group.

LEAF OPEN FARM SUNDAY 27 June Visit a farm and find out the story behind our food and how farming affects our everyday lives. Activities can range from machinery displays, tractor and trailer rides, to demonstrations, nature walks and much more! Visit www.farmsunday. org to find a farm to visit. There will also be a LEAF Online Farm Sunday on 26 September, and a Facebook live farm tour on the first Sunday of every month.

RHS ROSEMOOR HALF-TERM FAMILY FUN

29 May to 13 June ‘Get Up and Grow’ is a chance for families to have fun together outside exploring the gardens, finding wonderful flowers and spotting the abundance of wildlife. Solve the clues on the brand-new family trail and discover the importance for our gardens of a whole array of pollinators, not just bees and butterflies, but night-time moths, beetles and other insects. On completion each family will receive a goody bag including activity sheets, seeds to grow at home as well as a booklet to help you garden for wildlife.

THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF DOCTOR DOLITTLE Sunday 20 June, 5pm See ‘Music & Art’ for details SUMMER HOLIDAYS FAMILY FUN 3 July to 5 September Bring your family along for a full day out including a garden trail and sculptures to discover the wonderland at Rosemoor, inspired by the original works of Lewis Carroll and re-imagined by Chris Riddell.

Activities vary daily so please visit website for details. www.rhs.org.uk/rosemoor ALICE IN WONDERLAND 24 July, 6pm See ‘Music & Art’ for details

SOAPBOX THEATRE COBWEB’S MAGICAL GARDEN 10 to 26 June Come and find out who lives at the bottom of the garden - an outdoor theatre show at Soapbox Theatre, Devonport

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STERTS THE LITTLE MERMAID 2,3,4 June 7pm & 5 June, 2pm This classic Disney story takes you to a magical kingdom under the sea and contains all of the songs from the Academy Award® winning animated feature film as well as three new songs from the Broadway show, brought to you by our talented Sterts Youth Juniors.

SHREK THE MUSICAL 15 -17, 30-31 July, 7.30pm ‘Once upon a time, there was a little ogre named Shrek…’ And thus begins the tale of an unlikely hero who finds himself on a life-changing journey alongside a wisecracking donkey and a feisty princess who resists her rescue. ​ALICE IN WONDERLAND 27 July, 5pm See ‘Music & Art’ for details LITTLE RED AND THE BIG BAD WOLF 5 August, 2pm Little Red sets off through the forest to visit Grandma but the journey won’t be easy.

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Thursday 3 to Wednesday 9 June

Mayflower 400 Quilt Exhibition The Minster Church of St Andrew in Plymouth stages an exhibition of the beautiful quilts created by schools, voluntary groups and individuals to commemorate the voyage of The Mayflower in 1620. 9am to 4pm, weekend opening times may vary.

Entry is free but donations welcomed for UNICEF and The Alzheimer’s Society. Refreshments available. Covid restrictions apply.

Saturday 12 June

Upcycled & Eco Market Re-use not refuse - it’s the way forward!

This trailblazing event showcasing a myriad of innovative recycling ideas will be staged in Tavistock’s historic Butcher’s Hall, also focusing on ecofriendly shopping locally. 25 exhibitors will demonstrate how you can create clothes, furniture, homewares, jewellery, glass and wooden objects through imaginative recycling. Entry is free, 10:00am to 3:30pm.

the views. Open 11am-1pm & 2 – 4pm; refreshments, free parking, plant sales and crafts; sorry no dogs; wheelchair access limited. Entry: adults £5, children (U16) free entry (plus booking fee) in aid of St Luke’s Hospice – book tickets at www.stlukes-hospice.org.uk Saturday 19 June, Saturday 10 July

Love Local Gift Market An array of local gift exhibitors at Butcher’s Hall, Tavistock offer the perfect chance to seek out that special gift! So look no further than this market for a collective of the finest traders specialising in gifts to treasure. Entry is free, 10:00am to 3:30pm.

Saturday 26 June

St Eustachius’ Summer Fete 11th annual fete, 10:30 am to 3:30pm on the church green with stalls for plants, books, pre-loved clothing, vintage green, white elephant and a bouncy castle, plus hot dogs and burgers & other delicious refreshments. All monies raised by The Friends of St Eustachius’ help enhance and maintain the church.

Friday 9 July

Upcycled, Eco & Gift Market

Sunday 13 June

This new market is being held on a Friday throughout the summer in Butcher’s Hall, promoting the ethos of re-use, not refuse, as well as focusing on eco-friendly and local artisan businesses. 25 exhibitors will demonstrate how you can create clothes, furniture, homewares, jewellery, glass and wooden objects through imaginative recycling, plus artisan gift stalls. Entry is free, 10:00am to 3:30pm.

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Lower Birch Farmhouse, Bere Alston, PL20 7BY is perched on a hillside with views across the River Tamar. This gently sloping and nicely maturing garden boasts creative use of vibrant colours in its many diverse borders, while the central feature, a large landscaped pond area, provides a wonderful environment for both flora and fauna and a perfect point to take in

Tavy Turners & Carvers Club From July, Tavy Turners and Carvers Club will resume its regular meetings on the 3rd Monday of the month, 7.30 to 9.30pm at the Scout Den, Pixon Lane, Tavistock. New members are always most welcome. See tavistockwoodturners.co.uk for further information.

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Sunday 25 July

Church in the Park Redeemer Church and Abbey Chapel invite you to take part in an informal and family-friendly open-air service at the bandstand, Tavistock Meadows at 10:30am, with games for the kids and face painting afterwards. All are welcome!

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WHAT’S ON

Talks & heritage walks Princetown History Club 1 June: A walk around Moretonhampstead, with Gary Cox 6 July: Exploration of Yennadon Down, with Liz Miall (or Simon Dell) 3 Aug: A visit to Whiteworks, with Andy Crabb, DNPA archeologist

Details of all meetings and events are at princetownhistoryclub.weebly.com/programme.html.

Membership costs £5 per person per year, and raffle tickets at £1 per strip are available before each talk. Outdoor events usually cost £1, but this may vary for some events.

Tavistock Local History Society 8 June, 7pm (virtual walk by zoom) ‘Lydford: Burgh, Mint & Stannary Prison’ with Andrew Thompson 13 July, 7pm (outdoor visit) ‘Powdermills: 19th Century Gunpowder Factory’ with Drew Campbell, author of ‘Powdermills – The story of the Dartmoor gunpowder factory’ (2019) 10 August, 7pm (outdoor visit) ‘Gunnislake Chapels & Church’ with member Stephen Docksey​

17 June, 7:00pm: Dr Jen Fraser - Down Under: Australian painting from ancient times to European Colonisation ‘The land owns us’ is a statement used by Aboriginal people to describe their relationship to their ancestrally created land - but that lies in polar opposition to European notions of land ownership. This Zoom lecture invites you to explore the connection between the land and the cultivation of identity by looking at the art of both cultures from 50,000 BC to the mid-19th century.

Zoom talks cost £5; further information and booking details at heritageintavistock.org/events, richard.rundell@ tavistockguildhall.org or 07470 774842.

Friends of the Wharf Lunchtime Lectures

Outdoor visits may move to Zoom - please see www.tavistockhistory.co.uk for the latest updates.

Organised by Dr Ann Pulsford, the Friends of the Wharf Lunchtime Lecture series resumes at Tavistock Wharf on the first Monday of August 2-3pm, running monthly until December - cost £5.00 including tea and cakes afterwards (FOTW £4.00).

The Wharf will be closed to other visitors during talks and strict Covid hygiene, mask wearing and social distancing measures will be followed.

Tavistock Heritage Trust Heritage walks

2 August: Ian Gasper An illustrated talk on birds and their behaviour

From June till July, Tavistock Heritage Trust and Tavistock Guildhall will be presenting a programme of town and heritage walks. For £5 per person, you will be taken on a journey through the history of this World Heritage Site in the company of our team of local historians, opening doors to the past and providing an unforgettable experience. Ideal for new visitors to the area and local residents - we promise you’ll learn something new. Walk topics include local heritage, railway history, pubs and breweries, canals, curiosities and many more. See www.heritageintavistock.org for full details.

Zoom talks 3 June, 7.00pm: David Rosier - ‘Heaven’s Embroidered Cloth’: The History and Development of Chinese Imperial Silk This talk traces the origins, and myths, that surround Imperial Chinese Silk, an exquisite product that has mesmerised the World and on occasions exceeded the value of gold. Starting in the Neolithic era David will take us on a journey from the early Dynasties of China to the expansion of the silk industry and the role of the Silk Road in bringing this coveted product to the Middle East and on to Europe.

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This talk will cover many aspects of how birds live: their physiology (what makes them different), their movement, their feeding methods and abilities, their breeding methods and intelligence, plus migration and navigation strategies. Ian will use mainly his own wonderful photos from travels across the globe. The talk should be of interest to those with an awareness of birds to those with a keen interest.

6 September: Simon Dell Tavistock’s Policing Past

Simon Dell’s new talk ties in to his two recent books: Tavistock’s Policing Past and Tavistock Guildhall - A Story of Policing, written to celebrate the restoration and opening of Tavistock Guildhall as a ‘gateway’ centre for the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape World Heritage Site, and commemorating over two centuries of policing in Tavistock and West Devon. His talk charts the life of this unique building which housed the magistrates’ court and police station from 1848 until 2012.

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July, August & September

Dartmoor Fell Race Series Six race organisers have collaborated to bring you this series of ten great races, with junior races also featuring at eight of the events. Enter each race via the organiser’s website and enjoy great open moorland running on Dartmoor with brilliant camaraderie. Results will be collated using your best seven race scores out of the ten, and prizes will be awarded to series category winners. So how many can you do?

Wednesday 8 September: Sourton For details see okehamptonrunningclub.com Wednesday 22 September: Great Links Tor Flyer Start at Fox & Hounds, Bridestowe; for details see runventureonline.com or tavistockathletics.co.uk - website bookings live 1 Aug

Saturday 12 June: Marilyn’s Meldon Madness Start at Meldon Reservoir; for details see okehamptonrunningclub. com Wednesday 23 June: Solstice Start at Dartmoor Inn, Merrivale; for details see runventureonline. com Saturday 26 June: Burrator Horseshoe Start at Meavy; for details see entrycentral.com/ burratorhorseshoe2021 Saturday 3 July: Cosdon For details see okehamptonrunningclub.com Saturday 17 July: Haytor Heller Already fully booked; for details see teignbridgetrotters.co.uk Wednesday 28 July: Neolith Start at Dartmoor Inn, Merrivale; for details see runventureonline. com or tavistockathletics.co.uk - website bookings live 1 June Friday 30 July: Yartor Start at Dartmeet; For details see wildrunning.co.uk Wednesday 25 August:Tavy Trio of Tors Start at Dartmoor Inn, Merrivale; for details see runventureonline. com or tavistockathletics.co.uk - website bookings live 1 July

19 & 20 June

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‘Rainbow Run Your Way’

Last year, due to the pandemic, the event went virtual, and around 2,000 people raised an incredible £100,000 for Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW). This year, the event is again open to anyone who wants to get involved; it’s a chance to don a bright outfit, pick a distance and complete it by running, skipping, walking, skating or riding and have fun along the way. We hope to raise £30,000 for each of the charity’s three children’s hospices: Little Bridge House in North Devon, Charlton Farm in Somerset and Little Harbour in Cornwall - a poignant target for the charity’s 30th anniversary year. It’s free to take part but CHSW encourages everyone to register at www.chsw.org.uk/rainbow for access to event information and free resources.

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RHS Garden Rosemoor

Saturday 5 June to Sun 18 July

Rose Festival This takes place over six weeks celebrating England’s iconic flower. Come and experience the spectacular fusion of colour and scent from the largest rose gardens in the Southwest with

over 2000 roses. There are two late evening openings (until 9pm) when the rose scent is at its peak, accompanied by live acoustic music on 2 & 16 July.

Friday 25 to Sunday 27 June

Rose Weekend Free guided walks and talks as well as a floral-themed craft market.

Saturday 31 July & Sunday 1 August

Vintage Weekend Join us for RHS Garden Rosemoor’s 1940s themed weekend, including Second World War living history re-enactors, military displays, 1940s music and Lindy Hop dancing. The weekend also includes a Vintage Vehicle Rally, with a magnificent display of vehicles on the Arboretum Lawn and a Vintage & Upcycled Fair including clothes, textiles and other memorabilia.

Festival of roses 5 June –18 July

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Experience the spectacular fusion of colour and scent from over 2,000 roses.

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The largest rose gardens in the South West are an amazing treat for the senses, whilst the Wildflower Meadows change into a dramatic yellow and purple haze. Then the Fruit and Vegetable Garden matures, and the vibrant colours of the Hot Garden, the Mediterranean and Exotic Gardens start to develop. At the same time the Cool Garden is a calm oasis of running water complemented by white, blue and yellow flowering plants. Get the most from your visit by picking up our self-guided summer seasonal trail. Please book visits online at rosemoorevents@rhs.org.uk, to avoid disappointment, as capacity is still limited.

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Saturday 17 & Sunday 18 July

Tavistock Carnival Weekend Carnival Duck Race

the cavalcade, are asked to contact Lion, John Dawson on jdawson526@ btinternet.com.

On Sunday 18 July from 1pm to 5pm, there will be a celebratory ‘Party in Park’ in The Meadows when local residents are invited to come together for a great afternoon’s entertainment. Stannary Brass Band, Blowzone and the Tavy Tars will be performing in the bandstand whilst at the other end of The Meadows, there will be a disco, and local bands will perform on the sound stage kindly provided by Barry Lowton. Plymouth Pipe Band will also be in attendance so there will be music to suit all tastes!

Other attractions include a dog show, a duck race on the canal, two engines from the Robey Trust and a selection of stalls from local charities. Food and drink will be available, including the Lions’ BBQ and tea & homemade cake stall. Discussions are also in hand with

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the fairground organisers to see if some of their rides could open on the day. The club is very keen to involve as many local organisations as possible and if any others would like to join in, they should contact Lion, John Dawson.

So, all in all, an afternoon of fun and entertainment not to be missed after almost a year and a half of effective hibernation!

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This year’s Tavistock Carnival will be somewhat different from previous years but as the country gradually returns to near normality after the pandemic, the Lions Club decided to organise some form of celebration for the local community. So, for this year only, Carnival will be taking place over just the weekend of 17th/18th July, provided COVID restrictions allow. The club is planning a vehicle cavalcade on Saturday 17 July featuring representatives of key workers, emergency services, support organisations and local traders who have provided a service to the community during lockdowns. This will be a vehicle-only procession starting from Down Road at 6pm to tour various housing estates around the town where a circular in and out route is possible.

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The Box Wampum: Stories From The Shells Of Native America The exhibition centres on a wampum belt created for The Box by 100 Wampanoag craftspeople of Massachusetts, displayed alongside seven historic wampum belts on loan from the British Museum and Saffron Walden Museum. Wampum belts use shells to tell stories of communities and culture. The exhibition runs until 11 July.

Mayflower 400: Legend and Legacy The exhibition reopened in May with a large collection of new artefacts from across the globe including the Second

Peirce Patent from Pilgrim Hall Museum.

Signed in 1621, this is the oldest existing state document of New England and gave the Mayflower passengers English permission to settle in America.

Smeaton’s Tower, and Elizabethan House Also part of The Box family are Plymouth’s famous striped red and white lighthouse, Smeaton’s Tower, and Elizabethan House - one of the few remaining buildings from this era in Plymouth. An exceptional example of an Elizabethan boarding house, the Grade II Listed Elizabethan House has been undergoing a six-year restoration and has not been open to the public

since 2015. Visitors will be taken on an immersive, multi-sensory journey through Plymouth’s history by the house and the people who lived there between 1599 and 1926 when the house was saved for the nation. Elizabethan House’s planned public opening is in July 2021. Smeaton’s Tower Lighthouse will open to visitors once social distancing measures are lifted by the UK Government. Both venues are ticketed.

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Sunday 11 July

Mayflower 400 Four Nations Ceremony

The ceremony is the UK’s flagship Mayflower 400 event and the 70-metre stage will host an epic production, telling the story of the Mayflower Pilgrims’ journey in search of religious freedom and exploring the impact of this on the world. A massive array of singers representing choirs and schools from the region will be accompanied by the full concert orchestra of HM Royal Marines Band Plymouth. Together they will perform brand new music, accompanied by actors on stage and bespoke film footage, all narrated to tell this unique story. The script and lyrics have been written by Nick Stimson, associate director at the

Theatre Royal Plymouth, with music

by Chris Williams. For the first time ever, this commemoration event will include leading representatives of the Native American Wampanoag tribes, who have historically been excluded from the narrative despite having been greatly affected by the Mayflower’s arrival and subsequent European settlement. All four nations involved in the story – the UK, USA, Netherlands and the Wampanoag tribes – will be represented by high-ranking dignitaries.

Gates open at 1pm, with activities on stage from 2pm, and the ceremony taking place from 3pm to approximately 4.30pm. Food, drink and toilets are available; visitors are welcome to bring their own food and drink with them, as well as blankets or camping chairs as seating will not be provided.

Tickets are free but must be booked prior to entry at: visitplymouth.co.uk/ mayflower400ceremony.

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24 June, 1 & 8 July

Outdoor Art for All course West Devon Art Workshops will be running a 3-week Art for All course in Tavistock on 24th June, 1st July and 8th July, exploring outdoor sketching. The course will be run in outdoor locations, weather permitting, and will look at pencil, pen and wash, colour pencil etc. It will be accompanied by video classes so that participants can practice beforehand, and we will also be using the videos to provide an online course with tutorials over zoom for people who would rather take part that way. The courses are free but donations are very much appreciated.

change of focus, enabling participants to engage with others and with nature through fun, accessible sketchbook exercises in a relaxed atmosphere.”

The Art for All courses are aimed at building confidence and combating social isolation, something which was already prevalent in rural communities before the pandemic and has grown significantly during the last year. For more details, email westdevonartworkshops@gmail. com or call 07724 153381 (Mon to Thurs 10am-4pm).

Andy Cairns from West Devon Art Workshops said: “This course will be a

Friday 4 June

Plymouth Arts Cinema reopens Plymouth Arts Cinema has announced its plans to reopen on Friday 4th June, following months of closure due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The city’s independent cinema will also be offering new releases and old favourites with its annual Open Air Cinema events returning to Tinside Lido on the weekends of 20-22 August, and 2-4 September. It is also working on additional events at the end of July with a significant cultural partner, details of which will be announced soon.

The staff team at PAC have worked to create a safe pathway for reopening, and ensure audience confidence, by following Government guidelines and advice from the UK Cinema Association.

Sellout socially distanced screenings during the brief period of reopening in summer 2020 and latest research show that audiences are keen to return to the cinema.

Booking for films in the cinema will open on 1st June (28th May for members),

with films such as Nomadland, The Father, Sound of Metal and Another Round, all top prize winners at the recent Oscars ceremony tipped for inclusion in the programme. Plymouth Arts Cinema, a much beloved organization and Plymouth’s only independent cinema, kept audiences entertained during lockdown by working with independent distributors, Iris On The Move Film Festival, and Reclaim The

Frame, running a curated programme of new independent releases, online events and Q&As to watch at home, with 50% of rental fees going directly to the cinema. PAC has safeguarded its future sustainability throughout three lockdowns in the past year with extensive fundraising.

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Outdoor theatre The further adventures of Doctor Dolittle Illyria delves back into Hugh Lofting’s amazing stories to bring you a brandnew musical adaptation of the Doctor’s FURTHER adventures with Jip the Dog, Dab Dab the Duck, Gub Gub the Pig, Polynesia the Parrot. Where in the world will they go? Will they even stay on this world? Which new animals will they help along the way? Will the Rats still have pithy observations to make? Is Gub Gub still dreaming about cake? The FURTHER Adventures of Doctor Dolittle features a fully orchestrated score, amazing puppets and a plethora of songs. Perfect summer fun for everyone aged 5+. Running time: 1 hour 40 minutes (including a 20-minute interval) Friday 11th June, 6pm at The Big Sheep (theploughartscentre.org.uk) Sunday 20 June, 5pm at RHS Garden Rosemoor (theploughartscentre.org.uk)

songs, colourful characters, costumes and hilarious comedy. With inventive staging, original songs and magical storytelling we invite audiences to enjoy Lewis Carroll’s classic tale of Alice In Wonderland, in Boxtree Productions’ unique and energetic way!

Saturday 24 July, 6pm at RHS Garden Rosemoor (theploughartscentre.org.uk) Sunday 25 July, 5:30pm at Castle Drogo (tbc) (theploughartscentre.org.uk) Tuesday 27 July, 5pm at Sterts, Liskeard (sterts.co.uk) Wednesday 28 July, 5pm at Ebbingford Manor, Bude (wegottickets.com/ event/514741) Friday 30 July, 5pm at Castle Hill, South Molton (theploughartscentre.org.uk) 2 & 24 August

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Claudio loves Hero, and Benedick hates Beatrice. This is just as well, because Hero loves Claudio and Beatrice hates Benedick. Everyone laughs when Don Pedro plays a trick on Benedick and Beatrice, letting each think that they are secretly loved by the other. But it is no laughing matter when Don John plays a trick on Claudio and Hero, deceiving Claudio into thinking that Hero is not faithful to him. Murderous rage is unleashed, and death can be the only solution... Or can it? Perhaps one last

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June to August

Dartmoor’s Disappearing Phone Boxes Helen Northcott’s winter photography exhibition was cancelled due to the pandemic but has now been re-scheduled to appear in Dartmoor libraries this summer.

Tavistock Library: Monday 2nd to Saturday 28th August Please check dartmoorphotographer.co.uk

The iconic red telephone box, designed

by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, first appeared on the streets of Britain back in 1925. However, it is now in danger of vanishing from our streets and Dartmoor’s red telephone boxes are slowly disappearing from our towns and villages. Dartmoor Photographer, Helen Northcott decided to embark on a personal project to record for posterity the remaining red telephone boxes within Dartmoor National Park.

In Princetown one of two telephone boxes on the main road through the village has been adopted by the parish council and reused as a memorial to commemorate the service personnel who fought during the two world wars.

Other boxes like the ones at Hexworthy and Belstone have been pressed into service to house their community defribrillators. Across the moor redundant telephone boxes are also being used as informal libraries, village notice boards and even as a cake stall.

Moretonhampstead Library: Tuesday 1st to Tuesday 29th June Princetown Library: Monday 5th to Wednesday 28th July

actors and actresses of all ages who would like to take part. No experience necessary! Backstage help is always needed for set building, stage help and costume making etc and volunteers are always welcome. You can find more details about Buckland Monachorum Drama Group, plus information on past and future productions at www. bucklandmonachorumdramagroup.co.uk

16 June to end of August

Summer Art Exhibition

Buckland Monachorum Drama Group With the end of lockdown hopefully in sight, Buckland Monachorum Drama Group has begun to think about future productions. Whilst it is very unlikely a play could be put on this autumn, there is the hope that something could be put on at the end of January 2022. This would almost certainly be a comedy and during lockdown, zoom play readings have taken place to check out possible candidates. The drama group is also looking for new

Wildwood Art Gallery in Horrabridge will host its annual summer exhibition, including works by Allin Braund Allin Braund RA, Richard Slater RI, Arthur Homeshaw RWA, and Eric Waugh RI, alongside contemporary fine art from Wildwood artists. Since Allin Braund’s passing in 2004, over 60 of his paintings were hidden away in a Northumbrian barn, belonging to his family. Wildwood Arts has exclusivity for all this work and a selection of his newly discovered paintings will form part of the exhibition.

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Tamar Valley Vineyard’s first wines In 2013 we had the crazy idea of planting a vineyard. Scroll forward 8 years and we are getting very close to not only being able to market our very own wines but also welcome visitors to the vineyard.

Tamar Valley Vineyard is located near Weir Quay on the Bere Peninsula and eight years after we first considered planting a vineyard, we are about to release our first wines. It has been an extremely long journey with thousands of hours of hard work from friends and family, but it has been very rewarding to watch our vineyard develop and flourish since its inception.

Originally, we planned to sell our grapes to a commercial wine producer but it didn’t take long to get caught up in the romantic notion of having our own wine. Research was carried out and a winemaker in Herefordshire contracted.

In 2019 our first harvest was packed up

in a van and carefully driven 200 miles to its temporary home. The variety of grape, madeleine angevine lends itself very well to making crisp, white wines but on this occasion, we decided to throw out the rule book and see how it would develop as a sparkling wine. As I write, this wine is nearing completion, although thanks to Covid we have not yet had the opportunity to finalise exactly how it will taste but this should happen very soon. In 2020 our second harvest was much larger but again it was transported to Herefordshire, this time to be made into the crisp white wine that initially attracted us to madeleine angevine. This wine will be bottled any day now and then we can worry about how to get it all back to Devon!

However, we soon realised that we cannot keep transporting our grapes 200 miles for processing, and as such

building work is underway on our very own winery! We were very lucky to receive some LEADER funding which has helped towards the costs of the build and the equipment. This development is going to allow us to have total control over the winemaking process and will enable us to press the grapes when they are at their freshest. It is also going to help us reduce our carbon footprint, as the grapes will now travel 200 yards instead of 200 miles!

We are very much hoping to have the winery completed in the next couple of months and if everything goes to plan, open up the vineyard for visits and tastings at some point this summer.

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How is rosé made?

It’s as clear as mud, explains wine enthusiast Dave Anning

Actually, it’s the colour of the grape skin that matters. The flesh and juice are almost always pale yellow. Yes, there are grapes with red-tinted flesh, but if you’re going to be pernickety, I could point out that skins are usually green or purple, so let’s not bicker.

Rosé, or ‘blush’, is made using redskinned grapes with white flesh. They get smooshed up into a big pulpy mess, then two important things happen.

Firstly, the grapes are fermented at a cool temperature, just like white wine.

Secondly the red grape skins are only left in contact with the juice briefly typically half a day to three days. Red wine often ferments with the skins for weeks. Only a limited amount of ‘redness’ transfers to the juice, and the result is pink!

One beauty of rosé is that its appearance offers real clues to its style - the darker the colour the more ‘red influence’ there is. Grape variety etc. makes a difference, but as a crude rule of thumb, if you don’t enjoy a rosé, try one that is paler or darker. The difficulties involved in making good rosé mean that a truly cheap bottle is likely to lack balance, so don’t be put off if you’ve only ever tried cheap rosé. The best way to find out what you like is to try a variety, so why not organise a tasting? If you’ve never organised a wine tasting, what could be easier to organise than a tasting of rosés - start with the palest and end with the reddest to fully appreciate them. Cheers!

The process isn’t just about colour though. White wine is revered for delicate flavours, often compared to white fruits such as peaches, apples or pears. These flavours are easily overpowered by stronger dark-fruit flavours, or made bitter by tannins.

Making rosé wine is about infusing enough ‘red flavours’ into the juice, without introducing too much flavour or tannin. Other issues such as aroma and acidity also have to be balanced, so it’s not easy. This is why good rosé wine is nearly always delicate on the nose and in the mouth.

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Corned beef fritters with lobscouse The Knightstone Tearooms is closely associated with the wartime airbase, RAF Harrowbeer. The building was the original control tower/watch office and is now also the home of the RAF Harrowbeer archives. Every August, Harrowbeer 1940s weekend takes place on our doorstep, so the last time the event took place, we decided to enter into the spirit by dressing up in period clothes and adding a few authentic wartime meals to our usual menu.

Whilst researching recipes and trying a few of the dishes we realised that, with lots of food being either rationed or in very short supply, the meals of the day evolved to either reproduce the flavour of something using slightly different ingredients or to make the ingredients go a long way. One such dish is the corned beef fritters below, which allows a relatively small amount of corned beef go a very long way. The lobscouse is very quick and easy to make, was very popular with sailors, and goes very well with the fritters. Hope you enjoy them!

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120ml milk Pinch dried mixed herbs 1 tsp grated onion 1 tsp chopped parsley 6oz corned beef, finely flaked 1oz cooking fat

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Lobscouse Melt a nob of butter or margarine in a small saucepan, then add 3oz grated cheese and about 2 tablespoons milk. Stir over a low heat until the cheese starts to melt, then add 2 or 3 tablespoons of chopped, tinned tomatoes. Cook until all the ingredients are blended, season with salt and pepper and pour over a bed of piping hot mashed potato.

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Why did you choose this line of work?

I stumbled into the industry after an early career in financial services. Having grown up in West Devon, my wife and I decided to move back to the West Country to start our family, and looking for a change in career, I took a job as a sales administrator with the Duchy of Cornwall at their Lostwithiel sawmill.

Soon after, the sawmill was sold to a private buyer and over time I came to run the business for the owner.

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Over the last 12 years we have created Moore and Moore Doors, offering a complete service for customers replacing internal doors, to self-builders, through to architects, design and build companies, and interior designers working on commercial projects. Moore and Moore Doors covers the whole of the UK and Ireland. Having worked within the construction and development industries, we understand what makes a good product and have built close relationships with four major Italian manufacturers of door sets, whose passion for design and detailed engineering is obvious in the quality of their interior, exterior and security door ranges.

Customer focus has always been at the heart of our business and we appreciate that everyone’s needs are different, depending on lifestyle, the size of project, budget and the look you want to create. Whether a customer is working on a whole new build, an extension or a simple restyle for their home with replacement doors, we help them explore a huge range of designs from classic to ultra-modern minimalist, with wood, metal and lacquered finishes or glass options. We can even co-ordinate door finishes with flooring, wall cladding and storage solutions.

We believe that doors can offer so much more than mere function and so we have created our showroom where we walk customers ‘through’ our various door options and help them visualise the possibilities for themselves. We can advise on door solutions for tight spaces, such as hinged and folding, or to add architectural interest such as bi-fold doors and stylish room dividers such as the minimalist glass and aluminium G-Like collection.

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Out and About with Tavistock Ramblers A lovely walk for an early summer’s day, with John Noblet of Tavistock Ramblers. It is 6 miles but can be reduced to 4½ miles by taking the short-cut.

The lanes and hedgerows are full of flowers at this time of year and, on a clear day, the views are great. There is also the opportunity to visit Buckland Abbey and a couple of pubs along the way.

through a metal gate signed as a public footpath.

Park on the roadside near the former Moorland Garden Hotel just off the A386 on Roborough Down. SX509654. Nearest postcode PL20 6BZ 1. Walk down the lane, over the cattle grid, and continue past Broad Oak Farm. Go right at the next junction and just after Coombe Farm turn right

2. Cross the footbridge and go up the field to a gate. Turn sharp left through a second gate and continue uphill keeping close to the hedge. Ignore a footpath sign and continue to a gate in the field corner. Go straight across the next field to reach a lane.

3. (For the short option turn left, then go right at the crossroads and straight on at the next crossroads to rejoin

the walk at waypoint 6.) Otherwise cross the lane and take the footpath almost opposite, into a field. Keep close to the hedge on the right, go through a gate and bear diagonally left to a small bridge over a stream.

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4. Cross this and go through a gate onto a farm track.

Pass through two more gates, across a private drive and down towards an old stile close to a stone wall of an old kitchen garden. Continue straight ahead with the wall on the left to reach steps onto a lane.

5. Turn left but keep a look out for traffic. Pass a T-junction to Buckland Monachorum and take the next left signed to Milton Combe. Continue on this lane for about half a mile.

6. Just after North Lodge go right though a gate onto a footpath into the grounds of Buckland Abbey. Cross a driveway into a field to reach a gate beside a second drive which is the main entrance to the abbey, if you wish to visit. Otherwise, continue straight ahead, crossing two fields to reach a road by a bus turning area.

7. Go right, passing the Milton Combe sign and continue for 300m to a footpath sign on the left. Go down this footpath, known as Goosey Lane, high above the village of Milton Combe. Turn right at the bottom and go straight on to the church (unless you want to stop at The Who’d Have Thought It Inn). Go left over the bridge and turn immediately right in front of a row of cottages. The route goes sharp left and up a steep old green lane which can be slippery if wet, so take care.

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After 100m turn right onto a rough track. At the end, continue walking through the trees keeping the wall on the left all the way back to the lane where you parked.

Hopefully by now, lockdown is a thing of the past and Tavistock Ramblers will have their usual programme of walks for the summer months. Visit www.tavistockramblers.org.uk to find out what is on offer.

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Railway Boundary Markers

Whitchurch Down boundary markers

Travel just about anywhere in Britain and one will come across a stone or post intended to convey some sort of message to the traveller, such as distance markers to a place or milestones (required along turnpike roads in the 19th century). Some may also be ‘court’ stones, indicating responsibility for the repair of bridges, while others may be boundary markers, usually made of stone, but also from metal. On Whitchurch Down there is both a stone marking the boundary between the parishes of Tavistock and Whitchurch, and a metal post marking the more recent boundary between Tavistock Urban District Council and Tavistock Rural District Council. At least six of these boundary posts still exist.

or where land boundaries extended beyond the fenced railway line, it was inevitable that boundary disputes would sometimes arise. So many railways designed boundary posts or markers which were usually placed in the fence line at the side of the railway, or in adjacent land by bridges, viaducts or crossings. The oldest markers tended to be in stone, but these had to be individually engraved, so lettering was kept to a minimum. From about 1870 onwards, markers were made of cast iron, and could carry more detail because one mould produced hundreds of identical markers. The marker could also be used to embody a sense of pride in the railway by its colour and stylish detail.

Western Railway (LSWR). The Tavistock section opened in June 1890 and closed in May 1968.

Markers were also used by the railways to mark their boundaries. At their height, the railways were one of the biggest landowners in Britain, after the Crown and the Church. Under the Railway Clauses Consolidation Act 1845, which apparently is still in force, British railway tracks must be fenced throughout their length, unlike mainland European countries or North America.

The requirement was imposed not just to protect the public but also to reduce the risk of trains colliding with farm animals. The latter was a particular risk where a railway had divided an existing farm and animals had to move from one part to the other. Even with fencing,

There are two disused railways in the Tavistock area. The South Devon and Tavistock Railway opened in 1859, linking Plymouth with Tavistock, and was extended by the Launceston and South Devon Railway to Launceston in 1865. The company was amalgamated with the Great Western Railway (GWR) on 1st February 1876. The GWR was nationalised in 1948 and the line was closed to passengers in 1962. The second railway formed part of the Exeter to Plymouth (via Okehampton and Bere Alston) section of the London and South

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GWR boundary markers The only surviving stone railway boundary marker in the Tavistock area is for an earlier incarnation of the GWR, the South Devon and Launceston Railway. It appears this stone was moved when the original railway bridge spanning the Tavy was removed and Stannary Bridge was built. It has been relocated to its current position by the A386 beside the steps to a footpath, opposite Celle Gardens.

As for the GWR itself, two boundary markers have been found, both some distance from Tavistock. While the GWR line ran to the southeast of the LSWR line from Plymouth to Tavistock, the LSWR line crossed the GWR line at Wringworthy Farm (about 2½ miles north of Tavistock) and thereafter the two lines ran parallel to Lydford, with the LSWR line to the east of the GWR line. One GWR marker is a little south of the site of Mary Tavy and Blackdown Station and is of particular interest as it stands some way from the GWR line itself and is actually half-way up the embankment on which the LSWR line used to run. The other marker is at North Brentor, near West Blackdown and appears to have been placed

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there recently and is not fully buried.

In common with other GWR boundary markers, these markers are made of bridge rails, cut into lengths, with an angle iron T-piece on the bottom, and a cast iron top, moulded round the rail.

Between 1880 and 1920, the year of manufacture was included on the cast top: the Mary Tavy marker is dated 1899, while the date of the other is obscured.

Launceston New Road Bridge marker SDLR boundary marker

LSWR boundary markers There are a number of LSWR boundary markers still in place in the Tavistock area. These markers are cast iron posts with a graceful curved top and elegant lettering; the bottom half of the marker is like a long fish-tail which makes it extremely hard to remove from the ground once placed in position. The marker in Crease Lane is against a building belonging to Buctor House. It is some way from the LSWR line and, if in its original position, suggests that the railway owned considerable land away from the railway line itself. Possibly, the marker indicates a ‘limit of deviation’ – when the railway company sought powers to construct the railway, a wide swathe of land could have been included to provide some allowance when finally designing the route. The marker would

Courtenay Road marker

GWR marker, Brentor

originally have had the lettering and raised edges picked out in white. As the livery of the LSWR was red, it is likely that the rest of the marker would have been painted bright (signal) red.

The markers on the corner of Glanville Road and Courtenay Road, and on the parapet of Launceston New Road Bridge, both seem to have a hint of red, supporting the opinion that the markers would originally have been painted red.

There is also a marker on the parapet of Launceston Old Road Bridge, though it is so submerged that it is only just visible.

There is a further marker along the fence bordering the LSWR line and a field beside Old Exeter Road, and there are no doubt others to be found.

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Tavistock’s Policing Past

By Simon Dell This is a beautifully presented and richly illustrated book, which will be the definitive work on the history of policing in Tavistock. It is dedicated to those whose commitment to duty has created one of the finest British Institutions: the office of police constable. Many of the informative images are from Simon Dell’s own personal collection, with others from Tavistock Museum, Tavistock Subscription Library and the Thorington Collection. The pictures alone are a valuable historical record of policing in Tavistock and the surrounding towns and villages. Simon Dell MBE QCB was a policeman in Tavistock for forty years, working first from the Guildhall police station at Bedford Square until 2012 and then at the new station at Abbey Rise. He was awarded the MBE in 1997 for services to community policing and Dartmoor Rescue, and the Queen’s Commendation for Bravery in 2002 when he went into a burning building twice to rescue a child and then his father at Callington, for which he also received the Pride of Britain Award that year. Simon now does much valuable work for local charities including Dartmoor Search & Rescue Team, Devon Air Ambulance and community education; he is a muchloved and respected local character.

Tavistock Guildhall and Police Station were built from the ruins and dilapidated fragments of the old abbey of Tavistock which was demolished at the instructions of Henry VIII. In 1848 at the instigation of the Duke of Bedford, and thanks to his generosity, a new Guildhall and adjoining police station were opened. The police station, specially built to house the parish police force, was one of the longest occupied in Great Britain. Simon worked from the Guildhall police station for over 30 years as a police officer and later as a special constable volunteer. The book also describes the many police houses and cottages under the jurisdiction of Tavistock, which will be of interest to students of the history of Tavistock and its surrounding towns and villages. The book contains a rich archive of the lives and experiences of the local police officers.

Of particular local interest is the story of the great flood of 1890. The River Tavy burst its banks and flooded the station, which was below ground level. A prisoner had to be rescued from the cells and the dwellings of the constables and the sergeant had to be evacuated. Today the Guildhall and police station are being redeveloped as a heritage centre, details of which are in the book. This delightful book is a very enjoyable read, full of fascinating stories, facts and details, and I can recommend it to everyone interested in Tavistock and its history.

Dr Ann Pulsford

Tavistock’s Policing Past is priced at £25. Simon has also recently published another book: Tavistock Guildhall - A Story of Policing at £4.99. Both books can be purchased at Book Stop, Tavistock Museum shop, Tavistock Visitor Information Centre and simondell.co.uk/shop.

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I regularly see laptops in my office with sticky tape or plasters placed over the webcam, because a few years ago there was a scare about losing control of the camera without knowing.

Whilst there may have been some truth in the statement, a lot would have had to happen for this to take place. Anyway, nowadays, the Anti-virus Norton 360 (which I sell) has an additional element within it that protects your camera from unauthorised use. I suspect other software authors will do so as well, but if you are at all concerned, just ask and then maybe you can remove the tape?

You do NOT need a VPN. Unless of course, you live in the UAE, China or some other restrictive state, or you download questionable content from the internet. Otherwise, I cannot

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Tavistock Bathrooms & Tiles

Amanda & James invite you to their showroom OVER 50 BATHROOM SETTINGS TO INSPIRE YOU We would like to thank all our customers past, present and future for their support

BATHROOMS • TILES • SHOWERS • WET ROOMS • BATHROOM FURNITURE MIRRORS & CABINETS • TOWEL RAILS & DESIGNER RADIATORS • ACCESSORIES Unit 8 Plymouth Road Industrial Estate, Tavistock PL19 9QN

01822 618 619 info@tavistockbathrooms-tiles.co.uk

www.tavistockbathrooms-tiles.co.uk

TAVISTOCK

BATHROOMS & TILES By amanda - james

WE ARE HIRING! WE ARE LOOKING FOR A FULL-TIME SHOWROOM SALES CONSULTANT Do you have experience in Customer Service, Designing, Sales or maybe you have other skills that you could offer to our business?

FOR FURTHER DETAILS PLEASE CALL JAMES OR AMANDA ON 01822 618619