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The deadline date for any inclusions in the August/ September issue of Tavy Links will be 26th June 2019. For all editorial enquiries please contact Rosemary via email: rosemary. best@linksmagazines.co.uk

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There are no guarantees with the British summer, but after last year’s long heatwave, expectations are probably running higher than usual this June, with thoughts of summer outings, picnics and festivities coming to the fore. June is also traditionally one of the most popular months to get married, apparently originally dating back to the Roman goddess Juno, the protector of women in all aspects of life, but especially in marriage and childbearing.

It therefore seems quite an appropriate issue to feature a number of talented and creative people who work behind the scenes at weddings, going the extra mile to make the couple’s big day a special occasion. Robynne Fenwick explains what is involved in being a busy events and wedding co-ordinator at The Bedford Hotel and Two Bridges Hotel; Kaye has been to meet Giselle Hulme at The Empty Box Company, which creates beautiful boxes for hats and wedding dresses, often used in TV and film productions; Nichola has spent some time with Debbie White finding out how she creates incredible cakes which look far too good to eat; while I met Romilly Cousins who has turned her beautiful family home into a wedding venue. In addition, we have a host of events and activities to keep you busy over the summer, from Tavistock Carnival to gardens opening for charity, as well a wealth of music and art events.

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A piece of cake Most of us can knock up a half decent Victoria sponge and a few can even use a piping bag, but Debbie White decided to raise the bar on her home-baking and create edible masterpieces professionally.

Born and raised in Essex, Debbie moved to Cheshire when she was 22, where she met her husband, a Royal Navy submarine engineer. They moved to Tavistock in 1991 and soon started a family. When her daughters were young Debbie began working part-time in Safeway (now Morrisons) and whilst she enjoyed working there, she always knew she wanted to do something more creative. As the girls grew older Debbie found she had a little extra time; she left Morrisons and began a cake decorating course at Plymouth College, gaining an ABC Level 1 Certificate. Demand for her cakes increased and eventually she set up White’s Cake House 5 years ago. At first Debbie produced a range of occasion and celebration cakes but soon realised that her passion lay in creating wedding cakes as she enjoyed making the delicate flowers and intricate decorations.

She enrolled in further courses, including a diploma with The

Peggy Porschen Academy in London to learn the complex art of creating perfect, edible recreations of roses, peonies, primroses – almost any flower you can think of. She has since taken master class courses with Poppy Pickering and ‘Cotton and Crumb’, learning more about the expertise of sugar craft.

Debbie began attending wedding fairs and from there her business has snowballed. She has become the recommended cake supplier at The Bedford Hotel and at Two Bridges, although most of her bookings come via word of mouth, endorsed by her many satisfied customers on Instagram and Facebook. One of the reasons for her success is the time and attention to detail she dedicates to each cake. Debbie will

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Explicit details are then confirmed in writing to ensure the cake meets the couple’s requirements and once it is made, iced and decorated, it is delivered and assembled – all finished to a very high standard.

only take on two cakes each week and spends the whole week creating all the constituent parts step by step. As such, most of 2019 is already fully booked.

Each flower – of which there can be hundreds - has to be handmade, each petal and leaf individually shaped and if necessary, painted. The cakes are made to the couple’s preferred flavour and Debbie always has a tasting session during the design consultation so they can choose from a range of flavours, such as the ever-popular lemon, vanilla or chocolate. She can turn her hand to almost any flavour combination and also makes traditional fruit cakes. She uses only the finest ingredients as each cake must taste delicious too. Each design is a combination of ideas from Debbie’s clients and her own recommendations; during the design consultation Debbie shows clients photographs from her beautiful scrap books of cakes so they can produce a new bespoke design to suit the wishes of the happy couple.

Debbie’s house constantly smells of baking and somehow, she has learnt to resist nibbling the cutoffs from her cakes. She still bakes for her family, delighting in making the wedding cakes for both of her daughters, as well as many celebration cakes for birthdays, anniversaries and special events over the years. These cakes are often highly decorated in a particular theme such as Harry Potter, a family pet or a favourite football team. Every cake is special for her and each one presents a different and enjoyable challenge, but it is the elegant, exquisitely decorated wedding cakes that are her all-time favourites. Debbie was a finalist in the wedding cake design category of The South West Wedding Awards in both 2018 and 2019 - she is especially proud of this achievement because the award is voted for by the public. She says she is lucky to be doing something that she so enjoys, but one of the best things about her job is the feedback she receives from her clients - to have so many delighted, positive comments is the icing on the cake! I suggested she might like to enter The Great British Bake Off, but as it is only open to amateur cooks, she says she wouldn’t be eligible - which is only fitting as she would win hands down.

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When a box is not ‘just a box’ Giselle Hulme, director and co-founder of The Empty Box Company, mixes her passion for conservation with her natural artistic ability and produces beautifully handcrafted, environmentally-friendly storage boxes for wedding dresses, hats, gifts and keepsakes.

Giselle describes herself as ‘arty and creative with a 3D mind’ and since her youth has loved to get involved with arts projects. While studying conservation at university in Kent, she organised the decoration for all social events, with themes including ‘Alice in Wonderland’, ‘Winnie the Pooh and ‘The Jungle Book’. Anything recyclable was used and Giselle threw everything she had at it to go large with publicity, even constructing a giant chicken to advertise the Easter ball. During this time, she also took part in a performance of ‘Pygmalion’, alongside her future

husband James, and it was here that a love of the Edwardian style was developed.

The inspiration for starting the business came 30 years ago, when Giselle and James found an old Christie’s hat box in a tailor’s shop in Norwich. They were immediately captivated by it and, on being told how much interest had been shown in the box, decided to revive the idea of the Edwardian hat box; production began and The Empty Box Company was born. Giselle’s mother’s wedding dress had always been kept

in a brown cardboard box on top of her wardrobe. Giselle decided it deserved a special box, so after seeking advice on fabric preservation from The Victoria and Albert Museum, the first wedding dress box was made.

More space was soon required to develop the company and so, 11 years ago, when their youngest child was just three months old, Giselle and James bought a lovely old farmhouse just outside Milton Abbot. They reconstructed one of the barns to create a fabulous space for production and

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they now employ 16 artistic staff. As the business has grown, so their reputation and sales have gone global; these quintessentially English style products are very much in demand and have been used in TV and film productions, including ‘Downton Abbey’, ‘Mr Selfridge’, ‘Paddington’, ‘EastEnders’ and ‘Killing Eve’, and one even protects a royal wedding dress!

The wedding dress box is by far the most popular item and is handcrafted from superior, specially milled board, then covered with high-quality interior design papers, and finished to perfection with a beautiful lace trim and tied with a luxurious satin ribbon. The locally sourced pH-neutral board and supplied protective tissue paper fully prevent a wedding dress from discolouring over time. Having recently invested in an automated board-cutting machine which cuts templates out in a matter of minutes, it now takes a skilled member of staff just half an hour to make and finish a standard wedding box, which is staggering when you see the level of craftmanship which goes into it.

Other styles of boxes have also been developed for a range of uses, such as home storage, office stationery, keepsakes and home décor accessories, while a bespoke service is also offered for those with specific requirements.

Giselle began running the business whilst raising their three children, so she is very aware of the importance of maintaining a work-life balance, the need to be flexible and understanding as an employer, and especially in helping women to stay in work. She strives essentially to achieve a fulfilling and creative working environment, and above all to keep the staff happy with flexible hours to fit around childcare and a performance-related bonus scheme, as an incentive to keep up to speed on production. A family affair, their oldest daughter assists with their social media and marketing and is hoping to become a wedding organiser. Looking to the future, Giselle has plans to convert another stone barn, giving them freedom to expand - amongst other things, this would be a wonderful space for an activities workshop.

A keen conservationist, Giselle has developed a business profile to individually make a product in this country, supporting British

manufacturing, using 100% recycled board designed to last, so that customers can ‘buy something to keep, not to throw away’. This ethos is embedded at home too, where Giselle has nurtured a wildflower meadow to encourage the preservation of wildlife species, and orchards which produce organic apple juice and cider. She also owns two Dartmoor rescue ponies, 17 rare breed sheep and numerous bantams, as well as three pet springer spaniels. As another venture, two of the old barns have been beautifully converted into delightful holiday cottages, and these are often gifted as a complimentary week’s tranquil break for people recovering from illness.

When there is any spare time, Giselle volunteers at the Plymouth Soup Run for the homeless, and she loves walking the coastline, riding, reading, going to the theatre and visiting historic houses to gather inspiration for new designs and products.

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Born in the sixties into a naval family, Sophie was sent to boarding school where she did not flourish, leading to a rather faltering academic career when she left her engineering degree at Exeter University partway through. After spending some time in London, she moved to Cornwall and joined the county council in the early 90s as an administration assistant – right at the bottom of the ladder. As support to the councillors, Sophie soon had a broad overview of the whole organisation, attending meetings, and writing up minutes. She was put forward for promotion and worked her way up through most departments, taking every opportunity to learn and develop including completing a Master’s degree in 2007 in Leadership and Organisation for Public Services.

Sophie enjoys the challenge of solving problems and finding new, original solutions and as senior policy officer at the county council her experience with policy and strategy came to the fore during the merger of the county council with the 6 district councils. Whilst it was a disruptive time, the aim was always to provide a more streamlined service with a brand-new single council for Cornwall. Sophie then took on the post of looking after the council’s shareholder interests in companies such as Cormac, Cornwall Airport and Cornwall Housing and managed the contract for the council’s 15 leisure facilities. With no desire to work in the private sector, and limited room for further promotion in Cornwall, Sophie applied for the shared position of chief executive for the South Hams and West Devon Borough Council in 2014 and was delighted to take on responsibility for all service delivery alongside

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Sharing offices and workforce with the South Hams district has helped considerably, giving a combined saving of £6m each year across the two councils, but Sophie is aware that the resilience of all public sector organisations is under strain.

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West Devon Borough Council covers an area of 450 square miles with 55,000 residents and 21,000 households. The council receives 12% of the council tax and business rates collected for the area – and has a budget of just over £7 million to spend on services for this year, which is roughly equivalent to the amount spent by an average sized secondary school. Services such as events licensing, housing advice and support, maintaining play parks on council land, planning applications, pest control, affordable housing and food hygiene

Sophie loves working on behalf of the people, and always keeps in mind that she is there to promote their best interests; she also values her hardworking colleagues and credits her team with being one of the main reasons she enjoys her job so much. However she accepts that many council services can lead to unpopular interactions and says: “People don’t want to be in need of benefits or temporary accommodation, nobody wants to have to apply for planning permission or have to think about how their waste is collected and fly-tipping is cleared up - so my ambition is to try and make it as easy and as pleasant for people as possible. It’s not perfect yet but it’s definitely getting better.”

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Bradstone Manor Farm

Turning your childhood home into a wedding venue isn’t for everyone - but Romilly Cousins has set about doing just that with the beautiful collection of buildings at Bradstone Manor Farm.

Named after a ‘broad stone’ or single standing stone, Bradstone is mentioned in the Domesday survey of 1086, while parts of the parish church, dedicated to the Celtic Saint Nonna, date back to the 12th century. As I sit in a sunny, tranquil garden with Romilly and her parents, Peter and Sally Hough, it’s easy to understand how the charm of this tiny, ancient hamlet has captured the hearts of four generations of their family. Peter and Sally used to be tenant farmers on the Bradstone estate, so Romilly and her siblings grew up in the Grade II listed manor house, riding ponies round the farm, swimming with them in the river, and enjoying the simple pleasures of being close to nature. Romilly describes it as an idyllic childhood, which is probably why she leapt at the opportunity to take over the tenancy herself, when the property passed into the hands of the current owners, Andrew Garrad and Emma Balfour. Andrew and Emma were delighted to let the house to a local resident with such close connections to the manor and invested in a number of substantial renovations to ensure the property was weatherproof. Romilly, her husband Mark and their four children moved into the manor house five years ago, and although the house, garden and Grade I listed 16th century gatehouse require quite a lot of upkeep, it’s obvious that Romilly has a huge affinity with the property, and the work is just part and parcel of living there rather than a burden.

The Bradstone estate was bought by the Church Estates Commissioners in 1947. However, after spending a

considerable amount on general maintenance and then unsuccessfully trying to sell it, they were delighted when Romilly’s grandfather expressed an interest in taking over the farm tenancy. When his son Peter qualified from Seale-Hayne Agricultural College, he became the farm manager and he and Sally moved into the manor house, where they lived happily for the next 32 years. During this time the property had a string of owners and some areas, in particular the gatehouse and the stable, started to deteriorate. Sally also remembers coming down from the attic in a state of shock one day, after seeing the condition of the roof timbers! Looking after the manor house was a privilege, but also a massive responsibility in those days, and eventually Peter decided to retire, negotiating ownership of a derelict barn in the grounds of the estate in 1999.

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The Clobery family inherited Bradstone about 1370 and it became their family seat until the mid-18th century. In May 1586 the full estate was listed in a deed, showing that the Clobery family by now owned a considerable amount of land. Oliver Clobery continued to build up the estate and it was probably around this time in the late 16th century, that the original hall was built at Bradstone. By the end of the 17th century though, the Clobery family fortunes had taken a downward turn and John Clobery died in 1699 having fallen into serious debt. William Clobery was the last Clobery to live at Bradstone Manor and after that it became a tenanted farm passing through the hands of a series of owners. (Based on report K623 by Keystone Historic Buildings Consultants)

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Peter and Sally then lived in what they both describe as a ‘shack’ for two years, while Peter and Romilly’s husband Mark, a builder by profession, renovated the barn, turning it into two very attractive dwellings. Six months into the project, Peter and Sally’s son Daniel was due to get married. Establishing what was later to become a precedent, the couple’s wedding reception was held very successfully in the restored shell of the barn. So when Romilly’s sister Alex, announced she was getting married last year, a suggestion was floated that the vast and very attractive 19th century stone barn next to the manor house would make an excellent wedding venue.

Alex realised the barn had everything she was looking for, so Romilly and the whole family leapt into action to get it ready for the ‘big day’; furniture, lighting, tableware and caterers were brought in, while harvesting parties were sent out to gather winter foliage, which family friend Amanda Randell, who just happens to be a master florist, transformed into two magnificent garlands to decorate the interior.

As Romilly gives me the ‘wedding tour’, taking in the spacious two-storey barn, with its lovely hexagonal open-sided cart shed, as well as the field available for parking and camping, and the huge yard, bordered by haylofts, stables and other outbuildings, it’s easy to picture it filled with guests laughing

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and chatting, toasting the bride and groom. We continue into the ground-floor rooms of the manor house itself, resplendent with floorto-ceiling oak panelling and huge sash windows. Finally, we come to the exquisite gatehouse built using local Hurdwick stone, complete with fairy-tale turrets and mullioned leaded windows. The inside of the gatehouse is even more of a surprise as it has been tastefully modernised to create a cosy Airbnb retreat for two – or a honeymoon suite. Romilly has already started taking bookings for future wedding receptions and has a wedding coordinator and other suppliers lined up. Although the venue’s rustic charm may not suit everyone, for couples with a little imagination it provides huge scope to create a bespoke celebration in a rather unique setting.

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Staying fit and healthy on holiday You find me writing this article on a long-haul flight back from Australia, with my daughter asleep on my lap. My family and I have been exploring the rainforest, reef and bush for a month and our adventures (and misadventures) have naturally focussed my mind on travel and holiday medicine. We all travel with a simple first-aid kit, and are well aware of the need to avoid sun burn these days. But for many more exotic holiday destinations, vaccinations and malaria prophylaxis are essential and you should book a travel appointment with your practice nurse about 3 months before departure to allow time for vaccination courses to be given. I have also included some relatively common but potentially significant travel risks that can be prevented with simple planning and actions.

DVT/PE (blood clots) The risk of clots is very low on short flights, but over 8 hours is significant. Inactivity and dehydration are the main factors hence prevention revolves around staying hydrated (and avoiding alcohol) and keeping the legs moving regularly during the flight. Your risk is further increased if you are aged over 50, overweight, a smoker or pregnant - or if you have a personal or family history of clots, take certain medications (eg some contraceptive pills), have general ill health. If a few of these factors relate to you it might be worth seeking advice from your GP before a long flight.

Airplane ear As the ears equalise to the changing pressure during take-off and landing, we all get some ear symptoms which improve with swallowing and yawning as these actions open up the little tube leading to the middle ear. If the ears aren’t able to equalise, symptoms can be more severe causing significant pain, hearing loss, tinnitus, vertigo or even bleeding from the ear. Risk factors for this include: a cold, sinusitis or middle ear infection; hayfever; small eustachian tubes (genetic or young children); sleeping during take-off or landing. To prevent severe ‘airplane ear’ stay awake and swallow and yawn; young children may find this easier with a drink or a sweet.

Flying ear plugs can slow down the pressure change, allowing more time to equalise. Anti-histamines for hayfever should be taken an hour before flying and any decongestant medication is taken 30 minutes before ascent or descent.

first-aid kit and possibly loperamide (Imodium/Lomotil) although this shouldn’t be used in children of if you have bloody diarrhoea with a fever. If you are going well off the beaten track to a high-risk area it might be worth discussing with your GP whether it would be advisable to take a course of antibiotics with you. Most travellers’ diarrhoea gets better without any specific treatment, but you should seek medical review if: symptoms continue over 2 weeks; stools are bloody; diarrhoea is accompanied by a fever or lots of vomiting; you can’t drink enough fluids to stay hydrated.

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Dress to suit yourself Jan Beveridge, colour analyst and personal stylist, with House of Colour, Devon, has some top tips for everyone whether you’re tying the knot or feel your wardrobe is stuck in a time warp.

You’ve chosen your wedding dress and your gorgeous groom is well on his way to sorting his attire, but what about your bridesmaids? Everyone has a range of colours that work well with their hair colour and skin tone, as well as a range of styles that complement their body shape and personality. If you wear colours and styles that are out of sync, it can make you look washed-out, tired or even worse, sinister or untrustworthy.

It’s unlikely your bridesmaids share the same complexion, body type, height and style personality. However, you can get around this by choosing different tones; teals and blues are a good example – use teals for people with warmer tones, while cornflower or airforce blues work well for people with cool complexions.

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But if you’re not planning a wedding this year you can still make sure you look and feel great. Do you get overwhelmed in the shops and then stick to the same ‘safe’ colours and styles? Many people wear 15% of their clothes 85% of the time - what a waste of wardrobe space - and money! First impressions generally only take about 15 seconds to form, and you only get one chance, so it is vital you get the right message across. In a social or a business context, wearing colours and styles that suit you, whether you’re male or female, young or old, can instantly make you look and feel great, giving you an inner confidence, which others can’t help but notice.

I introduce clients to six main clothing personalities or archetypes: dramatic, classic, natural, gamine, ingenue and romantic, but people often have elements of more than one archetype, and different body shapes play a part

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People with a very angular body shape typically have wide shoulders, straight bodies and can often be tall so their clothes need some drama, such as angular belts with statement buckles. A gamine petite woman can be swamped in something full and floaty, whereas an ingenue can look elegant in a simple tea dress, and a romantic might wear a sweetheart neckline, luxurious fabrics and lots of sparkle. House of Colour teaches you how to select colours and styles that enhance what nature has given you, helping you shop with confidence. If you would like to find out more visit www.houseofcolour.co.uk/ janbeveridge or contact jan.beveridge@ houseofcolour.co.uk or 07790 395756.

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The bright, spacious showrooms offer free parking with level access and provide a one-stop shop for customers, with a comprehensive range of mobility products and a complete service designed to facilitate independence. In addition to mobility scooters, powered and manual wheelchairs, walking aids, riser recliner chairs, adjustable beds, stairlifts and hoists, Unique Mobility also offers a bespoke vehicle adaptation service as an accredited Motability Scheme provider. Since opening their dedicated workshop in Plymouth in 2016, their team of fully qualified designers and engineers have performed over 400 adaptations, including steering aids, hoists and swivel seats. The high demand for this service led to the opening of the Marsh Barton branch in Exeter earlier this year, to enable better collaboration with local car dealerships.

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GARDENING

Transform your patio The arrival of summer is the perfect time to personalise your patio and transform soil-less spots with containers of gorgeous plants.

There’s an abundance of temptation on sale with something for everyone, whether you prefer blooms in cool pastels or brilliant colours, sophisticated foliage or portable perfume, permanent plants or spectacular seasonal blooms.

While there’s a huge range of containers to buy, bear in mind plants can grow in anything that can hold compost and have drainage holes made in it. With recycling or ‘upcycling’ bang on trend, look out for old mop buckets, wheelbarrows, water tanks, sinks, canvas shopping bags, even toilets. Don’t skimp on the compost though: use a good multipurpose for short-lived summer plants, while soilbased compost, like John Innes, is a must for long-lived ones.

The choice of plants is huge and while it’s easy to stick to traditional favourites, do keep a look out for new varieties

and less common plants, too. Bright colours aplenty can be found in plants such as begonias, dahlias, gerberas, pelargoniums (geraniums), diascia, petunia and verbena, along with the exotic foliage of Coleus. Many of these plants also offer varieties in softer shades, which look gorgeous mixed with cool foliage like silvery or lime helichrysum, plectranthus and dichondra.

And busy lizzies are back: ‘Beacon’ types have high resistance to downy mildew disease that was responsible for this plant’s disappearance from the scene over the last few years.

Many long-lived, easy-care plants are superb in containers too, ideal to grow in individual pots to place amongst seasonal displays. Choose plants to suit the situation: fleshy-leaved droughttolerant yucca, agave and succulents for hot sunny spots, or for shade, choose

patio clematis, ornamental grasses such as Hakonechloa and wonderfully fragrant lilies. With a mix of seasonal and permanent plants, your patio can look great the whole year round.

New Plants The unabated interest in grow-your-own has encouraged an extensive range of new fruit varieties. Sutton’s ‘day neutral’ strawberries are said to crop for up to five months; rhubarb ‘Poulton’s Red’ (DT Brown) is said to be the ‘sweetest ever’; autumn-fruiting raspberry ‘Polka’ (Pomona Fruits) is said to have up to double the yield of old favourite ‘Autumn Bliss’. While the name alone tempts me to try the Organic Gardening Catalogues’ Chuckleberry, a hybrid of redcurrant, gooseberry and jostaberry.

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Garden problems Slugs and snails can wreak havoc on tender new growth and are particularly fond of lettuce, hostas and delphiniums, though most seedlings are fair game.

I’ve always avoided toxic slug pellets containing metaldehyde and am delighted they’ll soon be banned as DEFRA (Department for Food and Rural Affairs) says it ‘poses an unacceptable risk to birds and wildlife’. There’s plenty of alternatives including slug killer based on ferric phosphate, traps, barriers and biological control using nematodes (great for those tiny black slugs that burrow in to potatoes). Hand-picking slugs can be very effective, especially done from dusk on mild, damp days. In enclosed areas like greenhouses, slugs can be lured out with dried cat food, to be gathered up and disposed of as you see fit.

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Gardens to visit: Wildside Wildside at Buckland Monochorum is a plant lover’s paradise created by Keith Wiley and his wife, artist Ros Wiley.

Spectacularly sculpted from a one-time field and orchard to form a garden of hills, valleys and canyons which, as Keith described, has turned four acres into more like six, with a vast range of plants inspired by their countries of origin. The extensive walled garden with raised beds has an amazing feel of the Mediterranean, rather than Dartmoor and has unusual plants for sale.

For quick, easy and splendid summer colour, direct-sow hardy annuals in sunny spots.

Keep on top of weeds. Pick off and bin seed heads as they’ll grow next year if put on the compost heap.

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FARMING DIARY

The future of the British countryside No matter how much we might mock the term ‘fake news’ it does seem that with the help of some elements of the media and social media the world has become obsessed with throw-away sensationalist news. For instance, if you were inclined to believe all you hear, then the members of the farming community essentially spend their days plundering the countryside of all its resources, laying waste to all wildlife in its way to leave a barren wasteland, whilst driving off with trailer loads of cash from government handouts! Having worked in the farming sector for many years I know how far this is from the truth, so I am going to try and have a reasoned debate with myself and hopefully shed some light on some of these issues.

The agricultural industry as a whole has been poor at selling itself; for too long we have been surgically removed from our customer by government policy and the supermarkets. We have become fantastic at producing food to the highest standards in the world, whether that be welfare, production, traceability and environmental. But we have relied on the market to pay us and the trouble with that is, that the market is dominated by a few individuals whose only aim is to keep the price down. Farming businesses are being

strangled and driven to increase in size to meet the needs of the supermarket and affordable food. Prices of food since the Second World War have been subsidised by governments and Europe in order to make British food affordable and available to all. We already know that this diminishing subsidy will soon disappear. The question is, will society accept the fact that food prices will rise as a result? If they don’t the British countryside could look a very different place!

It is of little surprise that if you remove all the hedgerows on your farm to make the field as big as possible then the bird and wildlife population will drop.

However here on Dartmoor I would say our sector is doing a good job. We farm in a diverse landscape with miles of Devon banks teaming with life, numerous broadleaf woodland areas, wetlands, permanent pastures, hay meadows, open moorland, heathland and blanket peat bogs. Much of what I have listed is able to thrive as a result of

a thriving farming business not in spite of it! Here on Dartmoor and most of the West Country come to that, we live in an environment which is perfectly suited to livestock production. We have high rainfall, a great grass-growing climate and some difficult landscapes which would never suit cultivation. So, keeping grazing livestock which maintains this carbon-capturing habitat isn’t such a bad thing after all, given that these beautiful iconic landscapes, teaming with wildlife habitat, have been maintained for generations by the farming custodians who have helped to shape them.

For me, healthy and sustainable farms within our landscape are essential to the future of the British countryside as a whole. We also have to get better at engaging our customers, getting them on to farms to educate them and shouting from the rooftops about what we produce and how amazing our industry is.

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A deadly beauty and a life-saver One of the most characteristic and flamboyant hedgerow flowers that we see in abundance in June and July is the foxglove, Digitalis purpurea, which can be found growing in many places, such as roadside verges, woodland edges, heaths, and gardens. The plants grow particularly well in areas where the soil is acidic and they are found all over the UK. The tube-shaped purple-pink flowers, sometimes white, have darker coloured spots on the lower lip of the flower and grow on a tall spike up to 2 metres tall. Foxgloves can even be seen growing by stream-sides up onto the moor. The foxglove is a ‘biennial’ – that is a flowering plant that takes two years to complete its life cycle. In the first year it grows roots and forms a rosette of leaves. After forming the rosette, the plant stays dormant over the colder months. Then in the second year it rapidly increases the length of its stem, produces flowers, and if successfully pollinated, produces fruits and seeds before it dies.

The bell-shaped flowers are adapted to be pollinated by bumblebees (or as Keble Martin called them ‘humble bees’); however, only those with long tongues, such as the Common carder bee, Bombus pascuorum and the Garden bumblebee, Bombus hortorum are able to reach the nectar at the base of the flower. The plant’s brightly coloured flowers and dark spotted lip attract the bees, and the lower lip of the flower enables the insect to land before climbing up the tube. During this process the bee will dislodge pollen and then transfer it to another plant. Other bumblebees, including those with short tongues such as the Tree bumblebee, Bombus hypnorum, do often collect pollen by ‘buzzing’ inside the flower, even if they cannot reach the nectar. A few solitary bees also visit foxgloves.

All parts of the plant are poisonous and if ingested can cause nausea, irregular heart function and even death. Chemicals taken from foxgloves are used to make a prescription drug called digoxin, which is used to treat heart failure, as well as certain types of irregular heartbeat, such as chronic atrial fibrillation.

However foxgloves are also used as food plants by the larvae of four insects, three of which are moths – the Foxglove Pug (the larvae of which feed inside the flowers), the Frosted Orange and Ashworth’s Rustic; as well as these moths, one butterfly, the rare Heath Fritillary, has larvae that feed on foxgloves, but curiously this only happens on Exmoor.

The scientific name of foxglove is Digitalis, apparently, because it looks like a thimble and can be easily fitted over a finger, taking its name from the Latin digitus, meaning ‘finger’. It was first known by the Anglo-Saxon name foxes glofa (the glove of the fox), because its flowers look like the fingers of a glove. Some Dartmoor names for the foxglove are: ‘Long purples’, ‘Pixie gloves’, ‘Pop-dock’, and ‘Purples’. It is thought that the name foxglove came from a corruption of ‘folk’s glove’ which refers to the little folk or piskies, hence also ‘Pixie gloves’. Other names include ‘Dead men’s bells’, ‘Dog’s finger’, ‘Fairy fingers’, ‘Fairy gloves’, ‘Finger flower’, ‘Lion’s mouth’, and ‘Ladies’ glove’.

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From the Lions’ Den Tavistock Lions are very busy at the moment as the carnival is not far away, with a full week of activities from Saturday 13th July and the procession a week later. There are many old favourites including the Baby Show, Fun Day in the Meadows and the Concert in the Church. New for this year will be a kid’s disco at Kings’ on 13th July and the popular Multi Media Quiz has moved to the town hall, allowing more people to take part. In the past, Carnival Day has only really been about the fun fair and the procession, but this year the Lions are keen to have more shops, clubs and pubs involved during the day and into the late evening and it is hoped that many of them will be staging events to include jazz, folk, rock music and karaoke!

This year’s theme is ‘Children’s Books’, chosen following suggestions from 2018 participants and also because this year sees the 30th anniversary of the publication of the first of the popular children’s books featuring Elmer the Patchwork Elephant written by David McKee who was born here in Tavistock in 1935, attended Tavistock Grammar School and

then Plymouth College of Art. The club always tries to select a subject which gives participants a wide scope for interpretation and with so many books to choose from, this theme really fits the bill. The photo shows Club President Jan Meakin with Elmer, who will be making an appearance in the procession. Full details of carnival events are in the programme delivered to homes around Tavistock at the beginning of July, at www.tavistocklions.org.uk, on the Lions Facebook page and in Tavy Links what’s on.

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Great things happening in the Sensory Garden The story so far … in 2015, Tavistock Rotary, Lions and the Town Council, with Roots to Transition, created the idea of the Tavistock Community Sensory Garden – and built it! Two years later, when it was opened by our patron Angela Rippon CBE, a derelict and unused area of The Meadows had become a beautiful and well-loved feature of Tavistock’s community life. From the beginning, we were determined that this garden should be, in the words of the 2018 Britain in Bloom judge, a ‘Garden for Life’ and we are well on the way to achieving that. People of all ages come to the garden regularly; children delight in running about in it, other people sit and contemplate, volunteers work there, whilst many enjoy the produce growing

in the Fifth Sense Garden - and the more adventurous play a game of boules. But we’re always thinking how we can improve it and 2019 will be a year of great change.

The town council has enabled us to take over the Rose Walk, and our new head gardener Sally Whitfield has already made major improvements with her team of volunteers. During this year, we will return the Rose Walk to its former glory. At the other side of the garden, we’ll extend the woodland walk into the area between the garden and the bowling green. Work on this has already begun and although it will take many months to complete, it will be a fantastic addition. From the beginning, we have worked closely with Tavistock Dementia Action Alliance and with a variety of other local groups and organisations. The garden that you see today is the result of that co-operation. In 2019, Sally and her team will continue to advance the horticultural aspects of the garden to reflect our ‘sensory’ mission. Our next phase of work will introduce a number of new features on the advice of the many local people and organisations who work with people on the autistic spectrum. New wheelchair-accessible picnic tables with games incorporated and a new area for peaceful quiet reflection will be introduced; a brand-new feature, codenamed ‘Project SG Express’, is also being worked on under deepest secrecy.

We are continuing to sell cards and bags to raise money to maintain the garden, and there will be a new range of beautiful Christmas cards designed by children of local schools. We could not do any of this without the superb support of our sponsors and volunteers. We thank all of them and look forward to working with them in the future. If you would like to become involved in the Sensory Garden, please email us at info_tcsg@btinternet.com Graham Parker

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Playing Bridge The card game Bridge became very popular between the two World Wars and is considered to be the best card game, as even average or bad cards do not prevent one from winning.

Unfortunately, because it was played a lot in ‘country houses’ (e.g. by Hercule Poirot and friends!), Bridge has a reputation of being complicated and superior - this is not true, a love of cards, basic logic and the ability to count to thirteen are all you need to get going. The basic form of the game is ‘rubber’ Bridge, where you and your partner play against two others and the best of three games wins the rubber. This is a good way to start but the outcome depends very much on the deal of the cards, so the natural progression is to ‘duplicate’ Bridge.

This game has all the same rules but involves a number of tables; each pair of players plays at all the tables and the identical card deal is played at each table (i.e. duplicated) so at the end the results of all the hands played are compared and players ranked against each other. We are well blessed with opportunities to play Bridge in the area so why not give it a try, or if you are already a rubber Bridge then give duplicate Bridge a try.

Tavistock Duplicate Bridge Club (Wed 6.45pm) Pamela Heale: 01822 615117; downatheale@btinternet.com Tavistock Millenium Bridge Club (Thurs 6.45pm) Sylvia McIntosh: 01822 855523; sylviamctosh@gmail.com Monday evening Rubber Bridge Club (7.00pm) Mary Harper: 01822 854603; mary00harper@btopenworld.com Tavistock Rubber Bridge Club (Mon 1.00pm) Norma Woodcock: 01822 613597; normawoodcock6@gmail.com West Dartmoor U3A (Thurs 2.00pm) Anne Dicker: 01822 612102; christopherdicker@btinternet.com Tavistock District U3A (Tues 2.00pm) Elizabeth Johnson: maj.ehj@gmail.com Tavistock Golf Club (Mon 7.00pm) Chris Dicker: 01822 612102; christopherdicker@btinternet.com

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The Guildhall Gateway Project Work will shortly be starting on Tavistock’s Victorian Guildhall to restore the Grade II* building and create a new heritage facility; the Guildhall complex including the former courtroom and police station, will house an interpretation centre, the Visitor Information Centre currently in Court Gate, and a community learning space. The project is being jointly managed by Tavistock Town Council and Tavistock Heritage Trust (THT) and funded by the Town Council, the National Lottery Heritage Fund and other grants. Tavistock Guildhall, as it will be known, is due to open in August 2020 and its focus will be on interpreting Tavistock’s role and history as part of the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape World Heritage Site, as well as encompassing aspects relating to the local crime and justice system and the town’s proximity to Dartmoor.

THT hopes the refurbished Guildhall will encourage new audiences to come and investigate the interactive displays and

learn about Tavistock’s history, inspiring them to explore the town and other heritage sites. THT also has a whole range of activities and events planned to complement the centre and you don’t have to wait until 2020 to take part in them. Check out www.heritageintavistock.org/events or the Links what’s on section for walks, talks and other events this June and July.

The Inner Wheel Club of Tavistock Inner Wheel is the largest woman’s voluntary service club in the world and the first club was started in Manchester in 1924 by the wives of Rotarians; so, it has now been serving people less fortunate than ourselves for 95 years.

The Inner Wheel Club of Tavistock was formed in 1989 and this year we are celebrating our 30th birthday in June, which was the month we were given our charter. The club began with wives of Rotarians and through the years we have supported nearly two hundred charities most of them local. We now welcome ladies with no connection to Rotary to join our club.

Our aim is friendship through service but it is also service through friendship, as we enjoy doing things together to

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serve others. We meet once a month at the West Devon Club and then all through the year we hold events to raise money and awareness of people in need. This year our association charity is Period Poverty which will benefit girls in need and also Jessie’s Fund which helps young deaf people. Our district charity is the R.N.L.I. and we can all understand why this is so important in this part of the country. Tavistock club’s main charity this year will help people with epilepsy, but we also hope to be able to give donations to other charities in the town. We would like to thank the people of Tavistock who have supported us and whose generosity has made everything we do so worthwhile.

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News from BID Following on from a really popular Easter trail which brought over 500 people into town, our focus is now on the summer.

Our hanging baskets will bring extra beauty to the town from the end of May, creating a colourful visitor experience, and we are also collaborating with Tavistock Community Gardeners on three really exciting floral town trails on the theme of children’s books.

The first ‘Tavistock Customer Excellence Awards’ launched in May; in collaboration with Rhiannon Spurgeon, the awards have been created to increase recognition of great customer

service in the town and provide an opportunity to showcase individual staff and businesses who add to the Tavistock experience. Finalists will receive a seal of approval, helping make their company the preferred customer choice in their category. You can see the guidelines and nominate at www.visit-tavistock.co.uk/ awards or in writing at Abode Estate Agent. Please support businesses you think give great customer service.

We are collaborating with the Lions Club and other local groups to create a bigger Carnival Day with businesses offering special events throughout the

day. Clive Pig will be telling tales on the Church Green from 12:30 until the parade begins and EcoFest is taking place in The Meadows. See the carnival brochure or www.tavistocklions. co.uk for full details. We will soon be introducing a new-look ‘Visit Tavistock’ website, ensuring it becomes the go-to site for locals and visitors planning a visit or needing a service.

For more details on all the up and coming town events, like us on Facebook or see www.visit-tavistock.co.uk.

Tavistock Museum Like many local museums, Tavistock Museum is a bit quirky, very individual and has an interesting history of its own.

In Victorian times there was a small Tavistock museum, but it was Robin Fenner, a former Tavistock mayor, who decided to set up a town museum in the town council offices in Drake Road, opened by the Duke of Bedford in 1986; in 2003 it moved above Court Gate in Guildhall Square. William Merrifield, the librarian from 1841 to 1871, had a great interest in the weather and compass bearings and a weather vane arrow, can be seen on the ceiling of the exhibitions room directly above Court Gate.

In 2006 the museum became the area centre for the Cornwall and West Devon Mining World Heritage site and there are various exhibits connected with the area’s mining history, including an extensive collection of mineral samples.

Other items include fragments from the abbey, plus displays relating to the railways and Tavistock’s most famous

son, Sir Francis Drake. The museum was further extended in 2012 with grants to renovate the old librarian’s cottage next door; its small front garden is tended by a museum volunteer. New exhibitions each year feature local or general topics - currently a display of pre-decimal currency and (mainly WWII) rationing, including this fascinating old photo, taken in the early 1940s by the late Miss Emma Cole. Her father, Tom Cole, farmed at Boyton, in the parish of Whitchurch. The car is being pulled by their farm horse, and a dismounted rider has blocked the other road. It is believed they are driving the sheep up Plymouth

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Road and a note on the photo confirms this extraordinary scenario came about due to wartime fuel shortages.

Tavistock Museum is well worth a visit.

It’s open from 11am to 3pm, Monday to Saturday until the end of October.

Donations of local and general historical interest are always welcome plus second-hand books which are sold to provide much needed funds.

If you’d like to volunteer with us please contact 01822 611264 or info@ tavistockmuseum.co.uk.

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Tavistock Student Ranger Programme Student Rangers is an innovative programme pioneered by PC Julian Fry, and run by the police, South West Lakes Trust (SWLT) and Tavistock College based at Burrator Reservoir. It is aimed at students aged between 11 and 16 who have been selected for a variety of reasons, including having emotional or behavioural needs, difficulty engaging with other people and forming positive relationships, or otherwise identified as requiring extra-curricular support to build self-confidence, provide direction and develop their characters and self-esteem. The 10-week programme has involved pupils undertaking a series of practical conservation tasks alongside SWLT volunteers from the local community, and participating in dedicated outdoor skills learning experiences, where they have developed

a wide variety of skills including survival and bush craft, personal safety on the moors and knife crime awareness.

Police presence at these sessions has helped to break down barriers between the students and the police, and has provided specific opportunities to carry out police related interventions and inputs e.g. knife crime input following a survival skills demonstration where students are taught respect for blades and the law surrounding them. Burrator Reservoir is a honeypot site for visitors to Dartmoor and this project has created an opportunity for a high degree of

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visibility for the force in an area known for vehicle crime.

Andy Jerrett, Transition & Extended Learning Co-ordinator, Tavistock College said: “I passionately believe that the Student Ranger Project has sparked the imagination of our students and has helped to unlock their hidden creativity.

The more outdoor learning opportunities like this for young people, can be integrated into the curriculum, the more the students become enthusiastic and engaged in learning, which raises their achievement in core academic areas.”

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Tavistock Community Primary and Nursery School Excellence for All

WE HAVE SPACES FO R 2, 3 AND 4 YEAR OLDS FROM SEPTEMBER 2019

• Maintained Nursery on School site • Led by Qualified Teachers • Open 9am-3pm Monday to Friday with extended facilities from 8.00am-6.00pm • We are 30 hour ready The School Nursery is led by qualified teachers who are supported by experienced and highly skilled NVQ3 level teaching assistants. Our dedicated, professionally qualified and supportive staff encourage your child to enjoy and achieve.

During our inspection in July 2017 Ofsted said, “Provision for children in the early years is good. There is strong leadership…and a capable team ethos throughout the setting. The early years is a constant ‘hive’ of activity with children purposefully ‘buzzing’ around their rich curriculum and well-designed activities. Children in the Nursery class are lively and engaged. They are confident to take considered risks in their learning which prepares them well for the Reception class.”(Ofsted Report 2017) We offer an engaging, secure indoor and outdoor learning environment in which your child can access a wide range of resources. We provide a caring and nurturing environment in which staff strive to respond to each and every child’s needs and interests.

Telephone 01822 616044 for more details, a visit or an application form from our Business Manager or Nursery Teacher See our website for details of what our Nursery has to offer:

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BUCKLAND ABBEY

APPRENTICE ARTIST TRAIL 1st June – 22nd September Take part in one of our family trails as you start off as an apprentice artist - complete both trails to become the master painter.

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TAVISTOCK SUMMER TRAIL 23 June – 31 August.

Take a walk from the centre of town into the park and decipher the children’s book titles from the colourful floral clues. Collect your map from the Visitor Information Centre Tues-Sat. This is a truly imaginative event brought to you by Tavistock Community Gardeners and Tavistock BID. www.visit-tavistock.co.uk STORYTELLING WITH MR PIG, TAVISTOCK 20 July As part of the extended Tavistock Carnival Festival Day, join the entertaining Clive Pig for an afternoon of storytelling on the Church Green. Look out for other events taking part in town before and after the Carnival Parade. Free event open to all, no booking required. See www.visit-tavistock. co.uk and www.clivepig.co.uk for more details.

BURRATOR DISCOVERY CENTRE

MONTHLY FAMILY WILDLIFE WATCH Sunday 30th June and Sunday 28th July, 10.30am – 12.30pm Take part in a range of wildlife and heritage themed activities followed by hot chocolate and biscuits. Meet at

the Burrator Discovery Centre. £3 per child, £2 per adult (cash only). Please wear outdoor clothing and footwear. For more information call 01822 855700 or email heritage@swlakestrust.org.uk.

SUMMER FAMILY ACTIVITY DAY & FUNDRAISER Saturday 6 July, 12pm-4pm Come & take part in woodwork, cob oven pizza making, environmental art project, letterboxing, cooking over the campfire and much more, plus tea & home-made cakes!

Suitable for all ages. £3 per person.

COTEHELE LOOK SHARP!

Monday 29th July, 12pm-3pm Not just for the kids. Take a closer look at the bladed weapons in Cotehele House.

This is your chance to handle some of our bladed weapons that usually hang on the walls. Don’t forget to bring your camera, you’ll be able to amaze all of your friends.

For children 4 and over. Normal admission charges apply.

PRINCETOWN VISITOR CENTRE DARTMOOR NATIONAL PARK SUMMER FAIR

Saturday 27th July, 10am – 4pm Join the National Park on Dartmoor for a day of fun at Princetown Visitor Centre.

Hands-on fun for all the family including bug-hunting, Meet the Ranger, Dartmoor Search and Rescue demos and more! Free, no booking required.

A DARTMOOR SUMMER Saturday 27th July – Wednesday 31st July Pick up or download your event programme

celebrating the special qualities of Dartmoor National Park. From letterboxing to navigation, and storytelling to caving, there is something for everyone and all ages to get involved with. Available at Visitor Centres in Princetown, Postbridge and Haytor and online at www.dartmoor. gov.uk from June 22nd.

LYDFORD GORGE FANTASTIC FLAGS

Fri 26 Jul & Wed 7 Aug, 11am-1pm Make natural paints and brushes to decorate a ‘Lydford explorer’ flag. £2 per flag, booking advisable, normal admission charges apply.

TAMAR VALLEY

LATCHLEY, CHILSWORTHY AND COX PARK SHOW Saturday 27th July, from 12 noon Lots of family fun including: marquees with local exhibits, dog show, pony show, vintage vehicles, children’s sports and entertainment, plus a bar, hot snacks as well as delicious cream teas. For more information contact Rita on 01822 834123

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SHOW IN A WEEK - MARY POPPINS MONDAY 29TH JULY TO SATURDAY 3RD AUGUST Stage a dazzling production of the musical ‘Mary Poppins’ in one week culminating in a fabulous performance.

Learn scenes, songs and dances from the smash hit Broadway show and original motion picture. £65 per child for the week (discounts for siblings), booking advisable: Contact Ilona on 07791110104 or email tavistocktheatreclub@hotmail.co.uk

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RSC THE TAMING OF THE SHREW

The Taming Of The Shrew is the ultimate battle of the sexes turned on its head in a fresh portrayal of gender politics. In a reimagined 1590, England is a matriarchy. Baptista Minola is seeking to sell off her son Katherine to the highest bidder. Cue an explosive battle of the sexes in this electrically charged love story.

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Tuesday 11th June

ROYAL OPERA ROMEO AND JULIET

Romeo and Juliet fall passionately in love, but their families are caught up in a deadly feud.

They marry in secret, but tragic circumstances lead Romeo to fight and kill Juliet’s cousin Tybalt.

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GORDON GILTRAP Thursday 6 June

FLEETWOOD BAC Friday 7 June

Over the past forty years, Gordon Giltrap has graced the music business with his dedication to his craft and his affection for his audience. As one of the UK’s most respected guitarists, he has consistently proved the adage that respect cannot be bought. It must be earned.

Fleetwood Bac is the world’s first and best Fleetwood Mac tribute band, endorsed by Mick Fleetwood himself and raved about

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JOHN COGHLAN’S QUO Saturday 15 June

BOB DRURY’S VIVA NEIL DIAMOND Sunday 16 June

TOTAL 60s & 70s ROCK SHOW Friday 21 June

John Coghlan’s Quo: featuring John Coghlan - The Heartbeat of Quo Original Quo drummer John Coghlan, with his great band, brings you a night of vintage Quo from the period he performed with Status Quo 1962 - 1981.

Whilst performing in Las Vegas two years ago Bob Drury was described “one of the world’s finest vocal tributes to Neil Diamond” and he’s now back touring the UK with his new show celebrating the legendary Neil Diamond and his incredible back catalogue of songs.

Take yourself back to an era of big riffs, timeless tracks and unforgettable anthems by artists including T Rex, David Bowie, Led Zeppelin, Cream, Jeff Beck, Mott the Hoople, The Kinks, Cream, Jimi Hendrix and more.

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Tavistock’s main venue for Films, Theatre, Live Music and Live Broadcasts For full details and how to book events visit our website: tavistockwharf.com PRIEST UNLEASHED Saturday 22 June

OTTWAY & BARRETT Sunday 23 June

THE BOHEMIANS Saturday 29 June

Priest Unleashed deliver the most full-on and most entertaining Judas Priest style Heavy Metal show you could wish for, capturing the true essence of a Priest’ show.

Ever keen to add a new dimension to the show, Willy has a new addition to his array of instruments. Beware the Moose Homp!!

A top Queen tribute band from Sussex.

The lead singer Rob Comber bears an uncanny likeness to the original and the band have been congratulated for their performances by members of Queen.

GENESIS CONNECTED Saturday 6 July

LEGEND – BOB MARLEY Friday 12 July

NEVER 42 Friday 19 July

This show has an incredible mix of material, from atmospheric anthems to chart toppers that will get the crowd dancing in the aisles. Hits spanning from the late 70s onwards including; Turn It On Again, Sledgehammer, In The Air Tonight, You Can’t Hurry Love, The Living Years and many more.

Legend’s two hour show covers the very best of Bob Marley’s timeless classics: Is This Love, No Woman No Cry, Waiting in Vain, Exodus, I Shot The Sheriff, Jamming, Could You Be Loved. These are just a few of his million selling hits brought to you in this fantastic two hour tribute to the acknowledged master of reggae.

Never 42 is the expression of their combined passion for the musicianship of Mark King and Mike Lindup and the upbeat jazz funk sound that is Level 42 with an uncanny accuracy and has earned them the reputation as the UK’s Premier Level 42 Tribute Band.

RAINBOW RISING Saturday 29 July

THE ROLLLING CLONES Friday 26 July

JACKAL FATIGUE Saturday 27 July

The sheer attention to detail of the live Rainbow experience is evident in every aspect of the band’s performances.

From guitar smashing, to stunning vocals, thunderous percussion and bass to dazzling keyboards and of course unmistakable Blackmore guitar work.

There are no better deliverers of vibrancy, edginess, masterly musicianship and charisma on the tribute circuit, and all this by the strutting, trout pouting Jaggernaut load. There is no better way to experience vintage juice from the best fruit on the rock ‘n’ roll tree!

The Jack and Metal Fatigue change-over on stage in mid-song and mid-flight in a dynamic style and without stopping for air.

Visually, the stage setup can match any stadium rock show. The back-line, of two drum kits and a wall of speaker cabs, fill the back of the stage.

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WHAT’S ON

REGULARS UNTIL 22 SEPTEMBER SIR FRANCIS DRAKE COMES HOME TO BUCKLAND ABBEY A chance to see an original Francis Drake portrait on loan from the National Portrait Gallery as part of its COMING HOME project. 11am-4:30pm

WHAT’S ON

DAILY UNTIL 26 JULY

15 JUNE – 21 JULY

V.I.P. TRAIL AT COTEHELE

ROSE FESTIVAL

Pick up a copy of this family trail and learn about the Very Important Pollinators who live at Cotehele as you go around the garden and estate. 10am-4pm, free trail, usual admission applies.

RHS Rosemoor’s five-week long celebration of the rose, plus the craft market on 21-23 June - consistently voted one of the top ten places to enjoy Britain’s best loved flower.

VARIOUS DATES IN JUNE & JULY

UNTIL 31 AUGUST

NANCY BELLE BOAT TRIPS

SUMMER ART EXHIBITION

Starting from Cotehele Quay the ‘Shamrock’s’ support boat, ‘Nancy Belle’, will head up the river Tamar for a 2-hr trip past Calstock and towards Morwellham Quay. £15pp, booking essential on 01579 351346 (see website for details).

Wildwood Arts presents original work by the region’s finest artists, including Richard Slater RI, Sonia Robinson RSMA, with textile art, pyrography, felting, oils, watercolours. Open Tues-Sat 10am-4pm, Wildwood Arts, Chapel Lane, Horrabridge, PL20 7SP. wildwoodartsdartmoor.co.uk; 01822 258529 ​

Jazz Sunday Lunch

JazzSunday Sunday Lunch 3rd March

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A delicious 3-course Sunday A delicious 3-course Lunch, with a generous helping Sunday Lunch, a generous of livewith jazz. helping £25 of live jazz.

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FRIENDS OF WHARF - LUNCHTIME LECTURES Organised by Dr Ann Pulsford, 2pm, Tavistock Wharf

Traditional Afternoon Tea

JUNE

cakes, warm scones and plenty Five coursesevery of tea orsuperb coffee, served afternoon 3pm-5pm. by candlelight. £14 £55

3 June: John Rundle

Valentine’s Dinner Dainty sandwiches, tempting Thursday 14th February

JULY 1 July: Ian Gasper

Breeding Temperate Marine and Freshwater Animals

Patagonia: History, Landscapes & Wildlife

10 June: Robert Hesketh

National Service: a light hearted look at the period 1945-1963

8 July: Ian Kilpatrick

Mother’s Day Day Lunch Father’s Lunch Sunday 31st Sunday 16thMarch June 3A delicious courses, in the (and stylisha 3-course lunch bottle of of Jail AleBedford for Dad Hotel. to take setting The home and£26 enjoy later.)

17 June: Andrew Thompson

15 July: Richard Thomas

Tamar Valley and West Devon Mining

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24 June: Ursula Myers

The Lowland Canals of Scotland

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Devon Castles

Hallsands - a Predictable Disaster

29 July: Ron Howell 3000 Years of History from under the Sea

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9 JUNE

The summer exhibition features the work of local West Country artists and makers, with beautiful watercolour paintings, mirrors, ceramics and jewellery on sale.

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Lots of activities for the whole family, plus BBQ and other refreshments. Admission £1 pp, 1-5pm at Pizwell Farm, Postbridge, PL20 6TN.

JUNE

TWO BRIDGES HOTEL WEDDING FAIR

6 JUNE

REMEMBRANCE SERVICE 75th Anniversary of Operation Overlord, D-Day at 11:00am at the Town War Memorial in the Guildhall Car Park, Tavistock.

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9 JUNE

Meet our weddings team, suppliers, entertainers, wedding stylists and photographers. 12 noon to 4pm, free entry with complimentary Buck’s Fizz and canapes. For more information: 01822 892300, weddings@twobridges.co.uk 9 JUNE

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Open day in West Devon Business Park from 11:00am to 4:00pm. 100 free goody bags, a novelty dog show, live demonstrations, a bouncy castle, facepainting, a pet photography booth, supplier stands, nutritional advice and lots of fun for all the family.

Blow & Glow, Tavistock family disco and BBQ in aid of local charity Catalyst, which provides mentoring and support for young people – lots of raffle prizes to be won, 6pm until late at The Red & Black Club. ​ 8 & 9 JUNE VOLUNTEER OPEN WEEKEND Why not pop along to the open weekend at Buckland Abbey to find out more about volunteering? 11am-3:00pm 9 JUNE LAMERTON VILLAGE FETE & DUCK RACE Junior fun run (under 12s) at Village Hall field at 1pm. Fete at Broady Field with duck race at 2pm. Tea, cakes and ice cream, stalls, water slide, dog show, BBQ, tug of war.

13 JUNE VALUATION MORNING Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood will be at The Bedford Hotel, Tavistock 10.00am 1.00pm to offer advice and valuations on antiques, jewellery & ceramics you may wish to sell at auction. For info call 01392 413100.

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14 – 16 JUNE FLOWER FESTIVAL AT ST MARY’S Our flower festival is on the theme of Hobbies, in our beautiful church at Sampford Spiney, PL20 6LF; 10.30am to 4.30pm daily in an area renowned for its serenity and great views, so why not come for a walk on the moor, visit the festival

WHAT’S ON Wine Tasting Dinner Thursday 11th July Sample a selection of seasonal wines, partnered with a superb dinner menu using the finest local, seasonal ingredients. £59 including dinner and wines

Wedding Fair Sunday 9th June from 12 noon View our stunning wedding venue, and meet a host of suppliers who can help create your perfect wedding day.

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Mon – Thurs throughout June A superb 5-course tasting menu dinner, celebrating the best ingredients of the season. £55

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15 JUNE, 13 JULY ARTISAN FOOD & GIFT MARKET A new regular market in Tavistock featuring food & artisan gift exhibitors, various workshops and a coffee and cake bar! Butchers’ Hall, Tavistock 10:30 16:00, free entry. www.missivyevents. co.uk 15 JUNE TAVISTOCK PUBS AND

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free lunchtime concert by Moor Harmony, and a plant sale. Tickets £4 per adult (children enter free), buy in advance at the village store, or on the day at any of the gardens. (No dogs please) 17 JUNE TAVY TURNERS AND CARVERS CLUB Midsummer’s Eve special event at the Scout Den off Pixon Lane, Tavistock, 7 for 7.30pm start. Demonstration

by Sean Helman, local woodland crafts expert. All welcome for this interesting and enjoyable outside entertainment (inside if poor weather), free parking and free admission! www. tavistockwoodturners.co.uk 18-22 JUNE TAVISTOCK GROUP OF ARTISTS ART EXHIBITION A wide range of the artists’ work will be on display and for sale. The exhibition is free and open daily at Tavistock Town Hall from 10:00am to 6:00pm (Saturday 10:00am to 5:00pm) www.tgartists.co.uk

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19 JUNE

Phoenix Chorale performs Arneson’s stunningly beautiful Magnificat, 7:30pm, St Eustachius’ Parish Church, Tavistock.

Tickets in advance £11 at Book Stop, Tavistock (children - U18 free entry) or www.eventbrite.co.uk; £12 on the door.

ST LUKE’S OPEN GARDENS

16 JUNE SOUTH ZEAL OPEN GARDENS South Zeal opens a host of beautiful gardens in and around the village. Refreshments available, plus a

Hotel Endsleigh Gardens, Milton Abbot, PL19 0PQ - open 11am - 4pm; adults £5, children (U16) free entry.

19 JUNE DARTMOOR BORDER MORRIS Up north at The Devil Stone Inn, Shebbear at 8pm, with good friends Exmoor Border Morris. Check out our Facebook page!

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20 JUNE

The Tamar Valley Male Voice Choir’s annual Gala Concert at St Eustachius’ Church, Tavistock at 7.30pm in support of Tavistock Area Support Services. Tickets from Book Stop, Market Street, Tavistock and Mary Tavy PO/Stores: adults £12.50; children (under 14) £5.

WILLOW MAKING WORKSHOP

23,26,28 JUNE

Learn how to weave willow dragonflies in Butchers’ Hall, Tavistock. Free event organised by Tavistock BID and Learn Devon – the creations will decorate the town centre for South West in Bloom.

Adults only, 3pm-6pm. Booking essential through Learn Devon. For information: www.visit-tavistock.co.uk

MILTON COMBE PIANO FESTIVAL

20 JUNE WEST DARTMOOR U3A ‘Don’t put your daughter on the stage’ – a talk by Francis Burroughes from 10.00am to 12.00 at Tavistock Methodist Church

20 JUNE LEGENDS OF SONG

26 - 29 JUNE

Music, song and supper, featuring ‘A Little Quirky’, combining expert musical storytelling with oodles of personality, and the music of ‪Ella Fitzgerald, ‪Eva Cassidy, ‪ Gladys Knight, Queen. 6:30pm for 7pm at The Bedford Hotel, Tavistock.​

GUILDHALL GATEWAY OPEN EXHIBITION

THE RISE AND FALL OF TAVISTOCK RAILWAYS

Local artists display works inspired by the mining landscape of West Devon and Tavistock’s World Heritage status, plus entries from Tavistock Rotary Club’s annual Exhibition of Art by Year 5 students of Tavistock schools. Butchers’ Hall, Tavistock

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Local author Stephen Fryer explains how the railways changed the landscape of Tavistock as he follows the route from Tavistock (South) Station to Tavistock (North) Station. Meet at the Visitor Information Centre, Court Gate, Bedford Square, Tavistock at 2.00pm. £5pp www. heritageintavistock.org

SUMMER PUDDINGS EVENING

22 JUNE

TAVISTOCK STREET FOOD FESTIVAL

TAMAR VALLEY MALE VOICE CHOIR

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23 June - Pianist Lucy Parham and narrator Henry Goodman present ‘A Heart in Exile’.

26 June - Classical Spanish guitar with Stewart French. 28 June - solo piano recital by Luka Okros. All concerts at 7.30pm in The Church of The Holy Spirit at Milton Combe. www.mcpfestival.co.uk

22 JUNE

from around the world on your doorstep and live music (sponsored by the BID). Free entry, Bedford Square, Tavistock 16:00 20:00. www.missivyevents.co.uk

Cotehele’s popular pudding evening at the Edgcumbe returns with a quartet of refreshing summer desserts. 7-8.30pm, £20pp, booking essential on 01579 351346.

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WHAT’S ON copper ore. A fascinating 90-minute walk from the Visitor Information Centre, Court Gate, Bedford Square, Tavistock at 2.00pm. £5pp www.heritageintavistock.org 29 JUNE ST EUSTACHIUS’ SUMMER FETE 10th annual fete, 10:00am to 3:30pm on the church green - in the church should it dare rain! 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.

2pm- 5pm; entry: £4 adults, children (U12) enter free www.chsw.org.uk/events 30 JUNE OPEN GARDEN Open garden at Park House, Coryton, EX20 4AB from 11.00am to 5pm. The event will be signed from Lydford/Tavistock Road at Brentor. Homemade teas & plant sales, admission: £5 for adults, children U14 free entry; limited wheelchair access; dogs on leads welcome. Proceeds to be shared with Send a Cow. Enquiries: 01822 860275

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29 JUNE BRENSTOCK MUSIC FESTIVAL

This vibrant and exciting fringe look at the arts performs in many locations including Bedford Square, The Bedford Hotel gardens, Guildhall car park from 11am.

30 JUNE WEDDING OPEN DAY Visit Moorland Garden Hotel for our informal Wedding Open Day, when the Crystal Room will be set up and our wedding team can answer questions and show you round. Complimentary refreshments on arrival. Information for local suppliers but exhibitors not in attendance.

30 JUNE, 7 JULY CHILDREN’S HOSPICE SOUTH WEST Warren Lodge, Mary Tavy, PL19 9QD - open

10 JULY THE TEMPEST OUTDOOR THEATRE The magician Prospero is marooned on an island with his daughter Miranda and conjures up a storm to shipwreck his enemies. RHS Rosemoor at 7pm 13 JULY TAVISTOCK CANAL

JULY TAVISTOCK EDGE

Family festival from midday to 11.30pm at Brentor Village Hall. Advance tickets: £10 Adults and £6 Children, from The Castle Inn at Lydford, Lydford Farm Shop, Mary Tavy Post Office or Book Stop, Tavistock. www.brenstock.org.uk

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6 JULY DISCOVERY TRAIL CHALLENGE Discovery Trail Challenge: Cornwall Taster explores the Cornish side of the Tamar Valley’s long-distance walking route 8:00am - 5:00pm. Register at enquiries@ tamarvalley.org.uk or 01822 835030. www. tamarvalley.org.uk 7 JULY NATIONAL GARDEN SCHEME Hotel Endsleigh Gardens, Milton Abbot, PL19 0PQ - open 11am - 4pm; adults £5, children (U16) free entry.

Cary’s Table Globe £600-800

SILVER, JEWELLERY & WATCHES

10 JULY DARTMOOR BORDER MORRIS 8pm at The Peter Tavy Inn, performing with Pink sapphire & diamond necklace & earrings SOLD £15,000

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WHAT’S ON recycles plastic, and craft and activities. www.ecofesttavi.co.uk

Paul Blowey explains how the Tavistock canal was built and transformed the fortune of Tavistock. Meet at Visitor Information Centre, Court Gate, Bedford Square, Tavistock at 2.00pm. £5pp www. heritageintavistock.org

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Boyton Mill, Boyton, PL15 9RG - open 1030am - 5.30pm; entry: £3 adults, children enter free.

WEST DARTMOOR ART GROUP EXHIBITION

29 JULY See how high you can make a fizzy pop bottle fly using just water and air. Lydford Gorge 10.30am-1.30pm

Join the Exon Festival Chorus for a workshop directed by Joseph Judge. Email comeandsing@exonsingers.org.uk to book a place.

A range of the artists’ work will be on display and for sale in Peter Tavy Village Hall. W.D.A.G. will be raising money for two local charities, The Dartmoor Rescue Group and The Devon Air Ambulance Trust.

Homemade cakes plus hot and cold drinks.

Free entry, open 10am to 6pm daily (10am4pm on 28 July).

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8pm at The Tamar Inn, Calstock, performing on the quayside as guests of Cornwall’s Catseye Morris. Check out our Facebook page for more details.

13 JULY COME AND SING WORKSHOP DAY

18 JULY WEST DARTMOOR U3A Annual General Meeting followed by ‘Hearing Dogs for the Deaf’ - a talk by Helen Burridge from 10.00am to 12.00 at Tavistock Methodist Church.

24 JULY NEOLITH FELL RACE

19 JULY JAZZ AT THE TOWN HALL A Summer Special at Tavistock Town Hall with Savannah Jazz Band and ‘Ocean City Sound’ barbershop choir. Admission £12:50 on the door or in advance from Book Stop, 3 Market Street, Tavistock or call 01752 774343. www.plymouth-jazz-club.org.uk 20 JULY ECOFEST A festival celebrating sustainability from 11:00am in Tavistock Meadows with stalls from local businesses and community groups, recycled art, poetry, music, talks, a swap and share, repair shop, machine that

A scenic circuit from the Dartmoor Inn at Merrivale, with a 5-mile senior race at 18:45 and two junior races of 2km and 4km from 17:30. Register and info at www. entrycentral.com 26-28 JULY CALSTOCK HERITAGE WEEKEND A family day out with steamboats, classic boats and cars, a sea shanty festival, and steam traction engines. Dartmoor Border Morris and other Morris sides perform on 27 July. See Facebook: Calstock Heritage Weekend.

27, 28 JULY NATIONAL GARDEN SCHEME

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30 JULY-4 AUGUST EXON FESTIVAL The 53rd Festival will take place at St Eustachius’ Parish Church. See exonsingers.org.uk/festival for details

August 7 AUGUST TAVY TRIO OF TORS A 5-mile senior race at 18:45, and two junior races of 2km and 4km from 17:30, start ing at the foot of Pew Tor. Register and info at www.entrycentral.com 8 AUGUST VALUATION MORNING Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood will be at The Bedford Hotel, Tavistock 10.00am 1.00pm to offer advice and valuations on antiques you may wish to sell at auction.

17 AUGUST SUMMER BALL Strictly Social’s 1st Summer Ball at Lamerton Village Hall for all ballroom enthusiasts, with great music, dancing, bar, ‘American Supper’, ‘Rising Star’ demo. £10 per person. Contact Terry Flannery on 07891 614491, or email strictlysocialdanceclub@gmail.com

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Tavistock Carnival 2019 Saturday 13th July

Monday 15th July

Friday 19th July

10am: Baby Show Parish Centre

5.45pm: Peace Poster Presentation 7pm: Petanque Competition next to the Sensory Garden in Plymouth Road

7.30pm: Simon Dell Talk ‘Dartmoor Literature through a Child’s Eye’ at The Bedford Hotel, £5 per person

Tuesday 16th July

7pm: Traders’ Skittles Competition, see website for venue

6pm: Pavement Artists Competition in Brook Street

Saturday 20th July - Carnival Day

7.30pm: Multimedia Quiz Evening at Tavistock Town Hall, entry £5 per person

11am to 4pm: Eco Fest in Tavistock Meadows, celebrating sustainability

Wednesday 17th July

12 noon to late evening: Activities and entertainment throughout the town with an all-day fair in Bedford Square

3pm & 5pm: Kid’s Carnival Disco, see website for venue, entry £2 per person 3pm to 4.30pm 5-7 years; 5pm to 6.30pm 8-11 years: Join in the fancy-dress competition with this year’s carnival theme of ‘Children’s Books’

Sunday 14th July 12 noon to 5pm: Fun Day in the Meadows with dog show, BBQ, tea tent, martial arts and boxing displays, duck race, Emazdad the magician, live music and the crowning of the Carnival Princess at 3pm at Tavistock Meadows

7.30pm: Concert in the Church, featuring Stannary Brass Band, Blowzone and Inner Tube at Tavistock Parish Church, entry £5 per person

Thursday 18th July 5.30pm: Town Relay Races at The Meadows, organised by TAC

Carnival Week is organised for and on behalf of the community by The Lions Club of Tavistock. This programme was correct at the time of going to print, please check www.tavistocklions.co.uk or Facebook for updates or call 0345 or 0845 8334807.

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7pm: Simon Dell Walk ‘A Merrivale Antiquities Stroll’ from Four Winds car park, £5 per person

6.30pm: Grand Procession through the town on the theme of children’s books

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W hat’s O n services vehicles and equipment exhibits - plus more than 60 local charities and organisations. From 6pm a free evening concert includes headline act, One Step Behind.

5-8 June MTV Music Week MTV returns with a four-day music extravaganza including live evening shows at Plymouth Pavilions, The Treasury and The Hub with some of the hottest names in dance music such as Kurupt FM and R3WIRE & VARSKI, live Rock and Indie music, rap and hip-hop, as well as inspirational free daytime events. Visit mtvmusicweek.co. uk for info, line-ups and tickets.

8 July – 15 September Elmer’s Big Parade Plymouth For 10 weeks a parade of 40 fabulously colourful and unique elephants will take you on a trail around Plymouth. Elmer was created by Devon born artist and author David McKee, and local artists have created 40 sculptures to be auctioned in aid of St Luke’s Hospice. www. elmersbigparadeplymouth.com

6 July-7 September Plymouth Summer of Fun 29 June Armed Forces Day Watch the spectacular Red Arrows, the Field Gun competition and the Unarmed Combat Display; explore the Royal Navy, Army, RAF, Royal Marines and the emergency

Plymouth City Centre Company promises a summer full of entertainment for all the family with events taking place in and around the city centre each week, kicking off with the free Plymouth Summer Circus on the Piazza on 6 July, followed by circus workshops, spin art workshops, and a Tea Dance.

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On 13 July step up 2 the streets, and take on our free street dance workshops with Street Factory studios from 11.30am, Place de Brest; 2.30pm, Frankfort Gate and 3.30pm, Outside Drake Circus (Cornwall St entrance).

From 22 to 26 July visit Plymouth College of Art Craft Week at Drake Circus where craft activities will be running all week including, make your own tote bag, tea towels and Indian ink drawings.

On 27 July, back by popular demand, come along and learn how to salsa with professional Cuban salsa instructor Misael Cordero. His class in Place de Brest is relaxed and fun, and free.

NATIONAL TRUST

Enjoy nature at Lydford Gorge You can really feel summer on the horizon at the gorge. So if you want to escape the crowds now is the perfect time for a hike along the most captivating section of the River Lyd. With fewer people around there is time to search out some of the smaller wonders to be found at the gorge.

In late March this Violet oil beetle was spotted munching on its favourite food - a lesser celandine flower. These iridescent insects will be around until June however they are trickier to spot than the celandines they feed on. There are other tiny delights though that are easier to spot. Take a closer look at the mosses and lichens that cover the trees in the gorge; they form a mini forest for all sorts of creatures to shelter in.

MAKING WILD WOODLAND SCULPTURES

After your amble head to the tea-room for tasty treats from pasties and paninis to the full cream tea. The shop has a new range of outdoor clothing from Jack Wolfskin - perfect for those less summery Dartmoor days.For more info please visit the website or call 01822 820320.

ANIMAL TRACKS SUMMER TRAIL

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Make a piece of wild art to take home using hand tools, natural materials and your imagination. Create one as a family or make one individually; not just for kids! £5 per sculpture, booking advisable Tues 23 Jul to Sun 8 Sept, 10am-4.30pm Can your family discover which wild animals have left their footprints all around the gorge?

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NATIONAL TRUST

Sir Francis Drake comes home to Buckland Abbey The portrait of Sir Francis Drake, which belongs to the National Portrait Gallery, has arrived at Buckland Abbey as part of the COMING HOME programme, which sees the Gallery lend 50 portraits of iconic individuals to the places across the UK with which they are most closely associated. This is an exciting and rare opportunity to see this wonderful Elizabethan portrait exhibited outside of London and in the seafarer’s former home.

The portrait was painted in c.1581 shortly after Drake’s travels around the world. For Drake, the painting became a symbol of rising social status, becoming an Elizabethan gentleman and moving away from his more humble background in Tavistock.

The exhibition looks into the detail of the symbolism of the painting but also the circumstances behind getting the painting commissioned. The portrait will be on display at Buckland Abbey until 22nd September.

As part of the exhibition there will also be two fantastic family trails. Pick up the apprentice trail pad from Visitor Welcome and start your artist journey to become the master painter.

SIR FRANCIS DRAKE COMES HOME TO BUCKLAND ABBEY 27th April-22nd September 2019, 11am - 4:30pm See an original Francis Drake portrait on loan from the National Portrait Gallery as part of its COMING HOME project.

VOLUNTEER OPEN WEEKEND Saturday 8th – Sunday 9th June 2019, 11am - 3:00pm Ever thought about volunteering? Why not pop along to the open weekend to find out more.

APPRENTICE ARTIST TRAIL 1st June – 22nd September 2019 Take part in one of our family trails as you start off as an apprentice artist - complete both trails to become the master painter.

made at Buckland Abbey Visit Buckland Abbey and dive into a world of discovery and adventure. Part of the National Portrait Gallery's 'Coming Home' exhibition from 27th April-22nd September.

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Take in the sights at Cotehele There’s loads to see at Cotehele, with the Tudor house, Victorian mill, woodland, fields, industrial ruins, riverside and quay. The garden is full of interest; there’s a medieval stewpond, dovecote, summer house, orchards and a myriad of plants and flowers. Come and explore the miles of footpaths here – there’s always something new to see.

You’ll find many of the plants from the garden in our Plant Centre, so if you’ve been inspired you could recreate the look at home. Don’t miss the chance to try one of our unique recipes using local ingredients, like Cotehele mill-flour flatbreads, made using flour ground in the Victorian mill. The Barn restaurant and the Edgcumbe tea-room are open daily from 10am-5pm.

Our summer exhibition, Water and Colour, opens in Cotehele Gallery on 8 June, featuring beautiful watercolour paintings as well as mirrors, ceramics, jewellery and more. See our website for more info on this and our other events: www.nationaltrust. org.uk/cotehele.

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Daily until Friday 26 July, 10am-4pm Pick up a copy of this family trail and learn all about the Very Important Pollinators who live at Cotehele as you go around the garden and estate. Free tail, usual admission applies

COTEHELE UNLOCKED Thursday 20 June, 11am-4pm We throw open all the doors for you to explore areas usually closed to visitors. Meet the staff and volunteers who care for Cotehele.

SUMMER PUDDINGS AT THE EDGCUMBE Saturday 28 June, 7-8.30pm Our popular pudding evening returns with a summer menu.

Enjoy a quartet of refreshing summer desserts and help us decide which pudding to include on our summer menu this year. £20pp.

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Visit Cotehele and explore the beautiful Tudor house, garden, quayside, Victorian mill and estate walks - all pretty as a picture.

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Sunday 9th June

LEAF Open Farm Sunday Taking part in this national event organised by LEAF (Linking Environment And Farming), Pizwell Farm is one of the ancient settlements of Dartmoor dating back to the Doomsday Book.

This very traditional Dartmoor hill farm rears pedigree South Devon cattle, Cheviot sheep, Dartmoor ponies and seven chickens who roam freely providing tasty eggs but causing havoc in the garden! Animal welfare is a priority and the farm retails its own meat which is butchered locally. This is a fantastic opportunity to find out what it means to be a farmer, and what’s involved in producing food and managing the countryside, and there will be lots of activities including

a farm walk, a talk, a duck race and sheep shearing, as well as tractors, a children’s treasure trail and lots of animals.

There will also be stalls in the big barn, a BBQ and other refreshments available. If the weather turns wet, activities will take place undercover. Admission costs £1 per person and all proceeds will be donated to Postbridge Village Hall. 1-5pm at Pizwell Farm, Postbridge, PL20 6TN.

July and August

Saturday 6th July, 8:00am - 5:00pm

West Devon Fell Races

Discovery Trail Challenge: Cornwall Taster

Tavistock Athletics Club and Tamar Trail Runners are hosting a series of three evening fell races, suitable as an introduction to hill running with various agegroup events for juniors from 17:30 and an adult race at 18:45. Register and info at www. entrycentral.com Wednesday 24th July

Neolith Fell Race A scenic circuit of the top of the Walkham Valley starts at the Dartmoor Inn at Merrivale, with a 5-mile senior race and two junior races of 2km and 4km.

Wednesday 7th August

Tavy Trio of Tors A 5-mile senior race taking in Pew Tor, Staple Tors and Cox Tor, and two junior races of 2km and 4km start at the foot of Pew Tor. Wednesday 21st August

Great Links Tor Flyer This new event is aptly named the Flyer, as the descent from Great Links and Brat Tor might be the closest thing a runner comes to flying! - of course everything that comes down must first go up. Races start from the Fox & Hounds at Lydford.

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Last year’s Discovery Trail Challenge: Devon Taster, in October, raised almost £300 for Tamar Tender Loving Care (TLC), which helps to raise funds to conserve the natural and cultural heritage of the Tamar Valley Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). You now have a chance to explore the Cornish side of the Tamar Valley’s long-distance walking route, with several distance options available, while helping to raise more much-needed funds for Tamar TLC. This great walking challenge explores the northern end of the Tamar Valley, with green lanes and rolling agricultural landscapes. Please register your interest by contacting enquiries@tamarvalley.org.uk or 01822 835030. www.tamarvalley.org.uk

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Friday 26th July to Sunday 28th July

Calstock Heritage Weekend This year, Calstock is hosting the second Heritage Weekend after the huge success of last year’s event. The event takes advantage of the fantastic River Tamar, where you will be able to watch steamboats, ranging from late 19th century to present day replicas, going up and down the river. The weekend will also feature other attractions, such as Morris dancing, classic boats and cars, a sea shanty festival, and a couple of steam traction engines.

2018’s festival was a great success, with 10 steamboats passing through the town, offering a chance to check

out the amazing engineering. For a fun weekend of history and (hopefully) sunshine, why not get the kids in the car and have a drive down to Calstock. Grab an ice-cream, have a picnic and enjoy the event! This is a great day out for the family. For more details see Facebook: Calstock Heritage Weekend.

Friday 26th: Steamboats launch at Cotehele Quay to moor up in Calstock Friday 26th: Gallery Bar Special at Calstock Arts with The Countrymen

Calstock to go to Weir Head near Gunnislake Saturday 27th: Morris dancing and Sea Shanty Festival Saturday 27th: Sea shanty ticketed event at Calstock Village Hall Sunday 28th: Steamboats heads to Pentillie Castle, returning to Cotehele Quay at 3.00pm Sunday 28th: Exeter University Archaeological Department’s family-friendly exhibition of the Calstock community excavation at the Roman fort Joe McCormick

Saturday 27th: Steamboat flotilla leaves

6th July

Tavistock Edge It’s time for Tavistock Edge once more - this vibrant and exciting fringe look at the arts is brought to the local community by a wide range of local artists, with

performances in many locations including Bedford Square, The Bedford Hotel gardens, Guildhall car park and more. Starting at around 11am it continues into the early evening and all the events are free. With music, dance and drama there is always something going on that you may be interested in so come along and keep an eye out for some of the more unusual events!

The Tavistock Edge singers are an excellent group of vocalists that rehearse every Thursday at The Bedford Hotel, as well as occasionally

performing in the doorway at Tesco in Tavistock to serenade the customers.

Described as ‘totally whacky’, Tavistock Edge drama group will also be putting in several appearances over the day; their recent local events have proved very popular – ‘ghost walks’ in Tavistock and a sell-out performance at Two Bridges Hotel with ‘Is Dartmoor Worth Crossing’.

The Tavistock Edge team is looking forward to bringing another fun-packed day to the community and has requested good weather – though not quite as hot as last July!

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Charity Open Gardens

Wednesday 19th June, Wednesday 4th September (St Luke’s) Sunday 7th.July (National Garden Scheme)

Sunday 30th June and Sunday 7th July (Children’s Hospice South West)

Hotel Endsleigh Gardens, Milton Abbot, PL19 0PQ

Warren Lodge, Mary Tavy, PL19 9QD

Designed 200 years ago this was one of Humphry Repton’s last commissions and brings together a multitude of landscaping elements for which Repton was renowned. Immediately around the house there are formal gardens running down to the River Tamar. There is a picturesque dell with little bridges crossing streams, huge gunnera leaves and wonderful picnic spots. Beyond the formal gardens is the arboretum which contains unusual trees from around the world, some of which are national champions. Open 11am - 4pm; adults £5, children (U16) free entry; free parking; refreshments in hotel by prior booking only on 01822 870000; dogs on leads welcome; wheelchair access in some areas. www.stlukes-hospice.org. uk/open-gardens; www.ngs.org.uk

Warren Lodge is a rugged, gently sloping moorland garden of around three acres with magnificent views across Dartmoor.

Once an overgrown two-acre field, it evolved into a small orchard for the Queen’s Golden Jubilee with specimen trees and a copse of native trees. It also has a more formal garden as well as an extensive vegetable plot. Open 2pm- 5pm; entry: £4 adults, children (U12) enter free; children’s trail with prize on completion; bric-a-brac stalls, refreshments and homemade cakes; dogs welcome on leads; limited disabled access to facilities. www.chsw.org.uk/events

Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th July (National Garden Scheme) Sunday 30th June (St Luke’s)

Boyton Mill, Boyton, PL15 9RG, near Launceston

Gunnislake Village, PL18 9BN

An exotic themed garden in a semi-formal setting surrounding a C15 water mill and picturesque miller’s house. The garden is home to collections of unusual and exotic plants interspersed with formal elements, plus grass theatre, acers, riverside walks and an elevated woodland walk leading to a viewing platform with views across the Tamar to Cornwall. Open 10-30am - 5.30pm; entry: £3 adults, children enter free; partial wheelchair access from car park to lower parts of garden; cream teas and cakes available; dogs welcome. www.ngs. org.uk or brochures available at: The Bedford Hotel, Tavistock Visitor Information Centre, Whitchurch Post Office, Hotel Endsleigh, Endsleigh Gardens Nursery.

Back by popular demand, a chance to enjoy the wonderful village walkabout at Gunnislake. With more new gardens this year, be sure to make a full day of your visit. Travel by train or car (approx. 500m walk to village centre from train station). Trail involves some inclines. Maps available from stall by Tavistock Arms Hotel in village centre or in advance from Gunnislake post office. Open 11am - 4pm; entry: adults £5, children (U16) free entry; refreshments available in some gardens; plant sales; free parking; sorry no dogs; not suitable for wheelchairs or pushchairs. www.stlukes-hospice.org.uk/ open-gardens

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Saturday 15th June

Beside Still Waters Phoenix Chorale’s summer concert features a performance of the stunningly beautiful and haunting Magnificat by acclaimed Norwegian composer Kim André Arnesen, plus a sumptuous collection of sacred choral music by composers from the Renaissance through to the Romantic eras, including Allegri’s Miserere Mei and Fauré’s Cantique de Jean Racine.

The Magnificat was Arnesen’s first large-scale work and its debut performance in 2010 in Nidaros Cathedral in Trondheim received overwhelming feedback. After the work was released by 2L in 2014, the album was later nominated for the

Friday 14th June

GRAMMY Awards for ‘Best Surround Sound Album’. Don’t miss this sublime concert, with soprano soloist Ann Sutcliffe, a chamber ensemble, and Phoenix Chorale director of music, Marcus Alleyne.

7:30pm, St Eustachius’ Parish Church, Tavistock. Tickets are available in advance at Book Stop, Tavistock at £11 per adult, children (under 18) free entry; online at www.eventbrite.co.uk (£11); or £12 on the door.

Saturday 29th June

FreePlay – A Capella, Around Brenstock Music Festival the World Come and enjoy a day of live music, festival food, and a

Musicians Suba Sankaran and Dylan Bell join forces to create the FreePlay duo and take you from the concert halls of Europe, to the jazz clubs of Manhattan, to the temples of India, and back to the cultural mosaic of their native Toronto… all without leaving your seat. From Bach to Bird to the Beatles, FreePlay effortlessly crosses musical boundaries, continually combining and recombining sounds to create a concert of endless variety, with the intimate delivery of two people.

Imagine Simon and Garfunkel crossed with a Bach 2-part invention; an acrobatic jazz melody combined with ancient Indian solkattu; an 8-part vocal arrangement created by two singers, using innovative live-looping techniques… and you’ll get a glimpse of what the duo has to offer. We are delighted to be hosting this amazing concert at Peter Tavy Village Hall at 7.30pm. Tickets: Adult £8, Child £4, Family (2 adults & 2 children) £22. Call Dawn on 01822 810552 to book.

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licensed bar at Brentor’s summer music festival. Very much a family event, the festival runs from midday to 11.30pm at Brentor Village Hall and marquee, featuring 12 live bands from West Devon and two stages of non-stop music. The brilliant Kingstons will be headlining from 10:30 to 11:30pm, with their upbeat feel-good brand of ska, reggae and soul, preceded

by Fireblockers, the second headlining band, an exceptional group of musicians performing rock, soul funk and rhythm & blues.

The rest of the line-up will be Dad Dancing, Rufus Stoned, The Strange & the Beautiful, Hannah & Trefoil, FoXXy & The Sinners, All Bar One, David Street, Morzim, The Briars, Kidz Open Mic. Advance tickets: £10 adults and £6 children (U16), from The Castle Inn at Lydford, Lydford Farm Shop, Mary Tavy Post Office or Book Stop in Tavistock. Tickets on the gate: £12 adults and £8 children (U16). Parking will be available in a field opposite the hall and the site is wheelchair friendly with limited parking for the disabled; no dogs please excepting assistance dogs.

For more details see www.brenstock.org.uk or Facebook: Brenstock Fest.

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Saturday 26th July

The Best in the South West Art Exhibition Having exhibited artists from New York and California in addition to the British Isles, Tavistock Picture Framing Gallery owners, Rik and Sarah Hawkins, have decided to showcase a sample of our local artistic talent. They have chosen to present three of their favourite local artists: Peter Dolbear, born in Plymouth, who specialises in ‘en plein air’ views of the rugged moors and coastlines of Devon and Cornwall.

Alli Cragg, an NHS nurse also from Plymouth, who works predominantly with resin to create pictures with depth and sparkle. As with all of these artists Alli can undertake commissions on any scale from small to huge!

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Christine Durrant from Tavistock, who produces the most amazing collages on any subject from flowers and animals to cityscapes.

She can even incorporate something very personal within a commissioned picture, as she did for Rik when she used pieces of his late sister’s dress to create the image of a peacock.

Free entry, wine, nibbles and live music from local folk guitarist Chris Bailey. Come as you are, we only ask that you leave muddy wellies at the door!

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Friday 19th July

Jazz at the Town Hall Plymouth Jazz Club has once again chosen Tavistock Town Hall for its Summer Special event; the hall is a superb concert venue with cabaret style seating for up to 200, room for dancing, as well as a bar and a lift for disabled access.

The main band will be Savannah Jazz Band from North East England, one of the finest and most popular traditional jazz bands in the UK, with a strong reputation in Europe, taking the stage from 7.30 pm for three 45-minute sets. Plymouth’s ‘Ocean City Sound’, a 30-strong male voice close harmony

barbershop choir will sing from 7.00pm to 7.30pm. Admission costs £12:50 and is available on the door or in advance from Book Stop, 3 Market Street, Tavistock or call 01752 774343.

For more information see www.plymouth-jazz-club.org.uk

New creative space for Tavistock community A new creative space for printmaking has opened in Kingdon House, Pym Street, revisiting the heritage of the venue, which stopped operating as a printing works in 1974. Following significant fundraising, renovations have recently been carried out to the building and the new print room is part of a plan to develop the community facility for all kinds of art work, as well as drama, dance and music. Disabled access also opens up use of the space as a shared facility with other local groups. Community artist Andy Cairns, from West Devon Art Workshops, is leading the project and aims to make printmaking an affordable and accessible creative activity for the local community. The project has been made possible by the generous donation of an etching press by a local artist who wishes to remain anonymous. It builds on the success of Art for All classes run by West Devon Art Workshops at Kingdon House over the past three years, which have engaged new people in printmaking. National Lottery funding has also been made available to expand Art for All for the next 2 years in

Bere Alston, Princetown, Callington and Launceston, open to local people at risk of social isolation.

People with experience of printmaking can apply to become members of the Tavistock print room; the joining fee is £50 and then for £10 per month they will have access for up to 24 hours each month. For more information contact Andy Cairns on 01822 258351 or email westdevonartworkshops@gmail. com.

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Dartmoor Photography Adventures So, what is it about Dartmoor that makes you want to pick up your camera?

- the endless skies, the dramatic tors, the wildlife, or is it just a desire to capture an image as a reminder of its beauty. This is what has driven me to found Dartmoor Photography Adventures, a locally based moorland photography business offering landscape photography workshops for both individuals and small groups.

The workshops have the flexibility to cater for individual skill levels offering choices of locations as well as value for money.

I moved to Tavistock some ten years ago, having studied photography at South Downs College, and worked both at home and abroad on a wide variety of photographic ventures. However, it’s Dartmoor’s dramatic scenery that really inspires me and offers a wide variety of unique and spectacular photographic opportunities. Dartmoor Photography Adventures is here to guide you to outstanding locations and offer sound digital photographic advice to enable you to get the best from your camera.

It doesn’t matter if you are a complete beginner or an amateur, our workshops

are customer focused and flexible.

With a maximum of four participants you are certain to get the attention you deserve! For more details go to www. dartmoorphotographyadventures.co.uk or email me, Adrian Pitcher, at adrian@ dpadventures.co.uk

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Join art historian Dr Geri Parlby on a fascinating artistic journey across Europe from the High Renaissance to the birth of Mannerism. Every piece of art can tell a story if you know how to read the clues!

All-comers welcome. Geri Parlby lectures regularly for The Arts Society (NADFAS) across the UK and internationally and is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Roehampton.

EXHIBITION & SALE OF PAINTINGS

AUG 15TH (PM) TO 20TH (AM)

Six-week course at Tavistock URC in Russell Street, 14.30 16.30 each Tuesday. Individual lectures cost £10 per person, or £50 for the entire course - book at www.heritageintavistock. org/events or at the first lecture. ​June 4th - The story of Raphael –

from the Court of Urbino to the sophistication of Florence June 11th - From Raphael’s Rome to the light and colour of sixteenth-century Venice June 18th - The beauty of Venetian art continued – from the mysteries of Giorgione to the extraordinary portraiture of the early years of Titian June 25th - Titian: the later years – saints and sinners, gods and goddesses July 2nd - From Renaissance to Mannerism – beauty through a different lens July 9th - From Mannerism to Murder – Caravaggio the bad boy of art and the painters he inspired

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Thursday 4th July

Three Men in a Boat After the success of Old Herbaceous, Kick In The Head productions is back with a rip-roaring barrel of fun, Three Men in a Boat, with Giles Shenton (Old Herbaceous himself!) playing the part of Jerome K. Jerome in this outdoor theatre production at Moorland Garden Hotel. Bring a picnic or enjoy food and drinks from the restaurant and Dartmoor Bar, with popcorn and ice cream available in the interval, while Jerome recounts the hilarious story of his boating holiday along the magnificent River Thames with his two companions and Montmorency the dog. Come and join in the fun as Giles Shenton expertly takes the helm and pilots you through the ridiculous tale of men behaving badly while messing about in boats!

“There are a few seriously funny books that remain great for all time. Three Men in a Boat is one of these.” - The Guardian.

“Timeless appeal” - The Independent.

“Pitch-perfect comedy about, well, three men in a boat” - The Telegraph.

Full pre-payment of £10 per person is required at the time of booking; tickets will be sent in the post when booked with the events team on 01822 852245. Tickets sold on the door will be £12 per person. The performance will be in the gardens at Moorland Garden Hotel, starting at 7:30pm; if the weather is bad then it will be staged inside - after all the show must go on! Please bring along low-backed seating or blankets if the weather is nice.

SUMMER EVENTS

Business Breakfast – Thursday 6th June from 7.30am

Meet likeminded business professionals over breakfast then listen to Katharine Bourke from South West Growth Service speak on effective communication at work.

Father’s Day Lunch – Sunday 16th June 12-2pm

Dads need looking after too! Bring your Dad here for a superb Sunday lunch, buy a beer in the bar before and have a stroll around the grounds after! Adult £24.95 Child £15.00 (age 3 to 12 years).

Outdoor Theatre: Three Men In A Boat – Thursday 4th July, 7.30pm

Join Jerome as he recounts the hilarious story of his boating holiday along the magnificent River Thames with his two companions and Montmorency the dog. Come and join in the fun as Giles Shenton expertly takes the helm and pilots you through the ridiculous tale of men behaving badly while messing about in boats! £10 per person.

Tea Tasting and Afternoon Tea – Sunday 14th July,

2.00pm

Come along and join Hannah as she takes you through the fascinating story of tea, followed by a leisurely afternoon tea from our lovely chefs, this afternoon experience is a wonderful way to round out the weekend. £30 per person.

To book any of these do please call our Events Team on 01822 852245 or email events@moorlandgardenhotel.co.uk Full details of these and other offers are available on our website moorlandgardenhotel.co.uk Moorland Garden Hotel, Yelverton, Plymouth PL20 6DA 58

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‘A beautiful quirky pizza night’ ‘What a lovely evening. Delicious pizza and gorgeous views combined with a firepit and some dub-reggae tunes, lovely hosts and an overall chilled vibe. Cannot wait to go again...’

This comment describes a pizza night at The Secret Stable, started just last June by two primary school teachers, Khylen and Grace Baldwin, at Narracott Farm near Milton Abbott.

Only opening on select dates from April to December, The Secret Stable is a treat for the senses, providing wholesome food in an idyllic open-air setting.

Khylen had always had plans to build a pizza oven and eventually got round to constructing one in a secluded corner of the farm. After the addition of a couple of tables, the couple decided to knock down the ramshackle stables, opening up the most incredible view of Brentor and Dartmoor.

Khylen thought it was too good to keep to themselves and suggested selling tickets for a few intimate gatherings where people could enjoy wood-fired pizza and drink in the view.

So, they tentatively advertised the first couple of evenings, which to their amazement sold out almost immediately. As a keen amateur cook, Khylen took charge of the food, taking food hygiene courses, then practising making fresh dough and experimenting with toppings – resulting in the extended family consuming vast quantities of ‘research pizza’!

More tables were acquired from markets and auctions, and then the scene was set. The pizza nights were a

great success, leaving the couple quite overwhelmed by the response.

Farm pizza nights start at 6pm and go ahead whatever the weather with enough covered seating for everyone, if required, complete with cosy wood burners. There is always a choice of three meat pizzas, cooked with home-reared meat wherever possible, and three vegetarian pizzas, which again are prepared with local produce. Khylen also offers four or five desserts based on treasured family recipes, including firm favourite, Key Lime Colin, named after his dad’s recipe. The Secret Stable sells a range of hot and cold soft drinks, such as farm-pressed apple juice, and guests are also welcome to bring their own alcoholic beverages. Tickets go on sale via Seetickets.com on the 1st day of the preceding month, so tickets for July have just gone on sale. The price covers the pizza course and then drinks and desserts can be paid for in cash on the night - and you can even have camp-over now as well.

Upcoming pizza nights: June: 14th, 20th, 29th; July 12th, 18th, 27th, 30th – for more information see www.thesecretstable.co.uk

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How to heat a 700-year-old Parish Church

St Eustachius, Tavistock Parish Church

What do you do if the boiler in your 700-yearold parish church stops working just before Christmas, arguably the busiest time of the year? And how do you find a modern boiler solution that will connect to a Victorian pipe system and an incorrectly sized flue? In the case of St Eustachius’, Tavistock Parish Church, you call DB Heating Ltd. This was the situation faced by the team at Tavistock Parish Church and these were just some of the many challenges that Tavistock-based heating and plumbing experts, DB Heating, had to overcome.

“This was a big challenge for us; we had to find a solution that would integrate the new highly efficient 21st century system with the original Victorian network of pipes and also connect with the existing flue system to comply with all the necessary standards. Plus, we needed to complete before the Christmas services as the last thing we all wanted was to have parishioners sitting in a cold church in mid-December,” says Lawrence Barnes, Director of DB Heating.

The previous British made boiler had lasted 40 years, which is very impressive for a heating system of this size, and interestingly, this was not the first time David Barnes,

Managing Director of DB Heating, had worked on the parish church’s heating system. David said: “I was an apprentice for John Philpott Sou West Ltd and one of the first jobs I ever had was to install an adaption to the Victorian system in the late 1970s. Here I am again, forty years later!”

Fast-forward to December 2018 and time was of the essence to get the heating back up and running, so the DB Heating team set to work researching a boiler solution that would integrate with the ancient piping. Lawrence stated: “After analysing and researching the problem we eventually found another British manufacturer with a system that would meet the needs of the church. This new, modern, high-efficiency boiler with a heat exchange system means that the new boiler system can integrate with the Victorian pipes that run throughout the church. The boiler has a closed circuit and heats the water in the pipes through a heat exchange plate.”

Next came a difficult and tense time, trying to get delivery of the system in time for installation before Christmas.

Installation engineer Neil said: “The boiler room in the church itself was a challenge; the room is subterranean, and getting the old cast iron boiler out was very strenuous as it needed to be broken down before removal.

Fortunately, the new boiler was small enough and light enough to get into the room with relative ease. All our team worked on the project installation and we managed to get the system up and running by mid-December. The manufacturers came down later and stated that it was

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Lawrence Barnes demonstrates the new system to the Very Reverend Dr Christopher Hardwick one of the best installations they had seen of its type.”

Head of Fabric at St Eustachius’, Nick Clark, said: “We’re extremely grateful to DB Heating for delivering a quality system for the church, and for their dedication in ensuring it was up and running in time for the Christmas services.”

Lawrence was delighted to be able to help and said: “This was one of our most interesting projects and we are so pleased that we were able to help our ancient parish church find a cost-effective solution so quickly. We hope the parishioners are toasty for another 700 years!”

For those readers of a technical nature, the new boiler is 150kW. A domestic boiler would be 30kW, but it needed to be powerful enough to heat the whole church. The system is smart and efficient; it reads the temperature outside and heats the church accordingly, so it only ever uses the minimum amount of gas needed to heat the interior.

Similar systems are available for domestic installation and can be integrated successfully into period properties. Call DB Heating to find out more.

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Out and About with Tavistock Ramblers A superb level walk with splendid views on the western side of Burrator reservoir with John Noblet of Tavistock Ramblers.

Burrator is surely one of the most beautiful reservoirs in England but we tend to take it for granted. The dam, holding back the waters of the River Meavy and several smaller streams was built in 1898 but raised in height some years later. This 2¼ mile walk follows the old Princetown railway above the reservoir before returning over Yennadon Down. Park on the roadside near the dam (SX550680) where you may be lucky and find an ice cream van.

1. Walk along the road away from the dam with the reservoir on the right as far as the ‘waterfall’. The water is discharged into the reservoir from Devonport Leat, which we will see a little later in the walk. Turn sharp left, signed as a footpath, up the wide track which rises gently with good views over the dam.

2. At the top, turn sharp right along another wide pathway.

This is the track bed of the railway, which until 1956, ran

between Yelverton and Princetown. A rusty iron gateway on the right is all that remains of Burrator Halt station platform, once a popular stop for day-trippers. Continue through a gate to reach a small building where the water from the Devonport Leat discharges into the waterfall that we saw earlier. A little further on a modern bridge replaces the old railway bridge over a lane. The leat can be seen curving away in the distance.

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3. At the next lane, which was once a level crossing, leave the old railway and turn left. Immediately after a road junction there is a small car park on the left. Turn into the car park and walk across the open moorland but keeping fairly close to the boundary wall enclosing a plantation of trees on the left. As the wall veers away to the left continue straight ahead towards a lone post on the skyline. This post marks the boundary of the water catchment area of Burrator Reservoir. There are splendid views of Sheep’s Tor on the left, Horrabridge, and Tavistock on the right and Kit Hill beyond.

Why not join Tavistock Ramblers for more walks in West Devon, the Tamar Valley or Dartmoor? Walks vary from short strolls to all-day treks and everything in between. Now that the longer days are here, we will be doing short walks on Thursday evenings in addition to our usual Saturday and Sunday offerings. Go to www.tavistockramblers.org.uk for further details of walks on offer.

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4. Bear slightly left at the boundary marker to keep on a wide grassy path to the left of clumps of gorse. Plymouth Sound is visible ahead and there are glimpses of the reservoir to the left. Cross the now dry course of Devonport Leat to reach

the track bed of the old railway again. Just below the old railway is one of Dartmoor’s lesser known tors. This is Claig Tor and the stone benches provided here make it a suitable place to rest and admire the view. You can just see the top of the tower of Sheepstor church in the trees to the right of Sheep’s Tor itself. Go back down the wide track and retrace the route back to the car.

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The Three Hares: a medieval mystery Around Dartmoor, villages and towns cluster about their medieval parish churches as they have done for centuries. These ancient buildings are havens of peace and tranquillity in a hurried world and each has its own story to tell. Discovering these stories is an engaging occupation, for it connects us to our place and the people of the past.

Over a period of twenty-five years or more, archaeologist and historian Dr Tom Greeves, documentary photographer Chris Chapman, and I have been on the tantalising trail of mysterious medieval carvings found in sixteen churches in or near Dartmoor (Ashreigney, Bridford, Chagford, Cheriton Bishop, Iddesleigh, Ilsington, Kelly, Newton St Cyres, North Bovey, Paignton, Sampford Courtenay, South Tawton, Spreyton, Tavistock, Throwleigh and Widecombe-in-the-Moor. Broadclyst church has nineteenth-century plaster copies). The carvings on oak roof bosses, depict three hares running in a circle, often in an anticlockwise direction, though a few run clockwise. The design is a puzzle, for each animal has two ears, yet between them they share only three ears, which form the sides of a triangle at the centre of the motif.

Carved in the fifteenth century, so before the Reformation when England was still Catholic, the bosses tend to be roughly square and usually measure no more than thirty centimetres in diameter. Where they are coloured, the paint is modern, although whether they were originally coloured is not known.

The carvings are located in the chancel, the most sacred part of the church, and also the nave and aisles. The responsibility for the chancel rested with the clergy and patron, while the lay

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people of the parish were responsible for the nave and aisles, so the motif was clearly of relevance to all. In Tavistock parish church, a three-hares boss can be found in the north chancel chapel. Almost nothing is known of the carvers, who may have known of carvings in neighbouring churches, or perhaps worked from pattern books. It is noteworthy that the earliest known occurrence of the hares in Devon is in an illuminated manuscript. A decorated initial with the three hares is found in a thirteenth-century psalter, or book of psalms, which belonged to John Grandisson, Bishop of Exeter from 1327 until 1369.

Why were hares considered suitable as a decorative motif in the pre-Reformation church? Although no specific medieval reference to the three hares has yet come to light, the hare is mentioned in bestiaries – books of beasts that had a strong moralizing dimension and which influenced sermons.

According to bestiaries, God created animals and gave them differing habits so that, through their example, sinful man might reflect on his own behaviour and seek redemption. Often it is the hare’s ambiguity that is stressed, for the hare was believed to be hermaphrodite – sometimes male, sometimes

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female – and so was likened to a double-minded man who was not firm in his faith and could easily succumb to temptation. It may be that the motif in the church was a warning against sin, for the hare was often associated with lust.

The three hares motif is found – rarely – in churches and cathedrals elsewhere in England and Wales, and in continental Europe, in various media and forms – wood and stone bosses and lintels, stained glass, clay tiles, polychromy (paint) and on a great bell in Germany – yet nowhere in Europe are the hares found in the concentration in which they appear in Devon.

Yet the three hares do not just occur in the sacred spaces of Christendom.

Their earliest known incarnation is in a

Buddhist context – in cave temples at Mogao on the edge of the Gobi desert in China. Here the three hares are located at the apex of sixteen cave temple ceilings on painted representations of textile canopies, dating from the end of the sixth century through to the beginning of the tenth. The motif is not believed to be Chinese in origin. It may have come to China from the Iranian world, possibly carried by merchants along the ancient Silk Roads. The Eastern Iranian – Islamic – world in particular, is the source of surviving metalwork, glass, ceramic, silk, and leather artefacts bearing three, and, sometimes, four hares, dating from the tenth through to the fourteenth centuries. Highly prized for its exquisite craftsmanship, some of this work found its way into Western church

treasuries. In a Jewish context, a single medieval example of the three hares motif is found in a Hebrew manuscript, dated 1309. The design was used in ceiling paintings in synagogues in the eighteenth century and on Jewish gravestones in the nineteenth century.

The three hares are an endless source of fascination, for they have inspired artistic endeavour in peoples of different faiths and cultures over a period of fourteen hundred years or more, and continue to do so. In a world where cultures often clash, the three hares remind us of our shared humanity.

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WEDDING & EVENTS CO-ORDINATOR I’ve worked in the hospitality industry since leaving college and started at The Bedford Hotel as a receptionist in 2011.

As part of a small and busy team, it was great to get involved in all aspects of the hotel’s front-of-house operations, and in 2014 I had the opportunity to transfer to the role of wedding and events coordinator. It was a steep learning curve, getting to know everything that’s involved in creating amazing weddings and events for our customers, but really rewarding too!

What training and qualifications do you need to become an events coordinator?

I found that my previous experience in the hospitality sector really helped me in this role – it’s so much easier to help customers create successful events when you know how a hotel ‘works’.

I’d say the most important skills needed in this job are a fanatical attention to detail, and a real passion for customer service. It’s not just about weddings – we find that many of our customers come back time and time again for family celebrations, special occasions

and other events – so it’s essential that our customers are delighted with each and every event we coordinate for them.

Who else works with you?

One of the best bits of my job is working with such a brilliant team of people.

Along with my colleague Hannah at The Bedford Hotel, and Holly at our sister hotel, the Two Bridges Hotel, we are small team looking after a vast number of events every year, and we work with colleagues in the front-of-house departments and with our chefs, to bring together every event to the needs and wishes of our customers.

How does your day usually unfold?

I’ll usually start the day by catching up with colleagues on the previous day’s events, and checking that everything is in place for the current day. There will normally be the opportunity to meet with up-coming brides and grooms during the day – whether it’s to provide a first look around our wedding facilities or to finalise their arrangements. Inevitably there’ll be plenty of emails and phone calls to attend to, and usually lots of enquiries for new events – whether it’s an intimate dinner party, a beautiful

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