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Fancy feeling a bit cooler? 🥵 Here’s a blog about the great snow storm at Hoar Oak Cottage in 1878. Brrrrrrr 🥶http://hoaroakcottage.org/2017/01/19/snow-storm-1878/. @DevRuralArchive @devonhistorysoc @devon_ex_inst @DevonLife @devonfhs @BritishAssocLocalH @OnePlaceStudies @1PSDirectory @BeginsHistory

The Plume of Feathers
The central square in #Princetown photographed in June 1897. The banner, celebrating Victoria’s diamond jubilee, reads ‘God Save Our Queen - Long May She Reign. Well played for 60 not out.’ The inn, built by Thomas Tyrwhitt in 1795, was originally called 👉

Church House Inn at #Holne has claims to be one of the oldest in #Devon . Robert Burnard who took this photograph in 1889, wrote in his book #Dartmoor Pictorial Records, that the incumbent vicar of Holne “believes that this is the existing Church House or ‘Tavistock Inn’ 👉

Back to researching Torquay and its environs today and turning up some wonderful images among our local studies collections, including @TorreAbbey in 1828.

“The Day We Went to Fur Tor”

Fur Tor Combe
August 19, 1893

Burnard Collection

#Devon #Dartmoor #picnic
#friendship #family #fortheloveofarchives

https://dartmoortrust.org/archive/record/3438