Tom Blamey Tapes 1 to 4.

These are mainly comments & discussions made while looking at old photographs.

Track 1. Quay area shops, Waterfront area, Coastguards, Manor Gardens house,

South Town home & living conditions,

Track 2. Totnes Castle paddle boat, Butterwalk area shops, Lower Street & Mrs Street’s sweet shop,

Pontoon, railway ferry & Boatmen, Tugs, ships & Thomas Wilton.

Kingswear school & chapel.

Wreck of the “Broadmayne” off Millbay & seaman Curzon.

Noss Lightships, Mew.

Dit’sum ferry, Post mistress.

Sandquay yard 1845, Hauleys slips & Salt Cod.

Coombe Mud, Foss Street & Duke Street bombs, Higher Street, South Town, Warfleet,

Cornish & Blamey grandfathers, River barges & Coal lumpers,

Parents, Ferry, Nelson steps & Undercliff.

The last part of this tape jumps about quite a bit between subjects

Track 3. Old shops & businesses. Higher Street before Council Flats, Street Conduit, Grocers Shop, Carpet Shop.

Browns Hill (Slippery Cause), Cherub PH, Chemist, Jewllers, The Quay, Foss Street, Smith Street, Old Labour Exchange.

Families in old photographs

Hospital, Old Mill, Warfleet Brewery & water wheel, Pontoon & the Embankment, Newcomen Road arches,

1^st WW shipping – cargo of torpedoes.

Standard of living. Poor health in Dartmouth, Infant mortality, Chilblains,

Food, Ovens, Soup kitchen, Stale buns, Debt.

Working conditions. Blacklisting of crabers, Start of Unions, Company men, Injuries.

Track 4. Foundations of BRNC College, Royal yacht “Victoria & Albert” leaving Dartmouth, Regatta at the BRNC, “Britannia” & “Hindustan”

Christmas Food.