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imag INFORMATIVE | INTERESTING | INTERACTIVE THE IVYBRIDGE MAGAZINE ISSUE 52137 | DEC 22 ROTARY CLUB SANTA SLEIGH TOUR When will he visit you? See page 6 Clubs Schools Heritage feature Christmas What’s On Help with cost of living crisis Nelson’s descendants in South Brent

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INSIDE Photography trip to Burrator ® Clubs & groups – see pages 18-19 Burrator Waterfall by David Rayner FOLLOW THE NUTCRACKER TRAIL LOCAL SUPPORT AS THE COST OF LIVING CRISIS BITES There’s a new trail to follow in Ivybridge in the run up to Christmas and you could win a £50 voucher! Groups in the community have stepped forward to offer support Plus, Christmas markets, music and more... to families and vulnerable people who are facing a difficult winter ® Christmas What’s On – see page 5 ® See pages 10-11 JOIN THE F AREWEL L REPAIR CAFE ® P16 MAKERS MEWS NEWS ® P16 FESTIVE FLOWER Yvonne and Diane at Ivy Coun-AFTER MANY years of helping NELSON’S ARRANGEMENT others explore life issues, we have DESCENDANTS FLOWER CHRISTMAS made the brave decision to look at IN SOUTH CAKE ® P5 ourselves and have decided as we BRENT ® P15 ON SCREEN AT THE last 11 years. We would also like to say a huge WATERMARK ® P16 We could not have achieved all thank you to Michala, Jackie and Volunteer withus Leslie for their support and AJ, THE IMAG IN 2023... what we have without the support Mel, Bethan, Vicky and Nia, for Be part of our companion volunteer support team of our team of counsellors, both past are approaching a ‘certain age’ we and present, who shared our vision nourishing us every Wednesday and We’re looking for volunteers, aged selling are moving on to the nextwill be retiring from Ivy Counselling 18 or over, who can give three hours and our doors will be closing at the each week to chat to people who end of January 2023. have been recently bereaved on In 2011 we had a dream of the telephone. and mutual passion for creating and finally, Marie for knowing our likes Phone: 0800 3047 400 or email: sustaining the good name of Ivy and dislikes and coming up with [email protected] Counselling. compromises where ever she could, Visit mariecurie.org.uk/volunteering we certainly haven’t been easy! and tap on ‘search all roles’ to find What can we say about Jonathan? the perfect role for you. stage of their journeyopening a counselling agency that would enable people, even on the Charity reg no. 207994 (England & Wales), SC038731 (Scotland) H089 Image: iStock lowest incomes, to be able to afford and access the counselling they When he first arrived to take up ® See P21We are both very much looking his position as Manager of the Watermark, he was warned about us forward to having some quality as we supervised the top floor of the time doing all the things we never got around to doing. We are hoping needed. We feel we have achieved building as long standing tenants but 2023 will bring us a warm, sunny this and over the years we have his friendship, help and support has summer so we can get out and been privileged to meet and work been unwavering and he has been enjoy the outdoors with family alongside many different clients and alongside helping us to continue and friends. We are looking at our what was impacting on their lives. keeping our doors open and we will retirement as a positive step to the We hope we have made a be forever grateful to him. As he next part of our journey, so it’s not difference to many lives because moved to the town hall taking up the the end but the beginning. our lives have been enriched by the role as town clerk he has continued work we have undertaken over the to support us, thank you Jonathan. Yvonne and Diane The first issue of a new year seems as good as any to change things about a bit...21_TIM_Dec22IvyCounselling.indd 21 18/11/2022 20:52 imagSo look out for our first issue of 2023, coming through your letterbox mid January. Call/text/WhatsApp: 07516 539573 Email: [email protected] Web: theimag.co.uk The imag is an independent magazine published and produced by Lily design, 6 Claymans Pathway, Woodlands, Ivybridge PL21 9UZ. © Lily design 2022. The imag has no affiliation to, nor official relationship with, any organisations or authorities. No part of this publication may be reproduced, in any form, without the prior express consent of the publisher. All information, advertised or provided, is accepted in good faith as being correct at the time of going to press. Opinions expressed in the magazine are not necessarily those of the publisher and editor. The publisher accepts no responsibility for products, goods or services that may be advertised or referred to. When responding to an advert or article, please mention that you saw it in the imag imag 3

CHRISTMAS Gorgeous gifts, bath bombs, soaps and shampoo bars all handmade in Ivybridge Palm oil free, vegan friendly, wrapped in paper and made with natural ingredients. Available from: Natures Larder, Ivybridge The Gallery, Avon Mill Lovingly Local, Saltash Tavistock Pannier Market (Thur, Fri & Sat) www.kenderdine.co.uk Kenderdine - Dec22.indd 1 17/11/2022 11:15 20/11/2022 08:21 £30 MAX FOR YOUR CHRISTMAS TREE! Why pay £50 or more for a similar tree? ALL TREES £20-£30 Buy a Lukesland tree direct from the grower! Locally grown • Freshly cut • Non-drop Noble Fir Trees Saturdays & Sundays from December 3rd Friends Petrol Station Leonards Road, Ivybridge Enquiries - 07899 793397 imaRobert Howell Xmas tress - Dec22.indd 1 4g Call/text/WhatsApp: 07516 539573 Email: [email protected] Web: theimag.co.uk

SOANNATABSIKE THE IVYBRIDGE The Ivybridge Nutcracker Trail CHRISTMAS NUTCRACKER runs from 1st-24th December The popular event Santas on a TRAIL Bike will ride through Ivybridge December, with a concert titled on Saturday, 3rd December. A Following the success of “A Winter’s Evening”. procession of decorated motor The Ivybridge Halloween Described as one of the finest cycles ridden by Santas will ride Town Trail, in the run-up folk pairings in the country, the down Fore Street at 12.30pm to Christmas Ivybridge has husband and wife team of David on their way to the children’s a new trail to follow – The Harbottle and Freya Jonas will hospice Little Harbour, which Ivybridge Nutcracker Trail. present a seasonal mixture of is outside St Austell. This is a Pick up an entry form in par- some of their old favourites charity event raising hundreds of ticipating shops, business and together with newly-written songs. pounds for the charity Children’s services during December and Katie Whitehouse provides Hospice South West, which cares look for Nutcracker characters support on the programme. for children with life limiting and decorations across town. The event starts at 7.30pm and conditions, and their families. There is a £50 Ivybridge voucher tickets, £10 in advance or £12 waiting for the winner. on the night, are available from ICSHLARNISDTMTRAUSSSTTALL Over 120 children joined in the Artworks or online at Eventbrite fun with the Halloween trail, www.eventbrite.co.uk Brent Island Trust will be with Lucas Dixon winning £50 of helping South Brent get into Ivybridge vouchers. FAETSTTHIVEEATSREEASROONYAL the Christmas spirit when it holds its traditional Christmas SFCESHTOIVOELSFAHIARVSING TSPOEMCAIAKLEVRISSIMTOEWR S Theatre Royal Plymouth have got stall and carol singing outside some wonderful productions to the village shop on Saturday, The Erme Primary School The Big Guy himself is popping get you in the Christmas spirit, 3rd December. The event runs Christmas Fair and Market is on into Ivybridge before Christmas including Pinocchio, Sister Act from 10am until noon and is the Friday, 2nd December, 3.30-5pm. to update his flight map and this year’s panto, Sleeping organisation’s main fundraising There will be vendors, gift *checking it twice* adding all the Beauty. See theatreroyal.com for event of the year. All are tombola, choir, Santa’s Grotto, new houses and children now dates, details and tickets. welcome. Look out for presents refreshments, a raffle and much living in Ivybridge. and cakes, try your luck on the more. All proceeds to the PTA for He’ll be at Makers Mews, on tombola and join in singing some the benefit of the school. Harford Road, on Friday, 16th favourite Christmas melodies. Friends of Manor Primary School December, just as school finishes is holding its Christmas Fair for the Christmas holidays. FCEHAOSTRAOLFMCUHRSIISCTMAS on Friday, 9th December, from Any local children available to 3pm. There will be trade stands, help him check his workings, Brent Singers warmly invite you refreshments, cakes, tombola, navigate the changes, and to to a festive feast of Christmas a raffle and of course Santa’s potentially assist him in finding choral music at St Petroc’s Grotto. his way on Christmas Eve too, Church, South Brent, on There will be a range of stalls head over to makersmews. Saturday, 3rd December, at and children’s activities at eventbrite.com to book. 7.30pm. They will be singing the Stowford School Friends’ Messiah Part one and the famous Christmas Fair on Saturday, 3rd BPOACPUK LINARS FBORELKNDTUO Hallelujah Chorus, followed by a December, 1-4pm. There will selection of carols. There will be also be a range of festive food Celebrated South Brent-based an interval with mince pies and and drinks, raffles and prizes, folk duo Harbottle and Jonas are wine. Free entry with a retiring and the chance to visit Father returning to St. Petroc’s Church, collection. All welcome. Christmas and his merry elves. South Brent, on Saturday, 10th ASATNBTOAOCKLSAHUOSP Santa Claus is coming to town, when he visits The Ivybridge Bookshop on Saturday, 10th December between 10.30am and 12.30pm. See page 7. FESTIVE FLOWER ARRANGEMENT: FLOWER CHRISTMAS CAKE You will need: pad - eg A round gold Christmas • Place the ‘fence’ around the Flowers and foliage platter posy pad and tie tightly. • 10 dark red carnations or roses • 4 baubles ( gold/ bronze or red ) • Add the carnations /roses in a • 1 stem of green spray chrysan- • Small fir cones sprayed gold group themum • 4 shiny wire curls • Add the individual stems from • Skimmia of other greenery. Method the spray chrysanthemum in a Mechanics and sundries • Wire the cinnamon sticks group ( see pictiure) • About 45 cinnamon sticks – together with the paper covered • Add skimmia or other greenery 9cms or 3 ½ inches long wire top and bottom to fit to fill the spaces. • Paper covered wire around the posy pad • Add the baubles and wire curls • 20cm (8”) posy pad • Soak the posy pad and place on to finish your design. • Dish large enough to hold posy the dish By Ivybridge Flower Club When responding to an advert or article, please mention that you saw it in the imag imag 5

CHRISTMAS 15DEC ROTARY CLUB’S 6 DEC SANTA SLEIGH TOUR 8DEC 5 DEC 9 DEC 13 DEC 7 DEC 14 DEC 12 DEC 2 DEC 1 DEC The Rotary Club of Ivybridge’s Santa sleigh tour of the town returns this year, starting on Thursday, 1st December. Setting off at 6pm each evening, Santa and his helpers intend to call on the houses in Ivybridge to ask for a donation to charity. The main beneficiaries this year are Dartmoor Search and Rescue Team and The Royal National Lifeboat Institution THURSDAY 1st FRIDAY 2nd MONDAY 5th TUESDAY 6th WEDNESDAY 7th THURSDAY 8th Bonville Drive Paddock Drive Rue St Pierre Rivers Close Charlton Terrace Crescent Road New Green Street Maton Close Uphill Close Cole Lane (East) Bridge Park Crescent Gardens Button Lane Stonehenge Close Oak Gardens Weatherdon Drive Exeter Road Beacon Close Kerswell Close Woodside Close Deer Park Butterdon Walk Brook Road Park Close Consoles Close Greenfield Drive Ash Grove Speakers Road Firtree Rise Leat View Shortlands Way Marshall Drive Barons Pyke Buddle close Trehill Road Ivy Glen Edgemill Walk Leland Grove St Peters Way Stannary Close Yeolland Park Cambric Chase Turnpike Crescent Staniforth Drive Woodfield Crescent Elizabeth Close Yeolland Lane Blachford Road Pailgate Drive Widdicombe Drive Wellstones Close Jubilee Close Fox Court Lower Filham Moor Close Haytor Drive Waterslade Drive Savery Close Primrose Close Wood Park Charles Hankin Way Okehampton Way Trematon Drive Prideaux Road Greenway Close Allens Road Tom Maddock Lydford Close Parkside Bishops Close Dairy Lane Carter Road Gardens Corfe Close Pykes Down Dunstaville Road Marshalls Fields Cole Lane (West) Gorse Way Berkeley Way Torre Close Papermakers Lane Bedford Grove Blackett Close Windsor Close McAndrew Walk Montgomery close THURSDAY 15th Trinnaman Close Waltham Way MONDAY 12th Brunel Way Springwood Close Dymock Way Blackthorn Drive Canterbury Close Luscombe Close Harston Road Sedge Close The Coppice TUESDAY 13th WEDNESDAY 14th Drake Avenue Heather Walk FRIDAY 9th The Pippins The Spinney Sunnydale close Risdon Drive Buckfast Close Cleeve Drive Upper Cameron Drive Badgers Close Woolms Meadow Summerfield Court Henlake Close Crestfield Rise Woodland Road Worthele Close Pinehurst Way 6 imag Blachford Road Delamore Close Fairway Avenue Church Meadow Cursons Way Nirvana Close Orchard Court Longbrook Road Mayfield High Acre Drive Ivydene Road Meatherel Close Woodburn Close Boringdon Park Slipperstone Drive Erme Drive Portal Place Hunters Close Lower Brook Park Claymans Pathway Langham Way Bowdens Park Fernhill Close Higher Brook Park Drovers Way St Austin Close Belmont Road Priory Close Endsleigh View Trumpers Close St Johns Road Park Street Plover Rise Holtwood Drive Howards Way Manor Drive Keaton Road Cleeve Drive Lower Oaktree Close Fernbank Avenue Manor Way Clare Street Julian Road Abbot road Primrose Meadow Manor Close Western Road Ford Close Barn Close Greenwood Close Mallet Road Raleigh Road Westover Close Mead Close Acland Road St Johns Close Holman Way Sherwill Close Wayside Close New Meadow Fincer Drive Call/text/WhatsApp: 07516 539573 Email: [email protected] Web: theimag.co.uk

Wishing CHRISTMAS a Happy Christmas to all OLIVIER PHILIPS PARTY WEAR 21 Fore Street Tues-Fri Ivybridge 10am-3pm PL21 9AB Sat:10am-1pm [email protected] 01752 894562 www.dianaboutique.co.uk ana Boutique - Dec22.indd 1 18/11/2022 22:29 FEINVAELRYCTLHEIANRGAMNCUESTSAGLOE Electric Bike sales and service! Go easy on the environment! Commute by E-Bike! Wrangaton, Near South Brent, TQ10 9HD Electric, Mountain, Road, Gravel, BMX and kids bikes for SALE or HIRE. www.puffingbillycycles.com 01364 388100 - 07863 543539 Email: [email protected] uffing Billy - Dec22.indd 1 When responding to an advert or article, please mention that you saw it in the imag imag 7 17/11/2022 09:48

CHRISTMAS On your high street since 1999 We are your local Solicitors for: • •Buying and Selling Houses and Land Private and Commercial Tenancies and Leases Wills, Probate, • • • •Inheritance Tax Planning and Trusts Lasting Powers of Attorney Litigation Debt Recovery Businesses We wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year Richard and the team at Kings Solicitors Ltd “Client/Solicitor relationship was excellent” 24 Fore Street, Ivybridge Devon PL21 9AB “Professional, supportive and friendly” Tel: 01752 895252 “Would highly recommend and use again www.kingsols.org.uk in future” “100% perfect” LIMITED Regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority and fully insured Kings Solicitors - Dec22.indd 1 16/11/2022 11:02 BUILDING SUPPLIES Christmas and New Year Opening Times Friday 23rd December 7:30am - 1pm Saturday 24th December CLOSED Sunday 25th December CLOSED Monday 26th December CLOSED Tuesday 27th December CLOSED Wednesday 28th December 9am - 1pm Thursday 29th December 9am - 1pm Friday 30th December 9am - 1pm Saturday 31st December 8am - 1pm Sunday 1st January CLOSED Monday 2nd January CLOSED Blair Road Ivybridge PL21 0UR tel 01752 896140 fax 01752 892996 [email protected] Higher Union Road Kingsbridge TQ7 1EQ tel 01548 852792 fax 01548 856600 [email protected] www.palladiumbm.co.uk 8 imag Call/text/WhatsApp: 07516 539573 Email: [email protected] Web: theimag.co.uk

CHRISTMAS annua AFDRMEISESION CHRISTMAS GIFT FAIR Saturday 3 December – 10am-1pm Come along to our very special Christmas Gift Fair where there are 26 stalls selling a variety of wares ranging from leather goods, wood turning, floristry, illustrations, children’s books, cards, hand sewn gifts, diffusers, preserves, pictures, Christmas decorations, wax melts, tealight holders just to name a few. Join in with this lovely atmosphere. The Watermark Christmas Fair - Dec22.indd 1 ima18/11/2022 22:36 9 When responding to an advert or article, please mention that you saw it in the imag g

COST OF LIVING The coat rail in Ivybridge Library SPECIALISTS IN DELIVERING: • Map and compass navigation training • Outdoor and workplace first aid • Personal 1-2-1 training • Guided walks • Team building www.compassworks.co.uk [email protected] 07719 857242 Compassworks_General - Oct22.indd 1 20/09/2022 15:13 Join us for coffee, tea, LOCAL SUPPORT cake and hot snacks. AS WINTER BITES Keep warm with us. Tuesday 9am-1.30pm @StJohnsChurchIvybridge St John’s Church Hall, T he cost of living crisis is and financial hardship. Blachford Road, Ivybridge big news, and rightly so, Ermington Store & More also has as it is affecting so many been designated a warm zone. GOOD NIGHT BABY households in the country. These are spaces where resi- While the Government deals dents can go to keep warm and SLEEP CONSULTANCY with the overarching issues, local reduces the need to keep their groups have stepped forward to own homes continually heated. Baby or toddler offer support to families and vul- There is other support available not sleeping? nerable people in our community. for heating costs. South Dart- Food banks have been around moor Community Energy may HELP IS AT HAND... for many years, with Ivybridge be able to provide fuel vouchers Foodbank serving vulnerable for households experiencing fuel We offer a holistic, non-judgemental service to help you residents. Community fridges and poverty. They can also offer one- achieve a good night’s sleep for you and your family. stores are now becoming more to-one support and home visits. widely available, offering a sus- See next article. WE’D LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU tainable approach to the issues Citizens Advice offers a full ener- Call Tina on 07815 434466 around food waste, with unneed- gy assessment including looking ed or perishable items offered at tariffs, assisting with energy [email protected] | www.goodnightbaby.co.uk free-of-charge to local residents. billing and account issues, along A partnership including South with a host of other advice. During Hams CVS, Ivybridge local coun- the winter months, local libraries cillors, community groups and will also be working with partners So Social is currently looking to to host sessions supporting en- develop an Ivybridge community ergy efficiency, debt advice and larder. other important topics. Warm clothing is essential and the How can you help? coat rail is returning to Ivybridge • Is there a warm space available Library, where residents can for residents in your area? This donate coats that can be taken by could be the parish hall, shop, those who need them. pub or anywhere that residents Warm spaces are available in could freely sit. some parishes – for example • Do you have local shops or oth- Ivybridge Library and at St John’s er outlets where food is wasted? Church in Ivybridge. Also, The Can your community use this? Bridge café, next to the leisure While this is not the targeted ap- centre, offers a warm space and proach offered by the foodbanks, has a ‘pay it forward’ scheme it does benefit local residents. where you can purchase an extra • Have you thought about volun- drink or snack, which will be ‘paid teering in your community? There forward’ to those most in need 10 imag Call/text/WhatsApp: 07516 539573 Email: [email protected] Web: theimag.co.uk Good Night Baby - Dec22.indd 1 15/11/2022 20:26

DON’T SUFFER IN 10 TIPS FOR A COST OF LIVING SILENCE THIS WINTER SAVVY CHRISTMAS By Nicky Puttick – from South Dartmoor Community Energy 1. Plan early for Christmas Be realistic and budget accord- to see what government L ast week, while on the org.uk). If you are in significant ingly. Work out how much you support is available school-run, I noticed an arrears we can help you to access are going to spend on each elderly man sat in the other support. person and stick to it. Manage are many groups looking for car outside his house, eating • If your household income is expectations as to what you can people to help with areas such as breakfast. It took me a moment under £31k and/or you receive a afford. befriending, transport to medical to realise why. benefit, you can also book a free 2. Don’t forget the bills and social appointments, food It was a chilly morning, but his car home visit through www.leap.org. Remember that rent, the mort- provision and enabling local peo- was parked in a sunny spot and uk which could include boiler re- gage, utility bills, food bills and ple to stay warm and well. Organ- probably felt quite cosy compared pairs, draft-proofing, and replace- debts still have to be paid. Even isations in need of volunteers can to an unheated house. This quiet ment LED bulbs free of charge. though it’s Christmas, get your be found on the Devon Connect act, in a mild November, spoke • Check that you have accessed priorities right. hub at www.devonconnect.org/ volumes about the crisis that is all of the available government 3. Don’t bank on an overdraft south-hams-and-west-devon. about to unfold this winter. support at helpforhouseholds. If you do need more money, don’t South Hams CVS has helped These are exceptional times, and campaign.gov.uk/ just run up an overdraft without develop many groups in the local there is no shame in struggling • If you need a change of scene talking to your bank first – it will community in recent decades. to stay warm. Seven million UK and are really feeling the chill, look work out much more expensive. If you are a local community households are estimated to now for local ‘warm banks’ – many 4. Shop around organisation or an individual who meet fuel poverty criteria (loosely churches, cafes, community build- Try as many different places as has seen a need in your area, we defined as spending more than ings etc are opening their spaces possible to find the best price. can offer support and guidance. 10% of their income on energy). for people to come and warm up Buy what you want and not what This can include organisational Warmth is so central to our sense and see some other human faces. others say you need. development, funding advice, of comfort and wellbeing in the • Heat the human, not the 5. Buy safe to be safe training or support in working with winter months. When that comfort home. Google this phrase and Whatever the deal, or tempta- volunteers, among other areas. is rationed or taken away com- you’ll find an excellent guide from tion, don’t buy from unauthor- If you wish to help your vulnerable pletely, then it is only natural to the MoneySavingExpert on how to ised traders or borrow from residents this coming winter and feel vulnerable and exposed. stay warm cheaply. unauthorised traders or borrow need more advice, please email It is going to be an uncomfortable from unauthorised lenders. The Cluna Donnelly on connector@ WHAT CAN YOU DO IF YOU CAN’T winter for us all, and a painful one initial saving may prove to be a southhamscvs.org.uk. AFFORD TO HEAT YOUR HOME? for many. false economy. Further information: • Create pockets of cosiness Let’s get through it with resource- 6. Keep things simple St John’s Church: Facebook: @ and warmth. A heated electric fulness, kindness and community. If you can afford to pay for your StJohnsChurchIvybridge tel: blanket or throw (pictured) can goods outright by cash, cheque, 01752 895227 be a great source of warmth and or debit card, don’t be persuad- The Bridge Cafe: Ivybridge@ comfort in an otherwise chilly ed to take out extended credit salvationarmy.org.uk tel: 01752 home. They typically cost between agreements unless they really 896974 or 894306 1p and 3p per hour to run. If you do work out cheaper. Ivybridge Library: 01752 89314 can’t afford the upfront cost (about 7. Read the small print Ivybridge Town Council – local in- £60 at the moment), please get in Check for hidden extras in any formation: www.ivybridge.gov.uk touch with SDCE on 0800 112 3044 credit agreement. Interest free South Hams District Council: and we will do our best to help. credit can seem attractive, but if www.southhams.gov.uk/cost-of- • If you are struggling to pay you don’t pay on time, or miss a living-help your energy bills, our payment, you may have to pay Home Energy Advisors offer free more. and impartial advice to help lower 8. Do your own credit checks your energy usage, and can give If you are going to use a credit grants of up to £200 to help you card, shop around and compare through a crisis (see www.sdce. terms. Some cards charge higher interest rates, but provide inter- Wondering how you’ll get through this Winter? est free periods or discounts. 9. Be organised Wviesitcaonr pprhowovnhideoecaaarellF:tRoEEpehoopmlee We may be able to help you with: There’s a lot to remember, if you’ve borrowed money don’t In receipt of a benefit Energy efficiency advice & support forget that it won’t be long before Suffering from a long-term Free Boiler repairs you have to make a payment. Make sure you pay on time, even health condition Grants to help you through a crisis if it is only the minimum. Over 65 10. Plan & save Accessing funding to improve your Once Christmas is over, it’s worth Have a child under 5 home’s energy efficiency looking at what you did well and Have a household income what you didn’t. This might also be a good time to start saving for below £31k Christmas next year! Get in touch today for free and impartial advice & support For help with any issue call us on 0808 278 7948 or visit our [email protected] 0800 112 3044 website southhamscab.org,uk www.sdce.org.uk/energy-advice Community Benefit Society Registration number 7353 When responding to an advert or article, please mention that you saw it in the imag imag 11

HERITAGE DATING PHOTOGRAPHS By Andrew Jewell – researcher for Ivybridge Heritage & Archives Group W e end the year with a the South West of Eng- telegraph messages lucky enough to have a telephone winter scene in Fore land. Previously it had were often abbreviated, rented it from the GPO along with Street. The photograph only catered for sub- sometimes to such an the house wiring and the connec- was taken, we believe, at the scribers in the Three extent that although tion to the local network known as turn of the 20th century. Dating Towns area (Plymouth, intelligible to the sender, a distribution point. photographs can sometimes Devonport and Stone- it confused the receiver. The first telephone exchanges prove problematic, although house). The extension On 1st January, 1892, the were entirely manual systems identifying landmarks and would include Torquay, Paignton, National Telephone Company requiring human operators to studying clothing and fashion Newton Abbot, Ivybridge, Tavis- bought the subscriber lines of connect a call from one subscrib- trends can often help. tock and Horrabridge, with each the Western Counties and South er to another. When making a call In the image above, apart from the location having a call office. Wales Telephone Company. you were greeted by the operator children, we only have the Public Any person, whether they were Their local central exchange was asking the customary question Telephone Call Office sign and a a subscriber to the telephone at Whimple Street in Plymouth. “number please”. couple of shop fronts to guide us. exchange or not, could go to a However, by 1896 the Post Office Manually-operated switchboards No.8 Fore Street in the back- call office and speak to another had taken over their trunk lines, were of course both labour- and ground was a saddlery business subscriber within this extended leaving the company with just cost-intensive, inhibiting growth run by William Thomas. A more group of towns upon payment of a the local exchange system and and often creating bottlenecks well-known Ivybridge man, Robert small fee. At that time the charge call offices. Then, in 1912, under in the network. To alleviate the Baber, is listed at this address in was 6d. (2½p) for a call lasting a the Telephone Transfer Act, the situation, the Post Office began the 1911 census. maximum of three minutes. National Telephone Company to introduce automatic switch- The shop front next door to the This method of communication was taken over completely by ing, rolling out a programme to call office appears to be the was transformational. By simply the General Post Office (GPO) replace all old exchanges. bakery of Alfred Burls who was speaking on the telephone you and presumably the telephone With Ivybridge growing during the trading at 57 Fore Street. knew your message had been services were absorbed within the 1960s, local MPs were lobbying The 1911 census also convenient- delivered and the recipient was Post Office at 49-50 Fore Street in in Parliament for new telephone ly records a Maria Marsh at 58-59 able to reply immediately. This Ivybridge shortly afterwards. capacity. In response, a new Fore Street working as an oper- was far more convenient than the Early telephone exchanges often automated telephone exchange ator for the National Telephone telegraph, where messages had had a single operator, generally was introduced using the latest Company. to be converted into Morse Code responsible for other post office technology and housed in a Public Telephone Call Office and sent to another Post Office work. purpose-built building beside the signs with white letters on a blue where it would be written down Few households in Britain would Congregational Church and at background or alternatively “You before onward delivery. have had telephones – they noon on Thursday, 19th July, 1962, may telephone from here” were Telephones, of course, became were more the domain of the telephonist staff above affixed to the walls of places extremely advantageous for busi- business with calls the Post Office removed where such services were avail- ness, permitting deals to be made relatively expensive. their headsets for the able. They were often installed in without loss of time and eliminat- Lee & Son, the last time as engi- general stores or chemists’ shops, ing the uncertainty of whether the millers located neers switched to perhaps to attract more custom. person telegraphed had received almost opposite the new system. It would appear that the call office the message. the Post Office in Ivybridge was merely a family Communication simply by talking had the telephone dwelling for the Marsh family. would only be limited by the number 4, the single Ivybridge Heritage In 1888, the Western Counties and rapidity with which the telephone & Archives Group South Wales Telephone Com- users could speak to one another digit number giving has produced several pany, which had formed in 1884, during the three minutes allowed an indication of just extended its telephone network in for conversation. Previously, how few telephone publications which can numbers existed. 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Right: Family tree with residents of South Brent highlighted FEATURE Below: Ward sisters Inset: Lutton House 1959 NELSON’S DESCENDANTS IN SOUTH BRENT I n the late 1880s, a middle- By Lily Style – South Brent Storytellers and Archive Parson’s 1881 report of the prev- aged widow, Tori Ward, alence of typhoid fever in South settled in Lutton, South Brent, torian standards, being 29 when When my mum spent her school Brent reveals living conditions to with her six young daughters. she married her cousin, William holidays at Lutton House in the have been very unsanitary: Tori was born in Plymouth Ward. He took her to his military 1950s, the surviving sisters, Evie Privy accommodation is scanty... in 1835 in Union Road – now posting in India. She bore him and Ada, had an anti-vivisection the women using utensils in the Union Street – which was then five daughters there between leaflet pinned up in the bathroom house, and throwing the contents a fashionable new-build for 1865 and 1871. In 1872, they and were vegetarians (although of them on dung heaps... A well-to-do naval officers. She returned to England and settled they ate chicken). They kept number of cases of typhoid fever was the granddaughter of Lord near William’s widowed mother, chickens in repurposed “cat occurred in 1877, in a group of Nelson’s sister, Kitty Matcham. Horatia, in Pinner, north-west of houses” – large outdoor hutches wretched cottages in Fore Street, Her husband, William Ward, was London. Their last child, Lilian, – which had presumably been and behind the “Anchor” inn... her cousin because he was the was born there in 1873. erected to accommodate some Tori teamed up with seven fellow son of Lord Nelson’s only child, William, chronically ill with liver of the nine, highly-territorial residents, including the village’s Horatia. illness, died during extended cats my mum was told they’d first GP, Dr Frederick Style, Tori’s father, Captain Edward home leave five years later. Tori kept. Ada boiled up vegetable to form South Brent Nursing Blanckley, had returned from fled Pinner to her aunt, Susan, on peelings every evening to make Association in October 1901. The a tour of South America with a the other side of London. hen-food. If it was bad weather, nursing association provided lingering tropical illness and a When Susan died in 1885, Tori’s Ada donned an ancient Victorian free health care for the poor. In big payoff for capturing illegal childhood model of retreating bonnet when she went out to feed addition to this, Dr Style directed slave ships. He’d bought and after tragedy seems to have them. Tori’s daughters to deliver beef renovated a house on Brent Hill, spurred her to move her daugh- Tori, for her part, was driven by tea to sickly Brentonians on low overlooking South Brent, likely as ters to Lutton House, the place concern for the well-being of incomes. a healthful, clean-air retreat. He’s her father had bought in South South Brent’s poorer residents. In 1903, Dr Style married Tori’s listed as its owner occupier in the Brent. They were well-estab- In those pre-NHS days, good youngest, Lilian, the only one of 1838 tithe map. lished there by July 1891 when health-care was hard to access her daughters to marry. The cou- Tori’s mother, Harriet, died of two of her girls performed in ‘an for people on low incomes. Dr ple were wed in South Brent’s St childbed fever in their Plymouth interesting entertainment’ home when Tori was three. Tori arranged by the vicar. Petroc’s church. Exeter and her baby brother were adopt- Tori’s daughters were and Plymouth Gazette’s ed by Harriet’s widowed sister, actively concerned for report of their wedding Susan Montgomery Moore. The animal welfare. Totnes describes Lilian as “a younger of Susan’s two children Weekly Times’ October member of a family died of typhus in January 1839, 1893 report of prosecutions who has always shown and Tori’s six month old brother of animal abusers at South a keen interest in the died a few weeks later. Susan Brent fair noted, “Miss poor.” retreated after this string of trag- Ethel Ward, of South Brent, Dr Style was part of the edies and raised Tori in social deposed she complained committee behind South isolation. to the Inspector of the cruel Brent’s present-day vil- Tori married late in life by Vic- beating of ponies.” lage hall, which opened in February 1912. South Brent Storytellers and Archive The group holds various collections of local interest to the parishes of South Brent, Rattery, Diptford and Avonwick and surrounding area. It is based in the new library in the Old School Community Centre. When responding to an advert or article, please mention that you saw it in the imag imag 15

NEWS ALL WELCOME AT Mitch Benn: It’s About cabaret nights! Whether MAKERS MEWS TAIZE SERVICE Time – Saturday, 3rd you’re a regular at NEWS December the cabaret club A Taize service is being “The only reason or a newcomer There will be no ‘Find Our Fixers’ held at 4pm on Sunday, 11th for time is so to the world of meeting this month, as the fourth December, at St Austin’s that everything burlesque and Saturday of the month falls on Priory, Cadleigh. Everyone is doesn’t happen drag, this show Christmas Eve. Work continues welcome to this ecumenical at once” – has something behind the scenes, though, with meditative service. Albert Einstein for everyone. the hope to evolve in January to a (probably)... If it Expect glamour, ‘live’ repair cafe – see opposite. RURAL ARCHIVE feels like the past comedy, awe- The Share Shed is now visiting OPEN SUNDAYS is catching up with us Ivybridge every Thursday and the future isn’t what inspiring variety acts between 10am-12noon at the Until the 18th December, it used to be, then fear not, Mitch and more from some of the Mews on Harford Road. See page the Devon Rural Archive at Benn, comedian, songwriter and leading artists in the industry. 28 for details. Shilstone will be open on thinker of deep thoughts, is back, Booking for 2023 Do you have a stash of unwanted Sundays. So, if you have ever clock in one hand and guitar in the An array of comedy talent is fabric taking up space in your wanted to visit but have not other, to help you look at time in a coming to The Watermark in 2023, home? Some old curtains you been able to pop-in during whole new way. including Hal Cruttenden: It’s haven’t found a new purpose normal opening hours, now Best You Hear It From Me on 18 for? Do you have surplus fabric is your chance. The research Festive folk with St Agnes Fountain March, Angela Barnes: Hot Mess stock at work? Makers Mews are library will be open from 11am – Wednesday, 7th December on 14 April, Justin Moorhouse: asking for fabric donations for to 4pm each Sunday, so why Since they first got together Stretch And Think Tour on 22 April a youth project making bags for not while away those lazy Sun- to record the eponymous St and Josie Long: Re-Enchantment Ivybridge Foodbank. Get in touch day afternoons in the Archive? Agnes Fountain album in 2001, on 19 May. via [email protected] the quartet of David Hughes, Information Centre with any questions, or to arrange JROEIPNATIRHCEAFÉ Fairport Convention’s Chris Leslie Starting to think about Christmas a drop off. and multi-award winning duo gifts and looking for something Life drawing at Makers Mews Ivybridge Repair Café is hoping Chris While and Julie Matthews a bit different? Then look no Join us on Friday, 9th December, to be a neighbourhood initiative have brought musical invention further than The Watermark. The for an introduction to life drawing. that promotes repair as an and laughter to the star-dust Ivybridge landmark calendar is All supplies are included, alternative to tossing things out. atmosphere of the season. now available to buy and there although you’re welcome to The café will, it is hoped, be While the presence of David are also still some Ivybridge bring your own if you have open once a month at Makers Hughes, who left the band in 2020, Christmas cards for sale, too. The particular kit you favour. We’ll Mews (on Harford Road), will be missed, the remaining Information Centre is situated also throw in a festive tipple, for where people will be able to trio are keeping the Christmas within the library. t’is the season... No experience bring their broken items to get Aggie spirit alive and touring as a Gift vouchers necessary! Book at makersmews. them fixed on the spot with the three piece celebrating 20 years For that last minute Christmas eventbrite.com help of voluntary repairers. together. The tour includes new gift, why not treat someone to a Therefore, Ivybridge Repair material and the re-working of Watermark Club membership? It ON SCREEN Café is looking for handy those old Aggie classics. gives them £1 off all screenings, volunteers with different skills one bring-a-friend-for-free LIVING [12A] who can be present as repair Steve Knightley: The 2023 Solo voucher, a regular tea or coffee Mon 28 Nov 10.30am, 2pm experts during the Repair Café Tour ‘Unlock Me And Other before a matinee performance Wed 30 Nov 10.30am, 2pm, 7pm meetings. They are especially Lockdown Laments’ – 4 February and discounted tickets for up to Thu 01 Dec 10.30am, 2pm, 7pm looking for people who are In this new one-man show, Steve two children. Only £10 per year. THE ROYAL BALLET: THE handy with: will perform material that surfaced You can also buy vouchers for NUTCRACKER [12A] • Clothing / textile over two years of isolation and cinema and live events to an Thu 08 Dec 7.15pm • Electrical appliances inactivity. Songs such as the amount of your choice. ARMAGEDDON TIME [15] • Phones / tech ‘Bristol Slaver’ and ‘You’ll Get Coffee Shop Fri 09 Dec 10.30am • Bicycles By’ were refreshed by headlines For the festive season we will Mon 12 Dec 2pm • Furniture / wooden objects and current affairs, while classic be offering a variety of seasonal Tue 13 Dec 10.30am In addition, they are also covers such as ‘Forever Young’ food and drink in the coffee shop Wed 14 Dec 2pm looking for people who wish to and ‘The Boys of Summer’ struck including festive cakes, fillings Thu 15 Dec 10.30am, 7pm fulfil the role of host /hostess at a chord with the thousands that and drinks. On Fridays throughout SHE SAID [15] the meetings who will provide tuned in to his online content. December the team will also be in Fri 09 Dec 2pm coffee and tea, welcome visitors Insights, anecdotes and a bunch festive outfits and you are welcome Mon 12 Dec 10.30am and serve as a contact point for of new songs will attempt to to join us in yours (optional). Tue 13 Dec 2pm both visitors and repairers. chronicle and draw a line under On Wednesday, 7th December, Wed 14 Dec 10.30am, 7pm They could also really use peo- an extraordinary episode in all the hot specials will be a Turkey Thu 15 Dec 2pm ple who are handy with email, our lives. 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CLUBS Two, three or W alks this month for photographers in attendance, four wheels... IVYBRIDGE WALKING help was on hand to answer CLUB are on Sunday queries around such areas as Taking care of all your 4th and 18th December. lighting, composition, camera transport needs IWC is a friendly walking group settings, etc. based in Ivybridge. They walk It was a successful afternoon’s FRIEND’S GARAGE every other Sunday, and take outing, and, hopefully, the first of in coastal paths, moors and the many for this season. MOTs / Servicing / Repairs surrounding countryside. New The club’s Christmas outing is to Brakes / Tyres / Exhausts members are very welcome. Totnes on 13th December. After For further details visit the club’s some time for photographing the CYCLES FOR ALL THE FAMILY website www.iwcdevon.org.uk Christmas lights and decorations there will be a chance to relax Servicing / Repairs A t the beginning of and chat before returning home. Accessories & Clothing November, IVYBRIDGE & Membership of Ivybridge & DISTRICT CAMERA CLUB District Camera Club is open VISIT US TODAY held its first in-person image to all photographers. To find appraisal/discussion evening in out more about the club, email 8-10 Stowford Business Park Bittaford Village Hall. ivybridgecameraclub@yahoo. Ivybridge, 01752 690584 Richard Curzon, from co.uk or use the ‘Contact Us’ Kingsbridge CC, reviewed a page at ivybridgecameraclub.org FRIEND’S SERVICE STATION selection of members’ images giving helpful comments on both I t is only a couple of months Petrol / Car wash the image and the techniques until IVYBRIDGE THEATRE Jet wash & Vacuum used. With plenty of audience COMPANY stage ‘Aladdin participation and discussion, and the Pirates’ by Brian Luff Premier convenience store an enjoyable evening provided at The Watermark. including wine, beers and everyone with lots of tips for A highly original pantomime hot and cold food improving their photography. script for a traditional family show, On 8th November, the club this version puts an adventurous VISIT US TODAY was joined by members and fresh spin on the Aladdin from Plymouth & District and story which is sure to delight both Leonards Road, Ivybridge Plymstock Camera clubs at the swashbuckling little ones and 01752 690717 Burrator for a photography trip. their parents. With a plethora of experienced Join Aladdin, Dame Widow W G FRIEND & SON Ivybridge 18 imag Call/text/WhatsApp: 07516 539573 Email: [email protected] Web: theimag.co.uk

arrangement using cones, The club’s next meeting is on CLUBS baubles and foliage. The finishing Monday, 12th December, at Burrator Waterfall by David Rayner are most welcome! For further touch were the candles at each 7.30pm at the Bridge (next to the Twankey, Wishee-Washee information on the company, point of the star, culminating leisure centre). Area demonstrator and friends for some fun, contact secretary Teresa Davis in a colourful and festive table Christine Harrington will be there singing, dancing and audience on 01752 893308 or email centrepiece. with ‘Dreams Are Made of This’. participation next February 24th [email protected] Club treasurer Janet Weston’s Do go along – the first meeting (7.30pm), 25th (2.30pm & 7.30pm) centrepiece used a rectangle of is free. For more details contact and 26th (2.30pm) – tickets cost M embers of IVYBRIDGE insulation board covered with Lindsey on 01752 894579. £8 for adult and £5 for children FLOWER CLUB were Christmas paper into which she (inc booking fee). Tickets are on treated to three arranged co-ordinating baubles A fter being limited by sale now from The Watermark demonstrations based on of different sizes and plastic test Covid for so long, box office – 01752 892220 – or visit ’Ideas for Christmas’ at their tubes filled with small flowers and members of IVYBRIDGE www.ivybridgewatermark.co.uk November meeting. greenery. These were all inserted PROBUS CLUB have started to ITC is a small, friendly Avril Eaves, the club’s outgoing into the board using cocktail sticks enjoy a few outdoor activities. group with a range of talents, president, began the evening glued to their bases. With some ivy A few members visited a local experience and ages and by demonstrating how to make threaded through and a garland vineyard and winemaker,while welcomes anyone who has an a simple but effective star using of tinsel it made for a simple but many more enjoyed an interesting interest in the dramatic arts. The five garden canes. These were stunning Christmas arrangement. introductory session of croquet at company meet on Wednesday covered with white wool, a small New president Pam Sparks Avonwick. At the club’s November evenings at 7.30pm in Chapel wreath of rosemary was placed concluded the evening by lunch meeting at Wrangaton Place Community Centre, Fore on top and in the centre a small demonstrating how to turn small Golf Club, John Polley, a retired Street, Ivybridge. New members log ‘slices’ into festive decorations London Underground train driver, by recycling a collection of gave a very interesting talk on the Christmas bits and pieces. history and operation of the ‘Tube’ She arranged an assortment of from a driver’s perspective. baubles, which she filled with At the annual Ladies’ Lunch this small flowers, cones, stars, holly month, Steve Woodcock will leaves, etc. The decorated logs hand over the presidency to Peter created an unusual and original Brooks, with Steve returning to Christmas display. being treasurer. It was a very enjoyable evening If you would like to join the and members left feeling inspired Ivybridge Probus Club, please to create their own Christmas contact the secretary, Ritsaert von masterpieces! Oven, on 01 752 896 155. Mon-Fri: 8am-6pm Sat: 8am-12.30pm | billlomasmotorservicesivybridge.co.uk | [email protected] Impeccable customer service Providing complete care Courtesy car & collection available Blachford Road, Ivybridge // Tel: 01752 896 107 30 YEARS’ EXPERIENCE Bill Lomas Motor Services is your one-stop-shop in Ivybridge for all of your vehicle servicing and repair requirements. Servicing Repairs MOTs Tyres Diagnostics MOT chassis repairs Gearbox repairs 4-wheel laser wheel alignment Bill Lomas - Oct22.indd 1 ima25/09/2022 13:43 19 When responding to an advert or article, please mention that you saw it in the imag g

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F AREWEL L AFTER MANY years of helping last 11 years. We would also like to say a huge others explore life issues, we have We could not have achieved all thank you to Michala, Jackie and made the brave decision to look at Leslie for their support and AJ, ourselves and have decided as we what we have without the support Mel, Bethan, Vicky and Nia, for are approaching a ‘certain age’ we of our team of counsellors, both past nourishing us every Wednesday and will be retiring from Ivy Counselling and present, who shared our vision finally, Marie for knowing our likes and our doors will be closing at the and mutual passion for creating and and dislikes and coming up with end of January 2023. sustaining the good name of Ivy compromises where ever she could, Counselling. we certainly haven’t been easy! In 2011 we had a dream of opening a counselling agency that What can we say about Jonathan? We are both very much looking would enable people, even on the When he first arrived to take up forward to having some quality lowest incomes, to be able to afford his position as Manager of the time doing all the things we never and access the counselling they Watermark, he was warned about us got around to doing. We are hoping needed. We feel we have achieved as we supervised the top floor of the 2023 will bring us a warm, sunny this and over the years we have building as long standing tenants but summer so we can get out and been privileged to meet and work his friendship, help and support has enjoy the outdoors with family alongside many different clients and been unwavering and he has been and friends. We are looking at our what was impacting on their lives. alongside helping us to continue retirement as a positive step to the keeping our doors open and we will next part of our journey, so it’s not We hope we have made a be forever grateful to him. As he the end but the beginning. difference to many lives because moved to the town hall taking up the our lives have been enriched by the role as town clerk he has continued Yvonne and Diane work we have undertaken over the to support us, thank you Jonathan.

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