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UNKNOWN DONOR
“Instow Parish Council has had to remove a seat fitted along Marine
Parade, Instow that was formerly presented in memory of “Norman and
Violet Richards”. It was becoming unstable and beyond repair.
Unfortunately there are no records of the original donor or next of kin
of Norman and Violet Richards despite local enquiries.
If anybody can assist in this regards could they contact the Clerk to
IPC namely Roger Jacob on 01271 372408 or
kernow@rwjacob.free-online.co.uk. Thank you”
GALSWORTHY HOUSE
My husband and I have recently returned from a short stay in North Devon
(Eastleigh). We visited Instow a couple of times and I was intrigued to
find a house called Galsworthy House on The Quay. Galsworthy was my
maiden name and I know my ancestors were from Bideford, Barnstaple,
Appledore, Northam. I am in the process of tracing my family tree and if
anyone can give me any information why this house is called Galsworthy
House I would be very pleased.
We thorough enjoyed our stay in North Devon and will certainly be
visiting again in the near future.
My email address is irene.palmer@btopenworld.com
if anyone has any information
Kind regards
Irene
INSTOW SIGNAL BOX
Friday 27th June 2008 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
An Evening at Instow Signal Box
A chance to explore the operation of this Grade 2 Listed building and
learn about a signal box that controlled both the single lines to
Bideford and Fremington as well as Instow's level crossing. Guided walks
and refreshments. Books, DVDs and lots more for sale.
You might even want to join our
band of volunteers!
INSTOW IN BLOOM
Annual Gathering of Minds
Aka, our AGM. A stimulating opportunity for local people to exchange ideas
for the benefit of Instow's community and environment. It's normally held
early in the year. February 2009 brought a good turnout with some
constructive discussion over ethical refreshments and homemade nibbles.
Next
Adopt a Beach
event:
Date: 19/09/09
Time: 11.00
Meet: Commodore Htelslipway
Duration: 1 hour approx.
Urgent:
According to the Marine Conservation Society most of the world's fish
stocks are fished to their limit or over-fished.
Some are verging on
collapse. Visit their excellent website -
www.fishonline.org
- to see how you as a consumer can help.
Britain In
Bloom
Our committee
has decided to take a year out from the competition. After 10 years we
felt a 'creative suspension' was timely, a chance to pause, look and
listen.
What the SW judges had to say last year: ‘An excellent entry with very
good community involvement. Excellent range of habitats, with an excellent
school project. The work is very well promoted with the leaflet (visitor
brochure), interpretation boards and website. Improvements around the
route were evident since last year. There was excellent colour given by
the wild flowers and the artwork (doorknockers) stood out. The marine
litter campaign was impressive.’
Garden
Trail
Our open gardens
fun(d)raiser was this year held during the afternoon of Saturday 13
June, in association with the Royal National Institute for Blind
people. Features included sensory & RNIB displays, cream teas, local
art & craft exhibits and a prize raffle.
The event was a great success, raising over £600. More importantly, it
generated much goodwill and community spirit. Huge thanks to all those who
contributed.
Go Wild In
The Garden!
We actively
encourage people to garden with wildlife in mind.
Click here for our top
ten tips.
Climate
Change
The Royal Horticultural Society have been looking at how climate change
will affect gardening in the UK.
Click here to find out more.
NB =
Noticeboards
For the latest on our activity, please see our noticeboards beside the
quay car park and inside the parish hall.
LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING INSTOW
The following is an email sent to us from Gail Harrington:
Sent: 30 March 2006
My husband and I are planning to trip to Britain this spring. As an avid
genealogist we are planning to visit the villages where our families
came from. Although we don't know much about Instow we are so looking
forward to seeing the area. It sounds very quaint and beautiful.
While there I'm hoping to find the Perryman Farm. In our family history
(Wheeler/Perryman) note is made of this farm and am anxious to see
if it is still there. I never give up hope that I may run into long,
long, lost relatives too
See you soon
Gail Harrington
The Princes
Trust
We are currently
looking to start 4 teams in Barnstaple (21st January), Bude, Bideford
and Ilfracombe on (28th January 2008) which brings together individuals
from the North Devon community and, through a variety of activities,
projects and adventures..
The programme lasts 12 weeks is full time and open to young people aged
16-25. The teams consist of 12 to 15 young people who are unemployed.
This unique opportunity helps build confidence and the chances of
employability. The course is for everyone whatever their background, It
brings together people form all walks of life – whether you are
unemployed, taking a break from further education or just not sure what
do.
They obtain after the 12 weeks a City and Guilds Certificate, plus the
chance to get their First Aid, Food Hygiene and Manual Handling
certificates.
We would welcome
any young residents of Instow or surrounding areas to join the Princes
Trust Team in 2008.
Sara Fox - 07973
495521
Nick Grady - 07973 495518
Click
here for more info
Torridge
Estuary Area Babies and Grown-ups
Tuesday from 9:30
-11:30
Held in the Church Room
Parents and carers
of 0 - 2 year olds welcome.
Catherine Williams 01271860309
cath_williams2@hotmail.com
INSTOW GHOST
The following is an email sent to us from Hannah Bowden:
hi, i have just spent a
wonderfull weekend in instow in a house over
looking the quay called "the captains house",
during our stay i had a very strange experience in the very top
bedroom of the house ( the room to the front with the small round
window) i have tryed to find out some history about the house with not
much luck!
I would be very intersted to know who i shared a room with on that
nite!! i got the feeling it may have been a child or young girl!! she
did not want me to sleep, made noiseys in my ear and also sat on my bed
and gave me a little shake!!!
I would be realy interested to kniw more and i was hoping you may be
able to help. family and friends put forward that she could of been a
maid! as they ussally slepted at the top of the house.
I look forward to a
reply yours for now!
hannah bowden. bowdenfamily.1974@tiscali.co.uk
INSTOW REMEMBERED
The following is an email sent to us from Helen Brown:
Sent: Wednesday, March
08, 2006
Subject: Instow remembered
I just had to write and say I lived in South Molton for the first 11
years of my life and visited Instow every Sunday afternoon. I have
always wanted to see Instow again and last Easter I returned and it was
just as I remembered with my late parents. I said if I could visit and
have a Hockings ice cream I would be over the moon. Guess what appeared
on the front - well yes I had a double cone. The following day before
returning up the M5 I went back again for another double cone and walk
along the beach. Paradise. My
only complaint were the dogs littering the beach!
Enjoy Instow it is jewel, timeless!!
Best wishes
Helen Brown
MUSIC AT THE LOBSTER POT
The following is an email sent to us from Martin Smith:
Many years ago (some 25-30) as a
young lad I worked at the Lobster Pot (now The Boathouse) and amongst
other things I used to sell ice-cream and gifts in the shop. It was
my great pleasure after work had finished to stay behind and listen to
the great live music that was performed in the then
cafe/restaurant/nightclub run by John Oliver. Many of your residents
and visitors will remember both the Lobster Pot and John who was the
proprietor for many years during it's heyday as a live music and
theatre venue.
Many well respected musicians played
at the Lobster Pot during these years and the venue supported many
local up and coming musicians as well. It is a happy fact that John
recorded many of the sessions and that the resulting tapes are of high
quality and have survived in good order to this day. A chance meeting
with a recording engineer has meant that the tapes are now to see the
light of day again, re-mastered onto CD.
I live locally still, having been
born and bred in North Devon and never wanted to be anywhere else.
Whilst John has moved to Portugal for the sunshine, we have kept in
touch and John makes regular visits home. So it is that I have become
involved in the project and am excited by the possibility of this
wonderful music being released as the Lobster Pot Sessions. Volume
One of Jake Thackray Live at the Lobster Pot is available now at Solo
Music, Barnstaple and by mail order. This CD has already received
much acclaim and airplay on national radio from people such as Mike
Harding of BBC Radio 2. More releases are expected soon.
I feel that there will be many
visitors to your site who will have been in the audience at one of
these sessions and will be delighted to know of the forthcoming CD
releases. Lobster Pot Records and myself and John in particular would
love to hear from anyone who has memories of the Lobster Pot and of
being at any of the performances. If there are any photographs out
there that were taken during the 60s, 70s & 80s we would love to see
them.
Contact Martin via:
email : website
www.lobsterpotrecords.com
NORTH DEVON YACHT CLUB
http://website.lineone.net/~ndyc/
EMAIL FROM THE ANTIPODES
We recently received
an email from an ex resident of Instow living in Australia - it is
printed below in case it brings some back memories.
I’ve just been looking at
your site and it took me back to my childhood.
I was born in Barnstaple in 1958 where my Father, Grandfather and Uncle
owned and ran Taw Garages Ford motor dealership. Our Family moved away
to Okhampton for a couple of years before we arrived in Instow about
1963/4.
We lived at 2 Rose Cottage, Quay Lane. With our Father John and Mother
Ann Isaac
There were 4 of us in our Family, myself Michael, my sister Rosalyn,
brother Andrew and baby sister Gillian, we all attended Instow Primary
school.( Mr Husband - Headmaster and Mrs Parsons – Teacher )
I was the first Instow Primary School Football Team Captain, shortly
after they built the playing field onto the school. It wasn’t a happy
reign as we got flogged every game that we played. I had a better time
as the School Captain in the Annual Area Sports Carnivals. With my
sister Rossy and friends Mark Lanchbury, Rodney Cann and Kenny Gaunt we
were invincible and won the Area Sports Cup 2 years in a row. I think my
Long Jump Record of 12 foot 6 inches still stands to this day, it would
be nice to find out if has been broken.
I was in the Choir at the Church and one year was lucky enough to be
sent to Bristol to The Royal School of Church Music, where I passed and
returned to become Head Choir Boy.
My Grandparents George and Dorothy Milner ran the Hotel on the sea front
adjacent to the Quay Pier.
We left Instow around 1969/70 and moved to Bideford (on or about the
same time that Bideford Bridge fell down). >From there we moved to West
Appledore. I left North Devon in 1976 joining the RAF and served 14
years all over the UK and Europe and in 1990 we emmigrated to Australia
where we now reside in Sydney and I work for Qantas Airways as an
Avionics Engineer.
I have never forgotten Instow and my childhood days and still tell my
children that the years I lived in Instow growing up as a young boy were
the best years of my life. My children Kevin and Sian and Granddaughter
Hayley, have only seen Instow through my recollections and Instow – The
History book which was sent to me by a relative.
Yours from Down Under
Mike Isaac
I didn’t mention the Johns or Shepperd family’s as anyone who lived in
Instow would have known them. Adding to people I knew; one of my best
friends was James Dugbridge who’s Father was Major Dudbridge Officer
in-charge of the REME Camp during the 60’s, our neighbours at 1 Rose
Cottage were the Harpers, Mr (Cheffie) Harper was the Head Chef at my
Grandparents Hotel on the Quay and Mrs Harper was a Nurse? at the Blind
home on Marine Parade. where we would got Caroling for the Old Folk. The
Harpers had twin boys Michael and ? both were in the Merchant Navy,
Michael’s claim to fame was he swan from Instow beach to Appledore and
back one summer. Is Mrs Johns, Instow to Appledore Ferry, still alive
and is the Ferry still running?
Half way along the pier on the right hand side is at sort of seat come
look out cut into the wall. It was from here that you had to jump to the
sand below, before you could become part of the scene as a youngster, a
kind of trial initiation, ask around and find out if anyone else
remembers having to do this.
One thing I will always remember was Summer time and HOCKINGS ICE CREAM,
I later became friends with the Hocking Family (Appledore) and went to
school with their eldest (Sorry Name escapes me)
Click
here if you would like
to email Mike.
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