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Dawlish Air Show 2011
The weather was poor on Air Show day this year and some of the afternoon displays had to be cancelled. I was planning to go out at 08.30 to take photos of the helicopters coming in to Smuggler’s Inn field, which I hadn’t managed to do in previous years, but it was raining hard first…
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Luscombe Chapel
Luscombe Castle was designed by John Nash in 1800, for the banker Charles Hoare. The chapel, by Sir George Gilbert Scott, was added in 1862. Pevsner describes it as ‘Plain outside; inside Scott’s solid early Gothic, with apsidal east end and sexpartite vault, and a north arcade sumptuously adorned with marble shafts to the piers…
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Midwinter walk
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Tramping ‘neath a winter sky
A cold morning on Aller Hill, Dawlish.
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Dawlish
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Tottiford Reservoir
Tottiford was the first reservoir to be constructed on Dartmoor and was completed in 1861. It was drained in 2009 and is still partly empty. Lichen growing on a blackthorn bush. In the conifer plantation above the reservoir. Fly agaric Amanita muscaria Looking north from Tottiford’s central bridge. In November 2009 a prehistoric ceremonial complex…
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Trenchford Reservoir
Trenchford is one of eight reservoirs on Dartmoor and was constructed in 1907. Looking south-east from the northern end – 07.36 BST. A view north-west from the bridge – sunlight just beginning to catch the tops of the trees. Larch trees in the plantation above the reservoir at about 08.00. A sunnier view from the…
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Hazel
The hazel bush that I planted in March 2009 has produced its first crop.
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Dawlish Air Show
A few more pictures from the Air Show – the Red Arrows support helicopter, a Eurocopter Squirrel, at the Smugglers Inn field. Team Merlin, 78 Squadron, RAF Benson.
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Dawlish Air Show
A nice young man from RAF Benson offered to take my picture beside the Merlin. Once I was actually standing there it didn’t seem such a good idea, but it came out okay – I guess they’re trained for the tough assignments.