More pictures from Teignmouth, 23 March 2010.
Looking from New Quay across to the Fish Quay, with Shaldon Bridge and the sheds of Teignmouth Docks visible in the background.
New Quay from Back Beach. The quay was constructed in 1820 by George Templer to facilitate the shipping of Dartmoor granite from Haytor. The building under scaffolding to the right of the picture is now the New Quay Inn, but in the days when fishing and fish trading were the mainstays of the town it was known as The Newfoundland Fishery. The house in Northumberland Place, where Keats and his brother stayed in 1818 is reached via a narrow street just off to the right – only a stone’s throw from the river.
In amongst the modern additions of tarmac, street lighting, road signs etc., which initially seem to have obliterated the history of the quays, there is still plenty of evidence of past activity.
New Quay – sheds and storage out on the river’s edge.
