Tag: shaldon

  • New Year’s Day

    New Year’s Day

    The Coombe Cellars pub, Combeinteignhead, Devon Teignmouth from Shaldon The Shaldon – Teignmouth ferry, with Christmas trimmings Teignmouth from Shaldon John Masefield and Spike Milligan on the wall of the Ness Bar, Shaldon Lime kiln, The Ness, Shaldon

  • The salting sun

    The salting sun

    Anybody searching Teignmouth for the ghost of John Keats is following a well-trodden path. Charles Causley wrote a poem inspired by his visit in the 1950s: Keats at Teignmouth Spring, 1818 By the wild sea-wall I wandered Blinded by the salting sun, While the sulky Channel thundered Like an old Trafalgar gun. And I watched…

  • Rainy day river

    A view of Shaldon from Back Beach (River Beach), Teignmouth. A ferry between Teignmouth and Shaldon was established nearly 1000 years ago – it probably crossed further upriver than it does today, close to where the road bridge now stands.