Category: Barricane Beach
Dog Rescue – Barricane Beach
North Devon Journal Thursday 25th March 1943 A courageous act recognised Ilfracombe Evacuee Boy receives R.S.P.C.A’s Silver medal The story of an evacuee boy’s courageous act at night during November gale was related at an interesting ceremony in Ilfracombe Grammar School…
Read MoreA Barricane Beach poem from 1911
A poem written by Josephine Crawford and published in the North Devon Journal in February 1911 Oh! Come with me to Barricane Beach Down this little path one is sure to reach The shell-strewn sands-the sands of gold That house…
Read MoreI call it magic. I have myself been under the spell. I thought it was merely idiotic at first
Thursday 14th September 1882 Morte-Hoe On the whole I consider Devonshire (not to say Cornwall) undeveloped, from the watering-place point of view. Ilfracombe and Torquay are always to the fore, but take a “stick and a bundle,” and go down the…
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