Back from deepest darkest Devon

[anteros_lmc]

I’m just home from an immensely fun trip to Exeter with the lovely nodbear where we spent three days at Devon Records Office going through the Pellew archive with a fine tooth comb. Needless to say we were in our element and discovered all sorts of little gems which we’ll be spamming you with for months to come. The archive proved to be so entertaining that we were in serious danger of being thrown out as a result of having an uncontrollable fit of the giggles after discovering a press report about Ned’s dear friend, Jacques Bergeret, which mangled his name in a most unfortunate manner.


On Saturday we had a glorious afternoon at the rugby, where we saw my home team Glasgow Warriors beat Exeter Chiefs in fine style :D It was a highly entertaining game, with no cards, and I have to say that the staff and stewards at the Exeter ground are the most pleasant and helpful people you could ever wish to meet.

Before leaving today, we took the train down to Teignmouth to visit West Cliff House, Pellew’s final home where he lived throughout his retirement with his wife Susan and a veritable tribe of grandchildren. West Cliff is now known as Bitton House and it serves as Teignmouth council offices and town hall. It also happens to be at the top of a very, very steep hill, and, even if I say so myself, it took a heroic effort to get both of us up there! It was well worth it though :) Despite its conversion into council offices, the house still looks very handsome and Susan Pellew would be delighted to see her orangery renovated and well cared for. After the epic push to the top of the hill we were well in need of lunch, so like proper AoS fangirls we went to the Jolly Sailor pub, which purports to be Teignmouth’s oldest, having been built in the early 17th century, though they claim there has been a licensed inn on the site since 1162! By the time we had finished lunch, the heavens had opened and a gale was blowing up, so we had a quick, and very bracing, walk down to the sea front to watch the surfers, before high tailing it back to the train station. The train line runs right along the coast and the waves were breaking right over the train on the way back. We were both completely drenched by the time we got back to Exeter but we wouldn't have missed it for the world.

We've got lots more pictures of Pellew related landmarks which we'll post later in the week :)

Comments

[mylodon.livejournal.com]

Splendiferous. Thought of you when I saw the Sandy Park result.

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

Splendiferous indeed! It was a perfect afternoon for rugby, the weather was lovely and it was a good game. I may have rather startled some of the Exeter fans by shouting at Glasgow though :}

[amaraal.livejournal.com]

Welcome back! Broad grin about you two sticking heads together and giggling about whatever fangirlism you found at the Archive :)

Looking forward to next posts and hat off to you for the splendid pics!

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid we almost disgraced ourselves, but I'm sure you won't be at all surprised to hear that ;)

I'll try and get some more of the photos up later in the week, and then we can start sharing all the delightful bits and pieces we discovered :)

[stevie-carroll.livejournal.com]

Smashing photos there, and it sounds like you had most excellent adventures.

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

We did indeed have most excellent adventures :) Teignmouth is a very picturesque little seaside town, so it wasn't hard to take pretty pics. It's just a shame that it started chucking it down!

[katriona-s.livejournal.com]

Sounds like you two have had a great time! I envy you, and am looking forward to seeing more photos!

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

We had a lovely time. If you're ever visiting the SW of England I can recommend a visit to Teignmouth, it's a lovely little seaside town. It's very picturesque but still has a working harbour, which is always good to see.