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ISSUE 58: MAY/JUNE 2014 ReGuLARs


Dart Notes ............................6 What’s On ...........................10 The Flavel .............................22 Food & Drink ......................30 Around Kingswear .............47 Family Favourites ................52 Fitness ...................................54 Life Aboard ..........................59 Book Review .......................72 Postcard from Leonie ........81 Legal Corner .......................89 Personal Finance .................92 Health and Beauty ..............94 Computing ...........................99 Gardening ..........................102 Garden Design ..................105 Dart Harbour....................107 Tide Predictions ...............109 Property View ...................112 Trades & services ............122 TVFTDO ............................130


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Dart Music Festival.................26 Highlights of the 2014 Music Festival - the Acts you daren’t miss!


Dartmouth Galleries Week.................33 Dartmouth’s key art gallery event - details of the 12 participating galleries all holding new exhibitions this month


Tony Fyson.................43 Tony Fyson MBE, Chairman of the Community Bookshop, Chairman of the Dartmouth and Kingswear Society and Town Councillor is a busy man in retirement!


Captain Henry Duffy................64


The BRNC’s new Captain talks exclusively to By The Dart about his recent appointment in charge of this venerable institution


Richard Webb.................69 Now he has retired, we look back at Richard’s long and successful career in book publishing and the role Dartmouth has played


HMS Cicala.................86 Kingswear & the Royal Dart Hotel were part of some of


WW2’s most exciting and clandestine activities as the home of the 15th Gunboat Flotilla: HMS Cicala.


My Trip to the Masters.................78 Dartmouth-based Golf Pro, David Bown enjoys a trip of a lifetime to last month’s USA golf major.


History of the Lower Ferry.................97 The Lower Ferry is an integral part of Dartmouth’s current life and past. We describe its long history.


Also, Graham Lockerbie (p43) Paul Reach (p63), Kevin Pyne (p75), Midsummer Classic Regatta (p82), Ella Chivers (p84), Francesca Johnson (p91)


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