TORCHING THE BEACON Up at the old Coleton Camp site, next to Coleton Fishacre,
there was a ceremonial lighting of our village beacon at 10:15 on the Jubilee Monday night. there was hot food and drinks available for the stalwart souls who braved it up onto the heights at that late hour. From the beacon site we could just see a number of the string of beacons which were simultaneously lit around the british coast. Strangely we could not see the berry Head beacon, it was behind a bluff i think, but there were signs visible from around Sidmouth, near golden Cap in Dorset and then possibly west bay area and just possibly Portland. the slight mist made electric light hard to distinguish from beacon light. but it was good to think we were taking part in such a nationwide event, another positive memory.
DART JUBILEE PARADE both Dartmouth and Kingswear boat owners turned out their
boats on the jubilee Monday afternoon to stage a splendid sail-past of 60 boats, all decked-out in their regatta finery and bunting and any suitable flags that could be found. they looked splendid and very colourful, led appropriately by the Fairmile, and sailed up river on the Kingswear side, turning at Dittisham and returning on the Dartmouth side. the church bells pealed out making the whole event feel very festive and special. well done to all who made the effort to get their boats looking spic and span, not to mention decorated-up.
MUGS All the children
who attend the Dartmouth and Kingswear
primary schools were given a lovely china mug to commemorate the jubilee. Some of us who are old enough to remember our coronation mugs from 1953 must have wondered what had become of ours. Happily there were also mugs for sale locally which meant that the cost of the given-away mugs was just about covered by the sale of the extras. Pretty neat eh! not just pretty faces your local councillors!
SAD DEATH Although i do not normally mention the death of individuals
in the village, i suppose out of respect for the families’ feelings, i do feel bound to mention that Dr David williams died in early June. David was not only a much loved local chap who touched the lives of so many of us, either professionally or socially, but a man who gave so much to his community. He was the chairman of the very active Kingswear Historians and it is from this group that David leaves his greatest legacy to our village, his splendid book, ‘Kingswear at war’. All who have read the book so far have been impressed with the scope and enthusiasm of it. i know David was proud of it and rightly so, and it is fitting that we should have it to remember him by.
MUSICAL OPPORTUNITY Plans go ahead for the gala Concert on Saturday 21st July
at 5 p.m. in Kingswear Parish Church. Michael Cox, a well travelled and experienced flautist who has played as Principal flute with most of the english Orchestras, will be performing Chamber music for us with other musicians. Mike is a professor at the royal Academy in london and appears more regularly with the bbC Symphony, the london Sinfonietta and the Academy of St. Martins in the Fields. tickets will cost £10 and will be available through the Kingswear village Store.
RUSS
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