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return to the water. I still have all my diving gear hanging up in the garage!
What else do you do when you aren’t at the museum? We have a vintage sports car which I rebuilt between 1998 and 2004; I bought it in 1963 for £6! It’s de- signed for the leafy streets of Surrey really, not the tiny back roads of Dartmouth but I do take it out from time to time. We have been down
to the Eden Project in it. We also built a small sports car from a kit as a family project. That was in 1990 and it still runs well now!
What is your guilty pleasure? Getting away from it all. We like to go to Tenerife. We are heading over there in November.
What’s your favourite thing to do in Dartmouth?
In the past it was definitely diving. There are some great spots around here with amazing underwater scenery. The wrecks and cold-wa- ter corals near Brixham kept me entertained for hours! There are also some wonderful walks in the area.
If you would like to volunteer in the museum, just drop in during opening hours and collect an application form.
Liz Saunders
DARTMOUTH COMMUNITY BOOKSHOP
Why did you choose to volunteer at the bookshop? I love books! I read a lot. A couple of years ago the word spread that they needed more volunteers so I jumped at the chance. It’s a bit like the ‘kid in the sweetshop’ metaphor when I’m here; I’m always buying new books when they come in, so it can be an expensive hobby!
Do you volunteer anywhere else in the town? I work in the box office at the Flavel Centre. I’m also a duty manager there. That’s the nice thing about Dartmouth, there are lots of oppor- tunities to volunteer and you can pick and choose what appeals to you. I’m not someone who can sit around doing nothing.
How many days do you work at the bookshop? Once a week – every Friday, for a couple of hours.
What are the top three things you like about the shop?
I meet new people every time I come to work, which is a really inter- esting part of the job. Visitors come from all over the UK and abroad. I like the Winnie the Pooh link. Back in
the 50s A A Milne’s son, Christopher Robin, owned the Harbour Book- shop which used to be on Fairfax Place. When it closed, six years ago, we lost our only bookshop. It was then that the community bookshop opened with some of the Harbour Bookshop staff and all its Winnie the Pooh memorabilia. I also like the relaxed atmosphere in here.
You are retired now, what did you used to do? I taught in primary, middle and special schools.
If you hadn’t been a teacher what career path might you have chosen? Something equestrian. I think I would have had horses and a nice patch of land somewhere in the country, but not too remote – I like being near people!
When did you move to Dartmouth? Six years ago. We came here for a weekend, fell in love with the place, saw a house and put an offer in the same day! Looking back it was a bit crazy. We exchanged and completed within six weeks and moved straight down from the Cotswolds.
Do you get odd requests for books? We get people who have no idea what the book they want is called or who the author is! They try and tell you as much as they know and hope you will find it - “it has a red cover” or “it’s about penguins”. We have to be quite patient!
If you wrote a book, what would it be about? Well I have written a book actually! I co-wrote it with my sister. It’s a bit of fun and slightly odd! It’s about a book and its journey around the world. It’s a series of 12 stories about the people who find it. If I wrote one by myself I think it would be about social history.
Where do you want to travel to? I would like to explore Italy some more. I love the food and the culture. Although it won’t be anytime soon as we have two elderly Newfoundland dogs. We couldn’t bring ourselves to put them in kennels, so we are tied to them at the moment – but not begrudgingly.
If you’d like to volunteer at the bookshop call 01803 839571
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