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done by volunteers and new LED lighting has been installed in the ceiling tubes. New fire-resistant curtains have been ordered and will soon be in place. A state-of-the-art fire alarm system has been fitted. So all in all we have two cracking good halls in great shape and we now need more people to come forward to use the halls for social and family events or for clubs and societies to book on a regular basis. There are regular bookings but more are needed. Hint, hint! When a few more funds are in place it is proposed to repaint the front steps to complete the renovation. If you want to book either the


small lower or larger upper hall please get in touch with Rita Rowe on 01803 752764.


Tey Are Our Privilege


In hearts and minds they stay forever young. Now, in colour, we can reach to almost touch Teir rough khaki, navy or their Airforce blue, Te polished brasses that they loathed so much.


Tey can no longer hear the snapping twig Nor stop their dog from chasing stinking fox, For their brief lives were sharpened to a blade Ten cruelly confined to tragic box.


Bright autumn days of yellow gold and blue Were wrenched from yearning lives, unwilling, Te love amongst them came at length to nought As machines developed more efficient ways of killing.


Tey missed the next impossible-seeming War Te holocausts which haunt us as a daily guilt, Tey missed the de-valuing of people’s lives As money swamped them in to so much silt.


But the powerful yearning of their loved ones’ pain Te memories that became a heritage Bring back their spirit, still crystal-clear Aſter a hundred years; they are our privilege.


Remembrance Day Remembrance Day has now gone


by for this significant year and Kingswear marked it in our own usual way with a service held at St Thomas’s where wreaths were laid and the names of the dead of King- swear read out and remembered. One departure from the norm was the insertion of an original poem in the service sheet, written specially for the occasion, which I will include here as a By the Dart tribute to our remembered men and boys.


Following the church service the Rev John Gay led the congregation down to the Lower Ferry slipway where further wreaths were laid and solemn words spoken to remember the dead. After the two ceremonies, people repaired to the Royal Dart Yacht Club for refreshments, following which the chair of the parish council, Cllr Lynne Maurer, with Rev John Gay and Cllr Jonathan Hawkins visited the former Noss shipyard to lay a wreath to remember those killed by bombing in WW11. We were joined on the day by representatives from BRNC, the French Navy, the chairman of National Coastwatch Initiative at Froward Point, pupils from Kingswear Primary and Infant School and Dartmouth Sea Cadets, members of Kingswear parish council and other local residents. Crosses were laid on the war graves in Kingswear cemetery. This was, of


course, a particularly poignant and significant day being one hundred years to the day, and even hour, of the ending of the war which was supposed to end all wars, but very sadly did not.


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