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Around Kingswear BY MIKE TREVORROW
Noss Marina No, not a Jamie Oliver recipe for a Devon salad, but the river architecture of our very own marina at Noss, the site of the old shipyard owned by Phillip and Sons who built so many of our iconic river craft of the last 100 years or so, including of course our much-loved Kingswear Castle. The old sheds are long gone of
course but now big machinery is re-profiling the site and things are clearly beginning to happen. It is good to see the plans coming together at last and it will be a positive boost to the local economy, hopefully. Certainly it will be an environmental improvement on the scruffy site which we have had to look at for some years now.
Tourism Boom Doubtless because of the very late start to the tourist season, and because of the understandable unwillingness of people to take their holidays abroad, we are experiencing a very busy late season. Normally by now of course, things start to slacken off and quieten down, but not this year; ookings are full right in to November in many cases. One unfortunate result of this boom time is the disposal of rubbish which has, I am told, got rather out of control in some cases. Bags of rubbish have been left in the doorways of rental properties, which are nothing to do with those properties. This is hardly fair. Unfortunately, the collection days for rubbish do not coincide with the visitors leaving their
accommodation and so a problem is bound to occur, but this year it is worse than ever. Another downside of still high visitor numbers from the Kingswear and Dartmouth point of view is the length of the ferry queues. They have been much longer than usual, and when the Higher Ferry went off the other day the Lower Ferry queue stretched out of sight. I think there were complaints from as far away as Lowestoft! Never mind, if you’re stuck in the ferry queue here’s a little song for you to sing to the tune of Teddy Bears’ Picnic:
If you go down to the Dart today You’re in for a big surprise, If you go down to the Dart today You will not believe your eyes For every car that ever there was Is gathered there for certain because Today’s the day the Higher Ferry’s broken If you go down to the Dart today You will not be there alone, So don’t go down to the Dart today You’re better off staying at home – For cars and vans are stuck in a line Queuing there for ludicrous times For today’s the day the Higher Ferry’s broken. Nightmare time for ferry men - Good job they are the very men - For hours and hours of to-ing and fro-ing Tom Casey knows just where he is going ‘Till it’s time to go home to bed. Or you could just drive round via Totnes!!
Council Stuff Kingswear Parish Council is pleased to announce that it has filled the vacancy on the council with Barry Lowe, a resident of Hillhead. This is particularly pleasing because the parish needs to be represented by councillors from as wide a field as possible and of course Hillhead is just as much of the parish as the village. I am sure we all wish Barry well in his new role. Meetings of the council are
now held on Zoom, which is challenging, but it does at least get business transacted. One visible small sign of that is the welcome disappearance of the dreaded rusty white van which has blighted Higher Contour Road for years. Efforts to contact the owner proved fruitless because it is believed he is in Cyprus and so the threat to tow the thing away could be carried- out. Everyone is delighted to see the back of it, especially I imagine the residents who had to look out on it slowly disintegrating. (The van that is, not the residents!)
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