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Around Kingswear BY MIKE TREVORROW
Lighthouse Beach I notice on the Kingswear website
that there is good news on the Lighthouse beach front, namely that we will have access to the beach once again from later this year. The Coast and Countryside Act is rolling-out around the country and the Lyme Regis to Kingswear section which was under its consideration recently, last year in fact, had massive support locally. So, it is now official, we will have our beach back. Residents who have been around a while may well remember the hard work done by Kingswear parish council a few years ago in order to re-gain access to the beach. People like Michael Stevens, Paul Folca, Dr Barrie Tulloch, Jonathan Hawkins and indeed several of our parish clerks, especially Emma Illingworth worked very hard indeed with solicitors in order to try to get the beach opened again. In fact, nearly all the parish councillors of the time spent countless hours on the issue, and quite a lot of money was collected for the payment of lawyers and solicitors. There was also a deal of work needed to clear the beach of scrap metal from the building of Inverdart Boathouse. Lighthouse Beach has an
important part to play in the social history of Kingswear since villagers have enjoyed access there for centuries. Many of our older residents learned to swim from that beach, families spent the day there, taking picnics, liaisons were made there, so it is a great delight that this part of village life will soon be able to continue. Start chilling the champagne!
Dog Mess Several residents have mentioned
recently that the dog mess situation is getting worse, and I must say that I have noticed this myself on my very regular walks around the place. There is no excuse for it, we cannot blame visitors because there have been very few of those, there are sufficient dog bins, so come on dog owners, please show consideration for the rest of us. And as a bonus let me remind you that if you pick- up your dog’s mess this will stop you biting your nails! Some years ago I ran a one-man campaign against this; I put 22 notices around the village, varying in tone from ‘There isn’t a magic fairy you know’ to ‘Leave any more dog mess and we’ll disembowel you then hang out your body for the birds’. It made me feel better, having done all that. Guess what – the problem got worse!
Thank you Council It has come to even my notice that
Kingswear has been looking good recently: not only have we got our fabulous spring flowers to enjoy but the hanging baskets have been particularly lovely this year, a lot of tidying up has been done, drains have been cleared, a very smart ‘Welcome to Kingswear’ sign has been put near the cemetery, which incidentally is a spring symphony of colour at the moment, the Higher Contour Road sign has been replaced and the loo in the square has been very clean and looked- after. These things do not happen without effort being made, so many thanks to the councillors who
Kingswear Primary School 150 year
Anniversary This year, Kingswear Primary School will celebrate 150 years since its opening in 1871. The staff and children will be spending their summer term learning about the history of the school and what it would have been like to attend when it opened. They have lots of old log books and artefacts dating right back to the opening which give a wealth of information about life in the school throughout the ages.
have worked hard on our behalf to make our environment better and even more beautiful. When I spoke to Lynne Maurer
earlier she told me that there were also plans to re-wild verges and spaces with wild flowers. Great, and once again thank you.
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