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Around Kingswear BY MIKE TREVORROW
Social at St Thomas’s Friday October 1st
was a great
launch in to October when an enterprising group from the church organised a very enjoyable Harvest Social event in church. Not surprisingly we
Kingsweardoes tucked in to the food and wine with gusto and, just to put icing on the proverbial cake, the church was decorated with the most lovely flowers with their gorgeous colours and arrangements which cheered- up the old place a treat. We had Carolyn Williams and Sue Merotra to thank for the lovely floral displays. And while we’re thanking people we mustn’t leave out John and Jo Griffin and Stephen Pearson who organised the event. A lot of work had gone in to making us feel welcome and beautifying our lovely old church. Since our vicar, Rev John Gay,
was on sabbatical, Rev. Stephen Yates, the Rector of the Brixham parishes, came along to meet and greet all of the 70-plus people who enjoyed the event. I suppose that we are rather
starved of social events because of the unfortunate pandemic so this made everyone enjoy the sociability of the event even more. I’m sure the active church parishioners would like to tempt more of us along on a Sunday;
certainly more events like this one would be popular.
No Parking? Everyone will, by now, have had a
good look at the parking survey which was distributed to every house in the village. The plan outlines radical changes to the way we go about our daily motoring lives, and changes our social habits in some cases. Although the plan of having permits would greatly improve lives for a large number of our residents, on the other hand it is not very visitor friendly. Permits would have to be bought for our visitors, or they would have to shell out for parking on the Marina or Station car park. However, not all ‘visitors’ are welcome, especially those who park for weeks at a time when they sail off on passages, or the people who use Kingswear as a car park because parking in Dartmouth is more difficult and expensive. As any discussion about the
parking problems of Kingswear shows, there are no simple solutions which may suit everybody. It has to be admitted that something needs to happen to try to overcome the difficulties which some residents experience during the season and at festival times. Parts of Brixham have restrictions during the summer months only, and that is one avenue to consider, although I understand that this is not favoured by some. I do hope that we can come up with a plan that at least pleases most of the people most of the time, although I am well aware that feelings run high
on this issue. As I have said before, everyone knows the answer to the problem as they see it, but since everyone’s problems are unique, there is no overall answer. There’s democracy for you! Good luck to the parish council who will have to implement whatever is finally decided.
Bye bye Whitegates! I hope Steve and Clare Miller
of Whitegates, Hoodown don’t mind me mentioning that one of our significant landmarks at the end of Waterhead Creek is about to disappear, temporarily, The ‘Newfy House’, as some know it, is about to be demolished, but it will be replaced by an attractive new house over the next eighteen months or so. This event has taken an awful lot of time in the planning and Steve and Clare must be very thankful to have got to this stage. During the building work they will be down-sizing to the cottage in the grounds of Whitegates. Convenient! I’m sure we all wish them good luck with the project.
Arts Society Happily, the Flavel is back in face-
to-face form once again and The Arts Society has already had two
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