In August 2025, came the excited Zoo announcement that a chick had successfully hatched. After a 50 day incubation time, the new arrival was the first at Paignton for 21 years.
Cable Cottage calling the French
Before 1840, the fastest way to send a message across the Atlantic to America was by steamship. After 10 – 12 days, your message would be delivered.. Cable Cottage was a landing station for the submarine cable sending messages to France and then the world.
Christopher Robin went to Devon, yet Winnie-the-Pooh went to New York.
It was many years later that Christopher Milne confessed he cared little for Pooh , or indeed his father –
Drinking Devon Tea in Space?
The “”Mind-Blowing” challenges of a good tea supply for space travellers, helped by Devon tea growers
Living with Seagulls in Devon
Seagulls are your seaside rebels – sometimes entertaining and funny, but you often wish they would go and sit quietly further along the harbour.
So how is Camouflage and the Masters Golf Tournament in Augusta, linked with Teignmouth in Devon?
Its all down to Dr Alister Mackenzie and his passion for Golf Architecture.
Who is Daphne?
Daphne was a Devonshire Land Girl, who became an accomplished Rat Catcher in WW2. And now she will become immortalised in the next Longest Yarn 2 Project for 2025
An Eccentric Game of Cricket on the River Tamar Mudflats
How on the Devon/ Cornwall border a rather different game of cricket took place. And good old eccentric, British, rivalry played out before the tide came in.
The Disco Scallop joins the Devon Food Scene
The advent of Disco Scallops. It was 2022. Devon Scientist, Rob Enever, was working on this Crab Pot project at Totnes based Fishtek Marine. He put the pieces of an unusual jigsaw together and quickly put Disco Scallops on the map.
Eighty years after Auschwitz Liberation and Five Devon Memories.
Five Memories. There are incredible people in Devon who have played their part standing up to this chapter of history. The horrors of Auscwitz