Kingswear & Dartmouth

Looking down on Dartmouth Castle at the mouth of the Dart River. Viewpoint is on the headland at Kingswear

Castle Road, Kingswear

Dartmouth, from Kingswear

Steps down to the lower street and harbour

Dartmouth College as viewed from Kingswear. Capt Walker RN did his training here

Remembering the heroes of the Coastal Forces

The 502 is pictured below this. The image was sent to me by the late Norman Hine who was one of the 2 survivors.

These plaques are situated in the Kingswear side of the car ferry slipway

Remembering the role played in the D Day landings

A more recent death, that of local man Lt Col Jones in the Falklands War 1982

Mileage post in miles, furlongs and poles

Kingswear railway station, a steam museum

The River Dart with Dartmouth Naval College in the background. US Naval HQ during WW2

Ferry across the Dart

Coming into Dartmouth

Ashore in Dartmouth. This building is also visible on a WW2 image I was sent of a Torpedo Boat in the river

Looking back towards Kingswear

from the river front in Dartmouth

The jetty is the area where all the MGB's were moored

Dartmouth building

Dartmouth building. Known as Alf Resco (!) but at the time of passing, gave the appearance of a 70s Yuppy bar with hooray henry's
parading their stuff inside and out!! "Love you lots, don't be a stranger ya" etc etc. Oh deary me!

Dartmouth building.

View of Kingswear from a narrow street in Dartmouth

Hands up all of you who thought the Pilgrims sailed from Plymouth? Wrong! They sailed from this point in Dartmouth.

Looking out towards the "new world" from the site of the Pilgrims boarding point

Castle on right, River Dart

Fort Gun Battery circa 1540

View from Fort Battery

57 digital zoom of previous photo, could not make out object in distance, now looks like a marker buoy.
(2011 From Tim Trent: Its a South Cardinal buoy marking some dangerous rocks, its stand 5 meters high.)

Plaque giving info on Gun Fort

gun ports inside

View from one of the ports, towards river mouth

Kingswear from the fort

Church doors of St Saviours dated 1631 but see below for probable date

Explanatory note of church doors

Olde fire engine situated in church.

Tells all about the engine, could not read it from locked doorway to had to take a zoom image

Pulpit decorated to commemorate visit of King Charles II

14th C panelling

General view of church

narrow lane outside leads back towards river front.

Dartmouth building age olde steps

At far end of this imposing building is the Dartmouth Museum

VC awarded to local hero in 1916. Image taken in Museum.

King Edward VII post box in station, now a donation box.
You can see where some scumbag has tried to lever it open

There are many wartime images of this area also on my site - see my pages on Exercise Tiger, Coastal Forces and MGB's - World War 2

28th July 2016

Following 5 are signs in The Market

Now known as The Dolphin

I included this shop as it sells some of the funniest cards and images I have ever seen, worth a visit on it's own

see also River Dart