On 24/8/07 12:01, in article ,
"Martin" wrote:

On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 11:43:56 +0100, Sacha
wrote:

On 24/8/07 09:54, in article ,
"Martin" wrote:

On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 23:11:57 +0100, Sacha
wrote:

On 23/8/07 22:40, in article ,
"Hugh Jampton" wrote:

On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 23:26:16 +0100, Hugh Jampton wrote:

Miss it if you dare!

New DVD recorder (with HDD) set to record it Wed/Thur/Fri :-)

I do *not* normally watch TV ... but on this occasion I did :-)

Thanks Sacha - very interesting. Even watched it a second time so that
SWMBO saw it (she's the gardener here).

Thanks, Hugh. We liked the way they treated it, bringing credit to Edward
Hyams, too.

It was a good program. It didn't bring much credit to local antique shops
though
:-)

It's almost impossible to do a piece on Ashburton without including antique
shops but I do wish they'd been a little wider ranging.

I camped somewhere near Ashburton on a very wet cycling holiday more than 50
years ago.

Parker's Farm?

The weather was similar to this year, without the warmth. I'd guess
that most of the contents of the houses at that time are in antique shops
nowadays.

There's also an auction house in Ashburton but I think most of the tiptop
stuff goes to Bearnes in Exeter. One good thing about our local towns is
that they're too small to have most of the hideously boring chain stores
which disgrace so many other towns now. Totnes has Boots and WH Smith but
none of those repetitive clothes shops exist there or in Ashburton. So, the
whole place remains much more interesting. Some shopfronts in Ashburton
have been modernised but most, luckily, have retained their original look
and even one of those modernised (Somerfield) still has the tile frontage of
the second storey with the hearts, clubs, spades and diamonds picked out in
the tiling to show it was once a gaming club.

Barnstaple doesn't seem to have changed a lot other than the Christian Science
Reading Room replacing the auction house.

I've never been there. It's in north Devon which is almost passport country
from here. ;-))
--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
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'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our
children.'