Buildings Section of the Devonshire Association ~ Posts by Dr Helen Wilson @nellythewillow
Devon, England
Joined July 2017
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Devonshire Dialect Dictionary For more details and DDD words see devonassoc.org.uk/ddd-the-di…………
inederzide = behind
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Booking is now open for our President's Symposium 10 May exploring Devon's World-Class Heritage through our 6 UNESCO sites. It's going to be a really interesting day devonassoc.org.uk/presidents…
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Devonshire Dialect Dictionary For more details and DDD words see devonassoc.org.uk/ddd-the-di……
gally = to scare
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Fairies' Basins = the buttercup
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The 15th-century rood screen at Ayshford Chapel in Devon has a subtle 19th-century polychromatic colour scheme.
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Much of Exeter’s City Wall still stands. Built by the Romans
about 200A.D. repaired many times since.
#wallsonwednesday #Exeter
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This evening @Our_Exeter takes you back in time 95 years from 2025 to 1930 and the approx location of the stunning Dellers Cafe on the corner of Bedford St & High St in #Exeter
Damaged in WWII, but said to be salvageable, the decision for demolition was controversially taken.🧵
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Devonshire Dialect Dictionary For more details and DDD words see devonassoc.org.uk/ddd-the-di……
agasted = aghast, terrified
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Hidden deep in the lush green world of Devon's Endsleigh Estate is Pond Cottage: a rustic idyll within a fully realised vision of the Picturesque.
Read more and book your stay:
bit.ly/40KU6XS
📍 Pond Cottage
🛏️ Sleeps 5
🐕 Dogs welcome
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This evening, let @Our_Exeter transport you back in time 110 years, from 2025 to 1915. This time showing Stepcote Hill in the historic West Quarter of #Exeter
More than a century has gone by between these photographs and still the similarities remain. More to follow! #History 💙
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#MementoMoriMonday
"Samuel and Joan, son and daughter of Richard Friend junior, and Joan, 2 years and 3 months... 18th C" Lydford, St Petrock's Church, #Devon
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#CastleDrogo is now #open every day.
Step inside the last castle to be built in England and explore the Lutyens designed garden. And if that's not enough there's the café shop and plenty to explore in the Teign Gorge.
For more info and opening times bit.ly/CastleDrogo
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Postman outside Clovelly post office unloading mail which has arrived from Bucks Cross. Photo: A W Cutler, before 1923 #Devon #ruralhistory 🏴
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ALT A view of Green mossy trees and a stream through a granite bridge.
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The One Man Buildings Archaeology Conference is back for a 3rd year on Saturday 8 March! Come along along for as little or as much as you want. This year we will be Discovering Ancient Houses from 10am til 10pm (GMT).
Booking is now open via Eventbrite:
eventbrite.co.uk/e/one-man-c…
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Rusting gently, ageing ironwork at St Mary's Church, Totnes, Devon
#ironworkthursday
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Two windows at Church of St Mary the Virgin, Churston Ferrers, Devon
The one on the right , over the door, has a medieval carving above.
#WindowsOnWednesday
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#OTD 28 January 1457, 13 year old Margaret Beaufort gave birth to Henry VII at Pembroke Castle.
In 1498 she paid for a new porch at St John the Baptist, Sampford Peverell, Devon + the Old Rectory built.
🌌via Wikimedia Commons
📷my own
#tudortuesday
