Les Berry

Presents a pictorial history of Budleigh Salterton and Raleigh Country through a series of photographs and images. This work features historical captions.

Sidmouth is one of England's loveliest seaside towns. Including historical captions, this book offers a pictorial history of Sidmouth using a series of old and rare photographs and images. With its emphasis on those whose lives have been spent in this corner of East Devon, it covers an area bounded by Newton Poppleford, Sidbury and Branscombe.

To the modern visitor Honiton is remarkable for the handsome High Street flanked by fine Georgian buildings, but there is much more to this town than its Georgian past. The arrow-straight High Street was once the Roman road from Dorchester to Exeter, before colonisation followed the Battle of Beandum in 614 AD. Much of the town's lively past has survived in the shape of its many interesting buildings, including St Michael's church on the hill and Copper Castle. The images, which comprise this fascinating selection, bring to life the Honiton of old, and underline the extent to which time has overtaken the ancient settlement.

A pictorial history of Honiton, in Devon, recording the changes in the area over the last hundred years. This book contains old photographs and postcards that are complimented by detailed captions.

This is a collection of archive images accompanied by captions.

A history of Chard, Crewkerne & Ilminster

Wartime Exeter and East Devon

When the future Queen Victoria arrived in Sidmouth in the early years of the last century many of the fine buildings which grace the modern town had just been built. Since then the resort has acquired an air of general respectability which the twentieth century with its modern tourist trade has done little to remove: today Sidmouth is one of England's loveliest seaside town. The photographs which comprise this delightful selection bring to life the history of the town in a way mere words can never do. For, unlike the historians, the photographers were actually there when they clicked their shutters. What might have been a snapshot when it was taken becomes in time the most authentic record we could have of a period which has otherwise vanished into the past. If photography was, sadly, unable to capture the visit of the infant Victoria, it has handed down to us a vivid visual reminder of the changes which have overtaken the town and its inhabitant in the last hundred years. With it emphasis on those who lives have been spent in this corner of East Devon, this fascinating volume incorporates an area bounded by Newton Poppleford, Sidbury and Branscombe. For those who know the area i will bring back a host of memories; others will enjoy discovering Sidmouth's rich heritage.