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
	Remembering the heroes of the Coastal Forces
	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 - see right
	Looking back towards Kingswear
	from the river front in Dartmouth
	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 dear!
	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
	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
	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
	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.
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