|
Post by likeaneagle on Aug 18, 2015 6:44:08 GMT
I live in a house. On an island. Its called Australia.
|
|
|
Post by bamber on Aug 18, 2015 18:00:41 GMT
Just found this. Not much has changed, but the ivy he was so scathing about has gone.
|
|
|
Post by geoffthebeard on Aug 18, 2015 20:44:22 GMT
A fascinating description of the architecture. Thank you for sharing it.
|
|
|
Post by LMP on Aug 19, 2015 6:28:50 GMT
Thanks for showing Bamber......very nice place you live
|
|
|
Post by muchtrouble on Aug 27, 2015 3:00:35 GMT
That was fascinating! It is as though he took many of your random pictures about town and tied them together.
|
|
|
Post by bamber on Aug 27, 2015 7:49:20 GMT
I was eight years away from moving to Devon when that was filmed. Had never even heard of Totnes. I was living in Worcestershire with my parents in the children's home where they worked.
|
|
|
Post by LMP on Aug 28, 2015 5:51:01 GMT
What brought you to Totnes? Besides the train.
|
|
|
Post by bamber on Aug 28, 2015 9:52:17 GMT
What happened was...
Back in 1986 I was living on the outskirts of Birmingham and working in Telford. The company I was working for were opening a branch office in Torquay, Devon, and asked me if I would prefer working there. It took me a fraction of a nanosecond to decide to move: Telford is not my sort of place.
I moved to near Torquay, then into Torquay itself a few years later. The office moved about a bit, first to Paignton, then to Dartington near Totnes. I got to know a good few people in Totnes while the office was there.
In 1996 the company went bust, but I was offered a job in North Devon with my current boss, who had also worked for the same company but had left a couple of years earlier to set up on his own. We spent nine years in Barnstaple until a friend of my boss died and left him a house in Paignton. He decided to move back to South Devon so I did too. We were offered office space in Totnes with someone we had worked with before, so I moved to Totnes. It was as if I'd been away on holiday: people I hadn't seen for almost 10 years greeted me as if I'd only been gone for a couple of weeks.
|
|
|
Post by likeaneagle on Aug 28, 2015 10:45:03 GMT
was Fawlty Towers still there?
|
|
|
Post by bamber on Aug 28, 2015 13:57:33 GMT
Well, the Gleneagles Hotel, on whose owner Basil Fawlty was based, was open then. It closed in February this year.
The actual building used for the exterior shots on the TV series is not in Devon at all; it's the other side of the country in Buckinghamshire.
|
|
|
Post by squirt on Sept 23, 2015 2:25:21 GMT
My word darlin' girl ~ that is certainly a different place to the one I have around me ~ not too sure how I would get on in all that hustle and bustle ~ living in a quiet place with a large lake and park a couple of minutes from my front door...LOL
Will have to search around to get the photos that show it off, as so often happens, you live in a place and take it for granted, rarely bothering to take a photo ~ unlike Bamber who has an eye and the country on his door step, and keeps us enthralled with his shots. I stay away from the freeways to the best of my ability lol what I love about where I live is that there's pretty much nothing I can't get, I like the huge variety of restaurants, and that I can go to some at 2AM, or have it delivered, I have the fire dept and police dept just blocks away and I have a lovely park right across the street from my house, and some of the best hospitals in the world are here in Dallas, and when we want to get out of Dodge so to speak, the Red River is only an hour away
|
|
|
Post by squirt on Sept 23, 2015 2:26:36 GMT
Since the beach is a 2 hour drive, some of us go to this little "beach" next to the River.... A very nice place to be.......if you don't mind sharing it with a group of Wild horses who can sometimes unexpectably breath heavily in your neck.
do they bite? do they let you pet them? this would be worth the trip for me! lol
|
|
|
Post by squirt on Sept 23, 2015 2:29:46 GMT
LMP...I took your advice and Googled for pics. However, I was a bit perplexed.I live in the greater Rochester, NY area...but in a town on the east side of the city called Webster. And, within Webster, (on the east side of the town) is Webster Village, where I actually live. Each area is quite different, and I didn't know what to focus on, until Google told me about a video of the Village. Hot damn! That is a very small area, easy for even an old lady to walk, and where I can always be found if I'm not actually sitting here. So...this is where I am most of the time. a beautifully pristine place, MT! I knew you lived in a village now, and when somebody asks me if you're ok, my first thought is "she's out and about, cuz she can be!" lol
|
|
|
Post by squirt on Sept 23, 2015 2:32:32 GMT
|
|
|
Post by squirt on Sept 23, 2015 2:34:47 GMT
Not where I live now, but where I did live when I first moved to Devon in 1986. The village of Daccombe. I had a 2 room flat upstairs in New House Farm. I spent a very happy four years there before moving to Torquay, about two miles away. ya'll must have itty bitty cars, those are the smallest roads I've ever seen! lol I know you don't drive, but still! lol
|
|