Groups
Parkfield Group
About the group A small school group based in Parkfield House, Paignton, Torbay. Doing a local history project about Torbay beaches.
Created 13 March 2014
This is the film showing the group researching using this website, their local reference library and on location around Torbay.
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picture 1 is cliff head looking East picture 3 sea wall construction |
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The end result of all the hard labour by the Welsh miners brought in to do the construction of Goodrington prom and rock walk. Today used by fishermen both local and holiday makers to catch mackerel and much more.
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Picture 2 shows removing cliff head picture 4 sea wall construction |
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This picture shows some of the many paths in the background snaking down the cliff (see the person to the left) to the prom where beach huts sit in the summer. Also the geology of the cliffs is laid bare to see the effects of when it was a tropical coral reef, a forest and when the continents crashed the vertical rocks.
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picture 5 view of sea wall construction |
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This picture was taken May 2014. You can see the prom as it looks today with the wall round the cliff.
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Protesters campaigning against further developments of the harbor. They told us about the " three ugly sisters" seen in the previous photos.
They are opposed to a new block of flats a and carpark on the green. |
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This shows the harbor side from a bridge in Torquay which crosses the harbor entrance.
The three blocks of flats on the horizon to the right are known locally as the "three ugly sisters". We met a group of protesters campaigning against further development of the harbor |
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This was taken form the wheel seen in previous photographs.
It shows the bay in the background with Brixham on the left and Paignton on the right. In the harbor the boats are all pleasure boats. there are on fishing boats to be seen |
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This photograph was taken from the roof of the Regina hotel in Torquay. English heritage provided some money to complete restoration work on this hotel.
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The big wheel in the background is a recent attraction on the sea front. The flats on the hill top and carpark are also new additions during the last 50 years so they are not visible in the original photograph
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