Village Pictures
Updated February 2021
Have you a really good picture ?
Funny - Topical - Local - Scenic ?
Send it to Chris Harwood - chrisharwood44@hotmail.com and see your work on the web
FEBRUARY 2021
COMMUNITY SHOP VIRTUAL VALENTINE COMPETITION

Arwen Springall Clare and Jay Melbourne
Becca and Abbi Wheeler

Becky Springall

Kelly and Olly Farmer

John Harris Lisa Martin and Marley Ashworth

Nish Halwyn

Sarah and Chris Harris Maisie and Alfie Harris

Sarah Wood
Emma Wood
December 2020
Award of Freedom of the Parish to Rosemary Glanville
(See Main picture and Text on the Noticeboard Page)





Talaton Virtual Christmas Fruit Competition
December 2020

Emma Springall (Age 8) Cucumber Tree Becky Springall's Carved Christmas Apple Bauble

Festive Penguin from a Blueberry Eira Halwyn's (Age 5) Pear Christmas Tree

Emma Wood's (Age 4) Decorated Melon Sarah Wood's Intricate Cucumber Christmas Tree
on a banana base, with pepper seeds and yellow pepper star.

Abigail Wheeler's (Aged 4) Rudolph from a mango , olives and grape.
Dec 2020

A Happy Pair of Mint Leaf Beetles ( Kindly provided by Paul Stevenson)


Moths ( Hummingbird Hawk Moth ) - Kindly sent in by Gordon Pring
(If you look carefully, not just a moth but there lurks a Ladybird !)

The Comet over Hound Tor, Dartmoor. Picture by Richard Powell
Pictures from Nickie Bitschi

Another shot of that Grass Snake skin

Red shaggy poppy - long lost but now found !

Mrs Black Pheasant ( eats out of Nickie's hand ) with her watchful mate
virtual Open Gardens 2020.
Talaton Un-Open Gardens 2020
Pictures Are in Order of Receipt


Above is a Picture Showing a Bit of History....
During an Open Garden Weekend, when visitors walk round, so as to brighten up a small person’s afternoon and stop them pinching the cuttings,they are challenged to find a hidden object in every garden relevant to gardening or topical to that year.
It was started about twelve years ago and each year was different and although there was no prize for finding it ( although one or two loving owners did reward the children with sweets ! ) many a bored spouse would join in.
First we hid a Butterfly, a Snake, then a tiny grey Squirrel, and in the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Year we hung coloured diamond shaped Mobiles. David Glanville kindly made diamond shaped nesting boxes, in our 20th, and the first year that RHS Chelsea allowed them in, we had Gnomes. In our 25th anniversary Pam Weston made us Silver Bells!
Maybe next year it should be a Coron......... Maybe not, let's have a good luck fairy .
Steve Spratt - Talaton Allotments, all looking good.


Terry and Rita Wright - Newtown












Rosemary Glanville




Pete and Jane Jackson



Tom and Francis Samson




Sheena Young




Jo and Rick Spencer



Paul and Judith Collin - The Moor



Kathy and Mike Gray


Sarah and Laurence - Bittery Cross







Jim and Robin - Ivy Cottages




Paul Chivers - Talaton House




Gordon and Jenny Pring - Newtown, Talaton




and finally, nobody is safe from the camera.......

Pat and Joy Rice - Woodmans Orchard



Peppi and Richard Shaw - Larkbeare



The Honesty Seat !



Every Keeper's Cottage Should Have One !
Chris and Sue Harwood - The Moor




Nickie Bitchi- Ivy Cottages




Jonathan and Valerie Boles - Rydon




Lady Ann Boles -The Moor




Corrine Cunningham. In the Village




Ann Ellis - In the Village






Miscellaneous Pictures received 2020
Great Pictures from Gaynor Mc Connell, taken around Talaton during the dreaded lock down.





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Mystery Photo

Village Day Road Race Presentation 1977
(People to be named at a later date !! - When we find the answer !)

A Beech at Larkbeare - thanks to Phil Moir
And thanks also, Phil , for these.......Sunset over Newtown.

Chopper over the Otter, March 2020

The Rains of February 2020 - Cadhay Bridge. (We still got off very lightly if you ask them in Yorkshire ! )
Talaton Annual Carol Service 2019

Winner of the Grand Draw Pam Weston Switches On !






Pictures fro the Village BBQ 2019

Picture kindly submitted by Roberta Gillam

Picture submitted by Roberta Gillam
Pictures from Open Gardens weekend 2019









The Lady in Pink who Organised it all.
September 24th 2018 - Pictures from Alan and Liz Franklin,
Visitors Approaching !

Visitors Staying !

Talaton Annual Village Church Outing 2018

Tuckers Hall, Exeter.

Window feature, Tuckers Hall, Exeter

Tuckers Hall, Exeter

St Nicholas priory, Exeter
St Nicholas Priory, Exeter

St Nicholas priory, Exeter

Feeding Time at the World of Country Life, Exmouth. Tickets on this train were quite deer !
Incredible Collection of All Vehicles, Exmouth World of Country Life

Bickham House, Kenn

Bickham House, Kenn
Beautiful Days 2018



The First Customers of Many

Young Thrushes June 2018

Lime Nail Gall
Microscopic mites (less than 0.2 mm long) feed on the foliage of Lime Trees - huge one on the Moor - where they suck the sap and secrete chemicals into the plant tissue. This causes the leaves to produce galls.
The Snows of March 2018






Beacon Cross
Escot Church
Talaton House
Talaton Allotments - You would think someone would be out weeding !
Ivy Cottages
Maria - can't come out, not fully dressed. Marian on guard against horse thieves. Jim and Rob checking up on the oldies !
Photos Taken at
Church BBQ 2017





Copies of BBQ Pictures available from Chris Harwood
Autumn Colours
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Baby Wrens Nesting - Thanks to Val Peterson for this.

These Local Squirrels get more brazen every day !

April 2016 Picture submitted by Donald Stocking

April 2016 Picture submitted by Val Peterson - Not too sure about this one !!!!!!
September 2015
Another lovely picture from Val Peterson - flowers grown from pack of wild flower seeds in May and still flowering. Sorry, but limitations of the web site won't allow bigger clearer picture but many thanks , Val
Shared Housing - Wasp's nest ? Bird's nest ? Photo from Val Peterson.
Open Gardens 2015
Let's see your pictures
First, a few from Bobbie Potter,
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Now - Please let's have some more ?????
November 2014
A selection of pictures from Mike Waldron- a selection of these will appear individually on the Home Page and gloss finish copies at A4 and 6" x 4" sizes are available from Mike..
An Early -or is it Late Lupin. Val Peterson Nov 2014







Picture submitted by Val Peterson 14/3/14
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