Scout HutA couple of years after Joan Leonard left (1986), the Playgroup moved from the Village Hall to the Scout Hut on Radway Hill. According to Hilary Davies, a Playgroup Supervisor at the time, the Playgroup moved because the rent had been increased at the Village...

1836The building, for many years, was best known as The Manor Inn, with adjoining cottages, barns and outhouses. It has stood in the central part of Fore Street for about 200 years.  The land and properties initially belonged to Rev. Comyns who was Lord of the Manor...

The OriginsOn the 26th September 1972, Mrs Buckile from the Pre-School Playgroups Association, showed a film and gave a talk to the Bishopsteignton Modern Wives about the importance of playgroups, and how communities could set up and run them.  When she concluded her...

 2012 Jack and the Beans TalkSpurred on by the exorbitant cost of licence and performance fees, we began work on writing our own pantomime. This was composed by committee which met regularly through the autumn and early spring.  Eventually, we were able to hand...

Family and life in the community David married Elizabeth Ann Smith, a schoolmistress, who taught the infant class at Bishopsteignton School on 20th October 1906.  They first lived in a house called Belle Vue, then at 3, River View Terrace with their three children,...

2004 I moved back to Bishopsteignton in July 2004 to live in my father's house, in Teign View Road. My father, Fred Gilbert,  had been a stalwart member of the Players since moving to the village in 1976 and was Treasurer for a number of years, 1979 to 1983.  So I...