Alice Mary Major

Alice Mary was  born in 1885 to John and Louisa Major,  one of six children. The Majors owned and worked the blacksmith forge in Fore street, Bishopsteignton. Louisa and her daughters Alice and Lily worked at Kittoes House. On 31st August 1908 Alice married James...

Rails Through Bishopsteignton

On 24 April 2019 Peter Wade gave a talk for Bishopsteignton Heritage entitled ‘Rails Through Bishopsteignton’, this article is a summary of that talk. 19th Century The railway had reached Exeter from Bristol by 1844 and the next section to Plymouth was soon being...

Riverside Quilters

The group was started in 2011 by Ruth Sewell and was originally called St John’s Quilters.   It was formed as a fundraising group to make a quilt to raffle for the church funds.  We started with about six people including Ruth Sewell, Jenny Dunford, Stephen and...