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A view of Topsham in 1996
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Quite a few branches of my family tree
originate in Topsham, Devon, a port a few miles down the River Exe from
Exeter. The surnames concerned include OAK, BASS, TAPPER, NORMAN
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Oak Slip Topsham 1996 (opposite the museum and the west
end of Lower Shapter Street)
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White Street Topsham 1996 |
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Chapel Place Topsham 1996
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The sign was erected at
the request and expense of Phyllis Mary Oak Vick (married name Reed,
1915-1999) another descendant of the Oak family of Topsham.
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and further up White Street
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St Margaret's Church Topsham
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A view from Oak Slip Topsham taken 1996
Location of Oak Slip on Google
Earth
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Topsham 1995, looking up the Exe Estuary towards the motorway bridge.
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The Exe Estuary from Topsham 1995
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Topsham Quay 1996
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Another pretty Topsham street I forget the name of.
(1995/6).
However, (6 Jan 2005) Linda Staszynski, Adelaide South Australia, says:
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A view along Follett Road taken in the late 1940s.On the left the three
windows and door is no.7 where Tom and Lucy Tapper lived. Tapper's Yard is
beyond that.
Photo credit: Mark Rigby's Uncle John.
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This I believe to be one of the Shapter Streets but I
cannot remember if it's Higher or Lower. Photo 1995. (Update 24 Oct 2006:
Derek Harper advises me that it is Higher Shapter Street)
More photos of Topsham by Derek Harper.
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"...when I looked at your 'photo's of
Topsham and found one of a street that you couldn't remember the name. I
am sure that it is North St, leading from Higher Shapter St, once known
affectionately as Truckle Bed Alley, my father's family lived in the
first house on the left past the green bush. It is a 3 story, very small
house that I can remember well as a child. My granny Gliddon was one of
11 children and the house was always full of visitors."
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Tappers Yard, a new house in Follett Road, Topsham. Perhaps
named after an ancestor of mine: James Tapper, blacksmith, who died in
1839. Photo 1995.
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