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Tim V

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I spotted this image on the RCTS site.

http://www.rcts.org.uk/features/mysteryphotos/show.htm?img=65-015-29&serial=45&page=2

 

Somehow, it encapsulated a time long ago, the thatched cottage, the single unit, the gate, it was all there in one image.

 

I went to Toller just before it closed in 1975. Probably didn't look much different to the RCTS view.

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I went there the following year after the track had gone.

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I know the building is now at Totnes, but when I looked at street view and satellite, there's a house there now. The bridge is still there, but trees from the trackbed are higher than the road level. I couldn't see the thatched cottage.

 

Progress?

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Thankyou Tim for these images and the link to the photo on the RCTS site.

 

I agree, it is all there in one shot. It occurs to me that such images convey a time when a place had a significance in its own right, rather than just something we passed through in order to get from A to B.

 

I would not personally call it progress. But the change has happened and there are different kinds of places and communities that seem to matter to people now. Some of them are on the internet. Like RMweb.

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