Teignmouth Post and Gazette No 4919 Friday 28 May 1976

THE TRIANGLE

Although it has taken over six months to sink in, T. D. C. does at last seem to have got the message that the Town Council has no intention of making a contribution to the £3,300 costs of the “improvements “ to the Triangle.

To quote one of our more polite correspondents, it is a “complete shambles, both dangerous and ugly, and an utter disgrace to the Town”. The railings were left when the Operatic Society dismantled “Oklahoma” at the end of last month.

NEW FLATS

The Town Council’s general purposes committee has suggested names for the new block of flats in Parson Street, including Harbour View Flats, Old Town Flats, Phoenix House, Old Quay Flats and, humorously, Spaghetti Junction Flats.

FINDING THE STATION

Dear Sir; Why are pedestrians shown no consideration? A lady took so long to find her way from Station Road, through the tunnel, up the spiral to the Booking Office, that she missed her train. M. Griffiths (Mrs.), Woodway House.

CONSUMER CLINIC

Although £1,000 has been refunded to people in South Devon through a consumer clinic since it opened in Torbay at the end of last year, it cost nothing to set up, being a vacant room that we set up as a consumer advice centre, run by Mrs. Barbara Bow on the ground floor of St. Marychurch Town Hall.

Elderly people no longer have to use a flight of stairs. Most complaints are about such things as second-hand cars, shoes and domestic appliances.

FESTIVAL OF STEAM

The first of this year’s West Country rallies takes place this Bank Holiday in Yelverton, organised by the Devon Traction Engine Club, with the Kitto Trust, Plymouth. This year’s special attractions will be the Army’s “Blue Eagles” helicopter display team, and the Band of the Brigade of Gurkhas, which had recently performed at the Devon County Show.

DARTINGTON HALL

The Civil Service Pensioners’ Alliance Group last week visited Dartington Hall. The gardens were at their springtime best. The visit co-incided with the festival in celebration of Rabindanath Tagore, the Indian poet, artist and social innovator, whose friendship with the late Leonard Elmhurst in the early 1920s was influential in the founding of Dartington Hall as a centre for experiment in rural reconstruction, education and the arts.