Devon Gallery

Bigbury-on-Sea - The Burgh Island Hotel Tractor

Transportation in the Sea Tractor over to the Burgh Island Hotel, Bigbury-on-Sea, South Devon, allowing guests to travel to/from the mainland at High Tide. It was here (in The Beach House suite) that Agatha Christie wrote her two novels set on the Island (Evil Under the Sun and And Then There Were None). Date: circa 1930s

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

Torquay tourist guide cover

Front cover of a guide to British seaside resort, Torquay, Devon, on the English Riviera, featuring an elegant group posed by a palm tree with the town lit up at night in the background. Date: c.1925

© Mary Evans Picture Library

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Connaught Gardens at Sidmouth, East Devon

View of Connaught Gardens at Sidmouth, East Devon, with an array of flowers in flowerbeds, with trees in the background. The gardens were named after the Duke of Connaught, one of Queen Victoria's sons, who formally opened the Gardens on 3 November 1934

© Mary Evans/Reginald A. Malby & Co. Collection

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