Teignmouth, West Cliff House and the Pellew Memorial Carpet Shop

[anteros_lmc]

Last weekend nodbear and I visited Teignmouth, the Devon port town that was home to Sir Edward Pellew after he retired from active naval service, until his death in 1833. Following his retirement, Pellew lived at West Cliff House with his wife Susan and a veritable tribe of 22(!) grandchildren who came and went on a regular basis. West Cliff is now know

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[nodbear]

great pictures - it was a grand outing even in the midst of a storm !

It is a lovely little town and some of those older streets must have been there when Ned and Susan walked them
In fact I have been thinking today that when we came down from Bitton House and reached the Luny house that we should have felt the benign ghost of a tall old man walking a couple of grandchildren down to see MR Luny's painting of grandpa's ships - it must have been more or less the route he took :)

[anteros_lmc]

It's funny, I was thinking about Ned and Susan walking around the town just the other day! I'm sure you're right about the cubs being taken to visit Mr Luny :)

I'm so glad we were able to visit :D