Here is this week’s selection of old photos and memories from the Cookworthy Museum in Kingsbridge:

Women washing jam jars, all WVS. Second World War, during the evacuation of the Slapton area. (Kingsbridge Cookworthy Museum)

Alphaeus Ball, rabbit trapper of South Milton, previously a blacksmith with donkey.
The donkey is wearing a wooden frame and panniers which were used to carry rabbits and bucket and sieve etc. (Kingsbridge Cookworthy Museum)

Pre 1912: Five men sitting on the wall outside uncompleted Links Hotel, Thurlestone.
Back row: Joshua Boyce (in charge of building hotel), Edward John Tanner (clothier), Langworthy (butcher).
Front row: unknown, William Stubbs (visitor on business with Tanner). (Kingsbridge Cookworthy Museum)

The Crabshell Inn and Bonds Quay, Kingsbridge with a sailing boat *Bertie* by the quay. View to the northwest.
Originally the New Quay Inn, it was locally known as "the Crabshell" for years before officially being renamed. (Kingsbridge Cookworthy Museum)

1915: Bus GA 26 and driver outside Great Western Hotel, Modbury.
Later name changed to the Red Devon Hotel, and eventually demolished for road widening. (Kingsbridge Cookworthy Museum)
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