Every picture on this website, with no exception, is taken from one place - our Dartmouth office garden
THE VIEW FROM THE DARTMOUTH OFFICE
JANUARY 2025 TVFTDO
We were away on holiday for some of the latter p[art of January.
Bound to have missed stuff. Too bad.
There are 105 Photos in this album over 3 pages.
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01 January 2025 - 00:01:45
Organised by Dartmouth Chamber of Commerce and paid for by various sponsors, mainly generous businesses around town Dartmouth has once again got a New Years Firework display. An excellent focus for the evening, which, in time, may well hail the return of the fancy dress night in town.
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Dartmouth New Year Fireworks display
Organised by Dartmouth Chamber of Commerce and paid for by various sponsors, mainly generous businesses around town Dartmouth has once again got a New Years Firework display. An excellent focus for the evening, which, in time, may well hail the return of the fancy dress night in town.
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Dartmouth New Year Fireworks display

01 January 2025 - 00:02:40
Yeah, I know, not the best firework pix. Just live with it.
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Dartmouth New Year Fireworks display
Yeah, I know, not the best firework pix. Just live with it.
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Dartmouth New Year Fireworks display

01 January 2025 - 00:03:40
More than any other colour, the red fireworks light up the valley.
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Dartmouth New Year Fireworks display
More than any other colour, the red fireworks light up the valley.
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Dartmouth New Year Fireworks display

01 January 2025 - 15:12:32
First day of the year and this group went a house viewing down near Ravensbury Drive and Warfleet. It always amuses to see people standing up in a boat, they tend to be unstable things. The logo on the umbrella reads Development Securities plc. According to the company website they were involved in the building of a care home in Dartmouth in 2010.
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Standing room only.
First day of the year and this group went a house viewing down near Ravensbury Drive and Warfleet. It always amuses to see people standing up in a boat, they tend to be unstable things. The logo on the umbrella reads Development Securities plc. According to the company website they were involved in the building of a care home in Dartmouth in 2010.
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Standing room only.

03 January 2025 - 08:39:56
The Chronic used this pic and said it was steam coming off the sea. Puleeeze!
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Dart TN:I in a low mist.
The Chronic used this pic and said it was steam coming off the sea. Puleeeze!
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Dart TN:I in a low mist.

03 January 2025 - 08:41:47
First shout of the year - a call out to Beesands. And on the way back into Dartmouth harbour a quick check of the shoreline under The Dartmouth Office.
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RNLI lifeboat shout.
First shout of the year - a call out to Beesands. And on the way back into Dartmouth harbour a quick check of the shoreline under The Dartmouth Office.
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RNLI lifeboat shout.

03 January 2025 - 08:56:39
It's known as 'sea smoke' and is actually water vapour that forms when really cold air moves over relatively warmer water. It is not, as the Chron called it, "steam".
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Smoke on the water.
It's known as 'sea smoke' and is actually water vapour that forms when really cold air moves over relatively warmer water. It is not, as the Chron called it, "steam".
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Smoke on the water.

09 January 2025 - 10:24:44
Dart RNLI new boat house continues to take shape.
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Dart RNLI new boat house
Dart RNLI new boat house continues to take shape.
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Dart RNLI new boat house

12 January 2025 - 12:15:30
There used to a a rusty tin shed where now lies a portaloo. Change is a-coming.
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Kingswear construction
There used to a a rusty tin shed where now lies a portaloo. Change is a-coming.
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Kingswear construction

12 January 2025 - 14:00:14
Pacific Grebe is an unusual craft. It's a Nuclear Fuel Carrier. Mainly owned by the UK's Nuclear Decomissioning Authority. And right now, it's anchored in Tor Bay. Stand back.
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104m Nuclear Fuel Carrier Pacific Grebe
Pacific Grebe is an unusual craft. It's a Nuclear Fuel Carrier. Mainly owned by the UK's Nuclear Decomissioning Authority. And right now, it's anchored in Tor Bay. Stand back.
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104m Nuclear Fuel Carrier Pacific Grebe

13 January 2025 - 14:37:54
Royal Navy Merlin helicopter ZH832 flying upriver.
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Royal Navy Merlin ZH832
Royal Navy Merlin helicopter ZH832 flying upriver.
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Royal Navy Merlin ZH832

14 January 2025 - 10:10:44
Celtic Rock wanted their drill back.
A simple job - if you have a crane.
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Kingswear construction
Celtic Rock wanted their drill back.
A simple job - if you have a crane.
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Kingswear construction

14 January 2025 - 10:16:27
Strange complicated jib on the crane.
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Kingswear construction
Strange complicated jib on the crane.
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Kingswear construction

14 January 2025 - 12:48:33
Meanwhile, little obvious change at the new RNLI boat house.
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Dartmouth's new RNLI Lifeboat station.
Meanwhile, little obvious change at the new RNLI boat house.
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Dartmouth's new RNLI Lifeboat station.

14 January 2025 - 12:49:23
And that's another storey. Down at Noss on Dart, the hotel is rising gently.
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Noss on Dart construction
And that's another storey. Down at Noss on Dart, the hotel is rising gently.
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Noss on Dart construction

14 January 2025 - 18:20:01
Yes, obviously that's the moon rising over Kiingswear. Can you see the line of three stars to the right and above the moon? They are, in ascending order.....Mars, Pollux and Castor.
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Moon and the stars over Kingswear.
Yes, obviously that's the moon rising over Kiingswear. Can you see the line of three stars to the right and above the moon? They are, in ascending order.....Mars, Pollux and Castor.
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Moon and the stars over Kingswear.

14 January 2025 - 18:31:54
Late night run up and down the river from a Royal Navy Merlin.
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Royal Navy Merlin.night exercise
Late night run up and down the river from a Royal Navy Merlin.
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Royal Navy Merlin.night exercise

15 January 2025 - 11:04:22
The sun finally burned off the cloudy stuff. Although in technical terms that's probably cloud on the right and fog down left. And the top of Kingswear in the background.
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Cloud and fog over Kingswear
The sun finally burned off the cloudy stuff. Although in technical terms that's probably cloud on the right and fog down left. And the top of Kingswear in the background.
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Cloud and fog over Kingswear

16 January 2025 - 07:35:04
In the darkness, the mist wasn't helping vision. It's Kingswear ferry pontoon in case you hadn't guessed.
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Night mist over Kingswear
In the darkness, the mist wasn't helping vision. It's Kingswear ferry pontoon in case you hadn't guessed.
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Night mist over Kingswear