Saltash

Saltash Passage

I have my own website of old photos of Saltash Passage at
http://freespace.virgin.net/derek.tait/passage.htm
which I hope will bring back memories.I'm compiling a book about Saltash Passage and I'm searching for any old photos and I wondered if anyone here could help me either with pictures or memories of the area.
Thanks for any help that you can give me.
Best wishes,
Derek Tait.
derek.tait@virgin.net
Contributed by Derek Tait

Grandad's grandads.

The white building on the far right of the photo is the Royal Albert Bridge Inn, at Saltash Passage on the Devon side on the river. A relative was born there in 1920 when his father John Augustin R. Stoneman was the landlord. Prior to that the landlord was John Watts Stoneman, father of JARS. His other grandfather was William John Bronte, who told his grandson that he had been told by his mother that she held him in her arms as a baby, standing on the bridge at the official opening in 1859.
Contributed by Alyson Herbert

Early Memories of Saltash

I lived in a two story flat, over what was Barclays Bank. Almost opposite was the Guidhall and St Nicholas and Faith Church. We had a clear view from our lounge and upper bedroom window of the road leading to the station and local police station. Immediately behind the bank property lived Mr and Mrs Hobbs with their daughters on what you might call a smallholding. Mr Hobbs worked for the council and bred rabbits and racing pigeons in his spare time. Their property was obliterated when the road bridge was constructed. My father was a Mason and used to attend meetings in the Masonic Hall which was only a matter of a few yards down the Fore Street hill on ...read more here
Contributed by Raymond Guy

Life in full circle

The little house next to Mary Newman`s Cottage is where I live now...but I first walked past it with my mother at about the time this photo was taken.
We got off the steam train at the station just up the hill, to walk to the waterside.
I also remember the house about 8 years later as a young teenager with our gang
from Plymouth...over to scrump the apples and pears which were once grown on Old Ferry Road. It was just by chance that I discovered that the little house was for sale in 1992 and I have been living here since.
Up until the 70s there was a gas works at the back of the house and a 3 ...read more here
Contributed by Steve Fuller

Rats, rats and more rats.

This photograph was obviously taken when the road bridge was nearing completion in 1961. My husband grew up nearby, and tells some gruesome stories about the plague of rats they experienced when the undergrowth was being cleared in the early days of construction. The family cat would bring home several rats each day, and local gardens were over-run with them. Worse still, they got into outhouses and sheds, under floorboards and even into houses.
Contributed by Alyson Herbert

Which side of the River Tamar?

This photo is actually taken from the Devon side of the River Tamar, in St Budeaux, looking towards Saltash on the Cornwall side. In photos taken after the road bridge opened in 1961, you can tell which side is which, as from the Devon side the rail bridge is on the left. Before then, it depends on the angle of the photo i.e. if the railway line comes into view from your left and curves to the left in the distance, usually with the bridge to the right, then you are looking from Devon towards Cornwall.
Contributed by Alyson Herbert