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  • A portrait of Devon County Farmers Union, Geoff Cleverdon, on 28th May 1990, in Devon, England.
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  • A couple sleep on sun loungers outside the awning of their parked caravan at a caravan site in Devon. Both tired out from a day's touring or walking, the two are sound asleep, dreaming of the peaceful life on holiday in the quiet corner of the otherwise busy location.
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  • Three dads are looking their respective children of varying ages - from a baby to an infant and 8-year old. In the foreground a father reads his tabloid newspaper as his toddler sleeps contentedly in its pushchair, a dummy in the mouth and a blanket scross its body to keep out a chilly breeze. Further back another man stands waiting for his partner with a baby, also asleep in the buggy. And thirdly, a male pushes his daughter in pink up a small slope on a bicycle that uses stablizers. It is a busy scene on Paignton seafront on the Devon coast. Elsewhere children and adults of all ages walk along the esplanade enjoying an overcast and windy day on holiday. This theatrical scene is about the ideal father and the family unit.
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  • A lady protects herself from a mid-day summer summer sun with a brightly coloured parasol brolley. Oblivious to the viewer, she balances her lunch snack on her lap with toes pointing inwards, exposed to the hot solar rays. Meanwhile, she holds on tight to her eager pet poodle dog who is straining on its leash, wanting to go for a walk along the largely unpopulated promenade in this Devon resort, otherwise known as the English Riviera. But splashes of white paint (from the painted beach huts) have been left on the pavement. It is a horrible place to sit in the sun and her partner has left her alone to sit on her sun lounger, leaving the second chair vacant.
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  • On a busy Summer weekend, families enjoy the old Tarr Steps Clapper Bridge over the River Barle in Exmoor National Park, Devon, England. Crossing on the huge stone prehistoric slabs which weigh up to 5 tons apiece, children play with fishing nets, walk dogs and sit enjoying the view below of others who mess about in a small inflatable dinghy on the flowing stream. Located in a National Nature Reserve about 2.5 miles (4 km) south east of Withypool and 4 miles (6 km) north west of Dulverton, this spot is a favourite tourist place in South-West England. This typical clapper bridge construction may date to around 1000 BC. It is 180 feet (55 m) long and has 17 spans and designated by English Heritage as a grade I listed building.
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  • Two elderly ladies walk along to a younger man carrying a windsurfing sail on the seafront at the Devon resort of Paignton. A small pet dog is being exercised on a lead on an overcast day and beach huts stretch into the distance towards the town centre. The male in a wet suit has the sail resting on his head but the women don't seem to notice.
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  • An aerial view looking down from a highpoint, on to the shallows and surf of waters near Lynton, Devon, England. Windsurfers traverse the windy seascape on a spring day on this south-western coast, one of England's warmest regions. Here, young surfers and ocean adventurers travel to these parts where the beaches are level and where the waves arrive at the coast in perfectly-formed breakers. In the picture, one surfer has fallen from their board, the sail now horizontal in the water. But the others are upright and travelling across the wind, expertly riding the waves.
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  • On table 3, a holiday couple enjoy a full English cooked breakfast in the bay window of a Bed & Breakfast (B+B) in the Devon seaside resort of Paignton. Seated in the bright area that overlooks the seafront, beach huts and the calm sea in the distance. On the gingham tablecloth is a traditional English tea pot, toast rack and jam and they tuck into slices of white bread toast accompanied by orange juice. A No Vacancies sign hangs in the window for potential guests to spot as they walk the promenade.
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  • Beneath an ugly breeze block concrete wall, a couple are enjoying their holiday in the English seaside town of Paignton, Devon. Sitting in striped deckchairs they are both curiously touching their own genital areas between their legs, perhaps both scratching an itch. The lady in sunglasses wearing a floral dress on the left looks guilty while her topless male partner appears more amused by the interruption. In this depressing corner of Paignton, also called the English Riviera, the grey construction behind them is a grim reminder of what it is often like to holiday in one's own home country where few exotic luxuries are found. Such squalor is unfortunately common around the UK and a reason why people take their vacations abroad. Even the grass below them is bare with weeds growing and soil at the foot of the wall.
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  • A batsman prepares to walk on to the field during a local club match in Paignton, UK. Adjusting his cap before taking to the field of play, the young man already wears his pads and 'whites' the clothing required of club cricket players on match days. A local company is sponsoring the team or pavilion where members and officials sit enjoying the afternoon's play, ready to cheer on the batsman.
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  • A wide interior landscape view of the beautiful seats, upper circle and arched roof of the Torbay Picture House. The manager stands in the balcony to show its scale. It was open in at least 1914, making it what is believed to be the oldest purpose-built cinema in Europe. In its early days it featured a 21-piece orchestra, with each member paid a guinea to perform. There are 375 seats: 271 in the stalls, 104 in the circle, plus three private boxes at the back seating an additional eight. Seat 2, Row 2 of the circle was the favourite seat of crime novelist Agatha Christie, who lived at Greenway House, near neighbouring Kingswear. The cinemas and theatres in her books are all reportedly based on the Torbay Picture House.
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  • A dirty Keep Devon Tidy council sign discouraging litter at their seaside has been written over by graffiti.
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  • Beer cans and other rubbish collects in a corner of a heritage structure on the beach at Croyde, north Devon.
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  • Beer cans and other rubbish collects in a corner of a heritage structure on the beach at Croyde, north Devon.
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  • A contestant for the next Torbay Carnival Princess and Queen is interviewed by a man as the competition thrones await their newest occupants during the seaside town's fair in Devon, England. A crown, hat and two bouquets of flowers are for the young girls too. The theme of the stage is blue, with matching colours on both cushions and the backing curtain (drapes). We get a sense of the tacky and the old-fashioned nature of the carnival and of its princess competition.
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  • Mother and daughter read holiday novels on smooth pebbles at Trentishoe Cove, north Devon.
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  • A wild water swimmer splashes surrounded by seaweed in shallows of Trentishoe cove, near Lynton, Devon.
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  • A 13 year-old teenage boy walks up steep sandstone rocks in the coastal cove of Trentishoe in north Devon.
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  • A wild water swimmer shouts out from the cold sea whilst in shallows of Trentishoe cove, near Lynton, Devon.
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  • Mother and daughter tread over smooth rocks at Trentishoe Cove, north Devon.
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  • Seen through a car windscreen, the open road blurs past showing speed and freedom on Exmoor, Devon England.
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  • An unrecognisable bather wearing a stripy costume bends over awkwardly to adjust his towel on the promenade pavement (sidewalk) at Minehead, Devon. The man's reddened posterior is pointed towards the viewer and his dachshund (sausage) pet dog stands still looking away to the right, towards unseen interest. A family of four stroll along the sandy beach during low tide. It is a hot afternoon but we only see a quiet scene at this busy resort.
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  • Carnival princesses with local crowds at the contest for Torbay's Carnival Princess and Queen during the seaside town's fair in Devon, England. Three young girls dressed in floral dresses await decisions near their eager families. Some wear a special sash with 'Princess for a day' across.
    carnival_princess04-12-06-1992.jpg
  • A wild water swimmer paddles amongst seaweed in shallows of Trentishoe cove, near Lynton, Devon.
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  • A 13 year-old teenage boy walks along the tops of sandstone rocks in the coastal cove of Trentishoe in north Devon.
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  • A family have taken their pet dogs along on their holiday to Combe martin in north Devon.
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  • A walking couple rest on a bench at Capstone Hill pverlooking the North Devon Coast waters of Ilfracombe.
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  • A walking couple rest on a bench at Morte Point on the North Devon Coast.
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  • A walking couple rest on a bench at Morte Point on the North Devon Coast.
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  • A lady sits outside in morning sunshine on the terrace of her B+B guesthouse in the Devon seaside town of Paignton. It is late morning and a lady has emerged from her bead and breakfast. Sunlight is quite high in the sky and the shadows of a vine that is growing across the roof of the building's terrace, is seen on the wall behind the woman. She is seated reading a magazine in a garden chair and is surrounded by colourful flowers in their prime. Well-painted original victorian railings that act as a sort of ballustrade are in front of the female. In the window is a scene of typical seaside Englishness. Serviettes are splayed out on a table along with breakfast or dinner items awaiting guests at the next meal.
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  • It is late morning and a lady has emerged from her bead and breakfast (B+B)  in Paignton, Devon. Sunlight is quite high in the sky and the shadows of a vine that is growing across the roof of the building's terrace, is seen on the wall behind the woman. She is seated reading a magazine in a garden chair and is surrounded by colourful flowers in their prime. Well-painted original victorian railings that act as a sort of ballustrade are in front of the female. In the window is a scene of typical seaside Englishness. Serviettes are splayed out on a table along with breakfast or dinner items awaiting guests at the next meal.
    bed_and_breakfast01-21-07-1992.jpg
  • An elderly gentleman has just emerged from a swim in the cold waters off Paignton, the seaside town in Devon, south-west England. Still to towel himself down, he looks chilled to the bone but stands talking to friends out of view. The man wears dark trunks (costume) and has a large belly but otherwise looks fit and healthy, a true picture of health for a man of his age, after swimming in these seas for many years and enjoying the endorphins that are stimulated after wild, outdoor swims.
    paignton_sea_swimmer-19-07-1993.jpg
  • A volunteer heritage railway enthusiast adjusts a platform sign at the Paignton steam museum.
    steam_railway2-14-06-1992.jpg
  • A 15 year-old teenage girl is sips tea whilst being served steaming rice in a field whilst on a family camping holiday.
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  • A volunteer helps an elderly lady from the platform up into a train carriage at the Paignton steam museum.
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  • A 15 year-old teenage girl is happy in a field whilst on a family camping holiday.
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  • Four small vessels belonging to traditional oyster fishermen use nets to catch a new harvest of shellfish aboard their antique boat from the Fal Estuary. On calm waters, the oystermen have harvested on the River Fal in the same traditional and highly sustainable fashion, without the use of mechanical power, for more than five hundred years, being widely grown along the whole Cornish coast when the Romans invaded, and by 1602 they were being caught in much the same way as they are today, using thick, strong nets, called dredges. Byelaws banned oyster dredging by mechanical means, forcing local fishermen to rely on wind and tide in purpose-built, sail-powered Falmouth Working Boats. Although most oyster fishermen in Falmouth have other seasonal jobs, for the most experienced and committed fishermen oysters provide a decent year-round livelihood.
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  • A boy stands leaning on a hand rail near the top steps at Paignton sea front. At the bottom of the steps and floating face down in the clear, unpolluted  water, his arms outstretched, is a diver wearing a wet suit who appears lifeless. It is a scene of ambiguity and the viewer might be confused over whether the diver is in fact dead. It looks as if the diver has drowned but he is only enjoying the buoyancy of the salt sea water. It is a sunny afternoon and the shadows of the steps' rail which zigzags down the concrete steps.
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  • An elderly man sunbathes on a summer beach in the seaside resort of Paignton, England. The gentleman looks out across the stretch of sandy coast at low-tide and a square pool made by flooding high-tide sea water provides a natural place to swim when the sea is far out. The male in the foreground is seen in close-up and we see the expanse of his back covered in freckles. After many sunny hours beneath solar rays he is tanned but not burned. Nevertheless, he is at risk of the pigment in those freckles turning into melanomas, the cause of skin cancer. More than 10,000 people a year are developing the deadliest form of skin cancer as a result of package holidays and excessive use of sunbeds. Cases of malignant melanoma rose by 650 (6.5 per cent) in a single year as a result of binge-tanning at home and abroad, according to Cancer Research UK.
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  • An elderly gentleman towels himself down after emerging from his regular morning swim in the cold waters off Paignton.
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  • The A30 highway runs deep into the South-West of England - from Exeter in the county of Devon to Penzance in the narrow peninsular of Cornwall. On certain dates in the calendar routes like this, near the Cornish town of Bodmin, England, come to a standstill from the huge volume of cars and private vehicles, all heading down to costal resorts and better weather. We see here a huge tailback of traffic that is queueing along one side of the British dual-carriageway (two lanes in each direction) from close-up  to the distance down and up a natural hill in this undulating landscape. The cars have edged forward are nose to tail for hours in summer heatwave and tempers fray, children arguing in the back and an otherwise relaxed holiday mood suddenly goes bad.
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  • Two friends watch lipstick technique as a lady applies a layer to her lips while holding her cocktail before entering a party held in a marquee at the Royal Navy Air Station Culdrose, on 14th May 1998, at Culdrose, Devon, England.
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  • Splashed blue paint on the sea wall in the north Devon coastal town of Ilfracombe.
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  • A pet Dalmatian dog stands near stony ground near Morte Point on the north Devon coast.
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  • A pet Dalmatian dog stands near stony ground near Morte Point on the north Devon coast.
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  • Disposable BBQ and bags of kindkling wood in bags on sale in small north Devon village corner shop.
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  • A sleeping Brit holidaymaker lies on the pavement outside the Exmoor Bar in the Butlins holiday camp at Minehead, Devon. A lady also sleeps with head propped up on an elbow with empty pint glasses on the bench. Butlins and other camp businesses went into decline when the masses preferred Spanish vacations but have since been revived as travel costs have again soared and holidays at home are once again popular.
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  • See from behind, a man sits on rocks at Morte Point, North Devon coast.
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  • A pet Chihuahua dog looks up to its owner whilest walking along the promenade of Ilfracombe on the north Devon coast.
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  • A community spirited sign urges villagers to help themselves to rusted paint pots in the north Devon village of Mortehoe.
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  • A pet Dalmatian dog stands near stony ground near Morte Point on the north Devon coast.
    dalmatian2-04-August-2011.jpg
  • Bodyboards on sale in the north Devon coastal village of Combe Martin. The bodyboard differs from a surfboard in the fact that it is much shorter and made out of foam. Bodyboarding has been around since ancient Hawaiian days, it was called "Paipo" and was made out of koa wood. The modern board consists of a foam 'core' encapsulated by a plastic bottom and a softer foam top known as the deck. The core is made up from dow/polyethylene, arcel or, more recently, polypropylene.
    body-boards1-04-August-2011.jpg
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