We left the riverside palm trees to look at the town again.
The little sheltered harbour was beginning to fill with water and alongside this was a park.
Parts of this were delightful.
There was a water carrier statue/fountain.
A little adjunct to the information centre held a Newcomen steam engine – these are early = pre James Watt – and simple too. But the building it was housed in was too small for photographs.
So what we have is both ends of the beam.
Engines like this might have been used in the 18th century to pump water from mines.
We found our way back to the shopping area with its attractive, old buildings.
The park was actually quite extensive.
It was complete with bandstand.
I commented last time on interesting artwork on buildings.
These were shields of local worthies.
Thomas Newcomen had a road named for him as well.
We made our way back to the river, buying an ice cream from the trainless station. We wandered downstream a little. Yes, that is the open sea out there.
Kingswear lies across the river.
Small car ferries ply across between Dartmouth and Kingswear
It was tempting to go that way for I could see the carriages in Kingswear station across the water.
They need a zoom in too.
But we took a different route which you’ll see as we journey home, next time.
