Gibb photograph archive, Volume 2

Holyshute House, Honiton, boating and playing at the lake

There are 18 photographs, over pages 25, 26 and 27, of the boys relaxing at the lake. It forms the largest single theme in the volume. A selection is presented here.

No. 25b - Keth Gibb rowing

No. 25c

No. 25d

No. 25e

No. 25f - Keith Gibb rowing

No. 26b

No. 26f - Exelby rowing Eric Dare

There was a lake in the grounds of the house. Sadly it has now gone and is built over by post-war housing. Old maps show it to have been quite a sizeable lake (map right is Ordnance Survey 1887-88, with lake coloured in to indicate its position behind the house).

The fields shown beyond the lake are now passed through by the Honiton A30 bypass, opened in 1966.

Commentary by Eric Dare: The lake at Honiton.