Down at Beer beach looking back up to the village. Beer is near Seaton in Devon.......



Looking from the village back down to the pebble beach at Beer.......



Now at the Pecorama train ride. For those who don't know, Peco make a variety of model train equipment in various gauges. This ride is just an attraction at their display area and nice gardens........



We had to ride of course, so here is a view from the train, double header this time as quite a few visiting locos were having a run on the tracks.........



Much shunting and shuffling getting ready for the next train ride, (BHLR stands for Beer Heights Light Railway)......



Up in the overflow car park there was a gathering of some steam vehicles, this is a restored Stanley Steamer.......



A gathering of steam traction engines, some genuine full size and some scaled down versions.......



This one is 1/4 scale and it took this gentleman 23 years years to complete it, quite powerful as it easily took him up a steepish grass slope to the display area. He took great pride in that it was built true to the original from the actual drawings, but at 1/4 size....



Next to Beer Quarry Caves, no longer a quarry, but the stone was quarried from AD 47 to the 1920's. As we went through the caves we could see the variations in removal methods by the different tool marks and also the different types of columns left holding the roof up. Here's a selection of the old tools they used to use.....



An example of the type of use the stone was put to, it was ideal for carving......



First in the Roman occupation era part of the quarry.....



The Saxons and the Normans and others all had a go so the shape of the caves varies as we wandered deeper......



In real life it was much much darker than that, the wonders of ISO 25,600 helped a lot with the above shots.

Next, out in the fresh air again and some of the countryside seen at Branscombe.........



In Branscombe, the pub has sun umbrellas made of thatch.......



More thatch in Branscombe......



St Winifred's church in Branscombe..........



Next picture, in there with my ancestors in East Budleigh, OK I'm above ground, they are below. A bunch of Parsons, Good, Carter people interred here, all related to me. On the left my great-grandparents, and on the right my great-great-grandparents, and my great-great-great-grandparents are right next to these off to the right on a flat tombstone on the ground......



The East Budleigh All Saints church where the graveyard is. Pay attention my children and grandchildren, these are also your ancestors at rest here.....



On a lighter note, a scarecrow festival was in town, and lots of silly scarecrows were scattered about.......



Oh, and besides the Parsons, somebody called Sir Walter Raleigh was born in East Budleigh, he got a statue, the Parsons didn't......