Boat Cove’s Past Revealed: Dawlish Photos & Giant Cygnets! - 27/11/24

[@Trekon2]

A it's Dawlish lovely, let's go boat cove yay, fishermen shelters great old pictures, roll out the barrels let's have some barrels of fish, lovely old postcard of a steam train which just dropped off the weekend sailors an increasingly popular pastime, volenteer painters needed, cygnets yay, racing river chickens ha ha, the duck sale ha ha, love boat cove and Coryton cove, love the coffee cabin next to beach great video and thanks Bill very entertaining 😄👏👋

[@robcaddick]

Hi Bill, a really interesting turn around Boat Cove, thanks Andy for the history. It's amazing how much the cygnets have grown. You aren't sneaking down to Dawlish on the quiet to feed them are you Bill? 😂😂😂 See you tomorrow mate. 👍👍👍

[@BillsPhoneTeignmouth]

I know! Aren't they massive! Really shocked me tbh... Almost the same size as Mum & Dad, in what seems to me, like the blink of an eye! Cheers Rob, see you tomorrow 👍👍👍

[@pamelawhite3709]

Hello Bill thank you for another fab video . Great photo s Bill and Andy many thanks enjoyed the history of Boat Cove . Wow yes aren't our cygnets huge now beautiful. Lovely to see all of the water fowl geese and our older cygnets weren't they chatty 😮Great to see all of the trains Bill . Well I'll say bye for today have a lovely afternoon see you tomorrow Bill stay safe and warm ❤😊xx

[@BillsPhoneTeignmouth]

Cheers Pam - Yes, the Cygnets are MASSIVE now - Almost as big as the parents! Crazy! See you tomorrow 👍👍👍

[@SionsTrainVideos]

lovely to see dawlish again

[@BillsPhoneTeignmouth]

Yes, nice to get out of Teignmouth 👍👍👍

[@JeffreyBrookes-bd7zh]

Great Segment covering Boat Cove, thank you Andy. 👍

[@BillsPhoneTeignmouth]

Cheers Jeffery, glad you enjoyed it 👍👍👍

[@andybyrne50]

Welcome Jeffery

[@chucky2316]

Thank you bill and andy I've learnt alot about dawlish today I didn't know it was a fishing town. Enjoyable video. If I may though can I correct bill gays creamery never hides that is the issue 😂, ahh bill I would have been over that brook like a duck. Buying a lamb and mint pasty and a small tub of ice cream.

[@BillsPhoneTeignmouth]

If it wee not for my diabetes, I'd be in Gays Creamery, every time I visited Dawlish 👍👍👍

[@andybyrne50]

I’ve had to do my best to avoid it. I’m going in for my Christmas beer, they always support local Breweries…sounds bad 😂

[@chucky2316]

Yep lads the food is great I'm very fond of their lamb and mint pasty 😊yum yum. I like their all day breakfast pie slices aswell but I have to limit things like that and a full english breakfast once a month treat. Too much cholesterol 😢

[@andybyrne50]

Some big fishing families lived in the town, of course the railway came and it became incredibly popular with tourists and it changed the thinking. It benefited highly from Tourism during the time of the Napoleonic wars, as Teignmouth, Torquay had high naval activity and French prisoners arrived daily. Brunel saw this and the railway lifted the town’s prosperity considerably and Dawlish became one of the uks most popular tourist destinations with the wealthy.

[@chucky2316]

​@@andybyrne50I knew torquay was known as a health spa almost back in its day. We are lucky to live in this area 🙏

[@carolberesford4789]

Hello Bill enjoyed the visit to Dawlish , very interesting Andy learnt something new . The ducks and cygnets all look well and the brook has certainly gone down. Particularly enjoyed the train rid back to Teignmouth, never tire of that. See you tomorrow Carol

[@BillsPhoneTeignmouth]

Glad you enjoyed it - Thanks Carol - See you tomorrow 👍👍👍

[@mrbigbadtrev]

Nice piece on Boat Cove me duck ............. and swans. Amazing the money they are spending on Dawlish Station, just the job. 😺

[@BillsPhoneTeignmouth]

Thanks Trev. Yes, nice to see money actually being spent on something for a change! 👍

[@garymcgregor7048]

Hooray, BOD is back 😂😂. Well done bill

[@BillsPhoneTeignmouth]

Cheers Gary - Its your pals shop on Friday btw 👍👍👍

[@garymcgregor7048]

Yes , she was thrilled you came along. Thankyou again bill 👍

[@lindapayne5578]

Hi Bill, yes you were right, I did enjoy today’s Dawlish video. It always looks lovely even in the winter. Boat cove is an interesting place, I brought my mum a boat cove tea towel from Laura Wall a while a go, she loves it but would much rather see the real thing. Swans and ducks all look good , I do feel abit sorry for them during winter .😊

[@BillsPhoneTeignmouth]

Glad to hear it Linda - Yes, I kinda feel bad for them myself, but I suppose its all nature at the end of the day, and they are kinda designed for the weather they are facing 👍👍👍

[@brentwestbrook]

I've walked along the sea wall from Teignmouth to Dawlish and back with my dogs many times. I often used to walk to The Smugglers too.

[@BillsPhoneTeignmouth]

Yes, its a lovely walk - Cant do it myself very often, due to time constraints.... 👍👍👍

[@debbiebartlett6526]

That little journey from Teignmouth to Dawlish brought back happy memories, great video 😊

[@BillsPhoneTeignmouth]

Glad you enjoyed it Debbie 👍

[@derisleybrittain]

❤❤❤Good 🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@BillsPhoneTeignmouth]

Cheers mate 👍

[@ianbolton9309]

Fantastic video bill, the comedy duo makes it so good thanks to learn about the boat cove great old pics and information from Andy 👍🤗and to see all the different birds 👍🙂

[@BillsPhoneTeignmouth]

Cheers Ian - Yes, nice day out that was - I enjoyed filming that with Andy 👍👍👍

[@andybyrne50]

Thanks Ian , we always have a good laugh. The Dawlish & Teignmouth little and Large

[@ianbolton9309]

@andybyrne50 haha yes you are keep the comedy coming chaps 👍😁🤗

[@andybyrne50]

Little & Large strike again…quackers 😂

[@BillsPhoneTeignmouth]

Cheers mate - Another great day 👍 👍👍

[@andybyrne50]

@@BillsPhoneTeignmouth our next trip will be the Christmas icing on the cake

[@BillsPhoneTeignmouth]

Yup, looking forward to it 👍👍👍

[@scottybeeuk]

❤❤❤👍👍👍

[@BillsPhoneTeignmouth]

Cheers 👍

[@DavidSheriff-f7o]

Like the walk along to the cove, why not put all your pics b & w on a web page Bill?

[@BillsPhoneTeignmouth]

Because they are not really 'My Pics' David. I'm using them on a fair use basis, by adding value and original content by my speech and the present day approximation. I can legally do this, but If I just put them on a webpage, I'm basically just taking other peoples pics that I don't have the right too 👍👍👍

[@GrahamWoodward-ww1zf]

Good content Bill.

[@BillsPhoneTeignmouth]

Thanks Graham - Glad you enjoyed it 👍👍👍

[@somethinginnocuousindahouse]

nice to learn some species of duck that I never knew before

[@BillsPhoneTeignmouth]

Yes, I paused and read it myself out-loud to Mum 👍👍👍

[@somethinginnocuousindahouse]

@@BillsPhoneTeignmouth I was actually wondering what the white duck was, too small to be an Aylesbury Duck, nice to learn, lol.

[@marksmith3489]

Indian runner duck surly

[@andybyrne50]

It’s actually a young Rouen duck , which was bred in France for the table, for some strange, odd reasons I called it a french runner.

[@BillsPhoneTeignmouth]

Yup, thats the one 👍

[@chucky2316]

I will let him live another day and enter gays creamery

[@andybyrne50]

⁠@@BillsPhoneTeignmouthit was a Rouen , Bill. I think I got into a flap with my Ducks and the wrong name came out of my Beak 😵‍💫

[@janicemiles4638]

A French runner sounds lime a legume 😂

[@barryhargreaves3311]

Come on andy and bill did not look at peaks number on tunnel Wall . Good video only 28 weeks before I back

[@BillsPhoneTeignmouth]

Cheers! That will fly past in no time 👍

[@andybyrne50]

I have mentioned the peak numbers on a previous Bill visit. It’s a shame because they are disappearing rapidly and they’ve been on that wall for years.

[@barryhargreaves3311]

Bill 175 on way down check Dawlish cam 5 30 am 154 minutes down check

[@BillsPhoneTeignmouth]

Hoping to catch the return tomorrow at 1029 - Andy on the other hand is an early bird, so if he gets footage, he sends it to me :)

[@andybyrne50]

I got the early one this morning Barry and Bill will be showing it in his video

[@BillsPhoneTeignmouth]

Yup, its in 'Todays' - Meaning next Thursdays

[@davidlean2879]

Network Rail profit last year £324 Million. Can't afford to paint the bridge though 😡

[@BillsPhoneTeignmouth]

Yup... Exactly.... 😥😥😥

[@chucky2316]

It's disgusting tbh David and the damage they did to our economy