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Hilary Bradt 
As a family of five, the children then were four five and six years old, we went to bigbury on sea and had such a wonderful time that was about the late 1960s.
We had very little money then but memories are still there of the children playing in the very safe rockpools and inlets. Oh! Memories.
The once tedious journey from Exeter to Torquay and the rest of the English Riviera has been greatly improved by the completion of the South Devon Highway which bypasses Kingskerswell.
On a recent visit to Devon I visited the tranquil Winsford Walled Garden (Winsford Lane, Halwill Junction, Beaworthy EX21 5XT; open Wed-Sun from 10.00am until 5.00pm, plus Bank Holidays; entrance £5). Originally part of a Victorian estate, the walled gardens were left to ruin after the war. Now fully restored, it is a delightful garden brimming with colour, and with many interesting plants and plant combinations. There are two restored Victorian teak greenhouses one of which was full of luscious-looking tomatoes when I visited. There is also an extensive mature bamboo grove with many different varieties, about 40ft high, together with gigantic gunneras. Winsford is the home of the artist Dugald Stark and his wife Adel. Dugald’s oil paintings (seascapes, views of the garden, etc) can be viewed in his studio overlooking the garden. Definitely worth a visit; allow about an hour.