Brixham Devon CAM

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Brixham Vigilance Place: Brixham Category: Transportation Please select a size: 640x480 - 800x600 - 1024x768 About: An unusual view looking up to the very top of the mast caught our eye and made a great photograph.The Vigilance is a restored 78 foot heritage sailing ketch which is available for corporate or private charter, either locally or to France, the Channel...... Photograph Added: 23rd June 2009

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Brixham Harbour Place: Brixham Category: Harbours And Ports Please select a size: 640x480 - 800x600 - 1024x768 About: The small AA book called "Home Town What's Behind the Name?" by John Dodgson is fascinating. The name Brixham is apparently derived from Beorhsige's and Village, where Beorhsige is an Old English man's name and village is 'ham' Photograph Added: 23rd June 2009

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Evening Glow over the Beach at Brixham Place: Brixham Category: Beaches Please select a size: 640x480 - 800x600 - 1024x768 About: The evening just as the sun is about to set is one of our favourite times to take photographs or just to stroll along the beach and drink in the scenery bathed in a warm glow of light. Photograph Added: 29th May 2009

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Ships Wheel Place: Brixham Category: Harbours And Ports Please select a size: 640x480 - 800x600 - 1024x768 About: This gleaming ship's wheel makes an interesting photograph and it is only possible to imagine how far and how often this wheel has steered this lovely boat on its journeys. Photograph Added: 20th May 2009

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Brixham Lighthouse Place: Brixham Category: Lighthouses Please select a size: 640x480 - 800x600 - 1024x768 About: The sun was just about to disappear behind a bank of cloud when we took this photograph of Brixham lighthouse on the breakwater. All the way to the lighthouse there were anglers catching mackerel and on this particular evening there were a lot a fish...... Photograph Added: 20th May 2009

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About Brixham Devon.

Brixham is located five miles south of Torquay on the A3022, it forms the third part of Torbay along with Torquay and Paignton. Like its neighbour Torquay, Brixham enjoys a wonderfully mild climate and is very popular with families, the boating set, tour boats and also attracts artists from all over the world.
As well as being a tourist destination Brixham is still an active fishing port with a fish auction house on the quayside. The fish market is open to the public on two special days in the summer, when the finer points of catching and cooking fish are explained. During the 18th century Brixham was the most profitable fishing port in Britain earning the name of The Mother of Deep-Sea Fisheries.
The rocks around Brixham have played an important part in its history. Limestone was once quarried extensively and it was used to build the breakwater. It's other uses were in the building of houses and roads, and it was sent to Dagenham to make steel for Ford cars. Burnt in limekilns to reduce it to a powder, limestone was spread on the land in parts of Devon to act as an agricultural fertiliser.
Another use of the rocks around Brixham was the production ochre which gave the old fishing boats their red sails. The purpose of this dye was to protect the canvas from seawater, not to look picturesque. It was boiled in great caldrons along with tar, tallow and oak bark, the hot mixture was painted on to the sails and then hung up to dry. The ochre was also used to make a very special paint to stop cast iron from rusting.
It was at Brixham that the Prince of Orange landed in 1688 to make his claim to the throne and in 1815 Napoleon Bonaparte was aboard the Bellerophon in the bay looking towards Brixham, his only close look at England, as he was being transported to his exile on St. Helena. During the 19th Century the vicar of Brixham's All Saints Church a certain Henry Francis Lyte composed one of Britains best loved hymns - Abide With Me.
Popular with tourists is the coffin house at King Street Brixham, which is indeed coffin-shaped. A popular tale is told of a father who informed a prospective son in law that he would see his daughter in a coffin before he allowed her to marry him, whereupon the man bought the coffin house. He then reported to his soon to be father in law that his wishes had been met and allegedly all lived happily ever after.