October 2022 Magazine article

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Magazine article September 2022

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IPPLEPEN CARNIVAL

The carnival has always been an opportunity for everyone to let their hair down a bit and have some fun. It’s about dressing up and being prepared to make a fool of yourself and bringing everyone together to enjoy the summer season. The pictures here date from the 1948 Carnival and in that post war period with continuing rationing everyone jumped at the opportunity to enter the spirit of the occasion.As another point of contrast,

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AGM

We would like to invite everyone to our AGM on MONDAY JULY 25th at the Village Hall starting at 7.30pm. New members are particularly welcome and if you would like to become more involved in our activities this evening provides an opportunity. Once the business of the evening is complete,

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Professor Stephen Rippon

In May the Local History Group was delighted to welcome back Professor Stephen Rippon. In front of a packed audience Professor Rippon provided an update on the current state of play regarding the Ipplepen Archaeological Dig. The dig which ended in 2020 received national coverage and some of the findings seem set to permanently alter our perception of the Roman occupation of the southwest.

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Coffee Morning
Many thanks to all of you who turned up to our coffee morning in March. It was lovely to see so many of you. We are often required to work in isolation cataloguing the documents in our archive and the photographs on our website, but we do maintain a strong presence on social media and appreciate all the feedback that we receive.

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Talks: At the end of February, we were treated to an excellent talk by Alex Graeme from Devon Unique Tours. The event was well attended, and Alex provided a good-humoured and informative guide to the background of Arthur Conan Doyle’s ‘Hound of the Baskervilles’. It helps when you have an Ipplepen link and the Ipplepen link was the name Baskerville.

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The Evergreens
Recently we received the minutes and records of another one of Ipplepen’s most loved organisations. The inaugural meeting of the club that came to be known as the Evergreens was held in the Church Hall on August 26th, 1952, thanks to community donations of £1 19s 4d.

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21st FEBRUARY 2022 at 7.30pm in IPPLEPEN VILLAGE HALL

Alex Graeme
The Hound of the Baskervilles

Alex is the owner and guide at Unique Devon Tours, and he will be explaining the background to one of Arthur Conan Doyle’s most loved Sherlock Holmes stories and,

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A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE FROM IPPLEPEN LOCAL HISTORY GROUP
Back towards the end of last year a group of hardy souls braved the cold on a Saturday evening for the 10th St. Andrew’s Ipplepen Candlelit Procession. There was all the usual colour and music in the streets as magical lanterns depicting dragons,

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