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Updated: May 24, 2025
It ran thus: "At ten minutes after two o'clock last night P.C. Widgery, on night duty at Brixham, saw a man on a motor bicycle with a large parcel behind him run through the town square. He proceeded down the main street and was gone for the best part of an hour; but, before three o'clock, Widgery saw him return without his parcel. He went fast up the hill out of Brixham, the way he came.
"MOOR, 20th July. .... It is quiet here, sleepy, rather a farm is never quiet; the sea, too, is only a quarter of a mile away, and when it's windy, the sound of it travels up the combe; for distraction, you must go four miles to Brixham or five to Kingswear, and you won't find much then.
Brixham and her maid-of-all-work, who had been at the door and found some difficulty in closing it against the street amateurs, who wished to see the row. The major began instantly to speak. "I have had occasion to discharge this drunken scoundrel," he said, "Both last night and this morning he insulted and assaulted me. I am an old man and took up a pistol.
Morgan sate in the widow's back-room, in the ex-curate's old horse-hair study-chair, making Mrs. Brixham bring supper for him, and fill his glass again and again.
We saw some, but they suddenly popped down, and were far out of our reach when we attempted to dig them up. Brixham will over be memorable as the place where the Prince of Orange landed. We looked at the stone on which he placed his foot when he first stepped on shore. It was a glorious day for liberty when his fleet of seventy ships, carrying fourteen thousand men, stood in the bay.
At Churston Cove one schooner is ashore and a total wreck; there is also another, the Blue Jacket, which may yet be saved. At Brixham there are two fine ships ashore inside the breakwater. At the back of the pier ten vessels have been pounded to matchwood, and all that remains are a shattered barque, her masts still standing, two brigs, and a schooner, all inextricably mingled together.
The city capitulated on 13 April, 1646, among the conditions of surrender being that the Cathedral should be spared, and the garrison accorded the honours of war. After the landing of William of Orange at Brixham, in 1688, he marched through the county to Exeter and entered the city by its western gate.
At the opposite end of the bay lies, sheltered by Berry head, the stirring market town of Brixham, the wealthiest seat of our fishing trade. A pier and a haven were formed there at the beginning of the present century, but have been found insufficient for the increasing traffic. The population is about six thousand souls. The shipping amounts to more than two hundred sail.
As far as a few pounds goes say five pounds I don't say and shall be most happy, and that sort of thing: and I'll give it you in the morning with pleasure: but but it's getting late, and I have made a railroad journey." "God's will be done, sir," said the poor woman, drying her tears. "I must bear my fate." "And a dev'lish hard one it is, and most sincerely I pity you, Mrs. Brixham.
As far as a few pounds goes say five pounds I don't say and shall be most happy, and that sort of thing: and I'll give it you in the morning with pleasure: but but it's getting late, and I have made a railroad journey." "God's will be done, sir," said the poor woman, drying her tears. I must bear my fate." "And a dev'lish hard one it is, and most sincerely I pity you, Mrs. Brixham.
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