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This is inside Bayard's Cove Fort, looking upriver (at Dartmouth) . The slipway in the picture is used by the Lower Ferry.

You can still take the same pic. The wooden ladders have been replaced by metal ones. Just outside this fort entrance, the whole quayside was used for the filming of the Onedin Line British tv series of the 1970s.

What a gorgeous and surprising composition.

A lovely, atmospheric photograph.

It looks almost exactly the same now - the only real difference 'twixt then and now is in the shape of the trees. (Okay, and the boats too, but they change all the time anyway).

Dixon-Scott was right to be concerned about 'changing Britain', especially in this valley. Unfortunately, with cost pressure on local council budgets, it seems, allegedly etc that some developers are riding roughshod over planning regulations by building extensions and expansions to properties. In the old days people would apply for planning permission and then would build accordingly. Nowadays people build what they want knowing that the local councils cannot afford to take them to court and then most get retrospective planning permission. Shame!