AN ODE to Dawlish by Poet Laureate Sir John Betjeman has been erected on a wall at the town’s seafront. The poem, reflecting the town’s red cliffs and railway, is now in pride of place as a plaque on the wall of the viaduct.
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Here's another one Rosie, simon and garfunkle wrote a song about the missing bridge over the brook called " bridge over troubled water" Can you get your mates on the council to get a replacement bridge , more useful than a poem on a plague.
P.s. as regards petitions what happened to the one for the replacement bridge ????