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Dawlish News

Dawlish News
Dawlish News
22 Jul 2025 16:04

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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Carer
Carer
22 Jul 2025 17:50

I wonder how long until it will be vandalised?

Answers below please.

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1263
1263
24 Jul 2025 09:03

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 ???? 

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