Next Weeks' Local Summer Events........

Tuesday Night is Music Night at the Cottage Hotel Hope Cove from 6.45pm to 9pm
Enjoy the varying sounds of keyboard, harp, flute or saxophone with the Sterry family.


Saturday 27th July - Salcombe & Hope Cove Lifeboat Guild - Charity Stall during Kingsbridge Fair Week
Ann Thompson (Events Secretary) 01548 843946

27th & 28th July - NATIONAL TRUST OVERBECK'S SALCOMBE - Big Bug Hunt 11.00am - 4.00pm.
Join the National Trust Rangers to hunt the beautiful grounds of Overbeck's garden on the salcombe Estuary for bugs & beasties. Also discover the weird & wonderful creatures hiding in the pond.

4th-10th August - SALCOMBE REGATTA

On and off the water, there are many things to do during this week:-

• Bang & Go Back Races on Sat 3rd August

• Fun run, coffee & croissants, Fireworks, pasties, Harbour Swim, chilli chocolate, Fancy Dress, crab sandwiches, Spot the Bloomer, Cranch's sweeties, Mud Race, fish & chips, Sandcastle Competitions, Salcombe Dairy ice-cream, Treasure Hunt, pain au chocolate, Childrens Sports, milk shakes, Slippery Pole, crepes, Crossword Competition, cream teas, Crabbers Race, cocktails, Torch Light Procession, glass of bubbly, Something in the Air!!!

• Latest news for Salcombe Regatta

Fireworks on Thursday 8 August at 10.00pm
Harbour Swim on Friday 9 August - registration at 7.20am

This Week’s Local Summer Events……

The Cottage Hotel welcomed the Kingsbridge Flower Club this week for an open Coffee Morning and flower arranging demonstration.  Several of the guests and organisers went on to enjoy a 2-Course Bar Lunch or Cream Tea on the Sun Terrace.

Roma Widger's ArtHoliday - 18th-23rd July 2013

On Thursday this week, we shall be welcoming Roma Widger’s Art Group to the hotel.  Budding arts will have the opportunity to paint and sketch in the beautiful Hope Cove sunshine!

 

Saltram Summer Jazz Picnic – 20^th July 2013

The National Trust in association with Plymouth Jazz Club present their Annual Jazz Picnic Bring a picnic and listen, dine and dance to the music of two great Traditional Jazz Bands in the beautiful grounds of Saltram House.

Kingsbridge Fair Week - 20^th - 27^th July 2013

This is an annual event for the whole family!  With Carnival Procession, Raft Races, Road Runs, Stars In Your Eyes, Tag Rugby and of course, the Fun Fair!  There will also be local bands playing on the Quayside throughout the week, as well as a Lantern display and Fireworks.  Programmes can be purchased from the following locations:-

Martin McColl, Fore Street, Kingsbridge

Martin McColl, The Promenade, Kingsbridge

Kingsbridge Tourist Information Centre

Tesco’s, Kingsbridge

Ilbert Road Filling Station, Kingsbridge

Ashby’s Easy Stores, East Charleton

A Bit of Local History.............

Beside the bar is a cabin made from the timbers of the Herzogin Cecilie, a clipper that ran aground on the Ham Stone in Soar Mill Cove in 1936. This beautiful ship had won the famous 'Grain Race' but in this case her cargo let her down. Seawater entered the hold and the swollen grain burst her apart. Luckily no lives were lost. Some of our regular residents remember going to view the wreck when they were children. Enterprising farmers charged one penny for the use of their land for viewing!

“No completely satisfactory explanation has been found for this large windjammer to find herself so many miles off her course.  Foggy conditions were prevailing in the Channel on the dreadful night of 25^th April 1936; miscalculations of one kind or another may have played a part in this tragedy but the captain had already had experience of bringing the ship up the Channel on one previous occasion.  There were thirty-one people aboard at the time of the misfortune and most of these were taken off by the Salcombe Lifeboat at about 8am on the Saturday morning, the 26^th April.  The lifeboat returned in the afternoon and stood by as the sea had become too rough for it to get along side the Herzogin Cecilie”.

The Loss of the Herzogin Cecilie – Arthur L. Clamp

Things You May Not Know About The Cottage Hotel & Hope Cove……

Hope Cove Lift Boat

The first Lifeboat was stationed at Hope Cove on 28^th February 1878.  Many of the present day Auxiliary Coastguards are descended from the original coastguard families.  Today’s Hope Cove Lifeboat is a completely charitable organization. 

The Hope Cove Lifeboat

The Reading Room (“The Fisherman’s Reading Room”)

           

Now over 100 years old, owes its foundation to a widow’s wish to honor the memory of her husband and her philanthropic desire to provide a place of relaxation and learning or the Fisherman, Coastguardsmen, Lifeboatmen and Men of Hope.

The Reading Room

St Clement’s Church

Over 140 years old and was originally built as a Chapel of Ease for those who found the journey to St Andrew’s at South Huish too daunting.

St Clement's Church, Hope Cove

South West Coastal Path

The Coastal Path lies literally at the bottom of The Cottage Hotel driveway. and has some fantastic views over the sea and surrounding countryside.

South West Coastal Path

Herzogin Cecilie

Beside the Main Bar at The Cottage Hotel is a cabin made from the timbers of the Herzogin Cecilie, a clipper that ran aground on the Ham Stone in Soar Mill Cove in 1936.

Herzogin Cecilie

The Comic Strip “Supergrass” Movie

The Comic Strip filmed most of their comedy caper “Supergrass” in the village of Hope Cove.

The Emperor Heile Sellasie

The Emperor Heile Sellasie was accommodated at The Cottage Hotel during some of his period of exile.

Iron Age Hill Fort

Bolt Tail, Hope Cove is capped by an Iron Age Hill Fort.