Meldon - Transcripts
The Limestone Quarry
The Aplite Quarry
The Reservoir
The Railway
- Deborah Girffiths - Introduction to the Meldon area
- Jane Marchand - Description of the valley
- Willem Montagne - Creation of the Meldon limestone
- Kevin Page - Creation of the Meldon limestone
- Jane Marchand - Lime quarrying and burning
- Deborah Griffiths - The lime kilns and spoil heaps associated with the lime quarrying
- Alan Endacott - The spoil heaps and the weighbridge
- Jane Marchand - The weighbridge bedplate
- Mike Turner - Memories of playing in the area around the weighbridge
- Jane Marchand - Keeping the quarry dry
- Courtney Heard - Picnicking by the river
- Willem Montagne - Meldon bluebell woods
- Ian Brooker - Surveying the dormice in Meldon Woods
The Aplite Quarry
- Willem Montagne - Meldon aplite
- Kevin Page - Formation of Meldon aplite
- Alan Endacott - Meldon glassworksn
- Mike Turner - Remains of broken glass from the glasswork
- Tom Soby - Remains of glass from the glassworks
- Jane Marchand - The aplite quarry workings
- Alan Endacott - Leat above the quarry used to wash the quarry face
- Mike Turner - Description of the quarry workings during the 1940s
- Jane Marchand - Copper mining remains in the valley
- Ian Brooker - Land ownership in the valley
- Deborah Griffiths - Management of the land and archaeology in the valley
- Ian Brooker - Using volunteers to help manage the area
- John Elson - Okehampton Youth Hostel adventure activities at Meldon
The Reservoir
- Ian Brooker - Introduction to Meldon Reservoir
- Courtney Heard - Description of the valley before it was flooded
- Mike Turner - Picnicking in the valley
- Deborah Griffiths - Concerns over the building of the dam
- Alan Endacott - Memories of the dam being built
- David Bubear - The construction of the dam
- Alan Endacott - The dam in the landscape
- Courtney Heard - The effects of the flooding of the valley
- Alan Endacott - Using the water to power a turbine
- Mike Turner - Meldon Cottages
- Courtney Heard - Riding horses of over the moor
The Railway
- Stuart Farmer - Introduction to Meldon Station
- David Payne - Development of Meldon Quarry in the 1870s
- Alan Evans - Contemporary quarrying operations at Meldon
- Courtney Heard - Meldon Quarry during the mid 20th century
- Mike Turner - Meldon Quarry Cottages
- David Payne - Closure of the railway line in the late 1960s
- Alan Endacott - The construction of the railway viaduct
- Deborah Griffiths - Meldon Viaduct today
- Gerald Smallacombe - Driving trains through Meldon and over the viaduct
- Stuart Farmer - Revival of passenger services from Okehampton to Meldon
- Alison Kohler - Sunday Rover services
- Stuart Farmer - Special passenger services to Meldon
- Alison Kohler - The cycle path through Meldon
To the left you will find a list of audio transcripts for the Meldon tour.
