Comments on: Chanter’s Folly, Appledore, Devon https://thefollyflaneuse.com/chanters-folly-appledore-devon/ Rambles to, and ramblings about, Follies and Garden and Landscape Ornament. Mon, 04 Nov 2024 18:16:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Editor https://thefollyflaneuse.com/chanters-folly-appledore-devon/#comment-16315 Mon, 04 Nov 2024 18:16:04 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=7334#comment-16315 Thank you Tom. Just a shame there was no happy ending.

]]> By: TOM GARDNER https://thefollyflaneuse.com/chanters-folly-appledore-devon/#comment-16251 Sat, 02 Nov 2024 16:27:44 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=7334#comment-16251 TOM – NYC
THIS LAST OFFERING WAS ONE OF THE BEST (IN MY OPINION).
IT WAS TIGHT IN CONTEXT, PHOTOS / PAINTINGS, AND HISTORICAL REFLECTION.
IT ALSO OFFERED A WIDER USAGE OF THE TERM ‘FOLLY’.
LASTLY, IT ALLOWS US TO REALISE JUST HOW LUCKY THE SPHNIX … IS!
TOM

]]> By: Editor https://thefollyflaneuse.com/chanters-folly-appledore-devon/#comment-16249 Sat, 02 Nov 2024 12:10:44 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=7334#comment-16249 In reply to James.

Hello James. Yes I think the folly continued to be talked about long after it was gone. In fact one of the postcards of it that I have seen wasn’t posted until a decade after the tower disappeared!

]]> By: James https://thefollyflaneuse.com/chanters-folly-appledore-devon/#comment-16248 Sat, 02 Nov 2024 10:39:44 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=7334#comment-16248 I’m glad you’ve mentioned the date it was pulled down (1952) as I thought I remembered it as a child, but couldn’t have, as I come some time after then!
I thought it was an ‘eye catcher’ for Tapley House, which sits on the opposite side of the River Torridge. My mother, who was brought up in nearby Instow during the War, remembered it and must have mentioned it to me.

]]> By: Editor https://thefollyflaneuse.com/chanters-folly-appledore-devon/#comment-16244 Sat, 02 Nov 2024 09:12:27 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=7334#comment-16244 In reply to Christopher Chanter.

Good morning Christopher. Thank you for taking the time to comment and share this important extra information, passed down in your family. It is good to know what exactly Chanter’s signal tower was originally designed to do.

]]> By: Christopher Chanter https://thefollyflaneuse.com/chanters-folly-appledore-devon/#comment-16243 Sat, 02 Nov 2024 08:58:50 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=7334#comment-16243 In reply to Gwyn Headley.

Thank you for your excellent article on Chanter’s Folly built by my gt gt gt uncle for his shipping business. The purpose was to see his ships come over the bar miles out to sea and then light a fire at the top so that the stevedores in the pubs at Bideford could get ready to discharge cargo as soon as the ship docked.

]]> By: Editor https://thefollyflaneuse.com/chanters-folly-appledore-devon/#comment-16241 Sat, 02 Nov 2024 08:50:36 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=7334#comment-16241 In reply to Gwyn Headley.

Thank you Gwyn. I try hard to find pictures people might not have seen before so I do appreciate your comment. Great pun too, but a shame you were able to make it. A sad loss.

]]> By: Gwyn Headley https://thefollyflaneuse.com/chanters-folly-appledore-devon/#comment-16240 Sat, 02 Nov 2024 08:45:00 +0000 https://thefollyflaneuse.com/?p=7334#comment-16240 A cracking post. I love your picture research!

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