Personal & Photos

Start of Topsham Ferryman's Sponsored Swim 2011: YouTube video posted by Keith Smith, Town Crier.

Personal and blogs

Bryansue - blog of Bryan and Sue's adventures on emigrating to New Zealand in 2006.
Callys Cottage - blog by Saturday Market trader
Clare Girvan - local writer
Clayton Stealback - horror/supernatural fiction writer
Dave Brooks - round-the-world rower. Follow his progress at his weblog.
Design Credo - Andrew Butler's blog on  design, graphics, search engine optimisation, and more.
Diary of Phyllis Bethel - wartime diary, published in blog form: "From Wiesbaden Germany 1929 to Topsham, Devon, Great Britain 1953"
JSBlog - Journal of a Southern Bookreader - the weblog of Ray Girvan (books, music and anything strange and interesting).
Norman Croucher - mountaineer, author, motivational speaker
Notes from a Devon kitchen - food blog by Marc and Kim Millon
Propertynewshound - Graham Norwood's property market webblog

The Topsham Naturalist - "A blog about birds, insects, in fact any kind of wildlife. Mostly around Topsham, Devon. Photos, sketches and illustrations".
Topsham Travellers - The travel blog of Claire and Rick on their world tour: see the Cu Ci Tunnels, Terracotta Army, and scary menus!
Trawler Travels - Hazel and Dave, previous operators of the Sea Dream, spent five years converting an old Irish trawler, 'Ros Ailither', into a motor-sailer. Their blog reports their world tour, from which they recently returned.
Wayland Wordsmith - Lympstone-based "Discourser on the Exe estuary"

Photographs
Topsham is a very attractive town, reflecting both its rural environment and its rich and varied building history. There are Dutch houses from its maritime past and fine examples of Georgian and Edwardian architecture. The historic character of the town has been maintained as much as possible. Apart from the images below, visit our History page for a link to Mick Cooper's collection of old postcards of Topsham.

The Steam Packet
A gallery of the Steam Packet in its final days as a pub before its conversion to Route 2 cafe bar.

Personal photo sites
Andrew Horne's Portfolio Very striking photo collection, including some of Topsham.
Topsham KAP photos A link to Dave Mitchell's Flickr.com set of KAP (Kite Aerial Photography) images taken fom a kite flown from Topsham Quay.
Topsham Photography Iain Mckay's photo site: Topsham and world
Topshaman's photostream Gary Mackley-Smith's Flickr photoset.
Todaypix Ray Girvan's online photo album features photos around Topsham and East Devon.

Other sites
Estuary Photos by Richard Hargreaves Gallery of excellent wildlife photos at the Topsham Birdwatching & Naturalist Society site.
BBC Devon gallery
Broadway House: Exe Estuary, Fore Street, Bowling Green Marshes, Ferry Road, Goat Walk
Topsham at Geograph.org.uk (Ordnance Survey collaborative ground-level coverage)
Nobody Special: local and Devon photos by Jimi Bartlett

This is very nice: Adam Gill, a Westcountry-born musician and composer now living in Hong Kong, sent us this YouTube link, River Walk, one of his contemporary classical compositions set to images of Topsham and the Exe estuary nearby.