This is a small part of Connaught Gardens which are at the top of the cliffs at the West end of the town. They are gardens of perhaps two acres, walled with flint, and beautifully kept. There is a small castle-like building in the southwest corner of the gardens, and very good teas are served in a courtyard near this. There is also a bandstand in the gardens, and on Sunday last we attended a concert by Sidmouth Town Band there. The band was very good, but I wasn't very enamoured of the conductor's choice of repertoire for them. He seemed to like only theme music from films of the 1970s, with most of which I was unfamiliar , and I didn't feel much desire to familiarise meself further with it. Still, it was a very pleasant afternoon. We sat in front of the bandstand on hired deck chairs, and an attendant came round in the interval and collected £1 each for the chair hire - long way from the threepence and sixpence we saw charged for deckchair hire at Hunstanton when we were children- still that's inflation for you. Sidmouth prides itself (quite rightly) on being a thoroughly old fashioned seaside town; and so it is - in all bar it's prices- and they are thoroughly up to date.
More later perhaps.
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All of these flowers are still in bloom? What beautiful gardens.
Yes, aren't they ? Of course, it's a long way south and west of here; and in a south facing, very sheltered garden.
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