Torrington in 1967

Torrington from the air

This photograph of Torrington was taken by the crew of a RAF Canberra plane while on a training flight from their station in Germany and was subsequently presented to Mr Peter Mills MP for the Torrington division.

28 April 1967 Photograph of Torrington

In the plane’s-eye view can be seen, half-way on the extreme left, the new Swedish glass factory in the course of construction. Moving to the right there is the long line of New Street, the Parish Church and its spire, and the roads leading on to the County Secondary School and the new Hatchmoor housing site in the top centre. Mill Street runs to the bottom right hand corner with the slopes of the hill down the Commons to the River Torridge.

Gazette article 28 April 1967

 

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