Every single picture on this website without any exception, is taken from one place - our garden
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Every picture on this website is taken from our office garden in Dartmouth in Devon, England
Views of Dartmouth as seen from our office. Living and working from home in Dartmouth, Devon we have an unrivalled vista. Not a day goes by without something of interest happening in front of us. Being a keen photographer I have been taking pictures from this one place for seven years and previously these were displayed on a Facebook page. As it’s our office and it’s in Dartmouth, it’s called The View From The Dartmouth Office. Now I have set up this dedicated website to replace the Facebook page and hopefully promote this lovely town as a place to come and live and work from home. There’s a long old learning curve about building a website, so bear with me as things progress. The site is a year old now and I’m still a novice. But if it’s photographs of Dartmouth you’re looking for, you’ve come to the right place. Pictures of Kingswear too. The sky, the river, the boats.
Most days produce pictures and so with luck the site will have an update each day adding new scenes. There are now quite a few specialised albums as well as the monthly diary type galleries. Gradually older photos are being added but captioning those takes time. Some of the older photographs already have captions which were done for the Facebook page, but Facebook mysteriously lost a load, so I’ll attempt to recall them or better still improve upon the info and humour.
Use the links at the top of the page to access the other picture albums, or click the pix and links on the right.
All photographs are copyright of Andy Kyle. But if you want to use a pic for a non-commercial website then please do, but there must be a credit and a link back to the home page of this site. And an email to say you have done it. No other use permitted without my expressed agreement.
This was not your normal sunrise. See it large in the September album.
Click the pic for lots more photos from September.
Or for a sunrise special, take a look at The Point of Sunrise
And click here for the photos from Regatta and here for August’s pictures.
If you’re a new visitor, take your time and look around. Click any of the big pix to go to the October album or here for January , February, or March and see what’s been happening since the start of the year. Then there are albums of photos for all of 2010 and much of 2009. If you’re looking for the double rainbow, click the pic on the right. But don’t miss the Pick of TVFTDO.com. Go on, guess what it stands for.
TheViewFromTheDartmouthOffice.com is now getting quite a few emails from all around the world from visitors to the site (thus far exceedingly complimentary). Marios wrote: “I believe you have the best office in the world man. It's like watching National Geographic every day, all day.”
Who am I to argue? Ian in Hobart said: “entering the Dart was like gliding into a 3D postcard filled with heritage, history and wall-to-wall nautical magic”
What a fabulous description of this place.
An excellent site that begins with a news page - do subscribe to receive their weekly email round up
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A new community social networking site that is already making waves. News and gossip from people who care about Dartmouth.
Online version of the incredibly successful monthly magazine full of news & features about Dartmouth and villages on the river.
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A Charity Jigsaw for £15.
11 November 2011 05:40 PM
It’s actually an extremely sharp bend around Kingswear as this pic begins to explain.
Dartmouth’s very active Tourist Information Centre. With a nice website too with everything from the history of the town through to rental bookings.
4 December 2011 01:28 PM
Can you believe it ? A couple of unnecessaries out on the river in December. To give them (minimal) credit, they did avoid serious fuel wastage until they were closish to the castles. Strange thing is, despite being 200 yards away I could clearly hear what they were saying (okay, shouting) to each other. It was nothing interesting. But you knew that.
Updated 12.20pm Sunday 20th May 2012
It was exciting from a mile away. It would have been a darn sight more exciting to have lined the route. Hmmm, I think I might re-evaluate next time and enjoy the event rather than take the pic. But anyway, here it is - the Olympic torch passes through Dartmouth. And if the flame looks brighter than when you saw it, that’s because, somewhat fortuitously, there’s someone wearing a flash of yellow right behind it.
No Photoshop enhancements here. Not when they’re not needed.
Oh and ALL of the captions are done in May’s album.
4 August 2010 01:30 PM
And now the sales pitch. The lovely ladies of Kingswear who raise funds for the upkeep of the St Thomas’s church have had this picture (donated by TVFTDO.com) made into a 1000 piece jigsaw. They had sold half their stock by the end of last Saturday’s
Christmas Fair at the Royal Dart Yacht Club. But if you would like to purchase one for £15 with all profits going to the charity FRoST you can contact:
melinda.smallwood@btinternet.com
FRoST =
Friends of St Thomas’s church.
If you click the pic you’ll be taken to the August 2010 album which has got loads of interesting pix.
The boat is the M/Y Black & White.
10 January 2012 08:39 AM
Fires are always a concern around here - there’s history. But this is just an over eager bonfire obliterating the Golf House.
15 May 2012 02:36 PM
Meanwhile, in the school playground, ferry wars continue.
23 March 2012 06:20 PM
These aren’t contrails and they extended way behind and across the sky. An unusual weather front?
12 January 2012 11:32 AM
If you’ve ever wondered what anchored all the buoys to the river bed, wonder no more, here’s your answer: a bloody huge lump of concrete. Mind you, I’m still not clear what anchors the four main buoys, the yellow cans in the centre of the river which somehow manage to hold some of the worlds largest cruise ships in place.
18 May 2012 10:44 AM
Not a private yacht, as I originally thought, this is the MV Patricia, belonging to Trinity House. ie fixes, repairs, replaces the nations warning buoys. Which will explains why it is right alongside the Mew Stone buoy. Thank you Graham for putting me right.
20 April 2012 07:41 PM
A nice bit of light on a nice bit of Devon.
17 May 2012 08:13 AM
And there you have charm of Dartmouth. A cruise ship comes in as the historic barge Tectonia passes on its way out for the day.
2 May 2012 05:55 PM
One last shot in the construction round up - the hole in the wall / the look out, whatever you want to call it at Kittery is coming on.
Still haven’t a clue as to what it will be though.
8 May 2012 11:46 AM
A Herculean flypast of BRNC. This has now turned up about three weeks running. One day I’ll get a decent shot.
10 April 2012 07:08 AM
Absolutely, positively, definitely a thrush. How embarrassing that I called it a lady blackbird. But...anyone know the species of worm that has met its demise ?
the View from the dartmouth office
16 May 2012 12:16 PM
Now this is a little gem. Ardeola was built on the Clyde in 1935, 54 feet long she was designed after a Scottish herring drifter. But much, much more importantly, this beaut is going to take part in the Queen’s Jubilee Parade on June 4th. Look out for her.
13 May 2012 03:44 PM
A rare beast anywhere, and I have never seen one over Dartmouth before. But what a great idea. Who’s up for organising a seaplane rally in the river ?
3 May 2012 02:50 PM
Well it tickled me. But clearly nothing was tickling her.
15 May 2012 02:40 PM
This was pretty amazing - just how close can two boats get without the capillary effect taking over. Answer: very.
20 May 2012 12:06 PM
Well it proved a point. You can see the route of the Olympic torch from The View From The Dartmouth Office. But you would have seen it a darn sight better from in the town. As would I.
17 May 2012 12:15 PM
Just before lunch today (Thursday) , but thought it should be posted sooner rather than later. Assuming that the Navy are indeed practising for the Queen’s Jubilee Parade, they could probably done without the assistance of the Totnes - Dartmouth ferry.
Still, if you were aboard the Dart Explorer you had a hell of an escort.
17 May 2012 12:24 PM
Trumpeter and Ranger have already showed off their side by side closeness. Here they demonstrated their line astern close quarter routine.
16 May 2012 01:56 PM
17 May 2012 12:18 PM
I can’t decide. Was this deliberate or not ? Clearly the Navy craft are on a mission, but did the ferry make it impossible ?
18 May 2012 10:11 AM
The partial demolition of Kingswear Lodge continues. I think I’ll start its own album later. An ongoing progress report.
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