THE THORINGTON ARCHIVE

Jim Thorington worked as a press photographer in and around the Tavistock area from the mid nineteen sixties to the late nineties.  Over that period he amassed a huge collection of prints and negatives which, on his death in two thousand and two were generously handed over by his widow Shirley into the care of our local history society. They are now housed in Court Gate, where a team of volunteers has so far scanned and catalogued more than seventy thousand images. We're probably about half way through!

FORTY YEARS ON

In 2012 we will be showing some of the images recorded in the Thorington Archive from 1972.

January and work proceeds at the Prince of Wales Mine, Harrowbarrow.

 ..... Because we're going to Dartmoor; April and rigid health and safety rules observed by youth group on their way to Prince Hall.




Ugandan Asian boys expelled by Idi Amin and accommodated in bleak conditions at Plaisterdown Camp are welcomed by Tavistock Scouts.



Local ladies wearing traditional rural costume, Horrabridge Carnival, August.




... But it would only be clay pigeons;  M.P. Peter Mills totes gun at Mary Tavy Tory Fete.



Remember those silver milk bottle tops? This is where they all went.
Toc H corners the market in Tavistock.



Non digital upgrade; new hands for the parish church clock.



Showing how to rub sticks together; scout barbecue, August.



... About to get  a lot worse; unhappy diva on the point of being abandoned by ice cream, Buckland Monachorum May Fair.