Brixham: Framed 1920 Conveyance Deed – Kai-Lin Helped Me Read It! (3.4.2026)

Dated: 14th August 1920

Mrs MG Bradden & Mr JJ Bradden

To Mr WJ Silley

Conveyance

Of Freehold hereditaments

Known as Number 71 Mount Pleasant Road, Brixham, Devon

And

Yard and Quarry Ajoining.

Signed: WL Parsons – Brixham

When I was at school in rural UK (Devon) – we used to watch a TV prgramme made for schools that told us to go outside and observe the environment we lived within – to see the “history” that came before us. As children, we used to think that the world started with our birth – a naive philosophical speculation that can been seen in tribal-thinking, and primitive cultures. As human-beings, our various ethnic groups have all held these views which have been modified and developed as experience grows. Labour equals perceptual development. The new generation is moulded by the older generation that passes-on its accumulated knowledge and experience. Of course, there are examples of tribal people who do not develop in this way – such as those discovered after WWII inhabiting an isolated valley in Papua New Guinea, in the Amazon Forests, or on the Andaman Islands – that occupy sedate evolutionary niches that are “unchallenged” by any transformative outside forces.

Today, such people are “preserved” as a “right” – as their presence helps us understand our own human history (the Celts – my ethnicity – used to strip naked, get drunk, and cover themselves in shit before a battle). But I digress. In the bedroom our two daughters are occupying – the above legal document has been “framed” and hung on the wall for all to see and admire. Indeed, until, this morning, none of us had actually noticed it. In 2026, this second-floor building (“71a” is beneath us) is termed “Rock Hopper” – and this is the name used in all the advertising literature. The back yard is a narrow strip of land – but I suspect that “71” and “71a” were originally one and the same dwelling. The steep rock-face at the end of the garden turns-out to be the edges of an old quarry – whatever that was used for – probably prior to these houses being built on a steep and narrow hill (incline).