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Brixham Scaffolding - the Structure Remains Strong!

Brixham: Final Scaffolding Report! (4.4.2026)

It is logical to assume that “71 Mount Pleasant Road” (second floor which we are renting) and “71a Mount Pleasant Road” (First Floor) was probably all the same building being referred to in the “Conveyance” document of 1920 – affixed to wall of the back bedroom. This was a substantial building of four (or five) floors (in the UK the 1st floor equates to the Ground Floor in the US – yes – we exported our culture but apparently not our counting) – excluding any basement. We think that once the (limestone) quarry was finished and used-up – the land was sold for housing. However, the quarry proper (which spread over some miles) was not officially closed until 1969 – although obviously not in this exact location – which must have finished earlier (the quarry is said to have existed for 300-years).

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Conveyance Title - 71 Mount Pleasant Road, Brixhan

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

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).

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