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FILM maker and journalist Peter Hayes spoke to Dawlish and Teignmouth Camera Club.
After a distinguished career, Peter took up photography only a few years ago but has already achieved recognition from the Royal Photographic Society.
He also won a national newspaper photography competition last year.
He has established himself as an expert travel and street photographer and showed pictures taken in several countries including America, Morocco, Peru, Armenia and India.
A year as photographer in residence at the newly-opened Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham saw a complete change in subject matter. However, through all his pictures, Peter manages to capture the character, dignity and diversity of people in their environment.
The club meets every Wednesday evening at Holcombe Village Hall. For more information go to www.dandtcameraclub.co.uk
THE Friends of Torquay library held their spring meeting and annual meeting.
Chairman Jack Critchlow thanked all library staff for their unstinting efforts in keeping standards up in these difficult times of council budget cuts.
The group has funded children’s literacy and poetry prizes and sponsored various clubs like film and local history and hosted talks, quizzes and coffee mornings.
The annual meeting was followed by an illustrated talk, ‘Story of Remembrance’, by Mike Thompson. He has visited many War cemeteries in France and Britain to commemorate battles at, among others, Oppy Wood, Paschendale, Ypres and the Somme.
THE Civil Service Pensioners’ Alliance monthly meeting will be held on Tuesday in the Frances Norrish Hall, St Paul’s Road Church, Preston, Paignton, at 10.15am for 10.45am.
The talk will be given by Ed Lewis on the ‘History of the Salvation Army’. Members and friends welcome. Any inquiries, telephone 01803 290689. Tickets at £5 are now available for the talk by Ann Widdecombe in November, which will be held in the Redcliffe Hotel, Paignton.
DR Tom Greeves, chairman of the Dartmoor Society, presented soil scientist Dr Tim Harrod with the Dartmoor Society Award 2014 at the society’s annual meeting held at Scoriton.
The award was is in the form of a hand-crafted ceramic plate made by potter Penny Simpson of Moretonhampstead and calligrapher Susanne Haines of Bovey Tracey.
The plate is inscribed ‘for Tim Harrod for his indefatigable survey of Dartmoor soils’.
Dr Harrod worked with the Soil Survey of England and Wales from 1965 until 1987 when it was disbanded.
Upon retirement in 2001 he took up the challenge of completing the unfinished work of the Soil Survey in Devon, by single-handedly mapping the soils of nearly 50,000 acres of ground in the Chagford and Moretonhampstead area of Dartmoor, ranging from the deep peat of the high moor to a wide variety of enclosed land.