Cockrem 4 

Owen Angel[1] was born at Totnes, Devon, about 1821. He married Mary Ann Brimacombe at Exeter in 1843 and they had a daughter and three sons. Their daughter Marian Angel (1844-1883) was the only child to survive to adulthood, and she married a land surveyor George Heath (1840-1905), and lived at Bedford Circus, near Exeter.
Originally Owen Angel started working in Exeter in the early 1840s as an engraver and a printer and became a lithographer in the mid-1840s.  The 1851 census shows him living at 94 Fore Street, and working as a lithographer employing 3 men and 6 apprentices; one of these apprentices was George Palmer  who lithographed the facsimile of the Norden map of Exeter in Oliver's History of Exeter (1861).
By January 1855 Angel had added photography to his repertoire, advertising "daily photographic portraits" in the Trewman's Exeter Flying Post, and listed additional premises at 1 Market Street.  Later the same year 5 High Street was shown as his address, and another listing shown him as "photographer to the Exeter School of Art and the Cornwall Photographic Society."
Angel may have given up the lithographic and printing side of the business (and handed it over to his apprentice, Palmer) some time in the mid-1850s as only the photographic institution is listed in Billing’s Directory and Gazetteer of 1857 and Palmer & Stone advertised themselves as late Angel & Co. (as Practical Engravers, Copper-plate and Lithographic Printers). Be that as it may, the 1861 census shows both his wife Mary Ann and his eldest daughter Marian Angel assisting in the studio.  From 1861 until about 1889, the studios moved premises a number of times. Owen Angel appears to have remained in business until at least 1903, and died at Exeter in 1909.
Edward Cockrem published this map as Being a Companion to the Torquay Directory, the newspaper which Cockrem founded. The first of any such map extant was issued in January 1853 with the street index on the back.
It is not known how often the map was updated and reprinted but three further states are known. The next two recorded issues were printed by G & G Palmer, obviously Owen´s successors. Cockrem died in 1872 but one example by his successor, Arthur Westley, is also recorded.
Revised and updated September 2022.

 
 

Size: 535 x 385 mm.  Scale. 8 Inches to a Mile (4 = 100 mm) ½ Mile.                                                                                                                                                                  
Plan of the Town of Torquay, from the Ordnance Survey, Being a Companion to the Torquay Directory. (Ea).  Imprint: Published by Edward Cockrem, 10, Strand, Torquay (under title). Signature: O ANGEL, LITHOGR, EXETER (Ee). Scale and compass (Ae).
Area covered from Windmill Hill (Ba) to Kilmorie (Ee). Torquay Branch Railway shown (Aa) but only to Railway Station (i.e. Torre which was opened in December 1848).
 
1. 1853            Plan of the Town of Torquay       
                        Torquay. E Cockrem. 1853.     BL[2], TQ.[3]  
 
2. 1863            Map as before but different frame. Map is flanked by street directory, left and right with note top left: List of Villas, &c.: the numbers to each Villa correspond with those indicated in the various Roads on the Plan. Reference panel extended to include: THE TINTED LINES SHOW THE BOUNDARIES OF THE ECCLESIASTICLA DISTRICTS (four in four colours). There is a new printer’s signature: G & G PALMER, 150 LITH, EXETER (EeOS) and Entered at Stationers’ Hall (AeOS).
Extensive additions, especially between Tor Abey and Waldo Hill with St Luke´s Road, Warren Road, Belgrave Roads all added. First roads in Tor Park developed towards the railway line which is now Branch Line of the South Devon Railway and now continues off map (west) as Dartmouth Railway. New Road along coast becomes Torbay Road. Torwood added with extensive developments towards Kents Cavern. Reservoir added behind Chapel Hill and woodlands altered slightly to take in the cemetery. Bronshill Road with more houses and numbers to 39 (was 34). Warberry Road and Wellswood Park show new residences.
 
                          Plan of the Town of Torquay.                                      .
                          Torquay. Edward Cockrem. (1863).       DevA,[4].           
 
3. 1872            Map, frame and title as above. List has extra roads, e.g. Cleveland Road and St Luke´s Park. Oxford Villa added to Tor Church Road list at No. 8. Scarborough Terrace, Lansdowne Road, Tor Park (road) and Vansittart Road deleted from list. Tor Park now developed down to railway line. More houses on St Mary Church Road (north of Bronshill Road). Lincombe Hill Road named. Hotel (Imperial) added at Park Hill. New road and buildings north of St Matthew´s Chapel.
 
                        Plan of the Town of Torquay.   
                        Torquay. Edward Cockrem. (1872).      Boston, TQ[5].

 

Copy held by Boston Public Library - by kind permission.

4. 1877  Heading to the sheet above the top border is: Westley & Co.’s (Late COCKREM) Plan of the Town of Torquay -  List of Villas &c.

There is a printer’s signature: C & E Layton, 150 Fleet Street, London (EeOS) and Entered at Stationers’ Hall (AeOS). The title to the map as before but  imprint now: Published by Westley & Co., Booksellers, Stationers, & Librarians, 10 Strand, Torquay. Frame as state 1. The map is surrounded on three sides by the street directory. Names of wards labelled on map in colour with Torwood extended to meet Warberry Hill. Large area of the Old Wood (north) deleted. More development at Thurlow Road in Upton and Ellacombe and houses on north side of St Mary Church Road improved. Area around Kenty Cavern developed. The New Drive as one way with Entrance Only and Exit Only. Large Chasm added at Daddy Hole Plain with beacon symbol. Imperial Hotel named. Tor Abbey Park becomes Belgravia Park.
Size of complete sheet is 784 x 544 mm.
 
Westley’s Plan of the Town of Torquay. List of Villas,
Torquay. Arthur Westley. (1877).         TQ.

 
 


For Cockrem´s The Panorama of Torquay (1830/1832) click here for access.

For Cockrem and Elliott´s A Guide to Torquay (1841) click here for access.

For Cockrem´s Map of the country ... neighbourhood of Torquay (1842) click here for access.

For Cockrem´s Map of Torquay and the Adjacent Country (1856) click here for access.

For Cockrem´s Map of Torquay and the Adjacent Country (by Stanford) (1864) click here for access.

For Cockrem´s Plan of the Town of Torquay (by Stanford) (1864) click here for access.

For an overview of Cockrem´s life and works (and connection with the "Alphington Ponies") click here for access. 

[1] I am grateful to Brett Payne who has allowed me free use of the biographical history from the website: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~brett/photo2/oangel.html.

[2] The BL date their copy - BL2140. (4.).- to 1840 but the Torquay Library copy has the street index on the reverse and is clearly dated. Illustration courtesy of the British Library (from a composite photocopy); all rights reserved.

[3] The Torquay Library copy has the street list on reverse.

[4] The copy at Devon Heritage is pasted into a Victorian scrapbook collected by H M A – Henriette Armytage collected in 1863-64. A second map included is dated 1863.

[5] I am grateful to Mark Pool at Torquay Library for bringing these two maps to my attention and for providing images. The first state is only extant as a photocopy. Illustration courtesy of Torquay Library: all rights reserved.


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