Tourist Maps of Devon

Andrew Iredale   Andrew Iredale   was a bookseller, stationer and fine art dealer with his own Library   and Reading Rooms at 13, The Strand, Torquay. According to Troy J Bassett Iredale [1] was born in Huddersfield in 1840 but like many who moved to Torquay he did so because his health was bad and on the advice of his doctor in 1869. By 1872 he and his family were in Torquay and Iredale opened his first shop. Only two years later he had moved premises, to Cary Place in Fleet Street [2] and issued a catalogue of Second Hand Books (1877), and in 1888 he moved to 13 the Strand where he remained. His shop was photographed for an advert which was used in copies of the Torquay Pictorial in 1890 and 1893 [3] .     Iredale´s eldest son, George Herbert (b.1863) joined the company and gradually took over the business. Both of them took an active interest in the rapidly expanding town and took on various civic roles [4] which may explain his interest in publishing t...

  Rev. W R B Brownlow   In 1886 the Rev. William Robert Bernard   Brownlow, Bishop of Clifton, wrote an extensive survey covering Babbacombe and St Marychurch. The book was a result of a talk delivered to the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science   and originally published in their transactions. The Rev. Brownlow also reported on a Visitation to St Marychurch 1301, also printed in the society’s Transactions. The Torquay distributor was Andrew Iredale . At least two of Rev. Brownlow´s sermons were published and / or distributed by both Edward Cockrem and Edward Croydon of Torquay:  "A Little Child shall lead them." A few memorials of George Matthew Hoare, contained in notes to a sermon preached in S. John's, Torquay, May 18th, 1862 the Sunday after his funeral   [ 1862 ]; and    The Church of England and its Defenders. A second letter to Anglican friends .. In reply to the Rev. J. W. Patterson [i.e. to “The Church of England ver...