Cockrem 7 

Please note: New Cockrem 7

 Cockrem´s Guide Book to Torquay – Map 2

 Was previously Westley 2

The first edition of Cockrem's Tourist's Guide to Torquay appeared in 1856[1] but did not contain any map. There appear to be two editions of this: an illustrated version with up to 14 views by Rock & Co. (240pp.); and a cheaper verion with illustrations but lacking sections such as geology, climate etc. (163 pp.). There was no map included which is surprising, given that Cockrem had already published three good maps (Cockrem 3, 4 and 5) which could have been exploited.

A revised edition was published circa 1865.[2] This edition included two new maps, both supplied by Stanford in London (see next entry). The guide now had 208 pages and just one frontispiece illustration. Reprinting took place in circa 1870 (last date in text p. 20 with Belgrave Congregational Church) and circa 1875 (p. 13 to do with the Petty Sessions Court built by W A Goss), both guides now having 220 pages, two maps and a list of Hackney Carriage Fares. By this time Edward Cockrem had died (on 4^th September 1872) and the guide was published by Westley & Co. shortly after they took over his business. A final revised edition appeared circa 1882, now under Westley´s title and imprint and simultaneously with a pocket-sized handy version with only one map (see previous entry).

 

Size: 155 x 200 mm.  Scale 3 Inches to a Mile (4 (furlongs) = 40 mm) ½ Mile. 

PLAN OF THE TOWN OF TORQUAY. Signature: Stanford's Geogl. Est, Charing Cross, London. (EeOS).

The area covered is from Livermead and Torquay Cemetery (west) and to Kilmorie and Anstis Cove (east). Ilsam (sic) Farm is shown. Map is coloured to show the various suburbs – six wards.

 

1. 1865            Cockrem's Tourists' Guide to Torquay

                        Torquay. E Cockrem. (1865)1].   KB.

 

                        Cockrem's Tourist's Guide to Torquay

                        Torquay. E Cockrem. (1870).      [CUL[2]].

 

2. 1875            Imprint: Torquay: Westley & Co. (late Cockrem) Librarians (CeOS).

 

                        Cockrem's Tourists' Guide to Torquay

                        Torquay. Westley & Co. 1875.      DevA .

 

3. 1878            Cheap pocket edition: Cover has Westley´s Torquay Guide 1/6. Imprint: Torquay: Westley's Library (CeOS). Map is now black and white with various changes of which the most notable are: deletion of reference table; Long Avenue is now Lime Avenue (with buildings) and what was Long Avenue (today's Kings Drive) is changed and added along realigned boundary line west of Tor Abbey; and Sea Road added at Meadfoot.

 

               Westley And Co's Tourists' Guide to Torquay And Its Neighbourhood.
Torquay. Westley And Co. (late Cockrem). (1878). [3].  DevA, KB.

 

4. 1882    Map coloured and Reference table has been reinstated and now has seven wards (Torwood split into Torwood and Ilsham). Ilsham Farm has been corrected and the Great Western Hotel near station added and named at Corbon's Head (sic). [4] Illustrated.

 

                 Westley's Tourists´ Guide to Torquay And Its Neighbourhood.
Torquay. Westley's Library. (1882). [5]    DevA, BL.

 

                Westley's Tourists´ Guide to Torquay And Its Neighbourhood.
Torquay. Westley's Library. (1882). [6]       KB.

 

5. 1884            Title as before but reference table deleted (map is black and white). Scale moved to map section (Be) and imprint removed. There is some change to hotel information: Great Western Hotel is present but not named; Imperial added to word Hotel; Victoria and Albert Hotel is named[7].

                        Map occupies central panel of a double page advertising layout: upper band has adverts for Westley’s publications; left and right borders are lists of banks, institutions, hotels etc.; and the lower border has information on physicians, surgeons and post office details below a line advertising the products of Shapley and Austin. Illustrated.

 

                Illustrated Guide to Torquay and Neighbourhood by Joye C Kerr

               Bristol. Mardon, Son & Hall. 1884.   DevA, KB.

For The Panorama of Torquay (1830/1832) click here.

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 Plan of the Town of Torquay (1853) 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.

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[1] This edition has 220 smaller pages (140 x 90 mm) with no advertisements (2 page index 1 Hackney Carriage Fares).

[2] Tow copies dated 1868 and 1870.

[3] This edition has only 159 pages, of which 115-159 are advertisements. Although the last date in the text is 1873 (p.15) there is an advertisement for a Perinet’s champagne of 1874 as well as a footnote (on p.23) mentioning White's History of Torquay to 1878 recently published.

[4] The date is based on dates and information contained in two advertisements for insurance companies in the advertising section. One company, The Northern Insurance Company, was established in 1836 and includes information on Financial Position at close of 45th year. The second, the North British and Mercantile, lists Establishment (ie leading officers) for 1882. Both printings have same adverts.

[5] This edition has xx plus 185pp. of which 121-185 are advertisements, 140 x 85 mm. BL copy 10358.a.39.

[6] The work itself has been considerably expanded and rewritten. It now has Xvi plus 284 pp. of which 219-284 are advertisements, 160 x 100 mm

[7] The hotel information is confusing. Why delete one name but add another? Hotels in the panel list are not all shown on the map. This may indicate that this is in fact the earlier state. The map has a second plan on the reverse (see Mardon, Son and Hall).

 

 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. 

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[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.

Cockrem 6 

Please note: New Cockrem 6

 Cockrem´s Guide Book to Torquay – Map 1

 Was previously Westley 1

The first edition of Cockrem's Tourist's Guide to Torquay appeared in 1856[1] but did not contain any map. There appear to be two editions of this: an illustrated version with up to 14 views by Rock & Co. (240pp.); and a cheaper verion with illustrations but lacking sections such as geology, climate etc. (163 pp.). There was no map included which is surprising, given that Cockrem had already published three good maps (Cockrem 3, 4 and 5) which could have been exploited.

A revised edition was published circa 1865.[2] This edition included two new maps, both supplied by Stanford in London (see next entry). The guide now had 208 pages and just one frontispiece illustration. Reprinting took place in circa 1870 (last date in text p. 20 with Belgrave Congregational Church) and circa 1875 (p. 13 to do with the Petty Sessions Court built by W A Goss), both guides now having 220 pages, two maps and a list of Hackney Carriage Fares. By this time Edward Cockrem had died (on 4^th September 1872) and the guide was published by Westley & Co. shortly after they took over his business. A final revised edition appeared circa 1882, now under Westley´s title and imprint and simultaneously with a pocket-sized handy version with only one map (see next entry).

 

Size: 245 x 173 mm.   (1 + 2 = 57 mm) MILES.     

MAP OF TORQUAY and the ADJACENT COUNTRY (Ee). Imprint: Torquay: Edward Cockrem. (CeOS). Signature: Stanford's Geogl Estabt, Charing Cross, London (EeOS). Scale (AeOS).

The coast is shown from Clerk Rock north of Teignmouth as far as Durt Head south of Brixham. Ashprington (Ae) and Drum Bridge (Aa) are shown inland. Railway is shown with branch to Brixham. 

1. 1865            Cockrem's Tourist's Guide to Torquay

                        Torquay. E Cockrem. (1865).  KB.

 

                        Cockrem's Tourist's Guide to Torquay

                        Torquay. E Cockrem. (1870).  [CUL[3]].

 

2. 1875            Imprint: Torquay: Westley & Co. (late Cockrem). Librarians (CeOS). Along the right hand border, vertically, is a note: Westley & Cos. (late Cockrem) Large Plans of Torquay Price 1s 6d & 2s 6d. Ilsam has been corrected to Ilsham.

 

                        Cockrem's Tourist's Guide to Torquay

                        Torquay. Westley & Co. 1875.   DevA[4].

 

3. 1882            Imprint now: Torquay: Westley's Library (CeOS). Illustrated.

 

                        Westley's Tourist Guide to Torquay and its Neighbourhood          Torquay. Westley's Library. (1882).[5]   KB. 

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 Plan of the Town of Torquay (1853) 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 an overview of Cockrem´s life and works (and connection with the "Alphington Ponies") click here for access.

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[1] The British Library date their first edition to 1856 (accession 12 DE 56) but this contains no map. One copy has a bookseller’s label of E L Seeley of Torquay. The last date in the text is 1853 (opening of the new Market).[2] Torquay Library has a copy dated 1865 which lacks any map but does have an engraving by Rock (D44 dated 12th June 1860 of Torquay from the Pier Head). Exeter date their earliest copy as 1865 but there is a note on page 13 dated 1875. The last dates In text are 1863 and 1864 in the section on climate by Edward Vivian
[3] Two copies dated 1868 and 1870.
[4] Two copies dated 1875 and 1878.
[5] Two adverts for insurers give financial positions for 1881, another established in 1782 is celebrating 100 years of business. However, the guide makes no mention of the Great Western Hotel built and opened in the same year which is shown on the second map of the 1882 edition.

 Cockrem 5 

Although Cockrem’s map of Torquay and Teignmouth was only about 15 years old, he had a new map drawn up, possibly as he thought the emphasis on geology was no longer apt (see Cockrem 3). The new map was executed by Edward Appleton who had drawn a map of Torquay about the same time for Matthews (see Appleton) and there are distinct similarities between the coastlines of both maps. W Spreat was chosen to do the lithographic printing. Edward Cockrem died in 1872 and Westley took over his business including this map.

Edward Appleton was an architect who worked for the local board of health as surveyor. He was listed at 2 Woodville, in Abbey Road, Torquay in Kelly’s Directory of Devonshire for 1856. The first meeting house and library of Torquay Natural History Society was built by Appleton and housed the Freemason’s on the first floor. Constructed in 1857 it still survives as the Masonic Lodge.[1] In 1861 he was appointed Captain to the Volunteer Engineers and commanded the Torquay Company from 1874.[2] There are records that he designed the Vicarage at Kingswear which was built by the company of W B and H B Crocker of Torquay in 1885-86 (it cost £750)[3].

An early state of this map (3 below) has been tipped in to an attractive and intrigueing manuscript diary with the title Drives in and about Torquay (see next entry). 

 

Size: 640 x 430 mm.   SCALE _ TWO INCHES TO A MILE.   

MAP OF TORQUAY AND THE ADJACENT COUNTRY. WITHIN A DISTANCE OF 8 MILES. (Ee).  With imprint below: Published by EDWARD COCKREM, BOOKSELLER & STATIONER, DIRECTORY OFFICE, TORQUAY. 1856. Signatures: EDW^D APPLETON, ARCH^T TORQUAY, DEL^T (AeOS) and W. SPREAT, EXETER, LITHOG. (EeOS). Scale is written below map (CeOS).

The coast is shown from Mudstone Rocks at Brixham as far as Cleveland, just north of Lower Holcombe near Teignmouth. The granite railway to Teigngrace (Aa) is shown as well as the village of Cornworthy (Ae). The Torquay Branch Railway is shown only as far as Torre (not named). 

1. 1856            

Map Of  Torquay And The Adjacent Country  

Torquay. Edward Cockrem. 1856.       TQ.

 2. 1859 Date changed to 1859. Railway proceeds to Torquay and on to Paignton. 

Map Of Torquay And The Adjacent Country
Torquay. Edward Cockrem. 1859. TM[4].

3. 1868 The date below title is now: 1868.

Tipped in to a scrapbook titled Drives in and about Torquay -
Unpublished manuscript by H.M.A DevA.

4. 1880   The imprint below title is now: Published by WESTLEY & Co., Booksellers, Stationers, & Librarians, 10. STRAND, TORQUAY. Signature of Appleton and C & E LAYTON, LITHO, 150, FLEET ST LONDON replaces that of Spreat (EeOS).   The Dartmouth & Torbay Railway proceeds to bottom of map with Torre, Torquay and Paignton stations shown.  Brixham Railway also shown. Illustrated. 

Map Of Torquay And The Adjacent Country ... Eight Mile Radius
Torquay. Westley & Co. 1884. BL[6].

Map Of Torquay And The Adjacent Country
Torquay. Westley & Co. 1880[5]. KB.

 

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 Plan of the Town of Torquay (1853) 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.

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[1] See http://www.torbay.gov.uk/torquay_harbour_conservation_area_appraisal.pdf.
[2] See http://www.devonheritage.org/Nonplace/DevonReg/ExeterS.DevonVolunteersmembershiplist.htm.
[3] See http://www.kingswear-devon.co.uk/NewsletterNumberOne14%2023.10.06.pdf.
[4] This map has added manuscript geological information in colour with a key added in margin (right), folding into cloth boards with the label of Edward Stanford.
[5] Date is conjectural; Westley seems to have taken over Cockrem’s business soon after he died and this edition could date to 1872-1875. The New Harbour is shown (1870) and the New Drive at Kilmorie (became Lincombe Hill Drive circa 1880). 
 [6] This BL copy (accession date stamp of 1884) has been mounted on linen and the (front) cover pasted on reverse. Orange paper cover with title Westley’s Map of Torquay and Adjacent Country Within an Eight Mile Radius.