Talk:Dawlish

Dawlish.com

With all due respect - it's a nice site - is www.dawlish.com, apparently a personal website, a reliable source for the history? Gordonofcartoon (talk) 01:31, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

Why have you removed all references to my website? You are still using significant chunks from my history pages. Instead you have a reference to the Dawlish town council website! That is not fair usage. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.40.213.14 (talk) 11:44, 17 June 2012 (UTC)

I've temporarily reinstated the long-standing note about use of dawlish.com content, pending proper citations and/or rewriting of the content.  —SMALLJIM  15:01, 17 June 2012 (UTC)

Rewriting complete. Inline citations in place.  —SMALLJIM  21:48, 17 June 2012 (UTC)

Dawlish Community College bomb scare

Doubtful material moved to Talk. While true [1], this is local news trivia that'll be forgotten in a month, so it doesn't seem encyclopedic. If it turns out in the long run to be the cover story for the start of WW III, the post-apocalypse Wikipedia may view it as notable. Gordonofcartoon (talk) 22:46, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

On Thursday the thirteenth of December 2007, a 15-year-old boy brought to school at Dawlish Community College a military-standard white phosphorus incendiary flare, planning to use it in a drama project. It fell into the sight of several teachers, who believed it to be a bomb and left it in the school quadrangle whilst evacuating all classrooms around it. A bomb squad was called and the story made the news within two hours. Several rumours were aroused by pupils, including that they were being bombed by Afghan terrorists, and that the bomb had been in school for over four months beforehand.

The Singing Detective ? (or maybe 'A Perfect Spy')

I cannot be certain it was The Singing Detective, but I remember the BBC were filming a drama in Dawlish around the mid 80s down by the sea front, along Marine Parade. It would have been in the papers and I remember waiting to get the the brief glimpse on TV. Wasn't recognisable as Dawlish though as I recall, other than if you knew the houses along Marine Parade at the time. I think it was The Singing Detective, but can't find any reference now to any filming done there. If anyone can confirm, it can go under Interesting Facts, and add the location to the The Singing Detective article. Or maybe it was some other spy drama? I'm sure it was a period drama piece of the period and spy storyline featured in The Singing Detective.DeadKenny (talk) 18:24, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

Dunno. It's not on the official South West England site's Film & TV locations list. Gordonofcartoon (talk) 03:28, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

Thinking about it a bit more it might also be 'A Perfect Spy' which was around the same period. This would seem to confirm it: [2]. DeadKenny (talk) 15:14, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

Interesting Facts

The fictional character John Dawlish in J K Rowling's Harry Potter series is likely inspired by the town's name, from her time studying at Exeter University[3].

This is a bit problematical. I've no doubt it's true, but ultimately the only reliable source for a statement about an author's inspiration is that author (or someone that author explicitly told). But the Harry Potter Lexicon states "None of us is JK Rowling or has any connection with her in any way, shape, or form". So, however likely it is, it's really just someone's opinion. Gordonofcartoon (talk) 03:28, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

Fair point. I went by the similar Interesting Facts entry for Ottery St Mary (Ottery St Catchpole reference in Harry Potter). DeadKenny (talk) 15:20, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

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