24 Sep
Asbestos survey
Torpoint - PL11
Enquiry from: Hilary H
Start Date: Immediate
Coving in living room crumbling and need check to see if asbestos present
Yelverton
Yelverton is a big village on the south-western side of Dartmoor, Devon, in England. When Yelverton railway station (on the Great Western Railway (GWR) line from Plymouth to Tavistock) opened in the 19th century, the village became a preferred home for Plymouth commuters. The train is now shut, but the Plym Valley Railway has actually resumed an area of it. Yelverton is well known for Roborough Rock - a popular mass of stone near to the Plymouth road on the fringe of neighboring Roborough Down, near the southern end of the landing field. It provided its name to the Rock Hotel, developed as a ranch throughout the Elizabethan duration, however transformed in the 1850s to provide for expanding tourism in the area. The location to the south as well as west of the roundabout at the centre of the town was cleared up in late Victorian and Edwardian times, with numerous grand and also opulent villas. A location developed at regarding the very same time on a weird designed tract to the south of the Tavistock road is referred to as Leg o' Mutton Corner. At the start of the Second World War, an airfield (RAF Harrowbeer) was created at nearby Harrowbeer as a fighter station for the air support of Devonport Dockyard and the Western Approaches. A 19th century balcony of residences, currently primarily converted into shops, needed to have its top storey eliminated to give a much easier method. One high building which was not changed was St. Paul's Church, but the tower was hit by a plane, resulting in a warning light being fitted. The layout of the paths is still extremely clear as well as although they are considerably grassed over, the many earth as well as block protective shelters constructed to shield the boxers from strike on the ground are all still in position. Some American airmen and anti-aircraft battery systems were posted right here during the second half of the war. An aircraft carrying President Roosevelt landed below when its initial destination was fogbound.
