ANOTHER mixed bag of images from the 1980s: this week from all points of the Teignbridge area; sharp-eyed viewers may well spot a certain well known newsreader of the time, now currently a Strictly star, in one of the pictures.
![Annette Whittle and her daughter Tracey from Ashburton meet Angela Rippon who was on hand to judging fancy dress events at a local show in September 1981.](https://www.dawlish-today.co.uk/tindle-static/image/2023/09/26/10/Screenshot%202023-09-26%20at%2011.02.35.png?trim=0,376,0,356&width=669&height=445&crop=669:445)
Annette Whittle and her daughter Tracey from Ashburton meet Angela Rippon who was onhand to judging fancy dress events at a local show in September 1981. (MDA Archive )
![Awards presentations to Anchor Boys of the Boys Brigade at Shaldon Road Methodist Church in July 1988.](https://www.dawlish-today.co.uk/tindle-static/image/2023/09/26/10/Screenshot%202023-09-26%20at%2011.03.51.png?trim=0,283,0,301&width=669&height=445&crop=669:445)
Awards presentations to Anchor Boys of the Boys Brigade at ShaldonRoad Methodist Church in July 1988. (MDA Archive )
![July 1988 and champion jockey Bob Champion was on hand to officially open the new Normans store at Trago Mills.](https://www.dawlish-today.co.uk/tindle-static/image/2023/09/26/10/Screenshot%202023-09-26%20at%2011.07.10.png?trim=0,330,0,309&width=669&height=445&crop=669:445)
July 1988 and champion jockey Bob Champion was on hand to officially open the new Normans store atTrago Mills. (MDA Archive)
![Cllr Arthur Bladon bowls the first wood at the official opening of Ipplepen’s new artifical green on a suitably wet day in November 1981.](https://www.dawlish-today.co.uk/tindle-static/image/2023/09/26/10/Screenshot%202023-09-26%20at%2011.08.21.png?trim=0,342,0,312&width=669&height=445&crop=669:445)
Cllr Arthur Bladon bowls the first wood at the official opening of Ipplepen’s new artificalgreen on a suitably wet day in November 1981. (MDA Archive )