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Old 04-30-2023, 07:44 AM  
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So, how do you explain this??? (Serious post no poo)

I was doing some research into the history of my local area, and to be fair, I've ended up down a 'rabbit hole' of research, when I come across a 'serious' site, with ordnance survey maps and all sorts of reference links etc. In other words not just something someone has put up a few days ago... It possibly had a .edu extension?

It talks about 'The Whistling Bells Tearoom' in Teignmouth. Dating as the early 1900s, it gives its exact location, and talks about it catching passing trade from Newton Abbot & Dawlish, the two towns either side of Teignmouth, at the opposite ends of the road it was located on, and also mentions that it was popular with people crossing the Shaldon Bridge into Teignmouth - Which would all make perfect sense...

It even included a picture of the tearooms, which I happened to have saved from the site:



Nothing strange so far... But here's where it gets weird... I've tried and tried to get back to that site again, and cannot find it - Nor can I find a single reference to the tearooms anywhere online - No one in real life has ever heard of them! If I didn't have the picture, Id think I was dreaming... But I'm not - I DID see that site and read that info, and save that picture!

But reverse image search the pic, with google, bing yandex tineye etc etc etc... My copy is the only copy of that photo on the web?

So, as the subject line says... I know I am not going mad... So, how do you explain this???
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