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Bishops Lydeard maps
Historic maps of Bishops Lydeard and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Bishops Lydeard maps
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Memories of Bishops Lydeard
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Collecting Parafin
I remember well having to walk from Greenway estate to collect parafin from the machine outside of the garage on the right. Every day we walked to school in the village and we would call into the shop and spend our pennies on sweets, ice pops on the way home if it was hot.
Somerset memories
Combe Florey Primary School
The village school in Combe Florey closed in about 1958 I believe, it exists as a private house now, but I can still remember the mile long walk to and from it, through the lanes every morning and afternoon. Mum would accompany us with younger siblings in a big green metal pushchair, so for her it was twice the distance. I remember little of the actual school, except that it was one big room with tall windows and a wood burning stove in it. The playground was on the other side of the road, so we were all hearded across at playtime and shut in, and then hearded back afterwards. I dont remember how many were at the school, but from the names I can still recall there must have been in the region of fifteen to twenty of us. I left when I was about seven, to go to the nearby Lydeard St Lawrence primary school. The school mistress was called Mrs Warren,... Read more
Maternal Family History And Onwards Dictated by my Mum Age 84
My name is Hilda Mary Fenn nee Hurman. I was born at Yarford in 1924. My father was William Thomas Hurman, my mother Caroline Elizabeth nee Tucker. They are buried in the village churchyard. My two sisters and I were all married in the village church in 1952 and had receptions in the village hall. As children we attended the village school - Mr Hawkins was the headmaster - we attended youth club, brownies, guides, choir, Kingston players drama group. My best friend was Margaret Mead of The Bungalow, Fulford, she lives there still. We spent our days roaming the fields, collecting milk, harvesting, riding on the hay carts. When it was the Silver Jubilee of George V and Queen Mary, the village held a carnival and all the children and adults dressed up for a parade and a tea was held where prizes were given. All the children received a mug. When the Coronation of George 6th happened there was a similar event and another mug was given. In... Read more
Meeting my Great Grandparents
My name is Margret Russell. My maiden name was Margret Lewis. I live in Australia.
My father Wilfred Charles Lewis was born in Taunton Somerset. His maternal grandparents were Martha (nee Harris) and Samuel Critchard who were from Kingston St Mary where they raised a family of eight daughters and one son.
Martha and Samuel operated the Norton Fitzwarren Post Office for many years. When the death of Samuel occurred, Martha with the help of some of her daughters continued running the Post Office for a few years. Samuel also operated a shoe making business in a room of their home above the Post Office. Last year I was very fortunate to be able to come to the UK to meet my father's family of whom there are many still alive and many more of my 2nd cousins. It was such a surreal time for me as my father passed away when I was very young and I never had the oppourtunity to inquire of his family in the... Read more
Milverton Good Old Days
I used to live at Buttsway House up past Courtfields.
MILVERTON MORE HOLIDAY IN SOMERSET REMEMBERED
Dear Reader, My brother Alex and I spent many a happy holidays with my great uncle & aunt Jim and Curly Pile. They moved from managing the Rock Inn at Waterrow 1954- 1965 (retiring) to BarBrook House, Fore Street, Milverton in 1965 until 1988. The house is a large Georgian house with an upstairs flat which my grandparents lived in, Archie and Pat Bishop, 1967- 1980 ish. Jim and Curly knew many of the farmers and local people, from time to time they would help holiday manage the local pub at the far end of Milverton. The post office was a wonderful Aladdin's cave of toys and games, my aunt bought me a jigsaw puzzle of the Beatles, it would be worth a fortune now. The Cotrells had the dairy and with Don Farley my uncle and my younger brothers we would cram into his little red Austin Mini Countryman. We would all help with the apple picking and cider making at Cotrells farm. A school friend Donald Haniford used... Read more
Mother's Memory
My mother is now 86 years old and her short term memory is failing fast. She can remember things from her childhood more easily. She was born in Silver Street, Milverton in 1921, the daughter of Percy Frank Moore and Hilda Winter. Percy was a local baker and he would take her on his bike to deliver bread around the village. She says she played in an area of land called the "the Kill".
Percy was later persuaded to join his brothers in Cambridgeshire and the family moved in about 1927-8ish to the flat fens. Hilda never got over the move, and hated the flat landscape all her life.
