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Budlake Post Office
What an amazing place! The old post office in Budlake has been preserved by the National Trust and it is absolutely fascinating getting close up to the village shop goods and the post office stamps and stationery from the 1950's!
The National Trust staff allow visitors supervised access behind the counter where you can handle pounds shillings and pence from pre- £ s d days! Also enjoy remembering things like the old postal orders that I used to receive for half a crown almost sixty years ago.
Pure nostalgia and what memories! This is one National Trust property you really MUST see!
I visited with my wife Elizabeth and sister-in-law Margaret and we couldn't stop talking about it afterwards as it was so lovely. They also have a cottage garden attached which is attractive.
Memories of Devon
Growing up in Bradninch
I was born and lived in Bradninch until I went to college when I was 19 in 1969. I was born in the house in Townlands and lived there all the time. After Dad died, Mum moved to Millway Gardens, It was a great place to live as we had the rec and the cricket field to play in. School was lovely and Mr Dennis Gay was our head. Later I went to Tiverton Grammar School, but kept in touch with friends at the Youth Club in the old school building in Westend Road. We had great fun there and were near enough to Exeter for entertainment as one got older. We even went to discos in all the local villages. I returned to Bradninch to visit Mum and Dad, but sadly both are gone now. I still think of Bradninch as home. My family name was Salter. I remember picking primroses 50 flowers and 10 leaves to a bunch, so we could get some extra pocket money. The... Read more
Young Lad on The Platforms
I was a 10 year old lad living at the Alexandra Inn now known as the Hungry Fox pub.
Being a keen rail fan then and as now, wandering around the station and the platforms watching trains was a regular past time. Of course I used it when we went to Exeter or on one of my many trips back to London. Sad it is all gone.
The River
My family moved to Brampford Speke in 1972 when I was two and we moved away in the summer of 1977 to Bristol. We lived in the bungalow opposite the village pub. I went to the village school and spent most of the time down by the river. I learnt to swim in the river too. I remember the hot summers when everyone would go by the river, also the Silver Jubilee when we all went in fancy dress, playing skittles in the pub and looking for grass snakes in the churchyard! I still visit Brampford Speke as often as I can get down and still see some of the friends and familiar faces from when I lived there. I will always think of this as my home and have great fond memories of it. It is such a lovely place to live.
Alison Flannery (nee Dodd)
Lowbrook
The field in your picture where the sheep roam is now a football field and a park for the children of Rockbeare.
There Was Always The Ghost Stories...
In 1973 having just left school that summer, I started my State Registered Nurse training with tutor Miss Wilmot at this Southernhay Hospital.
Being a 'young lady' from Bristol my new colleagues and I were expected to live in the Nurses Home with a larger than life home matron Miss Hermitage. The Nurses Home was behind the hospital between Wynards Lane and Southernhay Gardens where there was an access lane. It was a red brick 4 story building that you could see the back of Southernhay and some of the multi-walkways and verrandas linking the many buildings such as the casualty block to the corridor towards the childrens wards and theatres. I remember being shown around one of the theatres that had a filled in fireplace at an angle in the corner of the room space!
In the Home there was large shared bathing rooms of 6 that you could screen off your bath while bathing. They were the most enormous cast iron white baths that when... Read more
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