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Somerset memories
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.
My Childhood Holidays Spent in Milverton
My name is Rosie Pearce and I live in Tintagel, North Cornwall. These are just a few of my many childhood memories of Milverton. I lived in Reading with my father and grandmother after my mum died in 1954, I was 9. I used to spend summer holidays with Mr & Mrs Andrews (Auntie Joyce and Uncle Fred) at The George Hotel. They were the best days of my life. I made many friends, Jessie King who lived next door, Sheila Winters and her sister Margie whose mum ran the sweet shop the other side of the pub, then there was Janet Law who lived in the big house nxt to the church, Sally Rush and her family including her grandparents who owned Tuckers Farm and shop. As I got older I started to do the milk round with Shirley Redwood who lived up the Butts. We are still in touch which is lovely. Freddie had lots of brothers and sisters, hope I can remember them all! There was Frank... Read more
1939-1945
I have lovely memories of Wiveliscombe and my Father moved us there in September 1939. We lived in London and with the war upon us the move for me was very positive .I was just 3 at the time and really took to country life and we were lucky because we managed to rent Norton Cottage(Oposite the Vicarage). The Cottage was part of Norton House(Which was Condemmed) and we had a lovely garden which was part of the House. My Father was in a reserved occupation and had to live in London but visited us at every opportunity.
I was really too young to appreciate the terrible war which was going on in the world and I can recall going to school and really becoming part of the community.
My Sister got married at the local Church in 1944 .My Brother-in-Law had moved from London and worked in Engineering very close to where we lived.
I remember using the local shop at the bottom of the Hill and I believe... Read more
Wiveliscombe Earliest Memories
I remember being taken to Wiveliscombe as a young boy in my Uncle Jim's dark green Standard Vanguard, he ran the Rock Inn at Waterrow 1954- 1965. He would take me to the toy shop at Wiveliscombe Square called Richards and Lanes (later became Twiggers) to buy me a Dinky or Corgi car. I was only four in 1960. Our family had moved from Holbury near the New Forest in Hampshire to Somerset in the late 1960s. In November of 1967 we (the Bishop family) bought Upingtons, 6 High Street, a strange Georgian house (I think it was haunted) bought from the Maunders family. It had three floors and two cellars and full of dry rot and death watch beetle. My father (a very tall man) used to be in the merchant navy as a sea captain, Peter Bishop, being nearly 6ft 5 inches tall - my school new friends would say "Hi Julian, how's your 7ft dad?". There was a cake shop/restaurant next door run by the Rates family.... Read more
Donkey Derby at Wiveliscombe
Here is another tale of recollection of the Wiveliscombe Donkey Derby. In November 1967 we had moved from the New Forest to Uppingtons, 6 High Street Wiveliscombe, a strange 3 floored Georgian house that sat between the Chemist and the cake shop/restaurant ran by Mr Rates. Wivey was a thriving little town, little had changed since spending my holidays at Waterrow as a young boy although the railway station had now closed and the markets were becoming a little less frequent. In 1968 I was approaching my twelfth birthday. I attended Kingsmead School, my friends many of which were sons of local farmers, would have to work Bank Holidays. In 1968 I had joined the Wivey Choir, don't asked me why, I think it was a brain wave my dad had at the time. Mr Berry was the organist and the rector was Rev Bentley who had a lovely daughter. The was a youth club which was great fun. Bank holidays were spent at the Reck, the Recreational Grounds, where they held... Read more
