Everything You Needed Except Furniture

A Memory of Horrabridge.

1950's to 1960's
There were two butchers (Chinn's was one), two bakers (Toops and Hancocks), two barbers (Mr Colwill and Stansbury's who also had a Christmas Club for toys) numerous grocery shops. A Draper's shop that sold nearly everything - wool, a shilling an ounce skein. Post Office and Maddocks shop over the bridge on the way to the school where there was a great selection of penny sweets. Spears the greengrocers. Valances farm behind Chinn's the butcher. Mr Coleman was the headmaster at the Primary School. Fond memories of the school - Mrs Huber, Mrs Gilbert, but not Miss Eslick, she was a dragon.

An abattoir off Fillace Lane (now the London Inn car park) - we could hear the pigs squealing when being slaughtered and I hated the smell when walking past the pick-up lorry when it was parked in Fillace Lane for loading of the animal hides.
The only thing we couldn't buy in the village was furniture. The Village was not dormitory to Plymouth. A trip to Plymouth was a rare occasion for my family. A walk on the moors heaven.