13 St Andrews Street Emma And Walter Stacey

A Memory of Millbrook.

My gran Emma jane Stacey and grandfather Walter john Stacey lived here
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My father used to take us on the cremyl ferry across to Edgecombe and then we would bus it to Millbrook..
Sometimes we would be greeted by flood water in the quay and along the road into Millbrook.. scary for a small child at the time
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My Great Aunt Alice lived on the Quay, with her husband Jack Flemming.

The house was on three floors, as you went in there was a lounge on the left, stairs going up and stairs going down, concrete ones as I recall going both up and down, up to the two bedrooms, down to the scullery, (kitchen then ), and lower lounge with the back door to the court yard garden, and further down the path at that time the outside toilet,opposite that the coal bunker, torch light toileting and izal paper haa .

I recall many a time sleeping in the top bedroom and hearing the milk cart going through the streets early in the morning as a chid. There was a tin bath on the wall hanging outside the back door, and a food keep next to it, food just didn't seem to go off then.

Baths were given, once the bath was taken off the wall outside, in between the old scullery on the lower level and the pantry at the bottom of the stairs, granny used to put in those old square bath cubes smelly lol., And heated with hot water that was boiled on top of the stove.
She used to make cream, boiling milk and cooling , skimming the top then reboiling the remainder.

Grandad was a good gardener, and had a vast array of veg in his garden, he also had an allotment where we used to go with him on our visits, he kept chicken and capons and used to provide the village I believe at one time at xmas with their birds. Also I recall going with granddad, pulling turnips, him cutting the tops off and we sitting on an old rickety bench eating the raw turnips,him killing the birds and taking them home and us helping to pluck them ...feathers everywhere.


My grandfather and father used to drink in the Devon and Cornwall, and I recall being sent by granny to fetch them for their Sunday lunch, we, my sisters and I, were made to stand out side with a bag of crisps until they were ready to leave ...Gran I believe at one time played the piano in there , tho was only self taught.

I also recall the sweet shop there were two sisters who ran it or might have been twins? we used to get our sherbet from there was yummy, Millbrook carnival then was held in the field which I believe now is a carpark, I recall riding a horse once at the carnival pretty scared I was too I was about 10.

We often used to walk up Donkey lane to whitsands,or out past the church to cawsands and kingsands, I also used to go looking for mushrooms with my uncle Terry, or going to whitsands to fish with him and his friends I wasn't very old, one occasion we went up to penlee point in his motor bike and sidecar and found an adder in the grass...My uncle still lives there, and I believe I have some distant relatives living there too... happy days .and fond memories of Millbrook and its surrounds

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