Morchard Bishop, St Mary's Church 1906
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Photo of Morchard Bishop, St Mary's Church 1906

A Selection of Memories from Morchard Bishop

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Morchard Bishop

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My mother used to take us children to both St Mary's Church and the Emmanuel Chapel. Being a Presbyterian from Northern Ireland, she believed she was closest to "Church of England" but found the Methodist services and the hymn singing closer to what she had been familiar with at home - that was how she explained herself anyhow. I suspect she also had good friends among ...see more
My parents, Eddie and Doris Blackstone, stayed with the people who ran the post office during the war. I would have been about seven years old then and I can not remember the name of the people. In 1955 when I was doing my training as a Royal Marine at Lympstone I went by train and on foot the last couple of miles to see what Morchard Bishop was like and I went into the Post Office and the couple who had befriended ...see more