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Historic maps of Rimpton and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Rimpton maps
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Queen Camel| Mudford| Sparkford| Sherborne| Charlton Horethorne| Bradford Abbas| Milborne Port| Yeovil| Ilchester| Preston| Barwick| Brympton| Charlton Mackrell| Keinton Mandeville| East Coker
Rimpton area books
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Somerset memories
The Wedding
The Wedding Of Natasha Pekic and Colin Grugeon
01.May 2010
The Big Question
Upon leaving the primary school in North Cadbury, we were asked the big question. Well, the big question for an 11 year old.
"What do you want to be doing when you are older?"
My answer to this, was that I would like to be writing books and making films, and I would make a film in the village.
It is now 26 years later, and I am preparing to return to the village to make a film.
This means a lot, as it was here that I learnt to write, and where I first wrote my short stories.
Wartime Ven House
About 1940, at 9 years old, my private school, Willingdon College, was evacuated from Eastbourne to Ven House. It was a most magnificent building, built in the 1700s and pretty unsuitable for a boys' school. I remember fine carved doors and fireplaces, an impressive enormous entrance hall with ceiling paintings which we used as a Dining Hall, beautiful glass chandeliers, the arms of one of which I broke while fooling about, with dire consequences. During the early years many of us slept in basement dormitories which had buzzing machines supposedly to introduce ozone into the air. There is a fine terrace at the back which was weeded as a punishment. A river with a small pool which was great in the summer. There is also a path to a small entrance on to the main road where we had liaisons with the village girls, this led to violent threats from the village boys and some jeering when we marched to church on Sundays. In 1945 the school moved to Kent.... Read more
Ven House
The entrance to Ven House had two phoenix on the gates, I believe we adopted the phoenix to our college badge. We were evacuated from Eastbourne during the Second World War, as a molotove cocktail bomb burnt down the building. We were sheltering in a dug out in the school grounds. Virtually overnight a convoy of charabancs took us to Milbourne Port and Ven House. Opposite Ven House was a hill we called Babylon. We used to semaphore from the roof of Ven House to the top of the hill in our school Scout movement. A stream ran throughout the grounds, also under the verandah leading to the gardens and lily pond where we assembled each day for roll call. There was an orangery at the end of the verandah. The grounds had a vast collection of trees and shrubs imported by Sir Hubert Medlycott, the owner of Ven House. Mr Cottingham was our principal, till he stepped down for a Welsh ex-army officer who took over. Rugby was introduced... Read more
Former Landlord
Whilst doing our family history, we discover that the Andrews family were former proprietors of The Kings Head in Milborne Port. His name was Frederick James Andrews and his wife Annie. His son, Frederick Elisha Andrews married my Great Aunt, Stella and he went on to manage a small brewery near York. In the 1890s Frederick Elisha was a boarder at nearby Gillingham Grammar School.
Willingdon College
My parents evacuated me to Ven House around 1941. I was 11 years old. My memories of the school are many. The brook that ran under Ven House entrance and the dares to go through it, the poor food, playing football on the pitch with the cow patties. I remember the dog fights of our Spitfires in the Battle of Britain. It was so long ago, but I do have fond and, sometimes, pretty rotten memories of it. If there is someone who may remember me, I would love to correspond with them. My home is now in Sydney, Australia. I do a lot of International travel and would like to meet up with some old school mates.
Shop Names.
No 23 Middle Street, Yeovil was a chemist's, name Francis.
