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Conversion to Faith

I have great memories of the Church of St Luke and St Teresa. After instruction I was received into the church by Fr. Paul O' Sullivan, I had my confirmation there the following year. My husband and I were married at St Luke and St Teresa over 50 years ago, sad to say he passed away in 2005. Our eldest daughter was baptised in this church 1961, she was born at Templecombe that year. We came to live in Co. Clare, Ireland in 1971 but often visit Wincanton. On one such visit we were sad to find that the Carmelite Order had left the area. My first time to go into St Luke's was in 1955, when a friend, since deceased, ...read more here
A memory of Wincanton contributed by Audrey O'Halloran

Birth Place

My birthday, a very cold day 10th December 1944.  My mother had been in a horse and cart delivering milk to the area around Wincanton when the cart turned over into a ditch, this started premature labour and she was taken to Templecombe as the nearest hospital. My mother Phylis Cruickshank had been living at Bitwood Farm, Charlton Musgrove, my father, Donald Stuart Cruickshank, a seaman recently demobbed, was working as a chef at a local hotel.
This information is mainly drawn from my birth certificate and my memory of various stories told by the family over the years.
I would welcome any information, however small, to fill in the many blanks.
My mother divorced my father in 1960 and ...read more here
A memory of Templecombe contributed by Andrew Cruickshank

Wartime evacuee

I was evacuated from Dagenham during the war with my sisters Joyce and Pat. They lived with the schoolmaster Mr Pearce, whilst I lived with Mr & Mrs Norris Tinylogs, Lily Lane. I remember working with Mr Frank Hazzard during my spare time, who was a wonderful man. Our time in Templecombe was made happy and memorable by the villagers who looked after us all.
A memory of Templecombe contributed by John Evans

My birthplace

My grandparents, Frank and Amy Hazzard, lived in Templecombe in Somerset.  They lived in Lilly Lane Farm and then later in Yew Tree House.    My grandfather, Frank Hazzard, was a farmer. He was blind, but was one of only three blind bellringers in the country.  He was also a very good carpenter and I can still remember visiting him in his workshop with the wonderful smell of wood shavings. I still have a box that he made for me.  My grandmother's maiden name was Foreman.  I was born Gillian Mary Owen in Templecombe Hospital on 8th November 1946.
A memory of Templecombe contributed by Gillian Harris