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Memories of Shepton Mallet.
I was born in Kilver Street, Shepton Mallet just two years before the Second World War was declared and have drawn upon my family and my own memories to produce 18 books of local history on the town and the surrounding area. Little had changed in the townscape during the previous 100 years, and it was until the 1960s that widescale demolition and rebuilding took place. In many cases this erased much of the 19th century built townscape. Should anyone like to know more about my town's history I would be glad to help, or visit my website: freddavis.co.uk .
Fred Davis
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I live in Shepton Mallet
I was Shepton Mallet Carnival Queen and it was very good to do the job. My Granny and Grampy lived in Shepton Mallet and my dad and uncle were born in Shepton Mallet as well my mum who would've been the Shepton Mallet Carnival Queen in 1965. Pete and I are building a shed down Darshill. It used to be a pig barn and it is going to be wonderful when it is finished. We will have to take photos of the shed now and before. I got the map of Darshill and it shows us that the shed that me and my friend done is on the map
A memory of Shepton Mallet contributed by LOUISE MANSHIP
My relatives
MY RELATIVES FROM THE 1800S FARMED AT BODDEN FARM N/R DOULTING. THE VILLAGE IS VERY PICTURESQUE. MY FAMILY ENDED UP MOVING TO CARDIFF IN 1881, BUT AS IT IS NOW I LIVE IN WINCANTON YOU COULD SAY I HAVE COME HOME.
A memory of Doulting contributed by DUNCAN LUFF
Childhood
I was born in London, and my family moved to Culberry Cottage in East Pennard when I was about 8yrs or 9yrs old. That was a short but happy stay in the area amongst the farm lands, animals and walks in the fields picking wild daffodils and bluebells. I loved to help the farmers with the dairy cows and picked the cider apples. Will never forget the wonderful taste of the fresh milk/cream, but especially the taste after the cows had eaten some of the cider apples (cider and milk do not mix well!). Culberry Cottage was at that time a 700 year old stone cottage with no electric and a well for water at the bottom of the lane with ...read more here
A memory of East Pennard contributed by Brenda Carter
Extracts From Dinder & Somerset books
We are looking east. The village stands on the north bank of Doulting Water, also known as the River Sheppey. Thus the
name of the village may also derive from the words ‘dun’, meaning ‘a hill’, and ‘dwr’, ‘water’. The manor was held by the
Rodney family of Rodney-Stoke for many centuries until it passed to the Somerville family by marriage. Today, alpacas graze
by the Manor House.
An extract from from"Wells Photographic Memories".
This photograph looks west. The ducks still paddle
on the river beside the main road, but the Post Office
and Stores (centre) is just a house now. Note the cast-
iron boot scraper to the left of the doorway on the
right. Dinder House was built in Georgian style by the
Rev William Somerville in about 1800. It is now the
headquarters of Shoon, an international company
marketing clothing and footwear.
An extract from from"Wells Photographic Memories".
Along Dinder’s main street the Doulting Water was diverted to provide running water for the inhabitants. Overlooking the water is a row of 16th-century gabled and mullioned cottages, two farmhouses, a Victorian school and a former forge and pub that still shows the sign of the Dragon on the Wheel, a local family crest.
An extract from from"Somerset Living Memories".
This is the oldest part of the cathedral - the stiff-leaf carvings on the capitals of the north-west side are simpler in design
than those east of this point. The bishop’s seat or ‘cathedra’ is on the left.
An extract from from"Wells Photographic Memories".
WE BEGIN the tour of the city by the Dean’s Eye
gate-house, the dropping-off point both for mod-
ern tour coaches and ancient stagecoaches. Until
about 1970, one-way traffic passed under this
gate-house into Sadler Street, the main road from
London and Bath to Exeter. The Dean’s Eye is also
known as Browne’s gate, after a cobbler who lived
alongside it in 1553.
The east side of the street was developed after
1340, but some deeds for the west side date
back as far as 1301. On the west side is the white
Georgian façade of one of the earliest coaching
inns: the Hart’s Head, known as the White Hart
from 1700. It was built on dean and chapter land,
and has been an inn since 1497. The site of the
Hart’s Head first appears in the 1343 Commoner’s
Accounts; it was bequeathed five years earlier in
return for prayers for ‘the repose of the soul of
Ralph de Lullington’.
An extract from from"Wells Photographic Memories".