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Crockford
I have been studying my genealogy & my GGG grandfather built this Inn. I would love to find Crockfords from this area to email with Terri
A memory of Wheddon Cross contributed by Terri Crockford
Summer holidays
My grandparents lived in Porch Cottage in Luccombe.
I would often be taken to visit my grandparents but it was during the summer holidays I had the most fun.
Luccombe village is a magical place for a child and even more so in the summer months, it truly is one of the most beautiful places and the times I spent there are my happiest memories.
Karen Johnson granddaughter of Roy and Gladys Johnson.
A memory of Luccombe contributed by karen sankey
Lion Garage
I was working at the Lion Grage then, Mr & Mrs Ros in the Tantivy. First thing in the morning I would go to Mr Ross for our fags (pay him on Friday - pay day), the garage then was open seven days a week for petrol (Esso), Sundays people were coming back off the moors and would fill with petrol. Go to the Tantivy for ice cream, it was good days, the Lion Hotel and the Lamb Hotel always full with guets, the times we had to garage the cars three abreast for the people staying in the hotel. Some nights we could not get them in so we put them around at Jack Arnold's for the night, fetch them ...read more here
A memory of Dulverton contributed by COLIN NEEDS
My childhood in Minehead
My auntie Mary used to run the donkeys on the beach. I spent each school holiday in Minehead Swimming Pool and remember the Juke Box in the cafeteria area very well. When I first moved to Minehead in 1953 I lived in the old Gasworks Cottage right on the front down past the harbour. I would be very interested if anyone has a photo of the Old Gasworks before it was demolished in the late fifties early sixties ? I had 10 aunts and uncles in the Webber family , most of whom have passed on now, and several uncles worked voluntarily on the Minehead Lifeboat, with Uncle Alf being coxswain for a number of years and uncles Jack and ...read more here
A memory of Minehead contributed by Barry Johns
Extracts From Exford & Somerset books
By 1930 a War Memorial has appeared,
while the cottage beyond, Old Tythe,
then the post office, is now no longer a
shop. The bridge over the stream in the
foreground is an ancient stone slab or
‘clapper’ bridge; there are many of these
in Exmoor, including the famous Tarr
Steps across the River Barle, five miles
away over Winsford Hill.
An extract from from"Somerset Photographic Memories".
Exford is one of the few Exmoor villages with a green. This scene has little changed, with the Exmoor Stores and the Crown Hotel surviving and still relying on trade from hunting. The kennels of the staghounds are just over the Exe bridge, which is round to the right.
An extract from from"Somerset Living Memories".
By the 1920s, many smiths had ceased to tend horses, but tended cars instead – they had made the transition from farrier to motor mechanic. But the Exford smith is still carrying on his traditional business, although his forge has seen better days – the thatch has worn wafer thin and will soon be letting in water. The rickety door is smothered with auctioneers’ flyers for farm sales; the village forge had always been a meeting place for farmers where they could gossip and discuss the news of the day.
An extract from from"Times Gone By".
By the 1920s, many smiths had ceased to tend horses, but tended cars instead – they had made the transition from farrier to motor mechanic. But the Exford smith is still carrying on his traditional business, although his forge has seen better days – the thatch has worn wafer thin and will soon be letting in water. The rickety door is smothered with auctioneers’ flyers for farm sales; the village forge had always been a meeting place for farmers where they could gossip and discuss the news of the day.
An extract from from"Countryside Poems".
Redevelopment of the Parade started c1870. Lime
trees were planted in the 1880s to start the Avenue.
The buildings to the left of photograph 31223 had
just been built, replacing houses with walled gar-
dens. The building in the centre of the row, at the
end of Bancks Street, was all that remained of the
older buildings. Then a bank, it is now an estate
agents. The building protruding at the end of the
row, in Wellington Square, is now a bank. Capron’s,
the building on the far left, became a well-known
garage. It was Minehead’s first garage, established
in 1908. Two other garages were established before
the First World War but a petrol shortage during the
First World War meant horse drawn carriages and
bicycles remained popular until the 1920s.
An extract from from"Minehead Town and City Memories".