Luccombe
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- 4 photos on Luccombe appear in 2 Frith books - View photos of Luccombe
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Luccombe memories
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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.
Contributed by karen sankey
Somerset memories
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
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
wbardry@hotmail.com
P Aden :
I was at Butlins as well. (1962 - 1964)
I remember the big dipper thing; we used to call it The Mouse. I often went up on it.
I wonder what the camp is like now. Horrible dump, blasting out rap music probably.
A memory of Minehead contributed by First name Last name
Extracts From Luccombe & Somerset books
South of the A39, we climb from lush pastures towards Exmoor and the well-wooded Holnicote Estate and Dunkery
Hill, much of which are owned by the National Trust. West Luccombe, a hamlet a good mile north-west of Luccombe
itself, has some good cottages on the lane from Hawkcombe, with Inglenook on the left and the yellow ochre-washed
Rose Tree Cottage on the right. Beyond is West Luccombe Farm.
An extract from from"Somerset Photographic Memories".
Down in this very picturesque village, the cottage beyond the lych gate has the village hall attached at the far end, all
beneath a continuous thatched roof. To the left is Ketnor, Luccombe Post Office, a late 17th-century house with a
good external stack. Ketnor is the name of former owners of the shop, and the name board survives today.
An extract from from"Somerset Photographic Memories".
Luccombe village itself is seen here against the backdrop of the wooded Horner Hill in a view taken from Knowle
Top. Beyond the former school and schoolmaster’s house is the church, dominated by its 15th-century tower which
is over eighty feet high. The cottage to the right of the old school has a date plaque ‘1680’.
An extract from from"Somerset Photographic Memories".
Luccombe remains a quiet backwater with traditional thatched and tiled cottages and walks over the surrounding Holnicote Estate. The church of St Mary is a fine example of Perpendicular architecture with beautiful traceried windows.
An extract from from"Somerset Living Memories".
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".