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 St Dennis, Hendra Road c1960 (ref: S735028) |
Year: 1946
Happy Days
Wonderful memories of a very happy childhood. I am St. Dennis born and bred, and for me there's no place like it. My father Stanley Grigg and his partner had a cycle shop and repair business and I remember well the American G.I's bringing my mother tins of fruit and meat during wartime. I would get the odd packet of chewing gum too. The summers seemed much longer then and I can remember how I would wait for my father to come home from the quarry, we would take a jug and walk hand in hand down Prazy Hill to fetch cool sparkling water from the spring. I first went to the infant school where Miss Curtis was in charge, and then onto the top school with Mr. Pellymounter and Miss. Kent. Miss. Williams my sewing teacher always shouted at me. I could'nt sew to save my life, still can't. She always called my stitches cat's teeth. I think she was maybe the reason why I hate it so much today. Mr. Jacobs was the P.E. teacher. A really nice man. I used to love Sports Day and running. My friend Edna and I were rivals for the Victix Ludoram Trophy. Another happy memory was the class winning a Bird and Tree competition, I know I wrote essays of the beech tree and the kingfisher. I have a photograph of the class with the shield. Only three girls took part, myself, my cousin Maureen and my friend Edna. My two sisters also went to St. Dennis schools. Brenda and Pauline are both younger than me. Unfortunately we have all moved away now, but for me it will always be home. Last edited: 21/05/2008 09:17 by Marion Swiggs |
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 St Dennis, Robartes Road c1960 (ref: S735024) |
Year: 1960
My life as boy and man in St.Dennis
I moved into the first house on the right in the photo with the bay window in February of 1960 with my parents and 3 brothers. We were only the second tenants of that house. I stayed there with my parents until I got married in 1974. My father still lives there 47 years after we moved in. I have very fond memories of that house and surrounding neighbours. Mr Cory our next door neighbour at the time used to breed pigeons and a great aunt of mine gave me a couple of Bantams and I used to breed them and father would have his chickens. As children we would spend hours playing football in the road and down the bottom of the road on the village green. I was born in St. Dennis in 1953 and I still live there even though I have moved around the village a bit. When we first got married Jackie and I lived next door to the Blacksmiths Shop were we stayed for 9 years. When I was a boy every Saturday morning we would go and watch Percy Varcoe shoeing horses. I can still smell the burning as he put the shoes on to this day. We then built a bungalow in Parc-en-Bre Drive. After that we built a house at Hendra Prazey which we called TIZNICERE because it was nice there. We then built a bungalow in Kent Close then moved up to Church Road for a few years. We are currently building in Claude Grose's old builders yard. I have lived all my life in the village went to school there when Miss ALcock was headmistress and then moved up to the top school where Mr. Lewis was Headmaster. Mr. Jacobs was p.e teacher what he didn't know about sport wasn't worth knowing. I am a St. Dennis boy through and through, proud of it and wouldn't live anywhere. MALCOLM BURNETT Last edited: 17/05/2007 09:59 by Malcolm Burnett |
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Year: 1944
Music and memories
Is there anyone else who sang in Mrs Solomon's choir and went to Mr Pellymounter's school in St Dennis. I remember all the grownup ladies wearing their wedding dresses as we had to wear white. I was about four when I started to sing in the choir. My mother found some white silk and made me a dress that had enormous seams and hem, so that I was able to wear it for about four years. On one occasion I remember we sang in the main Methodist Hall in Plymouth. I also sang for Children's Hour from the BBC studios in Bristol. I think I was seven at the time. Mr Pellymounter had lots of friends in the theatre, among them Ann Todd and Eric Portman. He used to tell us stories of operas and he made English literature come to life. My father, not a St Dennis man, was a founder member of the St Dennis Male Voice Choir, which used to rehearse around the baby grand piano my parents gave me for my eighth birthday. They found it in a music shop in Truro. We left St Dennis for Devon when I was already at St Austell Grammar School, my mother's old school. Now I live in France and play the organ for the Sunday mass, so music is still important in my life. If Rowena Coon or Meryl Oliver read this I should love to hear from them. Posted: 10/07/2006 18:04 by Judith Ann Jensen Morris |
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