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Year: 1960
1960s In Bucks Mills
The earliest photo of me on Bucks Mills beach is in a pushchair from about 1951 -52! We were visiting for the day from my grandparents home in Bradworthy. In 1959 my grandparents, John and Gladys Dunn moved to Trundle Cottage (now Leat Cottage). For the next 9 years most of my Easter and summer holidays were spent there. I remember our very first holiday was at Easter 1960. We travelled by train (steam!) from Leamington Spa to Bideford where we were met by Grenville Braund in his big black car. We stayed at No 12, then thatched, for two weeks. We befriended other children whose grandparents lived in the village – Sean and Jane Rudman and their cousins Hannah and Ben Coles amongst others. The holidays that followed throughout the 60s were idyllic. Many hours were spent with so much freedom just to be… Sitting in Mamie’s house listening to her stories of her lover John, who one day would return to claim her hand… Visiting Reg Braund’s house to see ships in bottles and hear tales of the sea… Sitting in Edith Braund’s kitchen watching the pan of clotted cream on the side of the stove… Going out fishing with Mark Braund… Walking up to the shop at Bucks Cross… Building go-karts and riding down to the beach… Walking down the village with Grenville and his cows… Keep watch in the Coastguards lookout with Ken and Joe Braund… Spending rainy days in Mrs Coles’ house playing endless games of canasta… Walking through green tracks filled with butterflies on the way to Peppercombe… Prawning in the rock pools, even once catching a lobster…! To visit Bucks Mills today is a strange experience. So much is unchanged and familiar, but so much has gone and can never return. A part of me will always be there, as it was then… Posted: 29/04/2008 13:36 by Jonathan Asprey |
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Year: 1956
Bucks Mills
I have such wonderful memories of going to Bucks Mills and staying in Kings Cottage with my grandparents and family. I used to go over to see Mamie Braund who lived in the old house on the opposite side of the road from the cottage, I loved to play with her old dog Dinah, a beautiful old Spaniel. Mamie used to let me go through to the pottery shop and I always left when it was time to leave the holiday with a Toby Jug. I can still recall the oil smell that emanated when you went into the house, not to mention I can still see Mamie in my mind's eye, the long hair tied back, the little moustache and always the gentle smile. Kings Cottage was always on the edge of the rocks, but I used to sleep in the first bedroom upstairs and I can still recall the stories of the old Captain that lived there. The doors all had the old fashioned wooden latches and I loved just going out back where all the beutiful Fuschia lay blooming all over the walls. The outhouse was overhanging a waterfall and I dreaded going out there for fear the whole toilet would fall in the waterfall!!! I would go up the street to where the other Braunds lived who owned the little store and I would play with girls there, always getting myself an ice cream. Our family would walk through the woods at times to go to Clovelly for the day, but I loved to go down to the beach on my own in the daytime. My cousin, David, went down there at one time and put in a huge stick between some rocks and I was not allowed to go past that stick for fear of getting in over my head. Although I never actually did walk along the beach to Clovelly, I was told one could walk there but to be wary of the tide coming in, as if it did, you would most definately drown. What loving memories I have of Bucks Mills, is there anyone out there that has any old pictures of history even of Mamie Braund or pictures of her even and especially of Kings Cottage and the history of that charming place and its seaman's past? Last edited: 03/04/2008 10:24 by Kathleen Holloway |
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Year: 1965
Wonderful Bucks!
My mum first came across Bucks Mills when we went for a bodyboarding holiday in Westward Ho! before the march of the mobile homes..! Next year we stayed in Driftwood in Bucks itself and did so for the next 7/8 years until my parents bought an old farmhouse in Broad Parkham. I have stayed in Bucks many times since with friends and family and then with my own wife and children. It holds a magical attraction for me and holds my happiest memories from childhood. Mamie Braund, the fisherman's daughter, Edith and Grenville Braund, Joe and his wife, Mark and Noel ......... all Braunds! .. the crabbing, the fishing, selling the freshly caught mackeral in the square, gutted in the kitchen of Driftwood for a few extra pennies, the midnight walks, first kisses and climbing up the lime kiln from the beach to Kings Cottage... and how it has changed now, with only visitors visiting, no shop, no cows being milked every day and walked up and down the road daily.... the lime kiln crumbling and King's Cottage on a precipice... Last edited: 12/03/2008 09:14 by Nick Neter |
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 Bucks Mills, Cottages c1960 (ref: B240003) |
Year: 1987
My Home
I lived in the cottage at the right hand end of this picture, from 1987 to 1999, it made us sad when we had to leave. Last edited: 26/11/2006 21:47 by Michael Cornell |
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 Bucks Mills, the Village 1906 (ref: 55979) |
Year: 1971
Summer Trip
What a lovely vacation we had that year. When I see photos of Buck's Mills, like this one, I am transported back to those precious days under the sun. People that live on in my heart are there. I remember so clearly the path by the store, I remember running up and down this road with my sister. We thought those moments would last forever. They do. Posted: 11/06/2006 16:45 by Kelly Mitchell |
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