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Year: 1957 SCOLE STORES
My parents Bernard (better known as Syd) and Margret (Peggy) Blunsom owned Scole stores in the main street of Scole. I rember the house well across the road was pretty"s garage. Old Mrs Johnsons cottage was sandwiched between us and the Scole Inn. On the other side was an antique shop where every mothers day I would go with the five shillings my dad had given me and get my mum a mothers day gift. The hugh heavy gates that lead into the court yard of the house where a long row of out buildings stood. One had been a bakery at some stage as the hugh oven was still there in the stone wall and next to that were some stables a store house and a coal storage area . Running the full length above these buildings was a hay loft with a hugh trap door. The house was amazing with many rooms. The shop was at the front it was a general store and we sold everything . The smells a mixture of freshly sliced ham ,freshly baked bread , newly baked fruit cakes and scones all baked by my mother. We also sold paraffin pegs clothes lines so many things. It was also a place where the villagers would gather and chat and catch up with each other. A large cellar ran under the house and shop it was always cool down there and was used as a storage area for the stock . We had a sitting room leading from the shop and a big kitchen with a lovely warm raburn in the corner. There were two staircases in the house one dark and dingy leading upstairs from the kitchen the other a grand regal affair at the front of the house with a highly polished bannister which we used to slide down constsntly. I attended the village school and my long suffering brother had to walk me up the hill every day. Sadly my parents have both passed on and I have lived in australia for 35 years but a friend of ours recently visit scole on an overseas trip to England and it made me remember our beautiful old house. Then I found the photos on this site there it was the big gates the garage thankyou so much for helping me to relive such a lovely time in my life.

Posted: 31/12/2007 10:15 by Sally Smith

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Year: 1950 High House, Scole
I have very fond memories of Scole because I spent an awful lot of my childhood and adult years visiting and staying with my Great Uncle & Aunt Tom & Florrie Clark who lived in High House. They initially had an antique shop at the front of the house, stables at the back and two orchards one at the side of the house and another down a lane nearby. My sisters and myself loved picking the apples from the trees. Of course we didn't eat any before my aunt would make lovely fresh pies with them, well maybe we we did just the odd one. The house was full of antiques and a lovely open grate fireplace that had logs burnt on it. The building was oak beamed as in Tudor style, the ceiling sagged in the living room I suppose as a result of its age and there were four poster beds upstairs. The downstairs floors were stone and the doors were all thick oak and very heavy with big latches on them. My own children and the first of their children loved going to visit, obviously to see my Aunt & Uncle, but also for the excitement of being at and exploring the house and orchards. We all loved going for walks down the lanes nearby and the village and always made a point of calling into Prettys Garage which was the next building along towards the village on the A140 Norwich Road. I have not visited Scole since my Aunt & Uncle passed away and the house has new occupants but I am informed that the orchard down the lane no longer exists as they drove the new A140 road through it. I would rather just treasure the memories I have of Scole than see it now because I feel it may sour the memories. I have many photographs of the house and the grounds and they help just to glance through them now and again.

Last edited: 16/05/2007 09:38 by Robert Eldred

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