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Playing on Castle Hill, Torrington
I was born in Calf Street, no 57 in 1957, my gran Annie Gilbert lived opposite and my uncle Alex used to have the local shop at bottom of Calf Street and there used to be a lady that sold milk next door. My dad used to keep pigs along with Mr Oake the log man. My dad used to work for Cedric Bealy but believe the farm is now all houses. I can remember when the Dartington glass factory started and the local ladies loved the Swedish workers! My maiden name was Knight, my dad was Pat Knight and my mum was Mabel.
Forever my Home
I grew up in Torrington & my family still live there and I love to visit the Commons. My godfather Bob Cudmore who lived in Well Street all his life used to tell me so much history, I could listen to him for hours. My dad John Buckley moved down here with his mother, uncle Ted and sister from Durrington to Station Cottages in the late 1940s as his uncle worked for the railways. A little town steeped in history of the Civil War with glorious common land walks is my paradise. I don't think I could ever move far away from the area and still feel homesick even though I only live in Bideford. It'll always be my home and has so many memories for me, I love this place. Although true Torritorians are fading out I will always be proud that I am one.
Daisy Hutchins
My memory of Taddiport is a of lovely lady Daisy, she was always so happy and called all the little ones "My turtle dove". Every morning and evening her son Bobby would come to see that she was ok before he went to work, and before she went to bed. I loved her when I was little.
Daisy's Cottage
I was born in 1934 in my grannie's cottage which lay behind Daisy's in the Court, I used to go in to Daisy's to see and sometimes play with her son Bob who still lives in Torrington, I also remember well Mrs Edie Baker who lived next door to my grannie. Many a time I went swimming in the Torridge and also jumped off the bridge during my holidays as at this time I was living with my parents in Bideford. I don't get that way now as often as I would like, especially as my cousin Ann and her husband still live there (Ann Ayres that is). Many was the time I went to the woods at Frisnom to pick primroses with another friend, Peter Diamond. I would surely like to read of any other memories from this happy time.
Great Torrington
My mother in law Gladys Bidgway was born in New Street, but they all lived at what is now Londis in Mill Street, all 18 of them! Most of the girls went to work in the Glove Factory in Whites Lane. Gladys worked there with her best friend Katie Vodden who went on to live to be 107 and died 2010. They joined the Guides together and on May Day they went up onto the common to wash their faces in the dew from the grass, why I don't know, but they did. Bill Smale had pig farm on the way out of Torrington on road towards S. Molton. Aubrey Bidgway lived in Torrington and his daughter still lives there.
Summer Holidays Spent With my Aunt in Weare Giffard
My happiest memories of childhood are the weeks spent with my aunt who lived in Weare Giffard. Coming from London I felt I had arrived in paradise. My aunt, lived in a bungalow called 'Wayside' near the Halfpenny bridge. From her garden, we used to watch the otters playing on the riverbank. She grew most things in her garden and I can still remember the wonderful potatoes tumbling out of the red devon earth! I loved walking along the lanes and once, Yvonne from Torrington, let me ride her pony 'Whiskey'. I also remember a Mr Busby who kept pigs in the village. I also remember the awful feeling as the train neared London and my holiday had ended.
Living in Hiscott Circa 1970s
My name is Jeremy Silwood and I stayed in Hiscott farm in the early 1970s with the family of Mr and Mrs Adair. I met Dianne Adair at a club one evening with my then friend Alistair Symons of Crawley in West Sussex and Dianne and I became boyfriend and girlfriend for 4 years. We intended to marry but her father was a very violent man and stopped the relationship by his jealousy of me and his daughter. I was in my early 20s and now am 58 and recall after losing my sales job in Brighton on Sussex it was suggested by Diane that we move to the farm of 8 acres and breed dogs in the family business. Dianne had two brothers, Glen and Sam, who I understand were very good boxers and moved form the house later and had a lot of police issues and trouble and I gather bought a restuarant. Dianne was my first real girlfriend and I don't know what happend to her after I... Read more
