Yeovil, Yeovale Leisure Centre 2004
Yeovil, Yeovale Leisure Centre 2004 Ref: y11713k
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Yeovil, Middle Street 1900
Ref: 45309
Dear Francis, As Christmas is looming, memories roll back to when Father Christmas arrived at Town Station on the train. One boy and one girl would be picked out of the crowd to recieve a present, and the present was a story book. How very lucky I was. Jenny Savage (Dungey)
Shared on 05 December 2009
My house backed onto Wyndham Hill and I spent my childhood playing over there.
My cousin and I loved to watch the steam trains passing by and sometimes (if our parents weren't nearby) would run onto the bridge at Penn Mill station and hang over to get lost in the smoke! (The things kids do!!)
There was also another smaller field beside Wyndham which had three horses, Penny (a chestnut), Dusty (a dark grey) and Joey (a brown). The lady who owned them gave riding lessons which I went to every Saturday (after coming back from the Saturday morning pictures at the Odeon). My horse was Joey, a lovely little horse, and I always remember cantering at the bottom of Wyndham (the station end) when for some reason Joey decided to 'put the brakes on' so to speak and I went flying over his head. I kept hold of the reins though and wasn't hurt but when I stood up the smell was dreadful. Dear little Joey had unseated me into a cow-pat! Thank goodness I didn't have far to walk home.
I used to go to Penn Mill Junior School and one summer afternoon, whilst lying on the grass of the playing field, I found a four-leaf clover which I still have to this day. I remember Grass Royal as a Secondary School (although I believe its a Junior School now). Very nice school but I recall that our Domestic Science lessons were in a large house in, I believe but I'm not a 100% sure, Southville.
Other memories are Larcombes Stores in Sherborne Road right opposite my house, the daughter of the owner is still a friend (thanks to the internet - haven't seen her for 36 years!), Arundels in Middle Street where my Mum and I would stop off for tea and ice cream, Denners department store, the cattle market and, of course, Nine Springs.
Also remember my Dad's local, 'The Royal Marine' in Great Western Avenue - used to love playing in the skittle alley.
Of course there's St. Michaels church where I attended a few weddings and it was used on special occasions by my junior school i.e Easter, Harvest Festival and Christmas.
I also recall a house with a water-wheel just by the River Yeo which could be found not far from the bottom of Wyndham on Sherborne Road going towards Sherborne. Was fascinated by that wheel and loved feeding the ducks there.
After viewing aerial maps I see that Great Western Terrace has changed for the better but unfortunately that is the only good change I can see. Yeovil seems to be sprawling out of control (has even moved into Brympton now) and has become so very modern that it has lost its charm. There's a ski slope, golf course, multiplex and numerous franchises like Pizza Hut, Burger King etc. so that Yeovil looks like every other town in the country - in other words characterless! A plea to the Planning Office in Yeovil - please leave it alone now, the place is becoming 'faceless'.
I remember my Geography teacher, Vyvian Malleson, going on television after the first Chinese restaurant came to Yeovil, to state that it would change the town and open up the floodgates and that, in his opinion, it should never have been allowed - how right he was!
Shared on 04 September 2008
Yeovil, the Hospital 1912
Ref: 64521
I started my conscription service training In Yeovil, if I remember correctly the
camp I trained at was called Houndstone Camp. I have very fond memories
of the camp, and the friends I made in the RASC company we were in. I also
have enjoyable memories of Yeovil village, we had some great times there. Being a northen lad living in a smoky industrial town, moving down to Yeovil was like moving into another world. I went back 50yrs later with my
wife, what a change. But I still have my memories.
Regards, George Jones.
Shared on 22 August 2008
Yeovil, Nine Springs 1912
Ref: 64531a
The old cottage at Nine Springs
I can remember playing at Nine Springs every Sunday with my two brothers. We would always stop at the old cottage there where you could buy a glass of home made lemonade for an old halfpenny, and sometimes two biscuits as well if you had a penny. The old couple were very friendly and we would sit on their small veranda, and pet their old black dog, and listen to the noise of the springs as we chatted and had our rest break. I went inside the cottage many times to use their small bathroom, and it was very old with little steep stairs, and I used to find it a bit dark and scary inside. Sadly this was demolished many years later, and I would often see the old couple and their dog wandering the streets of Yeovil town. I once went up to them and thanked them for the lovely memories they gave me, and their hospitality. Nine Springs was our 'back garden' and we used to have fun racing to see who could find all nine of the springs the fastest. In springtime we used to take frogspawn home, and take great delight in watching the frogs hatch and grow, when we would return them back to Nine Springs in big plastic buckets, and stop at the cottage to tell the old couple.
Shared on 12 July 2008
Yeovil, Princes Street c1950
Ref: Y11017
I well remember Yeovil as a boy in the 1940s and this lovely view of Princess Street brings back many memories. The road was actually the A30 road from London to Exeter running through the town and would often be clogged with traffic in the summer. The street had lovely shops including Genges on the left which became Redwoods toy shop. This was always more of a classier street than the nearby Middle Street. Soyers fishmongers shop was further up on the right hand side selling lovely fresh fish. Derek Phillips
Shared on 19 March 2008
