Cheddar, Sally Spencer 1908
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Old Sally Spencer walks with her stick down the steep lane into Cheddar in 1908. In the background are the spectacular contours of Lion Rock. William Parsons, her great-great-grandson, recalls how Sally made her living by collecting and selling to visitors fragments of spar chipped from the sides of Cheddar Gorge. The hills above the village are rich in flowers that peep out from rock fissures into the sunlight, and Sally also found a ready market for the local Cheddar Pinks.

An extract from British Life a Century Ago.

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When i was a little girl my mother and i would go on holiday to Cheddar and stay with her brother Wiliam Smith and his wife Eliza. Their adult chlidren were William George , Doreen, lenard and Albert Dibble Smith.
My maternal grandparents lived in Cheddar from 1890 to 1950. My grandfather owned a shop in Bath Street which was a tobacconist/barber/ photographer business and he took early postcard photos of the village, including some of the Cheddar man skull when found in Goughs cave. He retired in the early 1930's and then lived on the northern edge of the village. I was evacuated from Middlesex during the first ...see more
Hi My great-grandfather and my grandad lived nr here on Manor Farm and the Old Priory, in 1700 to 1901.
I lived my early years here, until the 1970's, having been born in Wells and brought home to Cheddar as a baby. I have many family ancestral links to Cheddar via my father's parents. In the late 1800's-early 1900's my great-grandfather John Day ran the Gardener's Arms in Silver Street, with his wife Emma. My parents lived in Birch Hill (also known as Bush Hill and Burdge Hill on older maps and records) from the 1950's until ...see more