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Melbury Osmond, Post Office c.1955
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Melbury Osmond is mentioned in the Domesday Book as belonging to the Arundell family. It stayed in their possession until about a century ago. Thomas Hardy's parents were married in the village church in 1839.

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A Selection of Memories from Melbury Osmond

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Melbury Osmond

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I was a pupil at the school during WW2 We stayed at Lower Holt Farm with the Everett family. Our names were Ronald and Roy Spears. Anyone out there remember us ? Pupils at school I remember are as follows. Frank Herring,Ian English,Hazel English, Alan Crabb, Ivor Peach, Tony Stenhouse Reg Constable ,John Constable,Christine Porch. To name a few. Roy Spears
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My Childhood Memories
I was born at Drive Villa, Melbury Osmond in 1938, my parents coming both from London. But my father had a music shop in Yeovil. My memories of Melbury Osmond are very happy ones, we had a school then infants and juniors, the school's still there as a house now. We had a shop and a post office and a bakery round the back. The cottages were for the farm labourers who worked for the tenant farmers as Lord ...see more
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