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Newnham, High Street 1955
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If we look closely, we will see ladders reaching up to the eaves of The George Hotel, the white building behind the clock tower. Perhaps maintenance work was being carried out on the roof. Repairs of a more drastic kind were needed at St Peter's church on the nearby Nab headland, when it collapsed along with the cliff it stood on after severe flooding in 1360. A new church was built a little further inland, which was in turn destroyed by fire in the 19th century, and so the church had to be rebuilt once more.

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A Selection of Memories from Newnham

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 Newnham

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Bullyboy Prankherd
Was resident at Newnham house ran by Peter prankherd and staff bullied and beaten regularly over 18mth period has was all boys under that roof. We actually lived at the back in dorms wasn't allowed in main house unless summonsed to do work or to get a beating
Newnham, Unlawater Hotel c1955
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Added 05 October 2023

This Picture Is Very Nostalgic For Me,

Walburga Ehrengarde Helena, Lady Paget, 1839 - 1929 Born in Germany was a diarist and the last of Queen Victoria's intimate friends. Lady Paget died of burns after falling asleep by the fire at her home Unlawater House, Newnham on Severn, England, at the age of 90. Nodding over her newspaper in the Small Library of Unlawater House, Lady Paget lapsed gently into sleep. The newspaper slipped ...see more
Newnham, Unlawater Hotel c1955
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My First Home
My parents owned Unlawater House from 1963 until the 1970s. It was their first house when they were in their twenties and they ran it as a private children's home. I spent the first eight years of my life there and have great memories of lunches in the garden. They re-roofed it within the first five years of purchase. The council bought some of the land along the road to widen the road as it kept flooding as a ...see more
Newnham, Unlawater Hotel c1955
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Unlawater Hotel
This hotel was owned by my mother Patricia Woods till around 1959. Newnham was a busy place then. H G Zeal had a thermometer factory in the High Street. Above the hotel was a dairy farm run by A.Jones (Dean Forest farm). As a matter of interest, the name Unlawater translates to River of Sorrows and was from a time back in history when Lady Padget lived there and a member of the family drowned in the river. Best wishes, Rai Woods. (Captain)
Newnham, Unlawater Hotel c1955
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