Parracombe, View From The Youth Hostel c.1955
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Photo of Parracombe, View From The Youth Hostel c.1955

A Selection of Memories from Parracombe

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 Parracombe

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I came to Parracombe regularly as a child (born Oct 1942) with my parents. We stayed at "Fernlea" with Mr and Mrs George Court and their daughter Mary (about my age). My father George Pickering, and my mother Jessie Pickering would go to the "Fox and Goose" in the evenings. The Landlord was Fred Crick (Creek)? My father played the piano, and went with Fred into Barnstaple to buy a piano to ...see more
I think I was 12 years old and living in Hatch End, Middlesex, when I first noticed a lovely girl of about my own age called Alison Nulty. She moved to Parracombe as her family wanted to start a chicken farm on a beautiful old house called Kittitoe. The Nulty family invited us to go and spend a few days with them at half-term soon after they settled in Devon. I loved those few days ...see more