Rousdon, St Pancras Church 1900

Photo ref: 46054

I am writing and researching a book, hopefully to be published later this autumn about Rousdon and the peeks. I would be so grateful for any memories any one has of life at Rousdon until the sale in 1937 Please contact me either via this site or on nicolafcampbell@btinternet.com Many thanks

This photo is of what was Allhallows School Rousdon, after the house was sold by the PEEK family, of Peek Frean biscuit fame in about 1935 I believe. I went to Allhallows in 1944, and left in 1948 but my memories of the school were that of a difficult time. I remember we had some escaped German POWs supposedly hiding on the landslip cliffs towards the end of the war. There was a wonderful ...see more

My great grandmother's sister Frances Ostler/nee Start (died 1889) is buried at Rousdon Church yard with her husband Luke Ostler (died 1916). They have a very strange looking memorial it is a long oak slab with an upright at either end, I have never seen a memorial like it before. It is now very weathered and starting to rot. There is an inscription on the oak slab "I have loved thy house and the ...see more

All Hallows school was started in Honiton - now Honiton Museum - by my father's uncle John Murch and later moved to Lyme Regis. John Murch died in Bournemouth in 1959.