3 Beach House Turnchapel..

A Memory of Turnchapel.

My name is Susan my family were the Dungey’s living in Turnchapel.My grandmother (Maud) lived at house 3 Beach view until she died in the late fifties. Bringing up a large family including my Mother who was the youngest born in 1922. She was born in beach house as was my brother Alan and myself, and a large number of my late aunts uncles and numerous cousins, My mother is still alive and well at the wonderful age of 98yrs, She loves to reminisce about her life growing up in Turnchapel.. I remember the house next to my Grandma’s It was covered in sea shells, that must have taken a lot of collecting without pressing them in cement.... My late father Fredrick Drew Worked in the dockyard there until it closed. He was also along with my older cousins and uncles a Mount Batten Auxillary Coastguard, practicing at Jenny cliff’s.. In the war years my mother & my aunt Bessie worked for Mr Elford, in the kiosk taking fares for the ferry from Turnchapel to Plymouth. My Uncle Sam Dungey worked on the steam ferry from a very young lad.. my aunt Bessie and my uncle George Johns ran the Boringdon Arms. Not sure what year exactly but I thinK it was in the late forties early fifties?
My mother said the family were always involved in everything in the village. She remembers the yearly carnivals everyone taking part doing something entering things like fancy dress, races, beauty queen. My aunt always entered that and sometimes won...One year my two cousins entered as prisoners from the Koran war, my mum said they looked more like Mummies with all the bandages around them..
I’m so fortunate to have a lot of lovely memories and a few photographs thanks to my dear Mum.

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