Zeals, School House c.1965
Photo ref: Z3024
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Photo ref: Z3024
Photo of Zeals, School House c.1965

A Selection of Memories from Zeals

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 Zeals

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My mother Edna Long was born in Zeals in 1936 the youngest of seven born at westfield house which is no longer there and brought up in chapel lane she attended the village school and worked at the dairy in bourton she was married to my father in the church in 1958 where my grandad Harry Long is is layed to rest my grand mother louise Long moved from the village around 1960 and moved to Swanage to be closer to her other daughter Brenda
After the War, after the Royal Air Force had vacated the property, Zeals House became home to Stroud School. A history of the school written by the Headmaster can be found on the following website: http://www.porterj.com/Stroud/stroud2.html. I would be very interested to hear from any of the ex-pupils.
I first went to Zeals at the age of about 4 months, my grandparents lived in the row of cottages on Tulse hill. My grandparents where Mr and Mrs Hicks, with them lived my aunt who still lives there to-day, Phillys Chislett, along with her husband Ken; my cousins Josie,Jackie, Kevin, Barbara and Sharon, all who still live around the area. My second cousins Roger and Trevor whose parents had the post ...see more
I attended Zeals C of E Primary school between 1958 and 1963. We actually lived over the border in Bourton (next to the White Lion pub) but the school was nearer than Bourton school. "Pop" Winter and his wife were the full time teachers and Miss Milne was the infants teacher. The walk to school involved coming over the hill on the back lane down to the main road then past the shop run by Mr Arnold and up to The ...see more