Cheddar Photographer C H Collard

A Memory of Cheddar.

My maternal grandparents lived in Cheddar from 1890 to 1950. My grandfather owned a shop in Bath Street which was a tobacconist/barber/ photographer business and he took early postcard photos of the village, including some of the Cheddar man skull when found in Goughs cave. He retired in the early 1930's and then lived on the northern edge of the village. I was evacuated from Middlesex during the first year of WW2, living with my grandparents and attending Wells Blue School. One of my early memories is that of the Bath Street cheese shop of Ernest Small, which had a marble topped counter and wire cutters to divide the large round cheeses into portions.

Pam Egeland