Cheddar, Sally Spencer 1908
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Old Sally Spencer walks with her stick down the steep lane into Cheddar in 1908. In the background are the spectacular contours of Lion Rock. William Parsons, her great-great-grandson, recalls how Sally made her living by collecting and selling to visitors fragments of spar chipped from the sides of Cheddar Gorge. The hills above the village are rich in flowers that peep out from rock fissures into the sunlight, and Sally also found a ready market for the local Cheddar Pinks.
An extract from British Life a Century Ago.
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