My Family

A Memory of Culmstock.

My father's grandfather Mark Gadd Lowman was the landlord of the Railway Hotel now Culm Valley pub in 1917 which stood to the right of these crossroads. Mr Evans the station master used to let my dad, Frank Wheller, open the gates for him.

There is a picture in the pub of Mark and Florrie with a horse and cart standing in front of the hotel - you can see the name Mark Lowman over the front entrance.

Mark Lowman was married to Elizabeth Vickery Parker (my great grandmother) and later to Florence Brown. After my great grandfather, Mark, died Florrie had the cottage next to the hotel. My father has wonderful memories of the times he as a lad used to play around this area. My father Frank is now 89 and still alive (May 2010) with a very active mind full of memories and tales to tell.

Suzie Wheller