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My birth place
I was born in Templecombe Hospital on 13 April 1943, my mother was Lilian Game (nee Atkins) and was staying with her widowed father, Ernest Atkins of Silver Street, Wincanton, after leaving London because of the bombing during the war. My brother was also born there in September 1944.
A memory of Templecombe contributed by Pamela White
Birth Place
My birthday, a very cold day 10th December 1944. My mother had been in a horse and cart delivering milk to the area around Wincanton when the cart turned over into a ditch, this started premature labour and she was taken to Templecombe as the nearest hospital. My mother Phylis Cruickshank had been living at Bitwood Farm, Charlton Musgrove, my father, Donald Stuart Cruickshank, a seaman recently demobbed, was working as a chef at a local hotel.
This information is mainly drawn from my birth certificate and my memory of various stories told by the family over the years.
I would welcome any information, however small, to fill in the many blanks.
My mother divorced my father in 1960 and ...read more here
A memory of Templecombe contributed by Andrew Cruickshank
Wartime evacuee
I was evacuated from Dagenham during the war with my sisters Joyce and Pat. They lived with the schoolmaster Mr Pearce, whilst I lived with Mr & Mrs Norris Tinylogs, Lily Lane. I remember working with Mr Frank Hazzard during my spare time, who was a wonderful man. Our time in Templecombe was made happy and memorable by the villagers who looked after us all.
A memory of Templecombe contributed by John Evans
My birthplace
My grandparents, Frank and Amy Hazzard, lived in Templecombe in Somerset. They lived in Lilly Lane Farm and then later in Yew Tree House. My grandfather, Frank Hazzard, was a farmer. He was blind, but was one of only three blind bellringers in the country. He was also a very good carpenter and I can still remember visiting him in his workshop with the wonderful smell of wood shavings. I still have a box that he made for me. My grandmother's maiden name was Foreman. I was born Gillian Mary Owen in Templecombe Hospital on 8th November 1946.
A memory of Templecombe contributed by Gillian Harris
Extracts From Milborne Port & Dorset books
To reach our final village, Pilton, we must
leave our straight route at East Pennard and
travel almost due north for a couple of miles
or so. Pilton is a large but quite dispersed
village beside the Glastonbury to Shepton
Mallet road, and we are now some six miles
from the former.
The parish church, dedicated to St John
the Baptist, developed from the Norman
period onward through the Middle Ages, and
is down in a dip at the junction of several
streets. The church has an attractive Norman
south door, with corbels with heads of a bish-
op and two angels inside the porch. Inside
there is an Easter sepulchre, and the nave
and north aisle have Somerset-style timber
tie-beam roofs with carvings of angels.
Next to the church there is the manor
house. It was established in the 13th century
as a residence of the Abbots of Glastonbury
and added to by them for the next couple
of hundred years. After the Dissolution, it
passed into private hands and what we see
today from the outside is the result of various
alterations made during the 17th, 18th and
19th centuries, including some by one of the
Earls of Hereford who owned the place in the
17th century. In the yard at the back there is a
rare survival, a dovecote dating from the 13th
or 14th century.
An extract from from"Glastonbury Photographic Memories".
An intriguing photograph - are the men beside the pile of stones carrying out repairs or new construc-
tion? It looks as though they may be finishing work on the wall in the foreground, perhaps linked to the
new frontage for the main building constructed around this time. The wall was probably demolished
when the factory was extended in 1933.
An extract from from"Glastonbury Photographic Memories".
Now around to the south-west side of Glastonbury, where
Wearyall Hill lies between the town and the river Brue. The
name is a corruption of ‘Wirral Hill’, a deer-park established
by the Abbots. This view, from the north, is across country-
side, whereas today the foreground is occupied by housing
and an industrial estate. The Glastonbury Thorn on the
hilltop left of the wood is missing from the photograph.
Although this is said to be the original Thorn, the
photograph shows how it needs to be re-grafted every
century or so.
An extract from from"Glastonbury Photographic Memories".
A view that has changed more
than in the previous two. The
two 18th century buildings on
the left are still there, as is the
smaller one beyond. The next
one, however, has been replaced
by the junction with The Archers
Way. Then, the tall building
belonging to Brooks & Sons the
Drapers, who boast of being
established in 1831, has been
replaced by the Post Office,
which has a datestone GR 1938.
An extract from from"Glastonbury Photographic Memories".
Nearby, just into the
High Street, there
is another building
of similar antiquity,
the Tribunal. It dates
from the early 15th
century and is so-
called because it was
thought to be the
courthouse of the
Abbots. In fact the
earliest use of the
name was only in
1791 and the place
is now considered to
have begun merely as
the house of a wealthy
local merchant. It was
later used by the
infamous Judge
Jeffreys when he
was trying support-
ers of the Duke of
Monmouth after the
failure of the Duke’s
rebellion. The origi-
nal timber front was
replaced with stone
around 1500. This is
an interesting pre-
Museum shot, with
the building showing
signs of dereliction in
the windows and roof.
The emblems over the
door are the Tudor
Rose and the Tudor
Royal Arms.
An extract from from"Glastonbury Photographic Memories".