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Shopping memories.
My father was a greengrocer and his shop appears in this photograph on the left side going into the Rex Cinema arcade, a butchers shop was on the right side. During the war years and into the very early 1950s, he was the largest greengrocer in Bridgwater, having the Eastover shop and one in Taunton Road, my parents looking after one each. They also had a third shop which my sister ran for several years. That section of Eastover, including the Rex arcade, Mr Jeal the ironmonger and several other shops were demolished in the early 1960s to make way for the rather bland row of shops that now occupy the spot.
A memory of Bridgwater contributed by Mr J Haines
Village memories.
This is a view of the top of West Street with the Post Office on the left. The Postmaster then was Mr Herbert Winn. Opposite is Tetts Farm with the milk churns awaiting collection outside. The farmer was Henry Best. The lady coming along the pavement is Mrs Louisa Stoodley. She was widowed in the First World War and herself lost an arm while working at nearby Lopen factory.
A memory of Hinton St George contributed by The Frith Memory Archivist
Names of people and buildings.
Here we are looking down West Street with the village school visible at the end. On the left is Tetts Farm with the milk churns, while next is Manor Farm, farmed by Reg Newick. The thatched building before the school is Old Farm, farmed by Rhesa Warry, with a little sweet shop next door. All these farms are now private houses. Behind the village cross can be seen the shop window of the Post Office while the large gabled building is the 15th century George & Crown Inn sadly burned down in 1960. The ladies outside are Mrs Evelyn Best from Tetts Farm, and on the right is Mrs Stenner who lived in West Street. West ...read more here
A memory of Hinton St George contributed by The Frith Memory Archivist
Working life memories.
As a boy of 11 or 12 I left school everyday at 3.30pm. I then drove the cows to Mr Goodings Mill about 30 or 40 yards away from Mr Shepherd's shop. After being milked I drove them back again. In wintertime I'd grind up mangolds. I was paid 1/6 for this. Then I worked at Mr Shepherd's shop running errands and did odd jobs etc. I remember very well he had fowl houses under the Bridge road but the Council made a hole in the road and horse-drawn lorries drove to the top and tipped everything down the hole until it filled up. That part of the road is called The Ramp. Opposite my ...read more here
A memory of Washford contributed by Mr GR Bates
Extracts From Alhampton & Somerset books
Here the cottages at Turkey (the Quay) are seen from the former fish market. The current lock gates, erected in 1913, held back water for unloading ships at low tide. They are now used to sluice the channel clear of pebbles. Coal and limestone were once brought from Wales, and pit props were sent there.
An extract from from"Somerset Living Memories".
Porlock Weir is named from the old fish weir or trap on the beach. As fishing declined, the fishermen’s wives sold teas from their cottages. The shops survive, and the fishing stores and salting sheds to the left are now craft workshops.
An extract from from"Somerset Living Memories".
Porlock’s High Street has changed little, and traffic on the A39 has not increased enough to initiate a long proposed by-pass. The café with the balcony, now the Countryman Restaurant, was originally the Methodist chapel, and Smith’s garage, beyond, is also a restaurant, taking trade from passing tourists.
An extract from from"Somerset Living Memories".
This is another scene that has little changed: there is still a chemist’s and candy shop on the right and garage on the left, minus petrol pumps. Leach’s shops (left) became the library and now three shops. At the end of the street, with the tall chimney, is the 15th-century Doverhay Manor, now Porlock’s museum.
An extract from from"Somerset Living Memories".
Little has changed here, thanks to the National Trust. Bossington is part of the Holnicote Estate, which was given to the Trust by Sir Francis Acland in 1944. The single-street village is characterised by orchards, walnut trees and cottages with tall chimneys with the backs of bread ovens bulging from their bases.
An extract from from"Somerset Living Memories".