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I read with interest your article about Winsham in the Western Gazette a couple of weeks ago.  The village is of interest to me as my grandfather was parked on your village green on the night of the 1901 census. He was Captain John Hudson of The Church Army and had travelled down from Liverpool in a CA wagon to preach to the folk of Somerset.

He met my grandmother in Kingsdon when he parked there during his ministry.

She was a school mistress at Kingsdon village school and their romance blossomed.

I think your site is really interesting and very enterprising. We often pass the village on our way from Sherborne to Colyton to visit family. Hopefully more local villages will take up the challenge!

 

with kind regards,

Shelagh Phillips

 

Received 8th August,2009

 

 

I would like to record the interests of both my sister and myself in connection with the Winsham Web Museum. 
My grandparents Lily Maud and John Henry (Jack) Boait lived in the Blue House, Church St (opposite the Church).  My grandmother was a school teacher at Winsham School and guess she must have retired round about 1940.  My grandfather was one of the first to own a car in the village (photo of which we have) and ran a taxi service (always taking the then Vicar (Theodore Childs) to services at Cricket St Thomas and worked for Mr Dommett as a farm hand and very rarely took any time off he was so dedicated and worked till the end of his life.
 My grandfather came from a large family, his sister Daisy (Henrietta) Boait (not Boyt) lived next door and ran the shop which was once a successful bakery, also one of his sisters was married to Tom Ackland who ran the Kings Arms and another sister married a Churchill who had a business in Fore Street.  
My mother's name was Monica Boait who married my father Leonard Pays (a Londoner).  My sister Barbara and myself Janet spent every holiday in Winsham throughout our school days and so were very familiar with the village as it was from 1950 onwards - my parents keeping the Blue House for a few years after my grandparents died before selling up.  We still visit Winsham on a regular basis and would still  be known to a few of the original residents in the village i.e. Tony Meech, Jill then Partridge, Marjorie Fowler etc.      My parents were married at St Stephens Church and we have a family grave at Winsham Cemetery.  Consequently we have many photos of my mother as a young girl growing up in the village and would be willing to furnish any you think would be of use.  

Do please record our interests in your Visitor Book. 
Janet and Barbara (nee Pays). 

PS  I can remember some villagers remarking that when we used to arrive at Winsham for our summer holidays it always seemed to rain!!  Also I had very fair straight hair as a child and my sister had very dark curly hair which always seemed to be a topic of conversation!!My sister and I are both in our early 60s now - I lived in Norwich and my sister lived in Cleveland.

Received 30th August 2009

 

 

 

 

Just to say thank you for a great site.  My husbands family lived in Winsham in the mid to late 1800's and I have found records of some of them in the School records. I think they worked on the manor farms at Purtington and I am enjoying finding all sorts of bits and pieces on your site.

Living on the other side of the world in New Zealand having sites like yours is a real bonus

Sincerely

Diane Wills

Received 11th September 2009

 

 

 

 

Does any one remember the Sunday Roast being taken up to the bakery to go in the oven around  1950 when the Hallets and the Faces lived in the cottages next down from the pub?

Sue Wyatt

Received 11th September 2009

 

 

 

 

I was just browsing the internet and came across the Museum site. I was absolutely fascinated by it. My Mother was Daphne Flory who appears in the school photo of 1935 – she must have been around 6 or 7 at the time. Tragically she died at the age of 45 in 1973 of ovarian cancer. It was incredibly moving for me to come across the picture and be able to reminisce. There were many familiar names - people mentioned both in the photo and elsewhere on the site that were friends or contemporise of my Mother and Grandparents. My Grandmother was Amelia Flory and my Grandfather was Jack – they lived in Pools Lane and I spent some very happy a times there.

 There is an unknown girl in the same row as my Mother and I think that this may possibly have been my Aunty Joan. She looks about the right age she was the older of the two sisters. She died around 30 years ago.

Nana had been a Nurse and I thought that she was still involved in providing Medical help to people in the village in case of emergency. Granddad died when I was quite young but he was a Bus Driver and had met Nana when he was in hospital at some time during the First World War – where he had fought in the trenches. 

Kind Regards, 

Diane Dennis

Received  19th May 2010

 

 

 

 

 

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