The house we lived in was right next to the Salvation Army hall. The hall was originally a Countess of Huntingdon's Connection chapel and is octagonal in shape.
At the bottom of Acre Street there was a corner shop (and indeed it seems to be still there) where would get our Saturday treats from.
I have a school photograph of me taken in 1971. I was probably at this school for a very short time indeed, from May until the end of the school year in July. In September we moved to another school which from memory was called "Spire High".
In Summer 1971 we went to Somerset and stayed at Oldways End. The house was actually two houses adjoined by a passage way. Mrs Fanthorpe, the owner, lived in one house, and let out the second house for visitors. Mrs Fanthorpe also ran the hamlet's petrol station. We had a number of excursions and I remember visiting Dunster Castle (I still have my parent's copy of the souvenir brochure for Dunster Castle) and Tarr Steps. I wonder if the beach we went could have been Minehead, but I think it was at Blue Anchor.
Dunster
Tarr Steps
No comments:
Post a Comment