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Cheddar, Village And Gorge c.1873
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In 1873, this wonder of nature had a quarrymen's village at its entrance. The cottages on the left remain beyond the millpond; the row behind were built in 1667 and are now the Cheddar Toy and Model Museum. The house on the bend is now Derrick's Tea Rooms and Restaurant, but the cottages on the right went for road widening. Beyond now is an 1933 International Modern- style flat-roofed restaurant, besides other modern cafes and souvenir shops.

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A Selection of Memories from Cheddar

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Cheddar

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Steart Cottage Wedmore Rd. Cheddar
When i was a little girl my mother and i would go on holiday to Cheddar and stay with her brother Wiliam Smith and his wife Eliza. Their adult chlidren were William George , Doreen, lenard and Albert Dibble Smith.
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Added 07 February 2018

Cheddar Photographer C H Collard
My maternal grandparents lived in Cheddar from 1890 to 1950. My grandfather owned a shop in Bath Street which was a tobacconist/barber/ photographer business and he took early postcard photos of the village, including some of the Cheddar man skull when found in Goughs cave. He retired in the early 1930's and then lived on the northern edge of the village. I was evacuated from Middlesex during the first ...see more
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Family Pearces
Hi My great-grandfather and my grandad lived nr here on Manor Farm and the Old Priory, in 1700 to 1901.
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The 1960s
I lived my early years here, until the 1970's, having been born in Wells and brought home to Cheddar as a baby. I have many family ancestral links to Cheddar via my father's parents. In the late 1800's-early 1900's my great-grandfather John Day ran the Gardener's Arms in Silver Street, with his wife Emma. My parents lived in Birch Hill (also known as Bush Hill and Burdge Hill on older maps and records) from the 1950's until ...see more
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