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Great Elm, The River 1907
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A Selection of Memories from Great Elm

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 Great Elm

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I too, was living in Great Elm in the 1950's.I guess Richard's grandparents were the Frosts. Betty James is now dead, her husband Fred was killed in a road accident on the Mells Road in 1969. Wood's House was called Elmhurst, it burnt down in the 1960's. I still run regularly through the valley and think the name was changed by the Stowells - he worked for the BBC in Bristol. Subsequent owners have included Monty Norman ...see more
My maternal grandparents owned Daneswood, which you reached by taking the Mells road out of Great Elm, then turning left at a bungalow set right on the edge of the Mells river valley. After passing the bungalow, Daneswood was the first of three fine Victorian houses set in their own beautiful gardens that fell away down the valley to the Mells river. Daneswood has since been renamed Wood Rising. When our family of ...see more