Melbury Osmond, Bridge Farm c.1955
Photo ref:
M216002
Photo ref:
M216002
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Thomas Hardy's parents were married in the church here in 1839. Their famous son knew the area well and used the locality as the setting for his novel 'The Woodlanders'.
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A Selection of Memories from Melbury Osmond
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 Melbury Osmond
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I was a pupil at the school during WW2
We stayed at Lower Holt Farm with the Everett family.
Our names were Ronald and Roy Spears.
Anyone out there remember us ?
Pupils at school I remember are as follows.
Frank Herring,Ian English,Hazel English,
Alan Crabb, Ivor Peach, Tony Stenhouse
Reg Constable ,John Constable,Christine Porch.
To name a few.
Roy Spears
I was born at Drive Villa, Melbury Osmond in 1938, my parents coming both from London. But my father had a music shop in Yeovil. My memories of Melbury Osmond are very happy ones, we had a school then infants and juniors, the school's still there as a house now. We had a shop and a post office and a bakery round the back. The cottages were for the farm labourers who worked for the tenant farmers as Lord ...see more
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