“We had everything you could want in a village – shop, post office,saddler, cobbler, cartwright – but we never had a baker. The baker used to come from Broadhembury every day with fresh bread.”
Len Salter, Hillside
Did the Post Office double up as a saddler’s in Victorian times? It would seem so. |
This is William Harris, Esq whose portrait was taken, we believe, on his 90th birthday.
We’ve been told he may have been a funeral director for the village. Does anyone know?
Bill Piercy (centre) we understand was the village cartwright in the early part of the 20th century, occupying the premises which
later became the village shop and garage repair shop. Can you confirm this, or do you know differently?