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 Memory Lane.   As a young teenager and coming from a maritime family anything agricultural was a total mystery. What do cows do? And why do hens lay eggs? But I had two good mentors Derek Fellows and Hubert Hall and even at a young age Derek  helped out at Glebe Farm, Fretherne.  Now the…

This is only conjecture. suposition, guesswork, coincidence as no hard evidence is in my possession but……… What I know to be true is that during the 1940’s, 1950’s and into the 60’s The prow of a substantial barge stood proudly out of the river bank slightly upstream of Rosemead at Priding the top timbers had…

First bit of Framilode RememberedWalking up from Framilode mill the stiles and the path at the high level were perfectly gravelled, manicured and maintained, I was told the Church paid for the upkeep as the ecclesiastical parish for St Peterʼs went as far West as Wick Court Cottages. Whereas the low level path was overrun…

Downsizing By the 1920ʼs Charles Jones Camm owned the whole of Priding with the exception of the two Wick Court Cottages which as their name implies belonged to Wick Court. His estate included two hotels one temperance and one alcoholic so you had the best of all possible trades. I think by the mid 1930ʼs…

Cuthbert and Kitty In my childhood at Priding nearly everyone had a pretty basic living …coal fires or wood from the river, vegetables from the garden, fish from the river, no electricity, no mains water and sanitation was down the garden. The exception to this was Cuthbert and Kitty…. Mr Cuthbert Blakelock was a retired…

Just on the borders of this memory  lane but remembered by older readers was the Horseshoe Cafe and Filling Station on the A38 at Moreton Valence (opposite Downtons’ Yard.. at a time when their lorry (singular) would come in for a fill with a five pound note cash!) . The establishment was run by Hector…

Just on the borders of this memory  lane but remembered by older readers was the Horseshoe Cafe and Filling Station on the A38 at Moreton Valence (opposite Downtons’ Yard.. at a time when their lorry (singular) would come in for a fill with a five pound note cash!) . The establishment was run by Hector…

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The Priding Cannon. The photograph posted here of the Severn View Hotel shows clearly the Priding Cannon used to defend the hamlet against anything hostile. Come forward to the 1950’s and the cannon had been relocated to The Homestead at Priding and belonged to Charles Jones Camm. Charlie and his brother Clifton were very tolerant…