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Places
The Post Office at Hilbourne c1910 run by Mrs Mears and her daughter Beatrice
Beatrice is here in doorway with her mother on the far left and two local girls: Bessie Hill and Abigail Groves.
(Courtesy Caroline Perou)
(Courtesy Caroline Perou)
High Ham Church, c1900
Outside the school High Ham 1907-10
(Courtesy Caroline Perou)
The Post Office and General Stores known as Hunt’s, Village Green, High Ham c1928
(The Mears moved the Post Office to the village green just before the First World War and it became known as Hunt’s when Beatrice Mears married Percy Hunt in 1920.The shop was greatly loved. Percy Hunt’s legendary car can be seen in the photograph. The shop closed in the 1970s)
Tapscott’s house, Henley Corner 1910
(Courtesy R and G Tapscott)
Ron and Guy Tapscott outside their house, March 2011
(Courtesy K.Lynch)
High Ham main street 1920s
Notice the shop window on the 3rd house on the left.
This was Nurse Gooding’s House (demolished in 1960’s to make way for St. Andrew’s Close). She and her husband also sold petrol there.
This was Nurse Gooding’s House (demolished in 1960’s to make way for St. Andrew’s Close). She and her husband also sold petrol there.
Stembridge Tower Mill, High Ham
1949 with broken sail
(Courtesy B. Westcott)
(Courtesy B. Westcott)
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