George and Edith Shore were born in Devon in the 1890s. They moved from Devon to Butleigh with their employer in 1928, the couple had a cottage in the village. It took George two days to travel from Devon with the horses and wagon; he always preferred horses to tractors. Edith made bread every week in a brick oven; along with pies, pastries, and faggots. Washing was done on a Monday morning and Edith made butter on the farm.
Somerset Voices: George and Edith Shore
July 11, 2009 at 5:15 am (History, Location)
Tags: Butleigh, Edith Shore, George Shore, Somerset
Nunney Castle, Somerset
July 10, 2009 at 4:00 am (Location, Video)
Tags: Nunney, Somerset
Another video from the village of Nunney in Somerset. This time with empasis on the castle.
Nunney, All Saints
July 9, 2009 at 4:00 am (Location, Video)
Tags: Nunney, Somerset
Nunney in Somerset was home to many of my Starr ancestors.
‘Oldest’ human settlement found
July 6, 2009 at 6:28 am (History, Location)
Tags: Dorset, Golden Cap, National Trust
Archaeologists working for the National Trust think they have found west Dorset’s oldest human settlement on Doghouse Hill on the Golden Cap estate.
Massacre at Slapton Sands-the great Portland cover-up
July 3, 2009 at 4:00 am (History, Location)
Tags: Dorset, Portland, Second World War
Rodney Legg tells how wartime reminiscing enabled him to re-write the story of one of the most famous disasters of the Second World War and claim it for Dorset.
Stalbridge’s historian
July 1, 2009 at 4:00 am (Biography, Location)
Tags: Dorset, Hilary Townsend, Irene Jones, Stalbridge
Hilary Townsend remembers Irene Jones, a model for anyone interested in Dorset’s local history.
Back to the future
June 30, 2009 at 4:00 am (Location)
Tags: Jill Dunning, Weymouth
Weymouth’s historic Nothe Fort has been transformed from awful to award-winning thanks to the dedication of an army of volunteers. Jill Dunning investigates.
Somerset Voices: Ron Sapsead (b.1919)
June 29, 2009 at 4:00 am (History, Location)
Tags: Ron Sapsead, Somerset, Street
Ron attended the Board School, Street. As a child he played games in the street outside his home in Glaston Road, with hoops and skipping ropes. His school headmaster used a cane on the tips of the children’s fingers, and they had slates to write on. In this clip Ron describes a Sunday school outing to Burnham-on-Sea. With the advent of the railways in the 1840s and 1850s, the Somerset seaside resort became a popular destination for day-trippers.
A schoolboy at Wimborne Minster
June 27, 2009 at 4:00 am (History, Location)
Tags: Dorset, Keith Eldred, Wimborne Minster
Keith Eldred describes what Sunday morning service was like for a young boy in the 1880s and 1890s
The Road across the Top
June 24, 2009 at 4:00 am (History, Location)
Tags: Dorset, Eggardon, Harry Poole's
‘Once you’re through the Gate on the Hill the road runs along the top of the outside earthwork of the Ancient British camp on top of Eggardon. After about five hundred yards it disappears from view as it drops down into the village’, are the opening lines of Harry Poole’s The Road across the Top.
