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A Childhood Remembered With
This and That

By Jim Board

Published by J.D. Board, 1999
Colyvale, Colyton EX24 6PZ
Printed by Creeds the Printers, Broadoak, Bridport DT6 5NL

Index prepared by Julie Anning Fletcher

(E-mail: mailto:brookend[at]westnet.com[dot]au)

Jim Board was the local postman for many years, born in Colyton. A good deal of the book follows his postal round naming roads, farms and families along the route, with some historical information and lots of childhood reminiscencing.

Illustrations and photographs

(Many not dated but thought to be early-mid 1900's}

	Front cover The River, Colyton.

1.	Town Map of Colyton, hand drawn, present day street names, 1928 street names, places of interest, i.e. Houses, businesses [see index]
2.	Photo of seven Board siblings 1930's
3.	Chantry Bridge, with the beginning of the breakup of the weir
4.	The Ford, Farway Village
5.	The Rickety Bridge at Heath-Hayne
6.	The View of Colyton from Mount Hill
7.	River Coly at it's most violent, taking away the end of a house below Umborne Bridge, 10th July 1968
8.	Umborne Bridge, a favourite place for the Dipper to nest on it's steel supports
9.	The Wesleyan Chapel where children attended Sunday School
10.	A cottage where Mr Ralph Smith and family lived, here bicycles were repaired
11.	Arial view of Old Cottages now long gone, foreground Church Path, where Mr. Newbury the Church sexton lived]
12.	No.1 Restorick Row [home of Jim Boards grandparents]
13.	Colyton Vicarage, taken from Church tower
14.	The Old Smithy nearby the Bear Inn, Frank Turl, Farrier and Smithy
15.	The fateful bollards at Church Path & iron railings removed during WW2
16.	The Colyton Industrial & Provident Society, Harold Purse, Mr. Jay, Manager, Rene Restorick, Bill French, Unknown, Donald D. Purse
17.	Colyton Primary School 1971
18.	Rendell's House, Queens Square
19.	The White Hart, Queens Square
20.	Old School House 1908
21.	Local Grammar School, now Old Church House 1978
22.	Follett RH & J & Turl Brothers, Grocer & Ironmonger 1900's
23.	Colyton Fair Day, early - unknown date
24.	Colcombe Castle, Market Square
25.	1937 Coronation Celebrations, Market Square
26.	Barbers shop run by Ernest Matthews, now a library
27.	Colcombe Castle, Market Square
28.	Coronation Celebrations, Market Square
29.	Board, James William, authors father
30.	No.5 Stokes Row
31.	Jim Board, Church Terrace
32.	Butcher White's shop, Edgar White, Tom White, Reg Heard, Gwendoline White
33.	Lower Church Street, Coronation 1937 children
34.	Chantry Meadow
35.	St Andrews Church fire, 1933
36.	The church bells after fire, Harold Richards, Sir Rex Richards, Dick Barrett, Ned Moss, Mr. J Newbery
37.	Grandmother, Lizzie Board
38.	Stokes Row Court 1999
39.	Gladys Elizabeth May Board with baby [Jim Boards' mother]

INDEX

Name	Event	Date	Page
'Clapps' Hayfield	Town Map of Colyton	1928-1999	Preface
'Slippery'	A travelling fruit and vegetable purveyor and character, used a horse and cart and was partial to a drink		133
5, Stokes Row	Town Map of Colyton, author born	1928-1999	Preface
	Now Church Terrace, photograph		82
	James Board, photograph		84
Allotments	Will Hayne, the Ridgeway and Colcombe, about 100 plots		40
Appledore Farm	Farway, rivulet joins River Coly		9
Axe Valley Hunt	Met in Market Square		67
Bailey, Bill	Spent school years with author in Colyton		13
Bake House	Lower Church Street		91
Baker, J & F	Current owners of Hamlyn Mill		43
Barrett, John	Childhood friend of author		132
Barrett, Tom	Timber hauler, two saw mills South Street		78
Barton Stacey, Hampshire	Jim Board 18 years old at Transit camp, death of grandmother Lizzie Board	1946	123
Bastable, Mr E	Taught Sunday school, Vicarage Street, buried at Loughwood Chapel, lived at Berry House, bakery		106
Bastables shop	Vicarage Street		90
Bear Inn	Public House		94
Beer Quarry	Beer stone		67
Beer stone	Used in cottages in King Street		45
Berry House	Town Map of Colyton	1928-1999	Preface
Berry House	Overlooked Colyton House, originally two storey		37
Board Family	Photograph	1930's	7
Board, James Douglas	Born 22 August, 1928		82
Board, James siblings	Jim, Denis, Sidney, Margaret, Alan, Hubert, Christine, Gladys, Malcolm, Ronald		86, 102
Board, Vera, Robert, Joanne	Children of Jim Board		107
Board, Jack & Board Lizzie	Shearscroft Farm, drover and slaughterman		13
Board, James William & Board, Gladys Elizabeth May	Parents of fourteen children born in Colyton, No.5 Stokes Row [now Church Terrace], Lower Church Street [then called Cross Street & also Tiger's Bay]	Late 1800's-early 1900	8
Board, Jim	James Douglas Board, Date of birth, 9th child of James William Board & Gladys Elizabeth May Board. Five children born after	22nd August 1928	8, 81, 82
Bolshayne Farm	See Cottshayne Cottage		22
Bonehayne Farm	Southleigh, rivulet joins River Coly		9
Borwick, Andrew	Boyhood friend of James Board, son of local magistrate	1938	70
Boycombe Farm	Boycome Lane, Farway, views to St. Andrews Church Colyton & Musbury Castle. Mural on wall of restored farm house, with inscription Hidden staircase		10,11
Bright, 'Granny'	Cottshayne Cottage		22
Bright, Leonard	A school friend of Jim Board		54
Brinkley Brook	Bubbles forth at Appledoore, joins River Coly		9
Brown family	Owns current business estate agent and solicitor		64
Bull, Miss	A teacher in mid-school		53
Ceramtec	West Street, for past 25 years, the towns main employer		49
Chantry Bridge	Packhorse bridge where the Chantry Oak grewWeir on the north diverted water from Coly for the paper mill, now washed away		8
	Where the Coly continues to meat the River Axe		29
Chantry Fields	Jim Board's sister Margaret rabbit snare		27
Chantry Meadow	Colyton		8
	Childhood play area		28
Chantry Weir	Long washed away, diverted water for saw and paper mill		98, 113
Chard	Nets manufactured, local women examined them for defects, including aunt Mabel Littley		47
Church Street	Unitarian Chapel, now used as youth club		58
Clarence House	Colyton		55
Colcombe Abbey	See Colcombe Farm	c.1280	30
	Once famous Abbey, made of Beer stone		67
Colcombe Castle	Market Square, photograph		66
Colcombe Castle Inn	Market Square		67
Colcombe Farm	At Colcombe Lane, Colyton, Colcombe Abbey, a royal ring found		30
Colcombe Mill	The Mill Stream drove a water wheel for Colyton's power supply		31
Coles Mill	Midway between Colyton and Colyford, still a working mill		29
Colyford	Ancient Borough, River Axe		29
	New school built in 1929		58
Colyton Cottage	A second Colyton ghost, in the form of a gentleman, cottage once owned by Powell Family		57
Colyton Council School	Mrs Kann and Mrs Wilmott, teachers	1933	50
Colyton Fair Day	Photograph	Unknown	65
Colyton House	Town Map of Colyton	1928-1999	Preface
Colyton House	Colyton, a grand house, owned by last family of leather tanners		36
Colyton Industrial & Provident Society Shop	Sign, West Street opposite the blacksmiths, established 1894, bread and cakes made on premises	1894	49
Cookshayes	Lies north, across the valley from Farwood Barton		16
	Jim Board's aunt worked as an 'indoors' servant	1909	18
Coronation Celebrations	Market Square, photograph	1937	66
Coronation George VI	Celebrations	1937	97
Cottshayne Cottage	Granny Bright, lived here, down the lane from Bolshayne Farm, close to Wiscombe Brook		22
Country Inn	Colyton public house		69
de la Pole, John George Reeve	Coming of age of de la Pole, Oxen Hill was named	1829	26
Dowell, Billy	Childhood friend of author		113
Dowell, Grandmother	Nee Purse		85
Dowell, William	Born Branscombe, at cottage known as 'Wobble'		84
Dowell, William & Anne	Parents of Gladys Elizabeth May Dowell, mother of author, born 1 Restock Row	1898	84
Dowell, Billie	Grandfather of Jim Board, mother's father		27
Dowell, William & Edith Dowell	Parents of Jim Boards' mother, see Restorick Row		36
Down, Mr	See Hardy's Hill Farm		23
Duke of Monmouth	Monmouth's Room in the Great House, named for his visit in 1680	1680	76
Ebdon, Harry	Farwood Barton, original destroyed by fire		16
Edge Hill	Place names at Farway		12
Edwards, H E	Clerk of Works, of new sewerage system	1935-6	92
	Construction supervisor of railroad in Kenya		95
Evans	Bought Hamlyn Mill	1860	43
Evelyen, Dr.	Ex prisoner of way far east, lived at Brook House		72
Far-a-way House	Place names at Farway		12
Farway Village	At the foot of Farway hill, a place of great antiquity		9
Farway Village Church	Yew tree, reputed to be one thousand years old		9
Farwood Barton	Place names at Farway		12
Ffeofees Town Hall	Market Square built 1927	1927	68
Follett, RH & J	Once a surplus store	Early 1900's	60
	Grocer & Ironmonger, photograph		62
Folletts shop			90
Ford, Mr	Owned 'Lookout' Branscombe	1920's	63
Fowler family	Lower Church Street		97
Fox family	Lower Church Street, several children		97, 105
Frankeheney family	See Heathhayne Farm page 26		26
Freakhayne Bridge	The Coly is joined by a brook beginning at Wiscombe Park		21
Freakhayne House	Destroyed by fire in the mid 1800's, remnants of chimney with arched fireplace, refer W.H. Hamilton Rogers	c.1800's	24
Fry family	Lower Church Street		97
Fry George	'Clatting' for eels at Chantry Weir		113
Fry Peter	Childhood friend of author		132
Gerrard Arms	Colyton		35
	Public house, ladies outing to snug bar	1900-1940	97
Gittshayne Farm	Open stream ran through land		113
Globe Inn	Public house, ladies outing to snug bar	1900-1940	97
Gover's Bakery	Or Old Bake House, Dolphin Street, owned by Mr & Mrs Gover		94, 115
Grammar School	Now Old Church House, photograph	1978	61
Great House	Town Map of Colyton	1928-1999	Preface
Hamberhayne	Lies across the valley from Farwood Barton		16
Hamilton Rogers, W.H.	History of the area of Freakhayne House		24
Hamlyn Mill	Fondly known locally at 'The Tan Yard', a tannery where leather was produced from Roman times Leather works, water wheel diverted water from the Coly		29, 42, 116
Hann, Bill	Shot rooks		112
Hann, Mr	Had full control of Colyton's first power supply		31
Hardy's Hill Farm	Owned by Mr. Down, above Cottshayne Cottage		23
Hawkins, Doreen & Bill	Southleigh Post Office		21
Heard, Reg	Photograph White's butchers		94
Heathhayne Farm	The Rickety Bridge, spanning the Coly, 'alas long gone', wild raspberries grew		25
	Sitting under Oxon Hill, in local vernacular 'Yethin', Frankeheney family, heiress married Stroke, Denys Passmere, Pole Family of Shute		26
	House rebuilt in 1620 by Weston	c.1620	26
Henry VIII	Granted market in Charter to Colyton	1546	68
Higher Waddon	Southleigh farm name		21
Hooper family	Lower Church Street		97
Hoopers shop	Decorators, Dolphin Street		89
Hornshayne	Place names at Farway		12
	Lies across the valley from Farwood Barton		16
Howberhayne	Lies across the valley from Farwood Barton		16
Howberhayne House	Strowbridge family, a house of large proportions, restored		23
Hutchings, Humphrey	Lived at 'Money Acre' at the top of Farway Common, found a crock of coins and letter		9
Jacknell, Joey	A shoe repair man lived No. 1 Hillhead Road		134
Jefferies, Judge	Market Square, Court House		67
	Plaque on wall with brief history, near King Street		45
Jenkins, Mr	Headmaster of Colyton Council School, garden plots	Abt. 1944	50
Jobblehayes	Place names at Farway		12
	Giles White, was a gamekeeper for Shute Estate		21
Joslin, Mr	A teacher		54
Kann, Mrs	See Colyton Council School	1933	50
King Street	The old Smithy, once used for shoeing horses		39
	Previously known as Back Street		41
Kingdom Cottage	King Street		67
Leather making	History and current methods		44
Lions Close Hill	Road to picnic site		105
Liddons Farm	See Mr Loveridge		117
Little Downing Farm	WW2 plane crashed, near Colyton		77
Littley, Mabel	See Chard		47
	A cousin to authors mother, husband Sidney Littley		137
Littley, Sidney	See Littley Mabel		137
Littley, Reg	And his father lit huge fires to make gas for local supply		42
Long, Walter 'Walty'	Foundry Cottage		136
Loud, George	The butcher would buy rabbits, see Chantry fields		27
	Butcher shop Market Square		125
Loveridge Mr	Farmer from Liddons Farm off Station Road		117
Lower Church Street	Previously known as Cross Street, or 'Tigers Bay', where Jim Board was born, 60 children lived		35
Lower Waddon	Southleigh farm name		21
Market Square	Old Church House, once the Grammar School	1547-1929	58
Matthews, Ernest	Barber shop, now a library		72
Millhouse	Place names at Farway, stands close to 'our new brook'		12
Minchinton, Ivor	Childhood friend of author, see Morton Cottage		132
Money Acre	See Hutchings, Humphrey		9
Morganhayes Copse	Entry from Hary's Hill Farmhouse		23
Morganhayes Cover Copse	Buzzard hawk nest		23
Morton Cottage	Minchinton family lived with four children		97
Mounthill, Ox Hill, Hillhead, Sutton Thorn	Hills used for sledging with hill trolleys, rabitting	1939	103, 105
Mr. Snell	Old Post Office, Farway		12
Netherton Hall	Historical residence of the Lords of the Manor		11
	A refuge for young people	1980	12
Newbury, Jimmy	Caretaker of St. Andrews Church, lived at Church Path, now gone		136
Northleigh	Village, dominated by village church St. Giles		13
Oak bark	Old method for tanning leather, still used in Colyton		43
Old Blacksmith's Shop	Town Map of Colyton	1928-1999	Preface
Old Church House	See Market Square, secret panel leads to garden		58
Old Compasses	Colyton public house, South Street		74
Old School House	Photograph	1908	61
Old Shute House	Roasting spit preserved from Oxen hill		27
Packhorse Bridge	Fifty yards from Woodbridge Farmhouse		13
Paper Mill	Long washed away on the Axe River		29
Parehayne Farm	Owned by Mr Russell, corn grown		118
Parish Church of St. Andrew	With unique Lantern Tower, views to west rolling hills of Farway, Northleigh and Southleigh, views south to the English Channel, village of Axmouth		30
Parkes, Mr & Mrs & Norah	Lower Church Street		96
Passmere, Denys	See Heathhayne Farm page 26		26
Perham, Harold	Auto repairs, workshop overlooked Ham Fields		136
Pole Family of Shute	See Heathhayne Farm page 26		26
Pole, Sir William Templar	His son John George Reeve de la Pole	1829	27
Powell family	See Colyton Cottage, employer of Jim Board's aunt who died aged 99 years, mid-shipman on Nelson's Flag ship, uniform and regalia held by Colyton Ffeofees		57
Prams, perambulators	Used for fetching nets, gathering wood, produce from allotment		48
Prince of Wales	Monument erected by the Patriotic Protestants	1863	70
Purbridge Cross	Where the Coly and Brinkly Brook merge		19
Purlbridge	Coly river becomes fishable		9
Purse, Mr & Mrs	Lower Church Street		96, 105
Queen Square	Long thatched dwelling of Colyton Cottage, dated 1620	c.1620	56
Queen's Haye	Next door to Queen's Square Garage, interesting house with indoor well		56
Queen's Square Garage and Cycle Shop	Opposite Colyton Cottage, one the armoury for the local militia		56
Ratshole	The name an orchard, a mystery. An apple tree called 'Sheep's Nose'		23
Rendell's House	Queens Square, photograph		59
Restorick Row	Jim Boards mother born to William Dowell and granny Edith Dowell		36
Ridgeway House	Thatched house on Ridgeway known for it's ghost, with main group of six houses		56
River Axe	Close to Colyford, see Chantry Bridge		29
River Coly	Rises five miles west of Offwell		9
Road Green Farm	Road to picnic site		105
Road Pit Farm	Northleigh Colyton Road		18
Rosemary Lane	Colyton, once called North Street, once a thriving saw mill, Jim Boards father ground axes there		31
	Previously known as North Street, Restorick Row on right		36
Royal Engineers	Jim Boards regiment in Kenya		95
Saw Mill	Long disused on the Axe River		29
Scruel Barton Farm	A stream veers past, joining the Coly at Bonehayne Farm		21
Shearscroft Farm	Situated on hill overlooking village church, birthplace of James William Board & six siblings		13
Shiphay Farm	Near Mill Stream, close to Colyton town		31
Shute Deer Park	See Shute Estate		21
Shute Estate	Owned by the Carew Pole family		21
Sir John Carew Pole	Owned Shute Estate		121
Slyn family	Lower Church Street		97
Smith, John	Childhood friend of author		132
Smith, Ralph	Family lived in cottage next to Gerrard Arms		35
	Ran cycle repair shop		82
Solicitors Chambers	'Elizabethan' mural found in 1974, possibly wealthy merchants house, ghost of Abbot		65
South Street	Once called Cuckoo Street		70
Southleigh Brook	Southleigh		21
Southleigh Post Office	Southleigh, owned by Doreen & Bill Hawkins		21
St. Andrews Church	Fire, bells removed	1933	111
St. Andrews Square	Centre point stood a water fountain		31
St. Lawrence	Village church of Southleigh		21
Stacey, Constable	Policeman, fireworks damage to house		112, 127
Stedcombe House	Three miles from Colyton		136
Strawberry Lane	Picnic site		105
Strawbridge, Charles	Played the hand bells		35
Strowbridge family	Howberhayne House, mentioned in connection with the Feoffees of Colyton, Royal Charter granted	1546	23
Sunny Side Cottage	South Street, un-named volunteer soldier at Sedgemoor, marriage recorded Loughwood Chapel near Dalwood		74
Sweetland, Mrs	Sold sweets from kitchen window		96
Taylor family	Lower Church Street		97
Tedbridge	Place names at Farway		12
The 'Old Gas Works'	Town Map of Colyton	1928-1999	Preface
The Bear Inn	Public house next door to the Smithy		39, 69
The Butts	The primary school, once named the Colyton Council School, Jim Board attended from 1933 aged 5 years		50
The Compasses	Town Map of Colyton	1928-1999	Preface
The Compasses	Colyton public house		69
	South Street home of author at 14 yrs old,		120
	Once a Coaching Inn		130
	Death of sister Gladys Board		131
The Cottage	King Street, a beautiful thatched house		45
The Court House	Across the road, once stood three elm trees, where prisoners were hung		46
The Foundry	Town Map of Colyton	1928-1999	Preface
The George	Colyton public house		69
The Globe	Colyton public house		69
The Grove	Town Map of Colyton	1928-1999	Preface
The Grove	Beer stone house in South Street, requisitioned US Army WW2		78
The Wesleyan Chapel	Town Map of Colyton	1928-1999	Preface
The White Hart	Public House, fire destroyed thatch, photograph		60, 69
Toll House	A toll paid for crossing the Umborne Bridge, entering the town or using the weighbridge		31
Town Hall	Built in Colyton by the Ffeoffees	1929	58
Tracey, Arthur	Travelling street singer		71
Tucker, Harold	Childhood friend of author		132
Tucker, Mr & Mrs & Harold	Lower Church Street, Mr Tucker a military man		96
Turl Brothers	Collecting town refuse by horse and cart, in Follett's Shop photograph	Early 1900's	62
	Disposed towns rubbish		137
Turl Mr	A shoe repair man at Cobblers, Dolphin Street		134
Turlings Farm	Once the dairy farm for Colyton House		45
Umborne Bridge	Refer Toll House		31
	Birdlife		99
	Flood relief tunnels		136
Umborne Brook	Below Colcombe Farm House, diverted by Monks of Colcombe Abbey		30
Unitarian Chapel	See Church Street, burial vault underneath, 17 people buried		58
Vicarage	10 years prior, made into two separate dwellings		37
Vincent, Dick	Worked for Folletts		63
	Lived at South Street, delivered groceries to Branscombe, Dalwood, Shute, Whitford, Farway and Northleigh		135
Waldron of Bovye House	Branscombe, see Robert Weston page 26		26
Waldron, Katheryn	See Robert Weston		26
Waterloo Cottage	The Butts, last house before recent development, beyond is Ridgeway		55
Wesleyan Chapel	Once situated in Lower Rosemary Lane, children attended Sunday school		31
	Rosemary Lane, Sunday school		106
West Street	Leading to the Butts and Ridgeway, local school, dentist, new cemetery		47
	Blacksmiths		49
Weston, John	See Robert Weston		26
Weston, Robert	Of Heathhayne, son of John Weston of Colyton, married Katheryn Waldron, daughter of Waldron of Bovye House, Branscombe	19 May 1561	26
White family & Alec White	Lower Church Street		97
White Giles	Lived at Park Cottage, Shute. Brother of Jim Board's grandmother Lizzie Board, gamekeeper for Shute Estate		21, 121
White, Tom	White's Butchers shop St Andrews Square		90
	Edgar, Tom and Gwendoline White photograph		92
	Butcher of Colyton, Ham Fields, slaughter house	94, 136	90
Widworthy School	A two & a half mile walk for authors father and siblings, Jim, Jack, Harry, Tom, Emma, Grace & Alan Board [see Board, James William page 8]		14
Willhayne Lane	Road to picnic site		105
Wimott, Mrs	See Colyton Council School	1933	50
Wiscombe Park	A handsome house stands		21
Wood, Reginald	Basket maker lived at bottom of Hillhead Road		135
Woodbridge Farm	Home of Bailey family, long established Farway family		13
Yonge family	Great House, Sunnyside Terrace, ghost		75
Yonge, John	Merchant adventurer built Great House		76

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By Jim Board

Published by J.D. Board, 1999Colyvale, Colyton EX24 6PZPrinted by Creeds the Printers, Broadoak, Bridport DT6 5NL

Index prepared by Julie Anning Fletcher

(E-mail: mailto:brookend[at]westnet.com[dot]au)

Illustrations and photographs

INDEX

A Childhood Remembered With
This and That

Published by J.D. Board, 1999
Colyvale, Colyton EX24 6PZ
Printed by Creeds the Printers, Broadoak, Bridport DT6 5NL