by Yvonne Hellin-Hobbs | May 14, 2020 | People, Families
Many years later Phyllis Blogg, nee Hudson, wrote to Dick Searle, then the curator of Bishopsteignton Museum, about her wartime experience in the village. The letter, and the language within it, is of its time. It is reproduced here in its original form, save for some...
by Yvonne Hellin-Hobbs | May 14, 2020 | People, Families
Jack and Kit Ward In 1939 Jack Ward and his wife Kit (nee Dennis), ran the Butcher’s shop at what is now 23 Fore St. Kit’s family owned the Manor Inn. Flo Vallance who owned the Manor Inn was Vallance by her second marriage. Her first husband Frederick George...
by Yvonne Hellin-Hobbs | May 14, 2020 | People, Families
Phyllis Blogg’s husband, Harold Eric Blogg was the brother of John’s mother Kathleen Winifred Hope (nee Blogg). Percy Alfred Hamilton Hope was her husband, John’s father. John was evacuated to Bishopsteignton along with his mother, his brother...
by Yvonne Hellin-Hobbs | May 14, 2020 | People, Families
LETTER FROM DAVID CROSS EVACUEE Dear Mr Searle, David, Pat and Ted Cross, Bishopsteignton London Evacuees. June 1940 – January 1942. In relating the following memories of the 18/19 months I spent in Bishopsteignton, I would ask you to bear with me, regarding some of...
by Yvonne Hellin-Hobbs | May 14, 2020 | People, Families
John Harvey McGregor served on H.M.S. Neptune in the Royal Navy as Paymaster Commander (Acting). HMS Neptune sailed from Chatham in May 1941 on its last voyage. He died at sea in Libyan waters on 19th December, 1941 and appears on the Bishopsteignton War Memorial....
by Yvonne Hellin-Hobbs | May 7, 2020 | Events, VE Day 75th Anniversary Celebrations, World War Two
Get the Party Started Just because we are in Lockdown does not mean that we can’t decorate our homes with flags and bunting, dress ourselves up, party in our homes and gardens and sing along with the music of the 1940s. Over the past 10 days we have been giving...
by Yvonne Hellin-Hobbs | May 6, 2020 | Events, VE Day 75th Anniversary Celebrations, World War Two
Bishopsteignton Memorial to those who died in WWII There are only two days left until we celebrate VE-Day, when the war in Europe was finally over and servicemen and women could look forward to returning to their loved ones at home. Some were not so lucky and paid the...
by Yvonne Hellin-Hobbs | May 5, 2020 | Events, VE Day 75th Anniversary Celebrations, World War Two
‘It is not proposed to make total war total misery,’ said the Home Secretary Herbert Morrison in 1942, as he announced in the House of Commons that dancing was not to be included in the ‘recreations that are to be restricted to prevent interference with the war...
by Yvonne Hellin-Hobbs | May 4, 2020 | Events, VE Day 75th Anniversary Celebrations, World War Two
The Women’s Auxiliary Air Force Mary Overill Mary Overill joined the Royal Air Force as a WAAF. Mary now lives in Fore St. Bishopsteignton. This is the story she has passed on to her great grandchildren. Mary was born, Mary Bovey, in Buckfastleigh, Devon in...
