Blog - Bishopsteignton Heritage

Memories of World War II

by The Hub Team | May 8, 2025 | World War Two, Events, People

Since I was born in 1938, I am among the last generation to remember how World War 2 affected children in particular, and also our elders. So I feel it is right to write down my memories before I start forgetting. I was born in Sheffield, where there were several big...

Leonard William John Wright

by The Hub Team | May 3, 2025 | Evacuees, People, World War Two

My husband Leonard William John Wright was born on 25 June 1932 in Hoxton the north-east area of London. He was a son of Lilian Margaret and Leonard William Wright and an older brother to his 16 months younger sister Ann Margaret. Mum looked after the family while Dad...

‘All we need is an audience’ – Part Three

by Pat Yesin | Apr 11, 2025 | Bishopsteignton Players, Organisations, People

2014 Mission Accomplished We looked at various options for our next show and in the end, as 2014 was the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, we decided on a commemorative evening, “Mission Accomplished”, masterminded by Richard Lamming. This...

Bishopsteignton Playgroup & Preschool – Part 2

by Natalia Urry-Mackay | Mar 24, 2025 | Organisations, A Celebration of Bishopsteignton Women

Scout Hut A couple of years after Joan Leonard left (1986), the Playgroup moved from the Village Hall to the Scout Hut on Radway Hill. According to Hilary Davies, a Playgroup Supervisor at the time, the Playgroup moved because the rent had been increased at the...

The Story of the Manor Inn and its People – Part 1

by Colin Back | Mar 21, 2025 | Places, Fore Street

1836 The building, for many years, was best known as The Manor Inn, with adjoining cottages, barns and outhouses. It has stood in the central part of Fore Street for about 200 years. The land and properties initially belonged to Rev. Comyns who was Lord of the Manor...

Bishopsteignton Playgroup & Preschool – Part 1

by Natalia Urry-Mackay | Feb 24, 2025 | Organisations, A Celebration of Bishopsteignton Women

The Origins On the 26th September 1972, Mrs Buckile from the Pre-School Playgroups Association, showed a film and gave a talk to the Bishopsteignton Modern Wives about the importance of playgroups, and how communities could set up and run them. When she concluded her...

‘All we need is an audience’ – Part Two

by Pat Yesin | Dec 28, 2024 | Bishopsteignton Players, Organisations, People

2012 Jack and the Beans Talk Spurred on by the exorbitant cost of licence and performance fees, we began work on writing our own pantomime. This was composed by committee which met regularly through the autumn and early spring. Eventually, we were able to hand...

Christmas Newsletter 2024

by The Hub Team | Dec 24, 2024 | News

Well, it has been another busy year for BH! Here are just some of the things we’ve been up to: On the website: We have published a third article from Dave Robbins in the ‘Born and Raised’ series, a number of articles by Hilary Davies about Pook the...

David John Pook 1885 – 1956

by Hilary Davies | Dec 6, 2024 | The Pook Family

Family and life in the community David married Elizabeth Ann Smith, a schoolmistress, who taught the infant class at Bishopsteignton School on 20th October 1906. They first lived in a house called Belle Vue, then at 3, River View Terrace with their three children,...

‘All we need is an audience’ – Part One

by Pat Yesin | Dec 4, 2024 | Bishopsteignton Players, Organisations, People

2004 I moved back to Bishopsteignton in July 2004 to live in my father’s house, in Teign View Road. My father, Fred Gilbert, had been a stalwart member of the Players since moving to the village in 1976 and was Treasurer for a number of years, 1979 to 1983. So...