Visitors from La Roche MauriceBishopsteignton Preschool was now firmly established as an integral part of the village,...
A Celebration of Bishopsteignton Women
Bishopsteignton Playgroup & Preschool – Part 1
The OriginsOn the 26th September 1972, Mrs Buckle from the Pre-School Playgroups Association, showed a film and gave a...
Edna Atkinson’s Memories of the Bishopsteignton Modern Wives
Edna was born in July 1933. She has lived in Bishopsteignton for over 50 years and has three daughters. Before...
Betty Aplin’s Memories of the Bishopsteignton Modern Wives
Betty was born in Bishopsteignton in 1935 and has lived in the village all her life. She grew up in Hollowmead...
Bishopsteignton Modern Wives 1968-1982
The first meeting of the Bishopsteignton Modern Wives was held on the 23rd of January 1968, in the village’s St John...
Molly Coombe (1929 – 2007)
Molly Coombe was born on 18th October 1929, the only child of Philip and Grace Coombe née Loud. The family lived at...
Sybil Atkinson (1909 – c.2004)
Sybil Atkinson lived in Bishopstegnton for a number of years, living on The Orchard in the 1970s. During her life...
Dot Perkins (1924 – 1996)
In 1958 Dot and her husband Mic took over the tenancy of the Commercial Inn on Clanage Street, and ran it for over 30...
Lillian Green, née Payne (1921 – 2021)
Lillian was born in 1921 in Veracruz Mexico, to Henry and Annie Payne. The family returned to England in 1932,...
Dr. Rosaleen Cooper née Graves (1894 – 1989)
Rosaleen Graves was born in Wimbledon on 7 March 1894, the sister of the poet and writer Robert Graves. When she was...
Lilian Benson (1871 – 1958)
Lilian lived in Bishopsteignton in the 1930s and 40s, and for some of this time at least, she lived at Murley Grange....
Sheila Robbins née Skinner (1932 – 2021)
Sheila was born in County Cork, Ireland, in 1932 to Sydney Parnell Skinner and Margery Mary Davey. When Sheila was...
Mary Overill, née Bovey
Mary was born in 1922 in Buckfastleigh, Devon, and spent her childhood there. By the age of 20, while Mary was working...
Christine Hill, MBE.
Christine Hill moved to Bishopsteignton in 2010 but had been coming to the village for holidays since her childhood....
Fran Edwards, BEM
Fran and her husband Nigel have lived in Bishopsteignton for over 44 years and for most of that time she has been...
Molly Coombe
Molly Coombe was born on 18th October 1929 to parents Grace Coombe neé Loud and Philip Coombe. She may have been born...
Sheila Maureen Robbins, 1932-2021: A Tribute
Sheila Robbins, née Skinner was born in County Cork in Ireland in January 1932, to Sydney Parnell Skinner, a Sergeant...