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...
by Yvonne Hellin-Hobbs | Aug 25, 2020 | People, Oral Histories
Interview and transcription Ken Dawe : Well, it all started back in my father and his brother’s time – probably ‘30s I guess. They decided they would get themselves a 9.5 moving camera and a projector and all that stuff, and they used to take...
by Yvonne Hellin-Hobbs | May 28, 2020 | People
A SHILLING, A BADGE & A MESSERSCHMITT by Norman P. Barnett, evacuee. A child sitting alone in the middle of a small school hall. It is getting dark. All the other children have gone and most of the adults. This was me, as an evacuee in 1940 . I should not have...
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 Rowena Bradnam | Apr 16, 2020 | Places, Cross House
A summary of the occupiers of Cross House, Fore Street, Bishopsteignton, taken from the official parish records, 16th, 17th, 18th early 19th Century. W.D. Cleland, Bishopsteignton Village and Lanes, published 1933. ‘Cross House is situated at the top of...
