Norman P. Barnett

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...

The Blogg Family

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...

The Ward Family

Jack and Kit Ward In 1939 Jack Ward and his wife Kit (nee Dennis), ran the Butcher’s shop at what is now 23Fore 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...

The Hope Family

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...