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The fifteen interviewees in this volume were all in their eighties and nineties when recorded in the 1970s and 1980s, and their collective memories of Old Bembridge stretch back to the turn of the 20th century.
Bembridge is often described as 'the largest village in England'. By the end of the 19th century it had become very fashionable and was attracting large swathes of the aristocracy to move there. As well as detailing the interplay between the locals and the upper class, these reminiscences cover schooldays, 'characters', old village shops, fishing, farming, coastguards, smuggling, lifeboats, entertainments, pubs and piloting.
Together they provide insights into the resilience of ordinary individuals in a rural village on the Isle of Wight in the Victorian and Edwardian period, while the stories ad larger-than-life characters are always recalled with affections and genial good humour, and an obvious love of the old village.
The volume is supplemented with old press reports and scrapbook entries.
Contents
Chapter 1: The Village As It Was - Mrs Ivy Bryant (Part 1); Chapter 2: A Fisherman's Life - Mr Ashford Caws (Part 1); Chapter 3: We's Country Chaps - Mr Walter Sillence (Part 1); Chapter 4: Round The World To Under Tyne - Miss Edith Woodford Reports: Longevity in Bembridge; Granny Woodford; Alfred Morris; Chapter 5: A Smuggling Background - Mrs Ivy Evans Archives: Bembridge Lifeboats and Lifeboatmen ; Chapter 6: A Contented Life - Miss Amy Nightingale Features: The Wallis Family; Bembridge Brewery; Chapter 7: The Butler Family - Mr Harold Butler Obituaries: William Jacobs; Harry Weaver; Chapter 8: Shh!! Don't Say Another Word! - Mrs Ivy Bryant (Part 2); Chapter 9: Poaching, Piloting and Bullocks - Mr Ashford Caws (Part 2) Interludes: The Christmas Boys; Musical Evenings; Chapter 10: Granny Pryke the Smuggler and Other Stories - Mrs Celia Blackman Press cutting: Quilly Smith the Smuggler 135 Chapter 11: The View from Hillway - Mr William Langworthy; Chapter 12: Mollie Downer 'The Witch' and the Smugglers; Chapter 13: Early Days around Peacock Hill - Mr Ernest Butler (Part 1); Chapter 14: On the Home Front - Mrs Elsie Hibbert; Curiosities: The Boer War; Target Practice; Bembridge School; Chapter 15: A Seaman's Story - Mr Frank Brooks Reports: Dangers at Sea; Heroic Rescue; Fishermen in Peril
