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Do You Remember...................?1. FARLEIGH before WW2by Vera WaiteThe Bristol to Weston super Mare road was rather dusty and didnot look the same as it does today.In the 1920s the road was considerably altered and this led tothe high banks being formed on the southern side of the roadbetween the George Inn and the Backwell crossroads.She went on to mention Mr King who, about 1912 she believes,built "Bank House" as a butcher's shop. Around the corner wasthe Slaughter House (now The Little Thatch"). Vera remembers,with some regret, that, with many of the other children of thevillage, she used to look over the fence to watch the animalsbeing slaughtered. How times have changed.A few yards along the road and probably four years earlierWilliam Harrill who kept "The Fairfield Inn"* built UncombeHouse and a blacksmith's shop on the main road. The buildingwhich contained the Blacksmith's shop remains there todaybearing a builder's name plate.William Carter was probably the second Blacksmith to workthere and he stayed from about 1914 to the mid 1930s. Veraremembers watching him work and is fairly certain that theknowledge she gained would have enabled her to have shod ahorse if she had been given the opportunity. She does rememberbeing allowed sometimes to work the bellows. How manychildren who now attend the nearby school could claim the sameI wonder?20
*"The Fairfield Inn" was the subject of Research Paper No 4written by Peggy Harris and published by Nailsea and DistrictLocal History Society in 1988.2. A Wraxall Secret of World War IIby Phyllis HormanKnowing of the Editor's interest in local events that took place inthe period 1939-1945 Phyllis Horman recently asked me if I hadheard the rumour about a secret passage in Wraxall and its usein the war to store something secret.I hadn't so she explained.In the Avenue is a large, almost semi circular stone, set at anangle into the bank. There was also a smaller flat stone stickingout at the top. This was the "Devil's Stone and Seat". It is veryovergrown now with weeds and brambles. Behind the stone issupposed to be a secret passage to either Charlton House orNaish House (now gone). It was in this passage that it wasrumoured "something" was stored.Unfortunately it seems most unlikely that there was a secretpassage. If there was what was stored in it is still an officialsecret.3. Death on the Lineby Clifford KortrightI remember an incident when I was a child. At Four Gables at theend of the house facing about South there is a big bedroom withfour windows. My mother was working in the bedroom when21
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