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Stayed in a guest house in Lynton for our summer holiday, getting stuck on Porlock Hill on the way there. On our last friday night there was a great storm and the bridge nearby and houses adjoining it all partly collapsed: perhaps one of my first real memories, seeing bedding hanging out of the side of a house . We must have met up with Auntie Pett & Uncle Billy one rainy day. I have happy memories of the Valley of the Rocks We were going to return via the Cheddar Gorge, but the road was barred
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Coal was delivered straight from the front of the house down into the cellar. I was made to count the bags going in - Mum worried that she might be diddled. Milk was delivered in bottles each day to the doorstep: we had no fridge; we had a mangle in the garden to wring the water out of the washing; no television, although our next door neighbour did have one by the time of the Queen's coronation, June 1953. a rag and bone man used to pass by with his horse and cart: I was despatched to shovel up any manure for the garden, a job I hated!