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there were 'no washing facilities but a tin bowl and a chunk of red carbolic soap'. The schoolroom was bitterly cold, he recalled: there were times in winter that his feet were so cold that he could not feel them his hands so cold that he could only write with difficulty. However, he was full of admiration for the quality of education the pupils received from the schoolmaster and schoolmistress, Mr and Mrs Hill. The current village school, Hope Brook
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hurdle making and wheelwrighting, and also records that the greatest fruit crop grown there were plums. The
Bullocks were a characterful family, very active in village life. Other local families included the Carpenters, the Lanes, and the Halls, who were cartwrights. The village also had more than its fair share of eccentrics, including the churchwarden and builder 'Feyther Field', who apparently would ride along on a bicycle carrying a ladder.
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Western Railway, but noted, 'for shopping it was really not necessary to go outside the village as there were two good general stores with three small shops, two bakers, a post office,
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Longhope at that time, including the role of James Constance and Sons as the chief employers in the village (whose workers included Bullock's father George and brother Wallace) and the profusion of other trades that were in operation, including
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Longhope and is found to the north of the village leading to the neighbouring village of Huntley. It received its name as many families from London were evacuated to the safety of the countryside during the Second World War. After the war, a number of the
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