The British Library offers a wealth of information on many subjects. I decided on a quick search of Stratton, which is where it was all happening in November, 1896. Firstly, there were services for the Wesleyan Foreign Mission, a strong reminder of the power of Methodism around these parts. Meanwhile, […]

From Jeanette: This probably sounds a bit bizarre but when I was a little girl (I’m now nearly 40), I used to travel through Stratton most weekends with my parents. I saw something a bit odd. There was an old house there. At the time, it looked abandoned but on […]

Info here adapted from the book by the late Rennie Bere and Brian Dudley Stamp, written in 1980, The Book of Bude and Stratton. Images are from Ray Boyd. Hard to believe that Stratton was mentioned in the will of Alfred the Great (yes, he of cake burning scandal) back […]

I was evacuated to Bude and I, along with a little girl named Sylvia, was looked after Mr & Mrs Dando of Stonehill Rise, Stratton. I remember going to the little school in Poughill and going to Sunday School. I stayed with them for about a year but my mother […]

More from Dawn’s interview With John Going, aged 94: I sold my Stratton smallholding to a neighbour and then he split it up. It was in a ring fence, at the Town’s End side of Stratton. Stratton was a nice little place. That’s one of the things that attracted me […]

nickers103 / Pixabay More from my interview with John Going, 94, of Widemouth, who was the first smallholder in the area to use artificial insemination on his cows: The War changed things. When the War had finished, my father wasn’t in very good health  and we were looking for a […]

Try to conjure a picture in your mind of Stratton as it was in the approach to the nineteenth century. Some of these images will help a little, but you need to imagine lots of people, a veritable throng, which made Stratton thriving and bustling, a hive of activity. Stratton […]

Stratton in 1893

Stratton in 1893, showing Bridge Street

Stratton in 1906