Posts for Then
From builder to coffin maker. Interview with Bude’s Bryan Adams
As part of an interview with local resident , Bryan Adams, I learned how Bryan gained an apprenticeship at Pethicks the building company in Bude. They had an interesting arm to their business. I got £1 and 3 shillings a week in 1951 as an apprentice at the building firm, […]
The day they dug up Bude’s railway track…
Railway 1950s – freight train approaches the wharf Decided to use this story previously published on Bude Past & Present site, given the Bude Connect AGM on Saturday. Story told to Dawn Robinson by John Going, then 94, of Widemouth Bay. It was a privilege to meet John, and […]
What do you know about Carlton Blyth?
So, what does anyone know about Carlton Blyth? Buried at St Michael’s.
Meeting American visitors in Bude
It’s funny sometimes how things happen out of the blue, so a telephone call from Mary Greer this weekend led to me meeting a party of 24 people, primarily American and Australian women, on a mystical tour of Cornwall and the SW. They were taking in Bude, the last resting […]
Bude’s historic golf club…
It was a delight to visit Bude Golf Club on Friday. More about the changes happening there soon, but I hadn’t realised the club has quite a history. If you visit you can see some of the old images relating to golf in the town. The golf club is now […]