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Home » Parish Magazine articles by Derek Jarrett

Parish Magazine articles by Derek Jarrett

Derek Jarrett was editor of the Parish magazine at the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the next. He interviewed village residents and wrote this excellent series of articles for the magazine. As many were written 30  years ago some information on houses is out of date.

Harry Davis  Grocer and Butcher

Ted Titmuss Hardware Shop

Miss Burling Drapery Shop

Alice Bunyan General Store

John Thrussell Post Office

Sammy Rushton Downtown Shop

Visiting traders to Pirton by Barbara Wilshere

Pirton Womens Institute

The Glove Factory

Frank’s Lamp

Nurse Win Baldwin

The Bury by Dick Woodward

Memories of Pirton by Sam Jarvis

Battle of Words the building of the new estate

Memories of Pirton 1933-48 by Canon Gordon Hewitt

Childhood reminiscences by Betty Huckle    

Pirton School in the 1950s by Sheila Sanders

Easter primroses by Clare Baines

Archaeology at the Fox by David Hillelson 

The night my house was bombed

Miss Farris and Pirton School 

Working in the women’s land army

Medicines and mortification

A tribute to Sir George Abbiss and Joy Franklin

A story of transportation to Tasmania

The Baptist Chapel

School holidays in Pirton

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