Clovelly

Christmas Eve at the Front

An interesting letter has just been received by Mrs Packer, of Broadclyst, from her husband, Corpl Packer of A Company, 1st Battalion Devonshire Regiment, who is serving with the Expeditionary Force in Northern France. In the course of a letter he describes a remarkable incident which occurred on Christmas Eve between the British and German trenches.

£30 outstanding for shelter

That the Parish Council should form themselves into a skiffle group or should have their photographs taken for sale to summer visitors were two light hearted suggestions made at Monday’s meeting of Clovelly Parish Council during a long discussion on ways and means of meeting the outstanding balance of just over £40 on the Turnpike bus shelter.
The money is owed to two members of the Council – Mr J C Hilton an account for £52 0s 7d for supplying materials and to Mr J Cruse who, in his capacity as treasurer, paid a balance of £8 7s 5d owing to the builder out of his own pocket.
The Chairman told the Council he would make a gift of £10 from the money owing to him and would buy a pig to be given in prizes for pork whist drives if the Council members would like to run such events.
The full Gazette article is dated 17 January 1958.

Clovelly Farmer’s Triumphs

Supreme champion and winner of three other challenge cups at Barnstaple and District’s Dairy Show last week was the four year old Ayrshire cow ‘Dairy Maid’ owned and bred by Mr K F Stanbury, of Downland Farm, Higher Clovelly.

The photograph shows Mr Stanbury with the champion while his father holds the trophies. ‘Diary Maid’ was one of the team of Ayrshires which won the breed championship at the show. She gave 11, 240lb of milk as a heifer and his now yielding 7½lb of milk a day in her second lactation.
At last year’s show she won a cup as the best dairy heifer in local classes.
Mr A A Copland, of Ilminster, a New Zealander, who supervises Lord Beaverbrook’s 14 farms in this country, judged the championship classes. He said afterwards that there was extremely little difference between the champion and the runner-up, another Ayrshire cow, exhibited by Mr A Shapcott, of Cross Farm, Bishopsnympton.
‘These Ayrshires would take a whole lot of beating at the Dairy Show at Olympia’ said Mr Copland adding that that was not only his own opinion but that of leading Ayrshire breeders present.
Among seven breeds attracted to the show, the Ayrshires carried off the breed championship as well as individual honours, and Mr Copland said this breed was outstanding. He put the Friesians second and the Shorthorns third.
Mr Copland said he had considerable difficulty in deciding the reserve championship between Mr Shapcott’s Cross Rustic 1st and the Shorthorn shown by Mr E G Bean, of Abbotsham, which won the individual championship last year. Mr Bean’s entry was an outstanding one, but ‘did not seem quite herself’ that day.

Golden Anniversary with a Difference

Just 12 months after becoming the owner of Clovelly Cross petrol filling station, Mr Tim Stoneman has learned that it has been judgedNorth Devon winner of the Shell Shine '72 competition.

Mr Stoneman had managed the petrol station for 14 years for the Clovelly Estate Company.
He can choose for his first prize £80 or 10 gold sovereigns. He is taking the gold. He also wins a shield and a place in the area section of the
competition.