Another snippet from PB

What’s she found this time? Click here to have a look!

A bit more Owermoigne history courtesy of Yoland Brown

Does anyone recognise this group? Yoland’s Auntie Louie and Uncle Bertie are there, but she’s not sure of the names of the others.

Read some of Yoland’s memories of Owermoigne here

Yoland (who now lives in Shropshire but was brought up in Owermoigne in the forties and fifties) has sent us some photos going back to the late 20’s. Yoland’s aunt and uncle, Louie and Jack Pouncy, ran the garage on the main road – does anyone remember them? She sent some photos – please get in touch with the clerk if you remember any of the people, or would like to contact Yoland. The photo below is Ted Burgess who ran the village shop, and one of the ladies is Miss Westmacott, the school teacher, though Yoland hasn’t been able to find out which one – please let us know if you or someone else knows

This one shows Pouncy’s Garage in the Fifties:

The Pouncys in uniform (Betty`s younger brother Ron in the uniform of
the Royal Fleet Auxiliary and his oldest sister, Louie, who had joined the
WRENS in 1917 and then rejoined for WW II.  After the war she worked for
the rest of her life for the WRENS Benevolent Society.)

Owermoigne School class with Ron Symes second from right at the top:

Betty (Louie Pouncy’s sister) the 1936 beauty queen:

Betty in her two-piece:

An Owermoigne charabanc outing:

The Saga of the Pile

PB has been rooting around in the archives again…click here to have a look at what she’s discovered!

A short history of the water supply in Owermoigne

Click here to read PB’s history

The Parish of Owermoigne

Welcome to Owermoigne – a lovely name, isn’t it (oh-er-moin) and one that causes endless problems to unsuspecting strangers, especially on the end of telephones.

The Parish covers an area of some 1460.31 hectares. and within the boundaries are the village of Owermoigne and the hamlets of Galton to the east and Watercombe to the west. South of the A352 lie Holworth and part of Ringstead  All of this area to the south is within an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and we can boast a section of the world famous Jurassic Coast.

There is currently an adult population of 422 adults and lots of children.

Owermoigne village lies off a major route (A352) and runs from the junction of Kit Lane into Church Lane and part way up Moreton Road. Within the village is a Conservation Area made up of thatched cottages dating from the 16C  and St Michael’s Church dating from 13C. To the north of the village lies a manor house, Moignes Court which dates from around 1270 and is the oldest inhabited house in Dorset.

There are 9 working farms, dairies and smallholdings within the Parish, 3 plant nurseries and a branch of a nationwide garden centre chain. There is a clock and cider museum, a service station and forecourt shop, a farm shop, bed and breakfast accommodation and 3 camping and caravan sites.

The thriving Village Hall at the top of Pollards Lane offers a wide programme of  activities and the Cricket and Social Club next door offer members reasonably priced drinks and a varied social calendar.

In Thomas Hardy’s Wessex, Owermoigne was called Nether Moynton and was the setting for the story ‘The Distracted Preacher’ – a tale of smuggling and a church tower.

to be continued………………………………..