Day Out: Archive Films

Do you recognise anyone featured in the programme? What memories does it bring back?

Jeremy Pond
What a wonderful program, this series should be revisited by the BBC to provide a record of how everything has moved on in th last 30+ years. Fascinating!!

Cynthia Wall (nee Palser of Wotton)
I well remember Howard Mann in my young days being brought up in Wotton and also buying our sweet ration from Williams sweet shop on the corner. I left Wotton in January 1950 with my father (Edward Hugh Palser born in Wotton 19/2/1905), mother (nee Dorothy King who had lived in Uplands, Stroud)and brother (Hugh Alan) and came to Australia. My father lived in Wotton in Old Town with his parents David Palser and Amy Eliza (nee Ball of Cam) Palser. The brick house now rough cast back off the road with and old iron gate leading into the garden path that runs up the centre of the garden. He had an older sister Maisie (Mary Alexander Ruth) and a younger brother Wilfred James who is still alive and lives in Bristol. He will turn 100 next year in May. We lived in Bradley Street (now no.26 ?? )next door to Workman's and the undertakers work shops)prior to coming out to Australia. My grandparents are buried in the Tabernacle church yard as are other relatives. Also there is a Hugh Palser buried in the C of E churchyard all of whom are related. My son has a copy of the family tree going back some 400 years in Wotton. He Is at present living in Buckland in Buckinghamshire with his English wife and son. I have been back a number of times and make it one of my places to visit which brings back memories. I attended the Blue Coat school, Bear Street school and KLBG School before leaving to go overseas. My father and grandfather (and others) all attended KLBG School. Unfortuneately there are no Palser's left in Wotton now after so many years. I have never lost interest in Wotton after all these years and love to walk around the streets and streams as I had previously (only having to get used to the traffic now). I have a Grandfather clock in my possession which has come down through the generations and was made by Shepherd and Potter of Wotton and it is still in perfect running order. I have been trying to get some information on Shepherd and Potter and wondered if you could give me any clues. Regards and many happy memories of Wotton which after 58+ years I still affectionately call home Cynthia Wall (nee Palser )