Rose Partridge
 | Rose was born and brought up in the parish of Widecombe and has lived there all her life. Her grandparents lived in a small two up one down cottage at Uppacott near Poundsgate where they brought up six children: |
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“How many people lived here? " "My grandparents and they had six children um,three were born before granddad went to War, First World War, then he came home and three more girls were born afterwards. ” "So they wouldn't all six have been here at the same time?" "I don't think they could have been no." |  |
As a child she often visited her grandparents at Uppacott and here describes the yard outside the house:
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 | “Well there was a cobbled path down beside of the other cottage with a dung heap in the middle of the yard, um, there was little sheds and grandma used to keep chickens in one of those and an ash-pit in the corner where they used to put all the ashes from their grate and in the bottom there was a pigs house where they kept pigs and a big thatched barn, um, there used to be great big doors on the middle of it, and a tap where they used to get their water” |
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