The villages of
Stoke St. Mary, Thurlbear and Orchard Portman, Somerset, England.

PERSONAL PROFILES PAST & PRESENT

The view up Watery Lane, Stoke St. Mary.
The original vehicular approach to Mount Pleasant and the way home for the young Bill Board to Cherry Grove. Photograph - Alan Prime

ETHEL and BILL BOARD
In February 2001, Ethel and Bill shared with Alan Prime in a St. Mary's church interview that she was born in 1912 at Church Farm, Thurlbear and started
at Thurlbear School in 1917 aged 5.
Bill, born in 1908, lived at Cherry Grove, Stoke St. Mary when he met Ethel circa 1928, when they were both choir members and bell-ringers at St. Thomas Church, Thurlbear. At this time Ethel lived at Gadsbridge Cottages, a mile down the road. The couple were married at Thurlbear Church in 1933.
They both were committed Christians and devoted to their beloved St. Thomas.

Bill Board 1908-2002 was a man of great humility and is much missed in the village community.