daily milk delivery service with both pasteurised and raw deliveries straight from the farm...probably from cow to cornflakes in about 2 hours !, [glass] bottled and delivered by the farmers wife, (Mrs Glanville and her mini van!) ...the blue tits loved the cream off the milk bottles. A small holding just outside of the village was run by Mr and Mrs Petherick who supplied all the eggs you could want and the occasional chicken (a rare thing for a special Sunday lunch in the 60's) but she could also provide a [bred] rabbit as a pet... or for eating. The village shop was run for years in the 60's and 70's by Mr and Mrs Perryman and as people didn't have supermarkets or many cars, the small shop, the local farmer, the small holder and peoples own gardens, provided most of what people needed and for other items it was a bus ride to Braunton or all the way to Barnstaple...especially popular on Fridays, cattle market day and the Pannier Market. To complete the team, Mrs Fry ran the post office (and Sunday school) at the time and the Padisons ran the pub. Also in the village at the time were Mrs Kirchoff who taught piano, Mr Shepherd who was a great painter and A.H. Slee a published historian who had written several books including one about Braunton. Mr Bray was the tech teacher who worked in a Barnstaple school but was known to shut himself in his garage to create working steam engines; Harry Rooke was Jummy Dennis's foreman and who got the houses built; Mr Gubb ran his 5 tonne lorry including the bricks, sand and cement for all the local building....a community, largely self-sufficient The village came together throughout the year for different things but often as a result of the local Women's Institute, but especially to create the lorry floats for the children to enter the Braunton Carnival Parade...thousands of paper flowers must have been made in evenings over the years to decorate those floats. The village layout has changed little since the 60's except for a small number of in-fills, replacements and renovations. References Villages in Devon Braunton