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 Home About the Throwleigh Archive Project History of the Throwleigh Archive Planning the future for the Throwleigh Archive Some interesting snippets from interviews Farming memories The book "Throwleigh - pictures and memories from a Dartmoor parish"   |
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"I go to nearly every funeral in Throwleigh – and Gidleigh and all. We’ve been very often bearers for a lot of them… In the hearse, they’d bring the coffin there, and as soon you’d get to the church door, they’d slide the coffin out of the hearse, and you’d have to catch hold of two handles, and there’s webs and all – and you had to do that to carry him in so far as the lych gate. Then the rector would stop there and say one or two prayers and all that, before he went on again… And when it was all finished and all that, there’d be the service in the church. Then when you let him down, you had webs here to let them down in the graveyard."
"You know what it is like in any village. There’s church and chapel, and if you didn’t go to either you were very sinful."