Tyneham & Worbarrow
… where time stopped in 1943
Gwyle Cottages
Others
Gwyle Cottages were home to:
- The Wellman Family from around 1912 until 1936
Bob and Alice Wellman (nee Lucas) and their six children: Rose, Vera, James, Ivy, Peter and Joyce.
- The Gould Family until 1924
- The Grant Family from 1924 until 1942
Harry and Marjorie Grant, son Arthur and adopted son, Cyril Griffiths.
Alice and Bob Wellman c.1950
Mrs. Alice Wellman c.1927
Alice was the daughter of ‘Shepherd Lucas’
who lived in Post Office Row with his
wife Jane and their ten children
The ‘storyboard’ prepared by Lynda Price in 2006 …
Information from the storyboard is reproduced below for ease of viewing.
In 1943 …
In 2012 …
Mum took in children from the east end of London during the war. They had never seen the sea or had a holiday. One lady, now aged 76, wrote to me last year to say she still remembered Tyneham and wondered what I had done since then. I sent her some newspaper cuttings, I even found a photo of her sitting on the doorstep of our cottage.
Arthur Grant 2006
My dad found a Kodak camera, a collapsible one with bellows, on the beach at Worbarrow. We got quite interested in photography. Dad let me use the camera, it was better than our old Box Brownie.
Arthur Grant 2006
After serving in the Merchant Navy and with Quantas Airways, Arthur settled in Wareham and became a freelance photographer for the local papers.
Harry and Marjorie Grant 1931
In the garden of Gwyle Cottages
My parents moved to Tyneham when Dad got the job as estate woodman for the Bond family. We had John Gould’s house, he moved to Gardener’s Cottage as he had been promoted to head gardener at Tyneham House.
Arthur Grant 2006
Marjorie Grant
Cyril Griffiths c.1943
Adopted son of Harry and Marjorie Grant
Cyril and I played a lot, mostly in te duck pond, when the Gwyle re-
Colin Driscoll 2002
Arthur Grant and Cyril Griffiths 1994
Arthur Grant aged 7 with his new bike
Arthur Grant at the opening of the schoolroom exhibition 1994
An enterprising boy, was young Arthur . He discovered that a good way of making extra pocket money was to volunteer to open and close gates for the increasing number of motorists who began to come from far afield to visit Worbarrow Bay. There were four gates and a penny or two was thrown from the cars as a reward. Pn a good day a boy might take home as much as three or four shillings.
Helen Taylor 1994
Bob Wellman c.1940
Alice was the daughter of ‘Shepherd Lucas’
who lived in Post Office Row with his
wife Jane and their ten children
Sentimental Journey 1979
The Wellman sisters attend the first service
held in Tyneham Church for thirty six years
Three sisters of the Wellman family who lived and grew up
in Tyneham are seen leaving the church. They are, left to right,
Mrs.Rose Dando, Mrs.Joyce Bugler and Mrs.Ivy Simpson.
Peter and James Wellman 1994
Peter Wellman, 69, left, and his brother
James, 74 come face to face with their past