On this day in Wembury — 21 March 1995
The village was bustling with notices, plans and community spirit as spring approached. The Evening Herald column by Gerald Lilley carried a full page of Wembury snippets — the kind of local round-up that charted village life before social media took its place.
The Scouts announced that their monthly newspaper and magazine collection would move forward a week because of Easter, the papers destined for recycling with the proceeds boosting troop funds. The Parish Council, always practical, offered a nearly new Canon Stylewriter Pro 7000 word processor for sale , “complete with all manuals and in perfect working order”, tenders due by March 24.
The Wembury Peninsula Branch of the RNLI invited everyone to an antiques evening in the Silver Jubilee Hall at Down Thomas on April 1, with tickets at £3.50. Their summer calendar was already filling: a bric-a-brac stall in Plymouth Pannier Market on May 7, a cream tea at Monckswood on June 3, a barbecue at 37 Knighton Road on June 27, and a craft fayre in the Village Hall on October 31.
Meanwhile, the Amenity Society prepared its AGM for April 30, featuring a talk on local underwater life and a chance to meet the new warden of Wembury Marine Centre. Long-time fundraiser June Barker was gearing up for her ninth BT National Swimathon, swimming three miles to raise money for Marie Curie Cancer Care. Down at Bovisand Lodge, locals were encouraged to tone up for summer with unlimited swims for £14 a month. Even the Wembury Club’s lease was up for discussion, with an open invitation to anyone interested in taking it on.
It was a snapshot of 1990s Wembury at its best — busy, neighbourly, and quietly self-sufficient, where everything from charity swims to word processors had their place in the life of the parish.
(Evening Herald, March 1995)