On This Day in Wembury – 9 November 1936
The Western Morning News listed new companies formed in Devon, including M. J. S. Sherwell Ltd., registered on 5 November with capital of £100. The company was set up to trade as builders, contractors, timber merchants, sawmill proprietors, joiners, and furniture makers. Among its first directors was Maurice J. S. Sherwell of Knighton Farm, Wembury, who combined his farming role with this new business venture.
Reflection
It is a reminder that farmers in interwar Devon often wore several hats, branching out into building, timber, or haulage as ways of diversifying their income. For Knighton Farm, this link with Sherwell shows how Wembury’s rural families were tied into wider commercial shifts across South Devon.