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🎵 "Then and Now"
Wembury Then and Now” from Peter Lugar’s Memory Book 11 is full of sharp contrasts between how the village once lived and how it looks today.
Verse 1
The road to the Point was a muddy track
With hedges high and no tarmac
Now SUVs and walkers pass
Where farmers once cut back the grass
Chorus
Then and now, the names remain
But everything else has changed again
The fields still slope, the tides still pull
But the village isn’t half as full
Verse 2
The forge is gone, the smith too proud
The Sunday bells now lost in crowd
Where once the carrier called each week
Now Amazon drones hum down the creek
Chorus
Then and now, we mark the shift
A plastic world in a stone-built drift
The coast looks out the same as then
But we don’t hear it quite the same again
There’s stories in those granite walls
In every gate and churchyard call
And Peter kept the names in line
So we could tell them one more time
Now old men sit where barns once stood
And fences rise where orchards would
But look beyond the satellite dish —
There’s still the song, there’s still the wish
Then and now, we carry both
The vanished paths, the quiet oaths
The past still echoes on the breeze
Through Lugar’s words and Wembury’s trees