Age Concern Dorchester - Dorset's Living Memories

Silent films and charabancs

Bill Gaulter writes...

I played football for Frome town and we used to travel to away games by charabanc.

Sometimes when that broke down, we were late for the match. We travelled to all sorts of places, to Portland, Bristol or Salisbury.

We used to go to the pictures at the cinema. They were silent films and there was a lady playing the piano in front. The same lady played until she was well into her 80s. Later they built the Gaumont.

Sometimes we went on a picnic with the school to the White Horse at Westbury, we went by horse and cart, in groups of up to 20, all the food was provided for us and we had a nice time.

I had my first motorbike when I was 15. Once I took my future wife for a ride and she fell off the back and broke her leg I married her in 1936 and was married for 60 years.