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Bemerton HISTORY
preserving the past for the future
In the 1930s and 1940s young Peter Sheppard lived with his family in property next to the old paper mill (no longer visible). Here, he recounts in his own words how he was a happy child despite family hardship and poverty.
Very poor but happy!
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