Memories of the Pottery and the Spanish Tea Rooms

MADAM, When I was still at school in Ross in the 1960s my mother looked after the owner's little boy called Dick Turpin. I sometimes pushed him home to the Pottery Pantry.

Sometimes a member of staff, the late Margaret Webb, would meet us as she would be working in the sweet shop. This was at the front of the building before going along the passage way to the Spanish Tea Rooms. Other times Mr Turpin would fetch his son from our home by car.

Sadly Mr Turpin was killed in a car crash before their little boy went to school.

The business was sold to Mr and Mrs Trow and mum also looked after their young son, Alistair, so the same routine went on until he also went to school.

Mrs Ashcroft, Monmouth