The family firm worked in beautiful villages, stately homes and farm estates in the area.
In WHITFORD, before my time, we built a nicely elevated bungalow for Miss Wood and Miss Jennings, two school mistresses from Axminster Secondary School. We built an extension whilst I was back with the firm – but I always took my retired grandfather with me, when I visited as they had a "soft-spot" for "Uncle George" – the name by which they knew him.