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The Seavington News - February 1993
The News Travels Far

I thought you might be interested to know how far the Seavingtons News has travelled. In fact down under to Australia.

We recently had a visit from Mrs Jessie Rose nee Parsons, who was my parents evacuee during the war. She was with my parents for about 4 years, and really loved it here. When the war ended, and it was time to return to London Jessie didn’t want to leave.
She never forgot us or Seavington and has always kept in touch.
She emigrated to Australia about 19 years ago and this is the first time she has been back to England.
She very much wanted to see Seavington again. She stayed with us for a few days. I was amazed how she remembered, with such detail the time she spent here with us.
We visited both churches, where she could remember going to Sunday School and remembered with great detail her school days at Seavington School, also the teachers, Miss Redman and Miss Skenfield and lots of the pupils. Some of you might remember her.

Mrs Maxwell who lives at School House, kindly let Jessie look around to see it as it is today, and gave her a photo of the school as she could remember it.

She asked if she could take the Seavington News back home with her and was particularly interested in the verse about the bygone days. She had been working at an old Peoples home, until recently and wanted to photocopy this verse to pin on the notice board at the home.
The one sad part of Jessies visit was that my parents are no longer alive. She has now returned to Australia via 2 weeks in Singapore.
It was wonderful to see her again, but very sad to see her go.
Evelyn England. Ashleigh.