A while ago I read a letter in the Free Press referring to Blue Anchor, and it brought to mind the house that once stood near to the entrance to the Smugglers lane.

My two aunts – sisters - lived in this house around the 1930s and 1940s with their husbands and the mother of one of them.

I remember an old lady – the mother – who was very deaf and had one of those trumpet hearing aids, the only one I have ever seen.

The house, being so close to the sea, was possibly considered too unsafe to live in and they all moved into one of the houses at the end of the turning to the Smugglers, where they lived for a few years before moving to Carhampton.

I was born in Carhampton and lived in what was known as a drangway, where my aunt Polly lived – our houses faced each other with only a very short space between them – and in 1940 we moved to Dunster.

June Copp, Minehead.