Back in 1953, George Dobson was Market Lavington’s oldest inhabitant at the age of 96. Times change and there will now be quite a few residents older than that in the village. This is not all down to people living longer. In part it is because the BUPA Care home in the old Vicarage building and other associated buildings has become a feature of the village.
We described something of George Dobson’s life in an earlier item. This time we’ll content ourselves with a little extra information. In 1939, George and his wife, Mary, lived on The Spring in Market Lavington.
We recently featured a 1953 newspaper article about aspects of Market Lavington. Today we are looking at this paper again and its mention of George Dobson. It includes a photo of George with his motorbike.
George Dobson and his motorbike. George was Market Lavington's oldest inhabitant in 1953
And here’s the extract that is about George.
1953 news article about George Dobson
In fact, George’s motorbike accident led to him receiving a three year driving ban and he didn’t live to see that out.
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