b'Back Garden FindR oy Sumpner unearthed this piece of pottery in the garden of Nos 8 to 10. It is stoneware with a dark brown outer surface and a light brown inner surface. It has fragments of two lines of stamped lettering, HARD HOOD &above STAMFORD BRI. An internet search using Richard Hood and Stamford Bridge came up with a result straightaway: an East Stamford Bridge entry from a Post Office Directory of 1857 for Richard Hood and Son wine and spirit merchants and seedsmen.The curve of the piece suggests a flagon of some size, although it might not have contained wine or spirit as Richard Hood and Son could well have dealt in vinegar as well.A Hapenny for a Mug of HorlicksA vril Gibson (now Brattan) came to Bishop Wiltontreat. Thick custard between 2 wafers. She could in 1940, aged 5, with her brother, Norman, whobake anythingI used to love it when it was baking was 3 years older than her.They were both billetedday, and all the Yorkshire puddings and everything. with Mrs Riley at No 73. Mrs Rileys daughter, MrsThey used to put wood in the side of the oven and do Mary Rowlay, and Marys daughter, Ruth, plus otherit that way, an old-fashioned black-leaded range. evacuees all shared the house. What follows is an[From the school log: Demonstration in school extract from a conversation with Avrilrecordedinre Horlicks milk. Decided to commence a supply of June 2001.Horlicks milk to children atd per day from April I dont remember much about leaving Hull when11th 1938. Then: 50 beakers of Horlicks milk I was evacuated or the journey to Bishop Wilton. Iserved.]think it must have been City Hall, all gathering there, and then being taken to the station. My first memory is of standing on the wall outside Mrs Rileys, for the first couple of days. Standing there and sort of looking round the village. What decent clothes I had, Mrs Riley and Mrs Rowlay bought me. I needed something decent for Sundays. I was in the church choir in the morning and in the evening. Then Sunday School at the chapel in an afternoon. So they bought the dress for me for helping them by taking the cows out at night. It was something in return. When I came home I had to change out of that dress into old things to take the cows out.I went to the proper school [not to the school for evacuees in the village hall]. I can remember it having an open fire. Real cosy. Then I remember having Horlicks at school. We used to pay a hapenny for a mug, but if I had misbehaved I didnt get my hapenny for my Horlicks. My brother always got his, because he was very good! I remember these ice creams Mrs Rowlay used to do, with thick custardthat was our BULLETIN 10 155'