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My father, William Albert Merrett was born in Bishops Cannings 5th March 1894. He moved to Broadtown as a young boy, then worked on a farm when he left school at, I think, 13 years of age. He was renowned as a good ploughman.
He married my Mother in 1925.
My father left Broadtown in 1912 to join the Wiltshire Regiment, which he served in, until 1919.
In 1941 and 1943, he took my brothers Stan and Roy, both riding single speed sit-up-and-beg bicycles. They started at 4am, they stopped for a short rest at Maple Green near Studley, then pressed on to Alchester to hear the clock striking 7am. Then to Cheltenham at 9am, on through Cirencester to Colborne,which was just half way, when refreshments were taken.
Their route then took them to Siddington, Ashton Keynes and Wootton Bassett to visit the 'Beaufort' for a drink before the pub closed at 2pm. Then on to his family at Broad Town for a week, his suitcase strapped on a carrier over the back wheel.
He died in 1966.

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