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ARTHUR
WEBBER
Born:
Wheddon Cross,
Somerset, 1917
Lived: Wheddon Cross
Recording made: 2001
Length of recording:
2 hrs 25 mins
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Arthur Webber is one of eight children. His father was a tailor and captain of the bellringers. Following in his footsteps, Arthur started ringing as a teenager. He is captain himself now.
Whatever is going on, he has done it. He has done everything. Cricket, Home Guard, YFC, special policeman, rearing poultry, thatching ricks, harbouring deer, working at the market. During the war he mapped all the wells in the area in case the Germans poisoned the water supply; in the 70s he directed weekend traffic in Dunster. He has a reputation as a gardener, takes photographs and does tapestry. But singing is his first love. He says there's not a tune in the hymn book he doesn't know something about.