Memories of the tower (From Gazette Series)

Memories of the tower

SIR - I read with interest Ian R Johnson's letter in last week's Gazette. I, too, remember the tower on the edge of Major Haigh's garden at the Norman Hill estate, Cam.

My grandfather, Albert Pullin, was head gardener there from 1929 after he left The Towers, Dursley, when Sir Ashton Lister died, also in 1929.

After Major Haigh died in about 1938 or 1939 he was the last head gardener at Kingshill House where during the 1939-45 war he grew bananas amongst other exotic things. My mother, Mrs Hilda Cox, had come with him from Bromyard in 1914 so I remember the Norman Hill estate from about 1933.

Michael Cox Long Street Dursley

Editor's note: If any readers have a photograph of the tower, the Gazette would like to hear from them.