This website is intended to build up, from
living memory, a record of both of Heytesbury, Heytesbury House as
it was before the fire and conversion and memories of both George
and Siegfried Sassoon. The Heytesbury Parsh Council website makes
rather cursory reference to Siegfried which this website will
redress.
I live on the outskirts of the village and lived at Heytesbury House
in the 1980s until the sale in the early 1990s. I am the step-son of
George Sassoon, my mother, Alison, being his surviving wife.
Robert Pulvertaft 2009 November.
Anyone with fond visions of cosy thatched
cottages with ancient chimneys curling wisps of wood smoke and chaps
with caps heartily greeting fellow sundowners over frothing ale will
be mildly disappointed.
There is no well endowed wench behind the bar
nor huddle of bubbling conversation with oldest friends. The spindly
spinsters patching patchwork quilts and the apple-red faced farmers
have long since passed away along with the young families and local
ties and tied cottages.
This is New England and Little London has long
since enveloped the village.
But there is still news