Wrington Chemists was run by Len and Pam Bendall, both qualified pharmacists. They took over the business in 1965. "My wife's working locum in Weston this week. Pity she isn't here"

Some of the assistants and the stock will be familiar to today's customers, but as to the spare time activities of the proprietor ....

... Len could regularly be found in different attire - that's apart from his cricket togs - and at locations, like the Crown, Churchill, on the evening of August Bank Holiday Monday, 1987, with the Mendip Morrismen. Len got the bug at his youth club in Warminster, which put on sessions of the square dancing brought over by the Americans during the second world war. From that he progressed to English folk dancing at the Devizes folk festival, where he was recruited into Morris.

"Each village used to have its own notation and interpretation and style of dancing"... "There's more people doing Morris Dancing today than ever before"

Encouraging the next generation of Morris Men ...

"If women want to do Morris dancing separately, no problem, but the vast majority of Morris men can't stand mixed dancing - men and women .....

.... Morris were show dances for the men. Women had their own dances, and if men and women want to dance together there's folk dances."