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Island Life - October/November 2010
Photos: Above: Terry & Venetia outside their home St Hilary
Right: St Hilary when built in 1933
Left: Terry pictured September 2010 in his garden
WORDS: PETER WHITE - PICTURES: MARTIN POTTER
Terry is still weaving his charm
through Bembridge and beyond
Terry Weaver modestly describes
since 1974, provided an interesting
himself as ‘just a village businessman’
insight into a man known as the local
Weaver family to live in Bembridge,
qualifying his statement by claiming
builder and funeral director, who still
taking on a business that began many
“Well, after all Bembridge is not that
loves his work just as much as the day
years ago, long before the introduction
big a place.”
he started 53 years ago.
of cars, never mind the rest of today’s
But there is not much Terry does not
Terry certainly doesn’t pretend to
He is the fifth generation of the
taken-for-granted luxuries.
know about Bembridge, and probably
be something he isn’t. He speaks
the residents of the East Wight village
forthright and honestly about his
grandfather Thomas fought with
think there is not much they don’t
double profession, his life and his
Wellington in the Peninsula War and at
know about him. But maybe there is.
family, making no bones about the fact
Waterloo. He then came to Bembridge
Sitting down for a chat with Terry in
he doesn’t need to spend hours on the
to retire. He was a tough guy, and had
the house where he was born back in
bowling green or golf course to keep
a son called Henry who formed the
1937, and has lived in with wife Venetia
him occupied.
business Henry Weaver Contractor.
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He recalled: “My great great
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