Not-so-mobile residents love village life
Cobham Village in Spreydon provides its 16 disabled or elderly residents with a place in the sun.
The complex contains 14 simple cottages built around a courtyard intersected by walkways and planted with shrubs.
Each unit also has a small flower garden at the front, and a vegetable plot at the back. The residents tend and plant these themselves. The atmosphere is peaceful and contented. There is a long waiting list for places in the village. Residents are delighted to be there. Mrs Gladys MacDonald, who is in her. eighties, describes her unit as “absolutely perfect.” She had been in a council bedsittingroom before and says that there is no comparison. “It was draughty, cold and shabby. This is warm and cosy and has everything I need.”
For her near neighbour, Mrs Betty Jack, the village
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Press, 26 August 1982, Page 14
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