Mary Tabor – local writer and one of Dr Bach’s team of workers
In 1934 Dr Edward Bach moved to Sotwell and rented Mount Vernon in Bakers Lane. The family who owned Mount Vernon also owned the nearby property of Wellsprings. Perhaps through this connection, Dr Bach got to know a local lady who lived at Wellsprings, Mary Tabor.
Mary soon became part of Dr Bach's small team of assistants, working alongside Nora Weeks, who lived at Mount Vernon, and Victor Bullen, a Cromer man who had rooms in Abingdon. Bach himself saw patients mainly at Mount Vernon, but many of his letters from this period were sent from Wellsprings.
Bach died in 1936. Shortly before that Nora, Victor and Mary wrote separately to his publishers in London to introduce themselves as "Dr Bach's team of workers" who would be continuing things after he died. And in 1938 Mary published a novel with Bach's publishers, based on her memories of Bach and his spiritual beliefs. Called "To Thine Own Self", it included recognisable descriptions of both houses as well as a pub interior that might well be based on the Red Lion or the Bell (once at the end of Bell Lane) - both favourite pubs of Bach's.