Welcome to these pages of audio. On them you will find stories from these villages telling of life in days past.

The stories are categorised as "Agriculture", "Village life", "Church", "Local Area", "War time", "finding love" and "local characters" - though of course many of the stories overlap different areas.  Please select the category you are interested in from the drop down list and click the "change" button.

Thanks to Clare Perkins for her work in asking the questions and prompting the answers. 

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A Magical Christmas Day Lesley Dean 5th December 2020 1.94 MB
Description
Description of a Christmas Morning
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Stanford Temple and Stanford Church John & Lesley Shew 1st January 2020 2.59 MB
Description
Stanford Temple above Noverton Farm used to be lived in by the Estate Game Keeper and how Stanford Church was relocated to accommodate a lake.
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Dairy Farming in Rochford David Powell 30th November -0001 592.55 kB
Description
A Rochford farmer reminisces about changes in dairy farming
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Peter Sparey and John Lane reminicse Peter Sparey and John Lane 30th November -0001 11.28 MB
Description
Peter started farming aged 15. He talks about war years, working with horses, killing pigs. John reflects on the agricultural supplies store in Stanford
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A life in Rochford Cliff Johnson 30th November -0001 14.35 MB
Description
Cliff talking about starting school in 1931, meeting the girl who was to become his wife when she was six, playing cricket on the main road
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Tales round the kitchen table - bantam cockerels chicks baled shoes and movement Roger and Jane Delahay 30th November -0001 8.79 MB
Description
Roger and Jane talk about impossible bantam cockerels, a yard over run by chicks, baled shoes and movement licenses
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Mixed farming at Rochford Dan Taylor 30th November -0001 5.85 MB
Description
All kinds of now rare breeds on this farm bee keeping a dead donkey and visitors from Birmingham
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100 years of farming at Eastham Stuart Ward 30th November -0001 14.27 MB
Description
Stuart reflects on changes in agriculture forgetting the horses at Worcester Hop Fair little sleep during lambing and inadvertently taking the neighbours sheep
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Rochford Churchyard and Church Dan Taylor 30th November -0001 8.06 MB
Description
Stories about looking after the churchyard and why the door curtain and the wiondow on the north wall matter
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Hanley William Church Roger and Jane Delahay 30th November -0001 533.67 kB
Description
The church and its links to Hanley Court
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A shaft of sunlight on a grave Mike and Jean Harrison 30th November -0001 1.31 MB
Description
A shaft of sunlight shows where Jean Harrisons grandfather is buried in Hanley William churchyard
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Nomadic singers a travelling church choir Mike and Jean Harrison 30th November -0001 4.56 MB
Description
getting together to sing
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Rochford refurbishing the village hall as part of pastoral care Mike and Jean Harrison 30th November -0001 2.31 MB
Description
The old school in Rochford has a new lease of life and is a place where the pastoral team provide lunches where all can get together.
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Isolated living in Deaths dingle Stuart Ward 30th November -0001 811.22 kB
Description
A former prisoner of war lived in a house in Deaths Dingle. You walk past it on the Eastham long walk.
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Hanley Dingle Roger and Jane Delahay 30th November -0001 982.65 kB
Description
Hanley Dingle has a special micro climate and rare plants. Walks from Hanley William enjoy views into the Dingle
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Deaths Dingle or De Aths dingle David Spilsbury 30th November -0001 2.86 MB
Description
Deaths dingle or DeAths dingle, killed by a wild boar or what
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Ron reminisces about wartime boarding school Ron 30th November -0001 3.96 MB
Description
Ron reminisces about wartime boarding school bread with lard salt and pepper but he still did not want to come home
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Changes in farming over 30 years Maggie Kingston 30th November -0001 247.25 kB
Description
Maggie reflects how what she sees growing in the fields has changed over 30 years
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