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.
For help with listening to the website media, please see the help page of this website. To download a file right click on the speaker icon and choose ’Download Linked File…’.
| Title | Author | Date Recorded | File Size |
| A Magical Christmas Day | Lesley Dean | 5th December 2020 | 1.94 MB |
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| Description of a Christmas Morning | |||
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| Title | Author | Date Recorded | File Size |
| Stanford Temple and Stanford Church | John & Lesley Shew | 1st January 2020 | 2.59 MB |
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| 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. | |||
| Title | Author | Date Recorded | File Size |
| Tenbury Workhouse | David and Ron | 30th November -0001 | 2.48 MB |
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| Tales of the workhouse | |||
| Title | Author | Date Recorded | File Size |
| Diamond wedding in Rochford village hall | Mike and Jean Harrison | 30th November -0001 | 1.26 MB |
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| A very special community celebration | |||
| Title | Author | Date Recorded | File Size |
| Farms becoming larger | David Spilsbury | 30th November -0001 | 993.06 kB |
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| Smaller farms are economically unsustainable | |||
| Title | Author | Date Recorded | File Size |
| Break up of Kyre Park House and Estate | Geoff Gwilt | 30th November -0001 | 7.45 MB |
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| Kyre Park break up of estate after World War 1 and history from 1930s | |||
| Title | Author | Date Recorded | File Size |
| Pytts Hospital Cottages | Maggie Kingston | 30th November -0001 | 680.81 kB |
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| Pytts Hospital Cottages Original and continuing social housing | |||
| Title | Author | Date Recorded | File Size |
| Noverton Farm There since the Doomsday book | John & Lesley Shew | 30th November -0001 | 1.26 MB |
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| Noverton farm. Eleven men and a slave in the Doomsday book | |||
| Title | Author | Date Recorded | File Size |
| Kyre Park from the 1930s | Maggie Kingston | 30th November -0001 | 2.45 MB |
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| A history of the changes at Kyre Park | |||
| Title | Author | Date Recorded | File Size |
| Hanley Childe Church bell | Ed Yarnold | 30th November -0001 | 8.24 MB |
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| The bell broke and then was stolen | |||
| Title | Author | Date Recorded | File Size |
| Childhood on the farm | Ed Yarnold | 30th November -0001 | 1.96 MB |
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| A very different childhood from today | |||
| Title | Author | Date Recorded | File Size |
| Pigs | David and Ron | 30th November -0001 | 918.67 kB |
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| Killing and curing pigs An efficient recycling system | |||
| Title | Author | Date Recorded | File Size |
| Farm labour changes | John & Lesley Shew | 30th November -0001 | 340.51 kB |
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| Farming becoming less labour intensive | |||
| Title | Author | Date Recorded | File Size |
| Students on Farm | John & Lesley Shew | 30th November -0001 | 389.69 kB |
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| Students as a source of farm labour | |||
| Title | Author | Date Recorded | File Size |
| Wartime farming in Stoke Bliss | Geoff Gwilt | 30th November -0001 | 5.99 MB |
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| Wartime farming in Stoke Bliss and post war exporting world wide | |||
| Title | Author | Date Recorded | File Size |
| Wartime evacuee comes back for a visit | Maggie Kingston | 30th November -0001 | 337.96 kB |
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| Wartime evacuee comes back for a visit | |||
| Title | Author | Date Recorded | File Size |
| Christmas kisses | John & Lesley Shew | 30th November -0001 | 1.04 MB |
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| with the postman | |||
| Title | Author | Date Recorded | File Size |
| Mr Grantfelds wooden leg | Stuart Ward | 30th November -0001 | 297.55 kB |
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| A broken leg | |||