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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…’.
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| Stanford Temple and Stanford Church | John & Lesley Shew | 1st January 2020 | 2,720 Kb |
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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. | |||
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| War announcment made in Church | Geoff Gwilt | 647 Kb | |
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| A radio was taken to Stoke Bliss church and the congregation heard the announcement about war in the 11.00 o clock service | |||
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| Getting batteries charged during the war | David and Ron | 4,124 Kb | |
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| Bus loads of accumulators being charged in Tenbury | |||
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| Cutting the fence to rescue sheep from floods | John & Lesley Shew | 1,334 Kb | |
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| Cutting the fence to rescue sheep from floods at Stanford | |||
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| No cattle because of TB | Ed Yarnold | 1,346 Kb | |
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| TB makes it not worth the aggro of keeping cattle | |||
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| Tenbury Workhouse | David and Ron | 2,603 Kb | |
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| Tales of the workhouse | |||
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| Taking stock to market | Geoff Gwilt | 743 Kb | |
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| it made the street very dirty | |||
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| Churchwarden but still in the pub | Ed Yarnold | 2,847 Kb | |
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| And not always coming back from the pub in the best of moods | |||
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| Rural crime after the Hungarian uprising of 1956 | Ed Yarnold | 5,525 Kb | |
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| Policing from a very different era | |||
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| War time farm labour | Peter Sparey and John Lane | 2,145 Kb | |
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| POWs and Land girls | |||
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| Peter a German Prisoner of war | Ed Yarnold | 11,453 Kb | |
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| A story of friendship | |||
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| Orchards for the future | Ed Yarnold | 3,109 Kb | |
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| Planting orchards for the future | |||
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| Hermits living in the woods | John & Lesley Shew | 4,431 Kb | |
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| Hermits living in a cottage above Southstone rock | |||
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| Noverton Shoot and gin | John & Lesley Shew | 2,635 Kb | |
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| Noverton shoot and drinking gin | |||
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| Leaving Mother at the mercy of the Home Guard | David Powell | 441 Kb | |
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| David could have gone to meet his mother coming home from church, but the Home Guard were on manoeuvres | |||
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| Farms becoming larger | David Spilsbury | 1,017 Kb | |
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| Smaller farms are economically unsustainable | |||
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| Break up of Kyre Park House and Estate | Geoff Gwilt | 7,813 Kb | |
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| Kyre Park break up of estate after World War 1 and history from 1930s | |||
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| Pytts Hospital Cottages | Maggie Kingston | 698 Kb | |
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| Pytts Hospital Cottages Original and continuing social housing | |||
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