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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Leaving Mother at the mercy of the Home Guard | David Powell | 30th November -0001 | 430.2 kB |
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| David could have gone to meet his mother coming home from church, but the Home Guard were on manoeuvres | |||
| Title | Author | Date Recorded | File Size |
| Noverton Shoot and gin | John & Lesley Shew | 30th November -0001 | 2.51 MB |
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| Noverton shoot and drinking gin | |||
| Title | Author | Date Recorded | File Size |
| Hermits living in the woods | John & Lesley Shew | 30th November -0001 | 4.23 MB |
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| Hermits living in a cottage above Southstone rock | |||
| Title | Author | Date Recorded | File Size |
| Orchards for the future | Ed Yarnold | 30th November -0001 | 2.96 MB |
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| Planting orchards for the future | |||
| Title | Author | Date Recorded | File Size |
| Peter a German Prisoner of war | Ed Yarnold | 30th November -0001 | 10.92 MB |
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| A story of friendship | |||
| Title | Author | Date Recorded | File Size |
| War time farm labour | Peter Sparey and John Lane | 30th November -0001 | 2.05 MB |
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| POWs and Land girls | |||