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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| Title | Author | Date Recorded | File Size |
| Mixed farming at Rochford | Dan Taylor | 30th November -0001 | 5.85 MB |
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| All kinds of now rare breeds on this farm bee keeping a dead donkey and visitors from Birmingham | |||
| Title | Author | Date Recorded | File Size |
| 100 years of farming at Eastham | Stuart Ward | 30th November -0001 | 14.27 MB |
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| Stuart reflects on changes in agriculture forgetting the horses at Worcester Hop Fair little sleep during lambing and inadvertently taking the neighbours sheep | |||
| Title | Author | Date Recorded | File Size |
| Rochford Churchyard and Church | Dan Taylor | 30th November -0001 | 8.06 MB |
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| Stories about looking after the churchyard and why the door curtain and the wiondow on the north wall matter | |||
| Title | Author | Date Recorded | File Size |
| Hanley William Church | Roger and Jane Delahay | 30th November -0001 | 533.67 kB |
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| The church and its links to Hanley Court | |||
| Title | Author | Date Recorded | File Size |
| A shaft of sunlight on a grave | Mike and Jean Harrison | 30th November -0001 | 1.31 MB |
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| 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 |
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| getting together to sing | |||
| Title | Author | Date Recorded | File Size |
| Rochford refurbishing the village hall as part of pastoral care | Mike and Jean Harrison | 30th November -0001 | 2.31 MB |
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| 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. | |||
| Title | Author | Date Recorded | File Size |
| Isolated living in Deaths dingle | Stuart Ward | 30th November -0001 | 811.22 kB |
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| A former prisoner of war lived in a house in Deaths Dingle. You walk past it on the Eastham long walk. | |||
| Title | Author | Date Recorded | File Size |
| Hanley Dingle | Roger and Jane Delahay | 30th November -0001 | 982.65 kB |
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| Hanley Dingle has a special micro climate and rare plants. Walks from Hanley William enjoy views into the Dingle | |||
| Title | Author | Date Recorded | File Size |
| Deaths Dingle or De Aths dingle | David Spilsbury | 30th November -0001 | 2.86 MB |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Maggie reflects how what she sees growing in the fields has changed over 30 years | |||
| Title | Author | Date Recorded | File Size |
| Dairy Farming in Rochford | David Powell | 30th November -0001 | 592.55 kB |
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| A Rochford farmer reminisces about changes in dairy farming | |||
| Title | Author | Date Recorded | File Size |
| No school no shop no pub but what keeps Eastham together | David and Ron | 30th November -0001 | 991.94 kB |
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| David and Ron talk about what used to be about what never was and about what makes community work now | |||
| Title | Author | Date Recorded | File Size |
| Rabbit | David and Ron | 30th November -0001 | 755 kB |
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| Poaching, eating rabbit, 3000 going to Tenbury market | |||
| Title | Author | Date Recorded | File Size |
| German prisoners of war | David Powell | 30th November -0001 | 608.67 kB |
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| Prisoners becoming friends | |||
| Title | Author | Date Recorded | File Size |
| Farming life | John & Lesley Shew | 30th November -0001 | 990.92 kB |
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| Farm routine as experienced by a child | |||
| Title | Author | Date Recorded | File Size |
| Partners for life | Roger and Jane Delahay | 30th November -0001 | 1.48 MB |
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| A blind date leads to a life together in spite of a strong Hereford accent | |||