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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…’.
Title | Author | Date Recorded | File Size |
Rural crime after the Hungarian uprising of 1956 | Ed Yarnold | 30th November -0001 | 5.27 MB |
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Policing from a very different era | |||
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Churchwarden but still in the pub | Ed Yarnold | 30th November -0001 | 2.71 MB |
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And not always coming back from the pub in the best of moods | |||
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Taking stock to market | Geoff Gwilt | 30th November -0001 | 724.9 kB |
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it made the street very dirty | |||
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Tenbury Workhouse | David and Ron | 30th November -0001 | 2.48 MB |
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Tales of the workhouse | |||
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No cattle because of TB | Ed Yarnold | 30th November -0001 | 1.28 MB |
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TB makes it not worth the aggro of keeping cattle | |||
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Cutting the fence to rescue sheep from floods | John & Lesley Shew | 30th November -0001 | 1.27 MB |
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Cutting the fence to rescue sheep from floods at Stanford | |||
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Getting batteries charged during the war | David and Ron | 30th November -0001 | 3.93 MB |
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Bus loads of accumulators being charged in Tenbury | |||
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War announcment made in Church | Geoff Gwilt | 30th November -0001 | 631.02 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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A Magic Christmas Day | Lesley Dean | 30th November -0001 | 1.94 MB |
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What happened on Christmas Morning | |||