TEME VALLEY SOUTH CHURCHES

A RURAL COMMUNITY RELISHING GOING FORWARD WITH GOD

 

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
Rural crime after the Hungarian uprising of 1956 Ed Yarnold 30th November -0001 5.27 MB
Description
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
Description
Tales of the workhouse
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No cattle because of TB Ed Yarnold 30th November -0001 1.28 MB
Description
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
Description
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
Description
What happened on Christmas Morning
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