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 |
| Effect of motor transport on school and farming | David Spilsbury | 30th November -0001 | 425.31 kB |
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| Bus to school and motor transport for farming but walking to church | |||
| 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 |
| Description | |||
| 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 | |||
| Title | Author | Date Recorded | File Size |
| At the pictures | Dan Taylor | 30th November -0001 | 1.87 MB |
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| Dan meets a gorgeous girl at the pictures and its the start of a fairy tale | |||
| Title | Author | Date Recorded | File Size |
| Rochford community spirit extends to French | Mike and Jean Harrison | 30th November -0001 | 3.06 MB |
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| Rochford community spirit extends to French twinning | |||
| Title | Author | Date Recorded | File Size |
| Effects of war - furnitiure storage in Eastham | Stuart Ward | 30th November -0001 | 735.51 kB |
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| Refugees or furniture | |||
| Title | Author | Date Recorded | File Size |
| A deterent to Hitler or a pulpit | Stuart Ward | 30th November -0001 | 753.47 kB |
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| How a tree stump was wanted to block an invasion but became a pulpit | |||
| Title | Author | Date Recorded | File Size |
| Showing off | Stuart Ward | 30th November -0001 | 748.16 kB |
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| Showing o0ff to a girl friend results in a plance crash | |||
| Title | Author | Date Recorded | File Size |
| A light at night | Dan Taylor | 30th November -0001 | 877.96 kB |
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| Before street lights a Rochford resident lit a hurricane lamp each night to keep traveler safe | |||
| Title | Author | Date Recorded | File Size |
| Bill Dipper | Dan Taylor | 30th November -0001 | 1.27 MB |
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| His life spanned 1878 to 1964 and he was a real country character | |||
| Title | Author | Date Recorded | File Size |
| Dudley George | Dan Taylor | 30th November -0001 | 1.41 MB |
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| Payment in cider proves somewhat inflammatory | |||
| Title | Author | Date Recorded | File Size |
| Jack Hill | Dan Taylor | 30th November -0001 | 1.25 MB |
| Description | |||
| A break in but they didn\'t find all his money | |||
| Title | Author | Date Recorded | File Size |
| Mr Grantfelds wooden leg | Stuart Ward | 30th November -0001 | 297.55 kB |
| Description | |||
| A broken leg | |||
| Title | Author | Date Recorded | File Size |
| Diamond wedding in Rochford village hall | Mike and Jean Harrison | 30th November -0001 | 1.26 MB |
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| A very special community celebration | |||
| Title | Author | Date Recorded | File Size |
| Christmas kisses | John & Lesley Shew | 30th November -0001 | 1.04 MB |
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| with the postman | |||