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 |
| Stanford Temple and Stanford Church | John & Lesley Shew | 1st January 2020 | 2.59 MB |
| Description | |||
| Stanford Temple above Noverton Farm used to be lived in by the Estate Game Keeper and how Stanford Church was relocated to accommodate a lake. | |||
| 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 |
| Description | |||
| 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 |
| Description | |||
| Deaths dingle or DeAths dingle, killed by a wild boar or what | |||
| Title | Author | Date Recorded | File Size |
| Kyre Park from the 1930s | Maggie Kingston | 30th November -0001 | 2.45 MB |
| Description | |||
| A history of the changes at Kyre Park | |||
| Title | Author | Date Recorded | File Size |
| Pytts Hospital Cottages | Maggie Kingston | 30th November -0001 | 680.81 kB |
| Description | |||
| 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 |
| Description | |||
| Kyre Park break up of estate after World War 1 and history from 1930s | |||
| Title | Author | Date Recorded | File Size |
| Hermits living in the woods | John & Lesley Shew | 30th November -0001 | 4.23 MB |
| Description | |||
| Hermits living in a cottage above Southstone rock | |||
| 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 | |||
| Title | Author | Date Recorded | File Size |
| Tenbury Workhouse | David and Ron | 30th November -0001 | 2.48 MB |
| Description | |||
| Tales of the workhouse | |||