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 |
| Noverton Shoot and gin | John & Lesley Shew | 30th November -0001 | 2.51 MB |
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| Noverton shoot and drinking gin | |||
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| Hermits living in the woods | John & Lesley Shew | 30th November -0001 | 4.23 MB |
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| Hermits living in a cottage above Southstone rock | |||
| Title | Author | Date Recorded | File Size |
| Orchards for the future | Ed Yarnold | 30th November -0001 | 2.96 MB |
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| Planting orchards for the future | |||
| Title | Author | Date Recorded | File Size |
| Peter a German Prisoner of war | Ed Yarnold | 30th November -0001 | 10.92 MB |
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| A story of friendship | |||
| Title | Author | Date Recorded | File Size |
| War time farm labour | Peter Sparey and John Lane | 30th November -0001 | 2.05 MB |
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| POWs and Land girls | |||
| 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 | |||
| Title | Author | Date Recorded | File Size |
| 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 | |||
| Title | Author | Date Recorded | File Size |
| Tenbury Workhouse | David and Ron | 30th November -0001 | 2.48 MB |
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| Tales of the workhouse | |||
| Title | Author | Date Recorded | File Size |
| 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 | |||
| Title | Author | Date Recorded | File Size |
| 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 | |||
| Title | Author | Date Recorded | File Size |
| 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 | |||
| Title | Author | Date Recorded | File Size |
| 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 | |||
| Title | Author | Date Recorded | File Size |
| A Magic Christmas Day | Lesley Dean | 30th November -0001 | 1.94 MB |
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| What happened on Christmas Morning | |||
| 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 |
| Peter Sparey and John Lane reminicse | Peter Sparey and John Lane | 30th November -0001 | 11.28 MB |
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| Peter started farming aged 15. He talks about war years, working with horses, killing pigs. John reflects on the agricultural supplies store in Stanford | |||
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| A life in Rochford | Cliff Johnson | 30th November -0001 | 14.35 MB |
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| Cliff talking about starting school in 1931, meeting the girl who was to become his wife when she was six, playing cricket on the main road | |||
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| Tales round the kitchen table - bantam cockerels chicks baled shoes and movement | Roger and Jane Delahay | 30th November -0001 | 8.79 MB |
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| Roger and Jane talk about impossible bantam cockerels, a yard over run by chicks, baled shoes and movement licenses | |||