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 |
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 | |||
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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 | |||
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Effects of war - furnitiure storage in Eastham | Stuart Ward | 30th November -0001 | 735.51 kB |
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Refugees or furniture | |||
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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 | |||
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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 | |||
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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 | |||
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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 | |||
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Dudley George | Dan Taylor | 30th November -0001 | 1.41 MB |
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Payment in cider proves somewhat inflammatory | |||
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Jack Hill | Dan Taylor | 30th November -0001 | 1.25 MB |
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A break in but they didn\'t find all his money | |||