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Atherstone, Queen Elizabeth Grammar School c1955
Atherstone, Queen Elizabeth Grammar School c1955 Ref: a116007
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My Gt Gt Aunt Esther Parry and her husband Joseph kept it c1891 and my gt Aunt Annie who lived with them from a young age had it in 1901. She married Thomas Terry.
Shared on 17 July 2008
From 1980/84 I was part owner of the pub, we had a brilliant football team at the time and were an important social centre for the village. The pub no longer exists as it closed soon after I sold my share, however I do still have contact with some of my old regulars. Today I manage a small guest house in Cornwall but still get visitors from Baddesely.
Shared on 29 June 2008
I spent some classic country living in Ansley Common during the later war years. Walking home from nursery school I would often be ducking for cover under hedges as low flying fighter planes would scream overhead. The nursery school was a happy place with then large playing fields reaching down to the pit railway line. The coal mine was the focus for most families in the area. Our family focus turned into a tragic loss of a father in 1951 in a massive pit fall. As a family then moved to London and eventually Australia. Some friends of that period George Parks. Christine Atkinson. Beryl Frost Graham Judge Les Warren Eileen Jones. Now living for past 43 years in Barwon Heads a small fishing town on the south coast of Victoria Australia. Playing piano. Swimming. Beach walking. Grandchildren. Now 69 and having a ball. All the best for your site - Brian Riggs
Shared on 16 March 2010
Polesworth, Little Jim's Cottage 1958
Ref: P64006
Kevin Devine Remembers Little Jim's Cottage
In the early 1960s as a small boy, this was the home of my grandmother and grandfather, Hilda and John Guy. I remember going to visit them with my mother, Cynthia Joan Devine, formerly Guy.
I used to love running around the garden with their little terrier called Betty and around the pond you can see in the picture.
My grandparents had a chicken shed, and I was allowed in the morning to go and collect the eggs.
While I was there I was often allowed to stay up much later than normal and remember sleeping upstairs and hearing the adults talking downstairs.
Very sadly my grandfather, shortly followed by my grandmother, passed away and they are buried in Poleswoth churchyard I think, as I have never been back.
My grandparents had four of their own children. Mmy mother Cynthia, Peggy, and Lawrence have all sadly passed away, but still going strong at 73 yrs old is my Uncle Brian and living in Wiltshire.
I have very fond memories of this lovely cottage, which is no longer there, and I have a few photos of the cottage and my grandparents, my mother, my auntie and uncles and cousins, and will pass them on to my daughters and grandchildren.
Shared on 02 September 2008
Polesworth, Gatehouse 1924
Ref: 76124
I bought the proerty named "The Gatehouse", being the timber framed buiding to the left of the gateway, in 2007. There are various records in the church archives which relate to the building being ariginally being built for the nuns and at one time being occupied by royalist soldiers during the civil war.
The gatehouse was built in 1482 with the 3 cottages next door being added in the 1520s.
The gateway is still owned by the church and is due for restoration shortly.
I will amend this entry as I research the history more fully.
Shared on 02 January 2008
