Hill Ridware in th 30's
I was born in the School House in 1935. In my childhood days I remember spending time at the Smithy, pumping the bellows. Hill Ridware was my first school to which we went by road by the Chadwich Arms, or down a long pathway by the smithy (opposite the Royal Oak). Next to the Cadwich Arms was a farm. We used to watch the cattle come in for milking. My grandfather owned the row of houses opposite the school house and I remember playing with someone called Measley? We later moved to the Pipie Place Farm at Armitage, which used to be owned by my grandfather. I remember my father being in the ARP during the war. We used to go to church at Mavesyn Ridware down the lane from Hill Ridware.
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RE: RE: Hill Ridware in th 1930s
Hello. I also have been trying to trace one of my grandfathers, he was born in 1870 in the village of Hill Ridward, or Redward, in the 1901 census. His name was Thomas Riley. He married a farmer's daughter from Clifton Campville, Mary Jane Sidwell, in about 1889-90. Are there any people left with the surname Riley? Just wondered. Gordon Riley
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