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Historic maps of Ismere and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Ismere maps
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Churchill| Blakedown| Cookley| Caunsall| West Hagley| Hagley| Kinver| Stourton| Clent| Potters Cross| Kidderminster| Old Swinford| Wollaston| Stourbridge| Chaddesley Corbett| Belbroughton| Wordsley| Lye| Shatterford| Brierley Hill| Kingswinford| Hartlebury| Bewdley| Stourport-On-Severn| Ribbesford| Areley Kings| Bromsgrove
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William Hopkins
I would be very grateful to hear from anyone who remembers William Staite Hopkins who lived in Cookley until he died in 1953. lizrp@blueyonder.co.uk
The Play Swings
I remember the swings being located in the park as shown in this picture when I was about four. I know they kept the big slide when they relocated them down to the bottom left hand side of the park as you look at this photograph but I can't remember if they kept all the items shown in the picture when they built the new community centre as the previous centre was located further down the village on the right hand side. I think it was a massive nissen hut? I lived in Hagley from 1963 to 1980 and played in this park with quite a few friends who I grew up with and went to cubs and scouts with, along with playing in the village football teams.
Sweet Walks Home
From 1962 until 1968 I used to walk back from school with my best friend, Jonathan Austin and once or twice a week usually a Friday , we would have enough pocket money on us to give ourselves a little sweet treat at the sweet shop on Worcester road. THis little gem was called "Parks" and was full from counter to ceiling with huge glass jars full of all kinds of imagineable sweets and it would take us a few minutes to decide what we were going to buy but it almost always came down to dolly mixtures, bob bons, wine gums or jelly babies with perhaps a "lucky bag" or a Sherbet fountain thrown in for good measure or perhaps a mouthful of a gobstopper which would take us the rest of the walk home to finish as we finally sucked the multiple coatings down to the tiniest of aniseed centres biting it into small pieces at the very end with great satisfaction. God bless you Mr and Mrs... Read more
Adam's Hill, Clent
The 1860s saw the passing of my 3x great-grandparents Thomas and Sarah Waldron and the marriage of their grand-daughter Ellen to William Huxley, my great-grandparents. These Huxleys lived at Yew Tree Cottage and Bank Cottage before leaving for Brighton around 1900...the end of an occupation by Huxley's since at least the 1760s.
Clent, my Ancestral Home!
My Huxley ancestors came to Clent from Ribbesford in 17C and married into the Waldron family who it seems had been there almost forever! Always interested to hear from any distant relatives.
Clent Family Origins
How amazing to read of another Huxley who married into the Waldron family in Clent. My great grandfather, William Huxley, married Ellen Waldron in 1867 and I believe her grandfather was Thomas Waldron, but have so far been unable to trace the "in between" generation. I have pictures of Clent showing houses where the family lived in later years but they moved from the area in the 1900's, presumably for work. I have found the Huxley side of the family to be very prolific and somewhat difficult to trace as the same Christian name appears in many branches of the family. Would love to hear from any possible relations.
1960's Kidderminster
Dear old Kiddy. My youth and teenage years during the late 1950s and early 1960' spent here. I remember a busy medium sized market town. Full employment was provided by the numerious carpet factories, Adams, Brintons, Carpet Trades, CM Co., Victoria and many more. Dozens and dozens of thriving shops all the way from the railway station, down Station Hill, along Oxford Street and Vicar Street. The High Street, Blackwell Street. Mill Street and Worcester Street. Dozens of great pubs and, in those days, four cinemas to choose from The Central, The Futurist, The Grand and The Empire, the last one with the reputation as the town "flea pit". These provided a wealth of entertainment for Friday and Saturday nights not to mention a large choice of dance venues everywhere from The Baths (during the winter ) to The Florence Ballroom, from Frank Freeman's dance studios to The Black Horse Hotel plus various church halls. Lord, we just didn't know how lucky we were. Does anyone out there remember... Read more
