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Kilsall maps

Historic maps of Kilsall and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis.   View all Kilsall maps

Kilsall photos

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Donington| Tong| Stanton| Boscobel| Weston-Under-Lizard| Patshull Park| Ryton| Shifnal| Beckbury| Kemberton| Wheaton Aston| Brewood| Priors Lee| Tettenhall| Lower Penn| Lilleshall| Donnington

Kilsall area books

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Memories of Kilsall

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Shropshire memories

My Memory of Tong Castle by Babs Potts

My name is Irene Harriett Potts (nee Bryon), I was born 18-1-1921 at my granny's house in Bishops Wood (her name was Harriet Robinson). Our home was number 23 Offoxy Road, Tong, I lived there with my parents Louie and William Bryon, two sisters Eileen and Hilda and my brother William.  
In 1924 after my father was killed in a road accident our family moved to number 22 Offoxy Road because it was a shilling a week cheaper (equivalent of 5p today) and because a larger family (the Smiths) were coming to work at Offoxy Farm, they needed three bedrooms and we only needed two.  

The lavatory was outside, it was a 'double holer' (a plank of wood with two holes, one large and one small.  Hilda and William were frightened to go on their own so I had to go with them, but when it was my turn I had to go alone - it was terrible, frightening going there in the dark, I used to... Read more

Past Boscobel House

Before leaving to live abroad I lived only two miles from Boscobel and so I often took my bicycle for a spin around the lanes. When I was a teenager a friend had a car and sometimes we found ourselves driving past Boscobel at night and I always thought that it had a strange atmosphere. In the 1990s I was writing a book about a village the other side of Boscobel and a few times found myself driving past the house in the dark. I was ok driving towards the house and ok a hundred yards past it but driving by left me cold and my knuckles white with clenching the steering wheel. I interviewed many of the older residents of the village I was writing about and one lady said that during the war she worked in Wolverhampton and after work she would catch a bus to Codsall where she had left her bike at a relatives. The journey home took her past Boscobel. “I was all right cycling... Read more

Question on Ryton House

Hello everyone, I am doing some genealogy work and found a distant relative who was a groom at Ryton House (as listed on the census). I can't find any reference to it online, does anyone remember such a place or have any idea what it might mean.

Thanks in advance

Kashmir

E M Goliah

The Broadway c1965
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My Grandmother Mrs E M Goliah had a general stores on Broadway I believe it was sold circa 1956 due to ill health, I believe it was an Elizabethan style property, and was next door to Cheadles, the 'clock' shop. The property no longer exists due to 'redevelopment'

I Miss Shifnal And Have Very Happy Fond Memories.

The Broadway c1965
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I have just gone onto this site. I remember the Goliahs. It was when I was a little girl, Mr Goliah used to regularly visit my dad and I think at one stage he dropped off a load of cattle manure with a horse and cart for our garden.   I can also remember the milkman in the early 1950s delivering milk with the horse and cart. What a memory. My name is Jane, my maiden name was 'Humphries'.  My brother still lives there at Custer Castle in Shaw Lane.  Dad, better known as 'Jack', used to run the bakery in Aston Street with a cake shop in Bradford Street.  We lived over the shop (and a toy shop in the corner).  My father worked for Lloyds the Grocers which was in Park Street (can't remember what the place is now but the building is still there).  There was an abattoir behind the grocery shop and one of my earliest memories was of dad wheeling our bacon pig down from our... Read more

Womens Land Army Hostel

The White Hart 1898
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Do you have any photos of the Womens Land Army Hostel in 1946?

Does Anyone Remember Alice Amy Robinson

The Broadway c1965
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Does anyone remember Alice Amy Robinson or any of the Robinsons, who lived at 33 Broadway Shifnal during the war? I would love any memories of them. Thankyou, Barbara Madeline de Havilland (formerly known as Margaret Robinson)

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