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Nostalgic memories of Kinver's local history

Share your own memories of Kinver and read what others have said

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our web site to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was when the photographs in our archive were taken. From brief one-liners explaining a little bit more about the image depicted, to great, in-depth accounts of a childhood when things were rather different than today (and everything inbetween!). We've had many contributors recognising themselves or loved ones in our photographs.

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White Hill
I was born in James Street, but I was brought up from 6 months old in one of the cottages in the picture. Sam Shuker was my grandmother's brother, we lived next door to him and her sister Alice and Millie. The other side of us lived my uncle George, his wife Ethel and their daughter Margaret who still lives in Chandler Avenue. I remember Jack Evans and his family very well.
Kinver, White Hill c1955
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Added 31 January 2014

J T Biggs Builders And Underrtakers
My grandfather, Jospeh Thomas Biggs and later my father, Horace Leonard Biggs, from 1936 operated a building company and undertakers from Kinver High street in the 1930s. The company built many houses in Kinver, Wollaston, Stourbridge & Kidderminster. The houses were mainly detached and nearly all had distinctive roof scroll finials on the ends of the ridges. Can any one help with the history ...see more
Kinver, High Street c1965
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Added 01 April 2013

School Holidays In Kinver
We had a caravan in Kingsford Lane, Kinver from 1960 to about 1963, my dad bought it from someone in Wollaston and we used to stay there all the school holidays and weekends and my dad would go to work from there to Fry's diecasting in Wordsley. It was on a smallish site down a dirt track with a cottage half way down, an old lady used to live there and kept geese, these would chase you if you walked up the ...see more
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Added 24 March 2011

Farm At White Hill
My father Jenkin Evans and mother Valerie Evans lived at Potters Cross Farm, White Hill, Kinver from just before the Second World War. This is the farmhouse which you can see which still exists to this day. They raised four children, Jayne, Helen, John and Hadyn who were all educated locally in the village. Kinver was a much quieter place in the 1950s and 1960s, less cars, more characters and more open space. Kinver ...see more
Kinver, White Hill c1955
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Added 13 April 2009

Growing Up In The White Hart Hotel
My Grandparents bought the White Hart Hotel in December 1949 and we lived there for the next 3 years. My grandparents were Gwen and Bob Cureton and my parents were Joan and Fred Weston. The hotel had two large caravan fields behind it and we had a very small smallholding where my father kept hens, pigs and the odd lamb or two. I was friends with Angela Pool whose father was the butcher and Judith ...see more
Kinver, Ye Old White Harte Hotel 1949
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Added 19 March 2009

Narrow Boat 'bellatrix'.
This is a photograph of me as a young man operating my passenger carrying narrow boat 'Bellatrix', trading as Midland Navigation Packet Boat Service. 'Bellatrix' is a traditional narrow boat built in 1935 at Yarwoods of Northwich.
Kinver, Boat entering Hyde Lock 1969
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Added 06 April 2006