White Hill c1955, Kinver
White Hill c1955, Kinver Ref: K37067
Memories of White Hill c1955, Kinver
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 as as village was expanded greatly during this time. The cottages on the right hand side of the picture were knocked down in the late 1960s and replaced by three modern houses. I remember Sammy Shuker, The Shentons, Old Mrs Meese who lived in the old row, 6 cottages in all. Opposite the farm house was a field that is now Silver Birch Drive. The pavement up White Hill at this time had no kerb stones - it had a thin grass verge only. White Hill itself was good for go-karting down with our home made... Read more
Kinver & local memories
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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 Hendley whose mother ran the Post Office. It was some of the best years of my life and I remember them with great pleasure.
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.
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 lane. I spent many happy hours playing over Kinver Edge, over the rocks. I remember my dad making me a rather large model airplane that you had to wind the prop to fly it, he spent hours on it, making it from balsa wood and paper, and painting it with dope to make it stiff, first flight over Kinver Edge and it smashed, I was not happy, he was even worse. I remember the small fish and chip shop in the village opposite the White Hart nearly, I wonder if it... Read more
