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Lower Broadheath maps

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

Lower Broadheath photos

We have no photos of Lower Broadheath, although we do have photos of these nearby places:

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Lower Broadheath area books

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Memories of Lower Broadheath

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Mothering Sunday

This is probably around 1960, can't really remember. Anyway, it was eons ago when I would have been not quite ten years old, all the Sunday school children would leave flowers at the altar of the church. During the Mothering Sunday service we would all go and collect our flowers from the altar, and bring them to our mothers who were sitting in the pews. I always remember this on Mothering Sunday, and I think my mother was genuinely pleased when she received those flowers. Unfortunately I never got to speak to her as an adult because she died young. I really liked that Church as well. I also remember a stained-glass window where an angel was leading a child down a path. I loved looking at that window, and I always tried to sit near it during children's services.

Happy Years Around Broadheath - Late Fifties Early Sixties

Although I lived in Martley in those days, Broadheath has many happy memories for me. I used to cycle there to collect day-old chicks from a farm in the centre of the village - I forget the name. I delivered newspapers every Sunday from Martley passed the Masons Arms and Laugherne Hill ending at Brigadier Brittain's Kenswick Manor - where I would deliver his papers to his butler. He used to allow a few of us to fish in his pool. When I was a bit older, I used to go to the Bell pub and meet up with a friends I knew from the village. The Bell was owned by George and Betty Smith in those days - and a lively, happy place it was. Friends that I remember were John and Jimmy Shelton, Vicky and John Vernailles (sp?), Pete Stokes, Pete King, David Willets and many, many more whose names I have sadly forgotten. They were happy days indeed. Days that I fear this country will not... Read more

Church Lane

I was intrigued to read your memory as we lived at Roslyn from 1954 to 1964 and then moved to Frenchlands Lane where I have stayed, losing Jocelyn in 2004.
Children Anne Jane Susan Ian Andrew and John all doing well.
Village fete memories with our excellent Vicar and Brigadier Britten keeping order. Sadly Jerry and Edna Evans have gone and are much missed.I remember the Moores, Proberts, Stubbs, Halls, and Dobsons. Mansell Perkins the 'Midnight' milkman.  

Growing up in Lower Broadheath 1950s And 1960s

I spent my childhood in Lower Broadheath. I used to live in Church Lane.  It was nice living there because there were so many other children.  We would be in and out of each others' houses, and we would often play in the Vicarage Garden and the Vicarage Paddock, adjoining the Vicarage.  In the summer of 1959 we all used to ride our scooters and bicycles up and down the Lane and around the Village.  We liked to play cowboys and Indians, climb trees and then we would go round to a friend's house in Green Lane to watch Children's Television.  My friend and her brother were the only ones with a television.  Now when I am thinking back, I admire my friend's mother for allowing us noisy children into her house to watch TV!  We used to watch programmes such as 'Fury', Popeye, Blue Peter and countless cowboy films.  I would love to find out how all those 'children' are!  Playing with them during my school holidays was such... Read more

Worcestershire memories

The Cadena Cafe

High Street c1950
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This shot of the High Street presents the signage for the Cadena Cafe, a chain of national cafes (in the 'Lyon's' mould) where shoppers met for coffee and light meals. I have fond memories of visiting the cafe with family and friends, and in particular the stairway down to the coffee lounge, below street level. The coffee lounge was, as I recall, adorned with plants and greenery in subdued lighting and a 'cozy' atmosphere. Worcester's beloved Cadena has now closed, and is now the premises of the Alliance and Leicester.

Edith Gummery

Battenhall Lodge 1907
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My Grandmother, Edith Joyce Gummery, who was born in Tibberton near Worcestor was a volunteer nurse during WWI and I have an entire autograph album of hers where wounded soldiers who were housed at Battenhall Lodge signed her book.

Living in Worcester

High Street 1931
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From June 1965 -May 1969 I lived with my family over the Stead & Simpsons shoe shop where my husband was the manager. This is the shop centre right of the picture with the 2 white blinds out. The large 3 bedroomed flat was on the top 2 floors and my youngest son was born Nov 1967 in the top floor bedroom.  The shops on street level on this picture have changed, but the upper floors of all the buildings remain unchanged and the High Street is now pedestrianised.

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