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Rashwood maps
Historic maps of Rashwood and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Rashwood maps
Rashwood photos
We have no photos of Rashwood, although we do have photos of these nearby places:
Wychbold| Droitwich| Hanbury| Bromsgrove| Tibberton| Ombersley| Hartlebury| Chaddesley Corbett| Holt Fleet| Feckenham| Hallow| Worcester| Barnt Green
Rashwood area books
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Memories of Rashwood
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Mrs Boffey
I was at Rashwood from approx. 1961 and my name was Sue Andrews. I well remember the teacher who had a farm as I also went there. Mrs Boffey was the teacher and I think the farm was called Cherry Trees and was at Tardebigge. I didn't know I remembered that! Mrs Boffey was Welsh and she taught us the Welsh National Anthem (now long gone from my memory). I remember some sort of competition to win a 'raggedy ann' doll ... I was devastated when I didn't win her! In reception,the teacher was Mrs Tudge and I loved her dearly. There was a big coal fire where wet coats etc used to dry. In the summer, we were able to buy bunches of spring onions that Mr Mitchell grew up in the corner of the grassed area. We have a photo of a Nativity play and the choir are standing with their arms folded. I think Tina Taylor was Mary and my brother George was one of the kings.... Read more
Rashwood School
I was at Rashwood School fron 1960 ish to 1967. My memory of the school was a very big entrance, we were allowed to take our roller skates to school and go from the top of the hill to the bottom, also the play bars had concrete underneath and we did acrobatics on them that would definely not be allowed today. My memory of the school is very happy. I remember one teacher had a farm, we had a fun day looking at the animals. Can you remember the milk? Solid in the winter and ugh! warm in the summer. I also remember the big open fields on the right of the school where the boys always played cricket. Sometimes I was alowed to join in as a fielder because I could catch. My uncle at one time was the headmaster, Michael Crowther. Please get in touch if you can remember these times.
Worcestershire memories
My Home During School Holidays
York Jones is the correct spelling i.e. no 'e' on York! In 1955, I was ten years old and would work here during school holidays. My Great Uncle (my Grandmother's brother), was Frank York-Jones, the Managing Director. His son, Alan York-Jones, ran the factory with my father, Dick Sinfield, who was the Finance Director. In this picture, you can see the two brine tanks against the back wall in the background. The brine was cold and would freeze the ice-lolly liquid in the metal moulds. This is where I would stand for ages putting the sticks in the lollies, before they froze completely. Later on we had all this automated. On the right are two large tanks where the ice cream would be 'cooked'. This was my Uncle Alan York-Jones' job. Once cooked, it would be pumped through to the machine on the left of the picture (there were two of these). The ice cream would be like Mr Whippy's ice cream as it came out, slightly cold but soft... Read more
Originally it Was A Salt Factory, Owned by John Corbett.
This photo shows the back of the York Jones Ice Creamery. The factory was originally used by John Corbett, who built the Chateau Impney, to mine and package salt. The salt was pumped up from the well, just to the bottom left of the photo. This photo shows one of the York-Jones delivery vans which would supply ice cream to all the shops around the Midlands, but mostly Birmingham. The left hand side of the building would be for storage. The right hand side was used to house the steam room for cleaning all the equipment. The chimney shown in between the two buildings was above the furnace which supplied heat for cooking the ice cream and steam for cleaning.
York-Jones. Front Section/Choc Ice Machine Area
In this photo, you can see two machines for chopping ice cream into blocks. Some blocks were small for choc ices and wafer ices. Some were larger for making 'bricks'. In the background, on the left, is my father's (Dick Sinfield) office. On the right, the large door behind the two machines is the door to the large freezer, the 'locker', where the ice creams and lollies would be stored. On top of the freezer are several cardboard boxes containing ice cream packaging such as cups, rolls of paper for wrapping the choc ices, flat packed boxes for the bricks and for multiple plain ice creams or choc ices. Just off to the right, out of shot, would be the choc-ice line.
York-Jones. Ice Cream 'pasteurising' Machinery.
Here we have two holding tanks where the liquid ice cream would be pumped after being cooked in the vats down below. This is an area in the roof space where the liquid would be pumped over the hot sterilising pipes, seen here in the middle of the picture, hanging down from the roof.
The Everett's of Droitwich
I do not know Westwood Park but am tracing my family tree - apparently my Great -grandparents lived there in 1940. They were Mr. & Mrs. Everett. Their daughter, Emma, married a Mr. Gately in 1931. My mother was born in 1940, named Alice Gately but sadly was given up for adoption. If anyone has any information about the family, present or past, I would be very grateful.
