Cleeve Prior
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Map of Worcestershire
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Cleeve Prior books (17 available)
Herefordshire Living Memories
Paperback
Worcestershire Photographic Memories
Paperback
Worcestershire Living Memories
Paperback
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Hampton Ferry, Memories
First placed here by the monks of Evesham Abbey in the thirteenth century to enable them to tend the vineyard that they planted on Clarkes Hill, the original use of the cottage was a wine store. Their system of pulling the ferry rope between two stauntions to get across the river is still used to this very day, in spite of mechanical devices being experimented with, nothing is as easy or secure as the monks original method. The Huxley family moved into the Ferry house in 1929 and their descendants still run the Ferry.
A memory of Evesham contributed by diana raphael
Workman family
My grandmother was born in Bishampton 1891, Maggie Elizabeth Workman, daughter to Honeybourn and Emma Spires. Her aunt Sarah Spires donated a large sum of money to the church, there is a plaque to say.
Honeybourn's father was George Workman, he married Margaret Standley. Does anyone have information? I would appreciate any information, photos etc.
annieseed@hotmail.co.uk
A memory of Bishampton contributed by ANN SEEDHOUSE
Hamgreen
From 1933 to 1939 I lived at Hamgreen Farm, then we moved to Lighthorne, Warwickshire two days before war was declared. In 1948 April the first I sailed for Canada, 60 years ago. If you have a book or info on the Wormington family I would be very interested in purchasing, we are a very old family, we have traced to the 13th century, you could possibly have some info.
A memory of Wormington contributed by roy wormington
Davis Family History
I have been researching the Davis family, who lived on Feckenham Square for many years. My grandfather used to tell us that he remembers going to his grandparent's house when he was a boy in the early 1900s. I have found family members living here as early as 1861, although they certainly lived in the village before then. I live in Australia, and I would dearly love to see these places one day.
A memory of Feckenham contributed by Lynda Moore
Extracts From Cleeve Prior & Worcestershire books
As we walk around
the village it is not
at all apparent why
it should be named
Cleeve or ‘cliff’; but in
fact the village sits just
a short distance away
from a steep 200ft cliff
overlooking the flood
plain of the River Avon.
The second element in
the name comes because
the village once belonged
to the Prior of Worcester.
An extract from from"Worcestershire Living Memories".
The tree we see here in front of St Andrew’s church was an elm that suffered
from Dutch elm disease in the 1960s and had to be cut down. It was replaced in
1992 to mark the 40th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth’s reign.
An extract from from"Worcestershire Living Memories".
This is the view from the tower of the church; we are looking over the village
green towards the south-west, with the old elm still in the centre. The scene has
hardly changed at all, except that there are now more houses beyond the road.
Like so many villages locally, the population has grown considerably in the last
few years.
An extract from from"Worcestershire Living Memories".
Promotional material
published about
Redditch tells us that
the existing town
centre was `re-planned`,
an innocuous-sounding
word which, in this
context, really means
`destroyed`. In this
1950s street scene only
one building has been
spoilt, and that could
have been restored.
Instead, almost the
entire street was
demolished to
accommodate the
Kingfisher Centre. Only
two or three buildings
on the left of this
picture survive.
An extract from from"Redditch Living Memories".
A wide range of
architectural periods is
represented in Astwood
Bank, though Victorian
buildings are
particularly numerous.
The 1960s brought a
number of new
developments, of which
this is typical. It had
probably only just been
completed in 1965 - the
gardens are obviously
newly planted.
An extract from from"Redditch Living Memories".