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Research - 1700s

I am looking for information about Sarnesfield in the 1700s and about the court house. Also, as I live in Canada and do not know much about the British law system, I would need to know how the courts operated in those years. What I need to know is about the size of the town, prominent citizens, marketplace and anything else you could tell me about Sarnesfield. Or where I could obtain this information.

This is for a story I am writing and Sarnesfield is the place the characters in my story lived in the 1700s.

Thank you for any help you can give me.

Carole M. Lidgold, Author
A memory of Sarnesfield contributed by Carole Lidgold

Gwendoline Langston

Kington, the Cross c1955

This photo shows my grandmother, Gwen Langston (1891 - 1963), with Mickey who was an Irish Terrier.
A memory of Kington contributed by Peter Harding-Roberts

Before school

Kington, High Street c1955

Mr & Mrs Potter managed Bon March shop and they had two young boys, Robert and Edmond.  My mum, Edna Griffiths, helped to look after the children and, being pre-school age, I used to go along with her.  Mrs Potter used to bring us pasties from Jones' Bakery (where the Chinese takeaway is now).

On the way home we used to collect paraffin from Dowlings (where Tom Bounds is now) and sweets from Kate Teagle in Church Street (where Jane's sewing is now).

How I would love to be able to squeeze into the photo and have a nostalgic look around.  Happy days.
A memory of Kington contributed by Avril Layton-Morris

Mrs Price's tuck shop

I lived at Lucton in the late 1960s and remember buying sweets from the shop.
I vaguely remember a young girl staying there who we played with in the meadow. The Buttons Sandra mentions are probably the BUFTONS.
A memory of Lucton contributed by graham lloyd

Extracts From Eardisley & Herefordshire books

Eardisley, c1950

Today this view hasn’t changed at all. Despite increases in population and the subsequent rise in road traffic, Herefordshire still manages to retain an aura of peacefulness and serenity, exemplified in this photograph.
An extract from from"Herefordshire Living Memories".

Eardisley, c1950

Today this view hasn’t changed at all. Despite increases in population and the subsequent rise in road traffic, Herefordshire still manages to retain an aura of peacefulness and serenity, exemplified in this photograph.
An extract from from"Herefordshire Living Memories".

Eardisley, Whitney Road c1955

The village’s only junction is shown here. Although Arthur Conan Doyle set his novel ‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’ in Dartmoor, he got his inspiration here – the Baskerville family once owned Eardisley’s castle and the story of the black hound is a local legend in nearby Kington. Presumably Doyle thought that the countryside here was far too peaceful a setting for his story!
An extract from from"Herefordshire Living Memories".

Eardisley, Whitney Road c1955

The village’s only junction is shown here. Although Arthur Conan Doyle set his novel ‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’ in Dartmoor, he got his inspiration here – the Baskerville family once owned Eardisley’s castle and the story of the black hound is a local legend in nearby Kington. Presumably Doyle thought that the countryside here was far too peaceful a setting for his story!
An extract from from"Herefordshire Living Memories".

Malmesbury, the Abbey c1955

Compare this charming rural scene with the photograph taken in 1924 on
An extract from from"Worcester - A History and Celebration".