Winforton
Winforton maps (2 available)
Map of Herefordshire
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Winforton books (18 available)
Herefordshire Living Memories
Paperback
Worcestershire Photographic Memories
Paperback
Worcestershire Living Memories
Paperback
Winforton memories
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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
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
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
Gardener's boy
My father went to work at Hampton Court as a gardener's boy when he left school at the age of 14 in 1917. By then, it was in use as a convalescent hospital for soldiers. I remember my father saying that he had to put little leather boots on the pony's hooves to mow the lawns with the horse-drawn mower, and that one of his jobs was to wash the leaves of indoor plants with milk. Many of my ancestors came from Hope under Dinmore and worked on the Hampton Court estate as woodmen, labourers, gamekeepers etc in the 19th and early 20th century. The children went to the village school which was provided by the Arkwrights free of charge ...read more here
A memory of Hope-Under-Dinmore contributed by Liz Summerson
Extracts From Winforton & Herefordshire books
Winforton has been described as a typical ‘farm village’ and this building would once have been the home of a
very well-to-do farmer. Although housing a restaurant at the time this picture was taken, the building has since
been converted and split into two private houses.
An extract from from"Herefordshire Living Memories".
Winforton has been described as a typical ‘farm village’ and this building would once have been the home of a
very well-to-do farmer. Although housing a restaurant at the time this picture was taken, the building has since
been converted and split into two private houses.
An extract from from"Herefordshire Living Memories".
This magnificent building stands right beside the
road but is hidden by what is now a much taller,
and thicker, hedge. It was in this village, in an old
malt house, that pictures from the National Gallery
were once stored, well away from London’s air
raids, during the Second World War.
An extract from from"Herefordshire Living Memories".
This magnificent building stands right beside the
road but is hidden by what is now a much taller,
and thicker, hedge. It was in this village, in an old
malt house, that pictures from the National Gallery
were once stored, well away from London’s air
raids, during the Second World War.
An extract from from"Herefordshire Living Memories".
Winforton has been described as a typical ‘farm village’ and this building would once have been the home of a
very well-to-do farmer. Although housing a restaurant at the time this picture was taken, the building has since
been converted and split into two private houses.
An extract from from"Herefordshire Living Memories".