Abbots Bromley
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Chadwick family
I am searching for a Charles & Hugo Mavesyn Chadwick.
Charles Chadwick died c1820 and Hugo Chadwick died in 1854.
I notice that the name of the public house in Hill Ridware is the Chadwick Arms.
Does anyone have any history of this pub and why it was given this name and of the Chadwicks of Mavesyn Ridware?
Betty Ashton (nee Chadwick)
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Colwich Football Team
My father, James E Bond, captained the Colwich Swifts for at least two seasons, and the team won the league in 1949. Jim played at Right Half. This memory was shared by Jim's friend Bill Fox.
A memory of Colwich contributed by Margaret Curtis
Jackhills Toyshop
I have great memories of Jackhills toyshop on the Horsefair in the seventies. I used to love going in there and it was the first stop to spend birthday or Christmas money, (usually some Sindy clothes or once - some roller skates!) I always remember looking longingly at the bikes and prams they had parked up in the covered entrance - I never had one of those though!
A memory of Rugeley contributed by Vicky Witton
The photograph is of my mother.
I'm a little young to remember the post office as it is in the photograph, but I can say that the girl in the pushchair is my mother and the lady behind is one of my great aunts. Three of my great aunts built and ran the store and post office at the bottom of the village, i don't know exactly when it was built though. I believe the photograph to be earlier than 1955 as my mother was born in 1949 and she looks younger than 6.
A memory of Hixon contributed by Danielle Lainton
Extracts From Abbots Bromley & Staffordshire books
There are quite a few old, half-timbered buildings still extant in the village, but perhaps the most interesting is the old market house, which can be seen on the left of the picture. It is not the half-timbered building, but the open-sided structure.
An extract from from"Staffordshire Photographic Memories".
There are quite a few old, half-timbered buildings still
extant in the village, but perhaps the most interesting is
the old market house, which can be seen on the left of the
picture. It is not the half-timbered building, but the open-
sided structure.
An extract from from"Staffordshire Pocket Album".
Every year, on the first Monday after the Sunday following 4 September, the Horn Dance is performed in Abbots Bromley. No one knows how old the dance is; it could easily predate the Norman Conquest, and its meaning is also lost to us. Ten dancers take part accompanied by two musicians. The dancers include a maid (Maid Marian), a jester, a man on a hobby-horse, a boy with a bow and arrow and six men wearing antlers.
An extract from from"Staffordshire Photographic Memories".
The village gets its name from a Barton (or
Berton), the old word for a rickyard.The village
church of St James was remarkable for its time
in that it was built all at once, and not over a
couple of centuries. It was paid for by Dr John
Taylor, a man of humble origins who rose
through the ranks to become chaplain to Henry
VIII and Master of the Rolls.The church was
built in 1533.
An extract from from"Staffordshire Pocket Album".
Gazing up the street
past Wilks Teenage
Fashions (left) with
the Elkes Cafe above,
we can see Barclays
Bank. This was built
in 1921 on the site of
Huggins & Chambers,
an ironmonger’s. The
ironmonger’s sold
Witchem’s firelighters
among other products
- these must have
contributed to the
conflagration when
the building was
burned to the ground
in 1920.
An extract from from"Uttoxeter Living Memories".