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Worcester Town Walk Guide
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Worcestershire Photographic Memories
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Worcestershire Living Memories
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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.
Contributed by Lynda Moore
Worcestershire memories
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
Bates Hill Methodist Church
This was the year that I was christained there. My grand parents and great grand parents attended the chapel. As a child I also went to Sunday school there. It was a beautiful church and should have been given a heritage listing, what a shameful waste when it was burnt down, probably arson. All the nice buildings have been pulled down and the town of Redditch has been destroyed completely by the 1960,s Planners and so called Architescts. Not a very nice place anymore and I am glad that I no longer live there. When aretheyever going tp stop building? They have not stopped since itbecame a so called newtown in the 60's.
A memory of Redditch contributed by Glenys Horton
Working in Evesham Street
I remember Evesham Street in Redditch in the early sixties very well. I was 15, had just left school, and was working at Liptons the grocers which was about half way up on the left just past the department store. There was a small chapel just opposite and also other grocery stores: Farrands, George Masons, the Home & Colonial stores. The Kingfisher coffee bar was on the corner, half way down, and the Co-op stores were further up. There was a wonderful greasy spoon cafe at the top end on the right, Smokey Joes. I remember carnival days in September each year and the talent competitions held down by the old library ~ my sister Mary invariably won the singing contest! ...read more here
A memory of Redditch contributed by Sue Ford
Extracts From Feckenham & Worcestershire books
Some of the best houses in Feckenham are clustered around the village green, or the Square, though only glimpses are revealed here. The village has houses from most periods, but is most notable for its Georgian ones and for several truly magnificent timber-framed farmhouses in the surrounding countryside.
An extract from from"Redditch Living Memories".
From Saxon times Feckenham was the administrative centre for the Forest of Feckenham, which once covered most of north Worcestershire. In fact, Feckenham was virtually a town when Redditch was barely even a village. Today, Feckenham is only a village, but a large, prosperous one with fine houses and charming cottages, many of them formerly inhabited by needle makers who worked at home.
An extract from from"Redditch Living Memories".
From Saxon times Feckenham was the administrative centre for the Forest
of Feckenham, which once covered most of north Worcestershire. In fact,
Feckenham was virtually a town when Redditch was barely even a village.
Today, Feckenham is only a village, but a large, prosperous one with fine
houses and charming cottages, many of them formerly inhabited by
needle makers who worked at home.
An extract from from"Redditch Living Memories".
It is interesting to note that the brick cottages in the centre have a timber-framed gable end, revealing a much older origin than the brickwork suggests. The dormer windows in the roof, giving additional light and space to the first floor, were probably inserted at the same time as the brick facade was added.
An extract from from"Redditch Living Memories".
St Mary`s Church has a prominent hilltop position with views to the Malverns and the
Cotswolds. It was delightfully but fancifully described by the 17th-century historian
Habington as `invironed with highe and mighty trees and able to terrifye a far-off ignorant
enimy with a deceitful showe of an invincible castell.’ He was obviously influenced by the
local tradition (for which there is no evidence) that an Iron Age fort once occupied the
hilltop. The church is of 12th-century origin, but was rebuilt in the late 18th century.
An extract from from"Redditch Living Memories".