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Mr Howard died in March 1961, and is buried in the family's enclosure at St Margaret's Church, Bowers Gifford.
One local gardener, a certain Mr Blower, was renowned for his ability to drink sixteen pints of the local ale in a day.
The old industrial town of Stourbridge owes some of its fortunes to the European glass- blowers who settled here in Elizabethan times, founding an industry which has endured.
Over 12,000 pieces of worked flints including arrow-heads, scrapers, saws, borers and hammers were discovered here, indicating the existence of a New Stone Age settlement in the area.
The blacksmith's shop and the wheelwright's were next to each other, and the smith obliged with extras: 'blowers' to 'wuther up' the fire and iron hoops for the boys to bowl.
The ponds stored water to drive waterwheels for powering furnace blowers, forging hammers for working wrought iron, and for driving lathes for boring cannon.
One of many millponds used by the Sussex iron industry.The ponds stored water to drive waterwheels for powering furnace blowers, forging hammers for working wrought iron, and for driving lathes for
The ironstone church has a slightly odd saddleback double bellcote, but the churchyard exhibits a number of good headstones, including one to Mary Blower of 1781 by Christopher Staveley, a Melton
The ironstone church has a slightly odd saddleback double bellcote, but the churchyard exhibits a number of good headstones, including one to Mary Blower of 1781 by Christopher Staveley, a Melton
