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Wichenford maps
Historic maps of Wichenford and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Wichenford maps
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Hallow| Broadwas| Holt Fleet| Shrawley| Great Witley| Knightwick| Clifton-On-Teme| Ombersley| Astley Burf| Whitbourne| Abberley| Bransford| Stanford Bridge| Worcester| Powick
Wichenford area books
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Memories of Wichenford
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Growing up in Lower Broadheath 1950s And 1960s
I spent my childhood in Lower Broadheath. I used to live in Church Lane. It was nice living there because there were so many other children. We would be in and out of each others' houses, and we would often play in the Vicarage Garden and the Vicarage Paddock, adjoining the Vicarage. In the summer of 1959 we all used to ride our scooters and bicycles up and down the Lane and around the Village. We liked to play cowboys and Indians, climb trees and then we would go round to a friend's house in Green Lane to watch Children's Television. My friend and her brother were the only ones with a television. Now when I am thinking back, I admire my friend's mother for allowing us noisy children into her house to watch TV! We used to watch programmes such as 'Fury', Popeye, Blue Peter and countless cowboy films. I would love to find out how all those 'children' are! Playing with them during my school holidays was such... Read more
Church Lane
I was intrigued to read your memory as we lived at Roslyn from 1954 to 1964 and then moved to Frenchlands Lane where I have stayed, losing Jocelyn in 2004.
Children Anne Jane Susan Ian Andrew and John all doing well.
Village fete memories with our excellent Vicar and Brigadier Britten keeping order. Sadly Jerry and Edna Evans have gone and are much missed.I remember the Moores, Proberts, Stubbs, Halls, and Dobsons. Mansell Perkins the 'Midnight' milkman.
Happy Years Around Broadheath - Late Fifties Early Sixties
Although I lived in Martley in those days, Broadheath has many happy memories for me. I used to cycle there to collect day-old chicks from a farm in the centre of the village - I forget the name. I delivered newspapers every Sunday from Martley passed the Masons Arms and Laugherne Hill ending at Brigadier Brittain's Kenswick Manor - where I would deliver his papers to his butler. He used to allow a few of us to fish in his pool. When I was a bit older, I used to go to the Bell pub and meet up with a friends I knew from the village. The Bell was owned by George and Betty Smith in those days - and a lively, happy place it was. Friends that I remember were John and Jimmy Shelton, Vicky and John Vernailles (sp?), Pete Stokes, Pete King, David Willets and many, many more whose names I have sadly forgotten. They were happy days indeed. Days that I fear this country will not... Read more
Mothering Sunday
This is probably around 1960, can't really remember. Anyway, it was eons ago when I would have been not quite ten years old, all the Sunday school children would leave flowers at the altar of the church. During the Mothering Sunday service we would all go and collect our flowers from the altar, and bring them to our mothers who were sitting in the pews. I always remember this on Mothering Sunday, and I think my mother was genuinely pleased when she received those flowers. Unfortunately I never got to speak to her as an adult because she died young. I really liked that Church as well. I also remember a stained-glass window where an angel was leading a child down a path. I loved looking at that window, and I always tried to sit near it during children's services.
All Saits Church. Shelsley Beauchamp.
At one time I was a choir boy at All Saints Church. I cannot remember who was in the choir with me at the time but I do remember the vicar was the Reverend Bache. When I visited the church in 1997 while on holiday in Britain I found that there was a book in which all the past ministers at the church were listed. To my surprise, the Rev Bache was not among them. I think that the matter should be investigated and the list corrected. I know that I have the name right as I had a book of common prayer given to me by the said reverend in which he had signed his name. During the time Rev Bache was minister I had a great interest in Theology, an interest encouraged by the reverend to such an extent he suggested to my parents that I be allowed to attend a recognised Church School where I could peruse Theology in more depth with a view to taking up... Read more
Holt Fleet Hotel
In 1954 my father and mother took over the Holt Fleet Hotel when I was 9 years old. The photographs on this site brings back memories of the two years that I spent as a child there. Steamers from Worcester would moor at the landing stage and passengers would disembark for afternoon tea in the grandly named ballroom.
The pictures of the hotel shown on this site are of the original earlier building which was demolished in the 1930s and replaced by one of the larger roadhouses which breweries built so many of at that time. As a child it was an ideal place to grow up and I look back at that time with fondness.
Holt 'Castle'
My mother now 85 years old worked in the 'Casle' when it was a girls school, she was about 15, at the time, and like many of her generation had to go into 'service', and leave home. She made friends with the Taylor family who lived in Holt Fleet, I have memories visitng them in their cottage as a young boy, still in school, back home in South Wales. Many years late Dad & Mum took my daughter and I to see the castle, now I believe a private residence, converted to flats
