Elm, The Village 1923
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More about this scene

Here we see the village green in Elm, with its recently erected memorial to the men of the village who fell in the Great War. The village's name was spelt 'Eolum' around a thousand years ago, so the name possibly means a place of eels rather than elm trees.

A Selection of Memories from Elm

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Elm

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I grew up in Elm, as did my dad, in his days he had the tram, and canal, lots of fields and very few houses. In my days of growing up, we had plenty of apple orchards to play in and only 2 estates, within the past 10 years or so we now have an extra 2 estates. The village is becoming a popular place to live.