Upper Slaughter, The Village 1981

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See memories under Corbridge, Northumberland and Upper Slaughter, Glos.

Our little family of Mom, Dad, (Nan and Tom Mackie) my four year old sister Dorothy and myself seven years older, moved from the North to U Slaughter where my Dad and Mom were hired as butler/valet to Major Witts (Dad) and cook (Mom) to the Major and his spinster sister Agnes. We atttended the village church where Reverend Parr presided. In the summer of 1950 he christened my sister Susan. Our home was a wing in ...see more

My mother's family once lived at the vicarage in Upper Slaughter, when my grandfather, Rev Arthur Parr, was vicar. My mother married and moved away to Yorkshire, where we grew up, but as children, my sisters and I stayed once with our auntie and cousins in their pretty Cotswold stone cottage while our parents attended a wedding. It was our first time away from our home, and it was so lovely. The garden ...see more