Hope Under Dinmore, Church Of St Mary The Virgin c.1955
Photo ref:
H264006
Photo ref:
H264006
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At this point the main Leominster to Hereford road starts to climb the steep hill. Stagecoaches would have been forced to stop here to pay their toll at the toll house overlooking the junction. Notice the AA phone box, a common sight around the countryside in the 1950s.
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A Selection of Memories from Hope under Dinmore
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 Hope under Dinmore
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My father went to work at Hampton Court as a gardener's boy when he left school at the age of 14 in 1917. By then, it was in use as a convalescent hospital for soldiers. I remember my father saying that he had to put little leather boots on the pony's hooves to mow the lawns with the horse-drawn mower, and that one of his jobs was to wash the leaves of indoor plants with milk. Many of my ancestors came ...see more
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