Stoke St Michael, The Square c.1955
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Straggling along Oakhill Road, Stoke St Michael is now subject to traffic from surrounding quarries. The post office and stores survives. Nearby is the 17th-century Knatchbull Arms, and just below the Square is a new footbridge and streamside walks to caves.
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A Selection of Memories from Stoke St Michael
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 Stoke St Michael
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I had a friend in the late 1960s whose father, Henry Taylor, came from this village. The pair of us drove down from Leeds in an old mini-van and stopped with his grand-parents for a couple of week. We really enjoyed it and spent quite a bit of time in Knatchbull Arms! I remember he also had an auntie Shirley (his dad's sister) and uncle Terry who lived here. They had four small daughters at the time. Terry was a ...see more
We used to stay at Three Ashes, Stoke Hill with my grandparents most summers in the fifties. They were called Moore. My mother (now deceased) was called Enid Moore and was brought up by her grandparents, John Moore a quarryman and his wife (I do not know her first name). Her mother was called Edith Florence May Moore, but we were brought up to call her auntie. Does anyone out there have any ...see more
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