Nostalgic memories of Walpole Highway's local history

Share your own memories of Walpole Highway and read what others have said

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our web site to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was when the photographs in our archive were taken. From brief one-liners explaining a little bit more about the image depicted, to great, in-depth accounts of a childhood when things were rather different than today (and everything inbetween!). We've had many contributors recognising themselves or loved ones in our photographs.

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i was born in walpole highway back in 1965 and my fathers family was from there my grandparents were fred and evelyn pepper they lived in rose cottages my dad was david pepper and was working on a farm we lived in west drove north and lived next to phyll and trevor horsepole onkie pollen and maureen morses it was a close knit row of houses were the men did the farming and the women worked the fields my aunt beryl pepper was a preacher at the methodist church
I remember the Harvest Festivals of my childhood in the 1950s, which were held in the Methodist Chapel. Women of the village spring cleaned the chapel before decorating it with produce, flowers and greenery. The displays were splendid, and central was the produce around the pulpit - this was added to with the children's baskets given during the festival. The chapel would be full and voices and organ belted ...see more