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I remember when we were kids, kitchen floor it sloped, Sat down at meal times, mother to top end coped. The old kitchen floors were always laid to enable them to be washed down with a bucket of water, the water then run through a hole in the wall and...
Insulations none existent, big jumper you must ware, Half timbered single brick, few inches plaster of horse hair, Frosty weather glistens inside, a fridge you could compare, Roof half filled with starling's nests, built up over the years. Kitchens...
Next again is Holly Bush, our local village pub, As well as drink you can get if hungry, a little bit of grub, For a gathering of the locals, this was the hub, News and gossip turned around in the village pub. This picture was taken Feb 2011 of a twenty...
Job to know where to start, and find things long forgotten, Things we used like brushing hooks, n' pitch forks stale gone rotten, At one time there used to be quite a few dispersal sales on the run up to March 25th when tenancies would be timed to...
They are a never ending problem, but not as bad as they used to be back sixty or more years ago. They would come down from the fields as the autumn got colder and into the stacks and bays filled with shoffs of wheat and oats, the stacks outside were thatched...
I read the Farmers Weekly, ov read it all me life, Read it in the good times, and read it through the strife, In its words and pictures, brings us all the news, Tells us of our leaders, n' tells us of their views. This farm could double its output...
Frosty weather glistens inside, a fridge you could compare, Roof half filled with starling's nests, built up over the years. In one of our farthest fields, situated about a mile east of the village was a pair of cottages known as Hobble End. There...
Going back 150 years, if walls could talk. In twenty two years the family had eighteen children. Its always a mystery how people lived years ago, particularly in the house that you live in. Our house in its present form was built around the first half...
Church Cottage. This is one of a pair of cottages known as "Spight" cottages, supposed to have been built to prevent a view, from the old vicarage to Seighford Hall. The occupants of the Hall did not get on with the vicar. The earliest people...
In olden days in every village, you could find a well, Middle of all the cottages, close where people dwell, Just about the last gathering round the village pump before mains water was turned on, this was 1945. This pump was by the village shop, the other...
She was the last to live in her old cottage, thatch had rotted away, Half timbered filled in with brick, they were built that way, Wattle and daub up the chimney breast, above the inglenook, Cast iron range and chimney crane, hang kettle to boil on hook...
With four lads in the house it was obvious that discipline was going play a big part of growing up. Father always wore bracers and had no belt thank goodness, but he wasn't shy of using his slipper. No one nowadays lives in a house without some sort...