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In the loft above this small cowshed was, I was told, at one time the village mortuary, where if any outsiders who died or was killed in the village, would be taken to await burial. Its funny how other peoples rubbish can be so interesting, everyone looks...
As well as drink you can get, a little bit of grub, For a gathering of the locals, this was the hub, News and gossip turned around in the village pub. As in all small villages it changes over the years, in some way for the better, in others for the worse...
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...
At one time cattle were always driven to market; some times miles away in the local town, and nearly every house or cottage had a garden gate that could be shut as the cattle were herded by. Then from the market they were herded again to the slaughter...
Each stall holds a pair of cows, left and right they learn, Once they know their own side, one word n' they discern, The Cow Stall gave way gradually to the cow cubicle starting around 1960, when the milking parlour changed milking for ever. In the...
Sometimes he drove his car on business, a coffin to deliver, It had a rack across the back, black cloth draped to cover, Eric was a quiet man, one who never got into a fluster, nothing troubled him, and did not let others trouble him. He always "wore"...
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...
As kids, one of the ways to get us to go to Sunday school was to put on a trip to a pantomime around Christmas time or a trip to the seaside, usually New Brighton, that's just along the north coast of Wales. This was chosen because it is the nearest...
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...
Albert Hine Descibe the man were looking at, a jerkin he did ware, Tied round the middle with binder twine, to hold more than just a tare, Cordroy trousers tucked in spats, round his hob nail boots, These are charactor of the village nearly all of whom...
When the ice did break in the middle the tractor dropped about eighteen inches and had a job to get it out , then could not use that route for a few weeks due to the deep steps down off the ice at the sides of the ford. I recall the winter of 1947 when...
Dad always said that, "you're only as good as your feet," But then he was talking bout, horse's cows and bullocks for meat. Anyone who died in the village were said to have "fell off the perch" Yes this is a picture of a picture...
They had a little grey Fergy tractor, which was used to cart the muck out to the field in winter, and in the summer, they would mow the meadows for hay. This is the village shop on the left, a farm cottage next along and the third one along was the White...