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  • Because of my blog

    Because of my blog, which started in August 2008, started me writing things down as they came to mind, all about my life and my family and village, and the folk who helped to rear me (as well as other than my parents,) and mould my life within a small village community On looking back cannot believe...
    Posted to Owd Fred's Blog (Weblog) by Owd Fred on Tue, Dec 25 2012

  • The Se-----ford Staffordshire Hoard

    ( 1772 Silver George 3 rd half penny piece) Its not every day that you have a "find" even though it be modest, a friend of mine was walking the footpaths along our fields a few days ago, and came across a rabbit hole with fresh soil dug out of it. On top of this soil was a coin, he picked it...
    Posted to Owd Fred's Blog (Weblog) by Owd Fred on Fri, Jun 10 2011

  • Old Village Mortuary

    This is an interesting old building in the middle of our village; it is the old village Mortuary . For saying that there would be no more than two hundred people, if they were all rounded up, you could not see what need there was for it. But I was told that if there was a death or someone was killed...
    Posted to Owd Fred's Blog (Weblog) by Owd Fred on Sat, May 28 2011

  • Every Picture Tells a Story (in this case many stories)

    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 years old picture showing almost all the village...
    Posted to Owd Fred's Blog (Weblog) by Owd Fred on Sun, May 15 2011

  • Irreversible Changes in one Small Village

    Undertaker in the village, was at the wheelwrights shop, Lays out and measures them, made a coffin non-stop, As in all small villages it changes over the years, in some way for the better, in others for the worse. The village pumps went some fifty years ago, these were a meeting point for gossip, and...
    Posted to Owd Fred's Blog (Weblog) by Owd Fred on Tue, Jul 13 2010

  • Village Tour

    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. The village pumps went some fifty years ago,...
    Posted to Owd Fred's Blog (Weblog) by Owd Fred on Sat, Feb 13 2010

  • Another old Village Charactor old Mrs. Blakmore.1948

    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. Churchyard Cottages. The old thatched half timbered...
    Posted to Owd Fred's Blog (Weblog) by Owd Fred on Sun, May 31 2009
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