Reminiscences - memories of bygone Guarlford
In gathering information for our books, the Guarlford History Group were
privileged that people shared with us their own personal memories of
times past, some written and some passed by word of mouth. This
archive forms a rich aural and social history of the
area to which we hope to add. Some of the stories given to us are listed below
and more appear in the local history books 'The Guarlford Story' and 'The Guarlford Scene'.
We are still adding new material about the area,
present and past, as time goes on. Please click on the links below
to find out more.
Menu of stories
About
Leslie Halward (author)
About
Marie Hall (violinist)
Agricultural
Timeline
An
Evacuee Remembers by Reg Bevan
An
Evacuee Remembers by Don Smith
Beard Family
Memorial Bench
Charlie
Williams (1923 - 2011)
Flying
Circus
Frank
Jarrett
Guarlford
Detachment Home Guard
Guarlford
Village Fete 1993 video
Growing up in
the 1920s, by Amy Georgina Neal
James Neal and the
Railway Tunnel
Horsing
about with dogs and lorries
John Clement 'Jack'
Meeks, basket maker
Joan
Bradshaw, village historian
John
Bedington (RN, DEMS)
John
Henry Tandy (The Great War)
Lest we forget
More
memories of an evacuee by Don Smith
Pilot Rescue
Poems by Ernest
Edward Jackson
Recollections of
Keith Chester
Recollections
of Alf Young
Reg
Green, "I got on my bike"
Sam
Beard's Doodles
Sam Beard
remembers Lt Oliver Churchill
Sam
Beard, Memories of
Sinking
of the City of Nagpur
St Mary's church and
its bell
St Mary's
church baptism register and clergy
St Mary's church
circa 1900 and Revd Newson
St Mary's
church interior and memorials
St Mary's
church interior and benefactors
St Mary's
churchyard
St
Mary's churchyard survey with photographs
St
Mary's churchyard survey (archived August 2014)
Sunday
School
The
Pack Horse Way and the Old Elm
The Tin
Tabernacle
The
WFWI Banner
The Willis
and Morris families
William Hubert Morris, Military Medal
Audio clips
Sam Beard talks
about joining the army
Charlie Williams
talks about his rescue of a pilot
Recent research
About John
Archer (hotel keeper of Great Malvern)
About
Charles
Andrew a Victorian benefactor
About
Charles Morris a Victorian benefactor
About Revd
William Joseph Fancourt
Church tithe of
1866
The
Beckwith sisters and their family
The
Tudor Edwardes sisters and their family
Extracts from the Foley Estates Sale of 1910
Other
The railway tunnels
under the hills
New single line
tunnel at Colwall
Modern times
The Diamond
Jubilee picnic 2012
If you have memories you would like placed on this page, please contact
the webmaster.
Last updated 22nd February 2022
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