Bredon
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Bredon books (9 available)
- 5 photos on Bredon appear in 2 Frith books - View photos of Bredon
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Gloucestershire memories
Simmonds Hanley Castle
I am researching the Simmonds family who lived in Quay Lane in Hanley Castle about 1900. My father recalls the floods of the early 1900s when Quay Lane flooded and he was trapped up stairs with his mother, Alice Simmonds.
Does any one out there have any information on the Simmonds family as I have a lot of there history to share.
Len Simmonds smmndssev@aol.com
Hamgreen
From 1933 to 1939 I lived at Hamgreen Farm, then we moved to Lighthorne, Warwickshire two days before war was declared. In 1948 April the first I sailed for Canada, 60 years ago. If you have a book or info on the Wormington family I would be very interested in purchasing, we are a very old family, we have traced to the 13th century, you could possibly have some info.
A memory of Wormington contributed by roy wormington
Hampton Ferry, Memories
First placed here by the monks of Evesham Abbey in the thirteenth century to enable them to tend the vineyard that they planted on Clarkes Hill, the original use of the cottage was a wine store. Their system of pulling the ferry rope between two stauntions to get across the river is still used to this very day, in spite of mechanical devices being experimented with, nothing is as easy or secure as the monks original method. The Huxley family moved into the Ferry house in 1929 and their descendants still run the Ferry.
A memory of Evesham contributed by diana raphael
Kempsey the village
I lived
in the 2nd cottage Cobblers cottage. around 1947-1957.Mrs Bremner my mother. I remember how Church street always got flooded from the ford.
A memory of Kempsey contributed by Teresa Cousland
Extracts From Bredon & Gloucestershire books
ST GILES’S CHURCH c1955.
The beautiful village of Bredon stands at
the foot of Bredon Hill, and is
deservedly on everyone’s list of favourite
English villages. The spire of the church
is 160 feet high, and is almost as
prominent a local landmark as the
famous hill nearby.
An extract from from"Worcestershire Photographic Memories".
Eanulf, grandfather of King Offa of Mercia, founded a monastery at Bredon, though nothing of it is to be seen.
The present church owes its origins to the Normans and their influence, its medieval additions making it an
architectural joy. Not far away is a 14th-century tithe barn, the second largest in England.
An extract from from"Worcestershire Photographic Memories".
mill is hidden behind
the trees, and the
farm buildings
are overgrown.
Corn grown on the
common was taken to
the abbey Mill to be
ground into flour.
An extract from from"Worcester - A History and Celebration".
Apart from the battle, Powick’s other main claim to fame is Powick Mills next to the bridge where the battle took place. Domesday Book (1086) recorded two mills here but it was in 1893 that Worcester Corporation purchased the site and built a combined steam- and water-driven hydroelectric facility (the first of its kind). It provided half the city’s supply until Worcester Power Station became operational in the early 20th century. Powick Mills continued to supply power until the 1950s. The mill buildings have recently been converted into apartments.
An extract from from"Worcester Photographic Memories".
Powick is best known for the Battle of Powick Bridge, the first skirmish of the Civil War in 1642. It lasted only 15 minutes or so but it left over 50 Parliamentary troopers dead, some of them drowned in the Teme. All the Royalist officers were injured too, except for their commander, the dashing Prince Rupert.
An extract from from"Worcester Photographic Memories".