Tanworth-In-Arden
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Tanworth-In-Arden books (8 available)
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miss pugh
MY MOTHER LIVED IN A TIED COTTAGE CALLED MOCKLEY MANOR COTTAGE (WHICH SOUNDED GLAMOROUS BUT WAS'NT) FOR A COUPLE CALLED MR AND MRS CREEDY-SMITH I BELIEVE, ANYWAY I USED TO TRY TO GET OUT AND ABOUT AS MUCH AS I COULD AND GO CYCLING ROUND ULLENHALL.
IT WAS HERE THAT I CAME ACROSS MISS PUGH, A LOVELY LADY WHO LIVED WITH HER BROTHER AT THE BOTTOM ON CHURCH LANE AND SHE WAS FOREVER CYCLING AROUND THE VILLAGE LOOKING WONDERFULLY FIT AND HEALTHY.
A memory of Ullenhall contributed by liz vince
miss pugh
MY MOTHER LIVED IN A TIED COTTAGE CALLED MOCKLEY MANOR COTTAGE (WHICH SOUNDED GLAMOROUS BUT WAS'NT) FOR A COUPLE CALLED MR AND MRS CREEDY-SMITH I BELIEVE, ANYWAY I USED TO TRY TO GET OUT AND ABOUT AS MUCH AS I COULD AND GO CYCLING ROUND ULLENHALL.
IT WAS HERE THAT I CAME ACROSS MISS PUGH, A LOVELY LADY WHO LIVED WITH HER BROTHER AT THE BOTTOM ON CHURCH LANE AND SHE WAS FOREVER CYCLING AROUND THE VILLAGE LOOKING WONDERFULLY FIT AND HEALTHY.
A memory of Ullenhall contributed by liz vince
Pram race
I was 10 years old when I entered the pram race. Myself and two other neighbours entered as a junior team. I was dressed up as a baby and the two other lads were dressed as mom and dad. The race went round Wooton Wawen. It started at the top of the High Street in Henley, down to the traffic lights which we had to turn right, then left up Mayswood Road. At the end of Mayswood Road we turned left on to the Stratford Road back into Henley and up the high street. We had to take it in turns to be in the pram which was difficult to get in and out of when running. The crowds up the ...read more here
A memory of Henley-In-Arden contributed by julie draper
The Bus
My family purchased and converted an old single decker bus for us to have holidays in. It was parked on a small piece of land opposite the church. An old Gypsy caravan was parked just inside the gate to the land, I was told that it had to be burned as it was so rotten and infested! I can remember as a very small child staying in the bus and fishing in the stream which ran next to the land we were on. My family used to walk up to the 'Fleur de Lys' pub at night and bring back a large bottle of cider. I visited the site recently and found it to be almost as it was. Houses ...read more here
A memory of Lowsonford contributed by alan yardley
Extracts From Tanworth-In-Arden & West Midlands books
The character of the village has changed greatly in recent years as commuters have discovered it. Modern houses surround it now, but the heart of the original village is the Green, with its chestnut tree, Georgian houses and The Bell Inn, still bedecked with flowers as in this picture.
An extract from from"Redditch Living Memories".
The character of the village
has changed greatly in
recent years as commuters
have discovered it. Modern
houses surround it now, but
the heart of the original
village is the Green, with its
chestnut tree, Georgian
houses and The Bell Inn, still
bedecked with flowers as in
this picture.
An extract from from"Redditch Living Memories".
Little remains today of Shakespeare's Forest of Arden, only isolated islands of woodland in a sea of agriculture. But the name lives on locally. Unlike the more famous Henley-in-Arden, however, Tanworth received its suffix quite recently, in an attempt to put an end to confusion with Tamworth (Staffordshire).
An extract from from"Redditch Living Memories".
Little remains today of Shakespeare`s Forest of Arden, only
isolated islands of woodland in a sea of agriculture. But the name
lives on locally. Unlike the more famous Henley-in-Arden,
however, Tanworth received its suffix quite recently, in an attempt
to put an end to confusion with Tamworth (Staffordshire).
An extract from from"Redditch Living Memories".
It was originally just
Tanworth, but the suffix
was added in the 19th
century to avoid confusion
with Tamworth, which is
now in Staffordshire but
was then in Warwickshire.
Modern houses proliferate
in Tanworth now, but the
old chestnut tree (glimpsed
top left) still casts a shade
over the green, and the Bell
Inn (top and bottom left),
across the road from the
green, is still in business.
An extract from from"Warwickshire Revisited Photographic Memories".