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Kington memories
Read and share memories of Kington and Herefordshire inspired by Frith photos
Gwendoline Langston
This photo shows my grandmother, Gwen Langston (1891 - 1963), with Mickey who was an Irish Terrier.
Contributed by Peter Harding-Roberts
Before school
Mr & Mrs Potter managed Bon March shop and they had two young boys, Robert and Edmond. My mum, Edna Griffiths, helped to look after the children and, being pre-school age, I used to go along with her. Mrs Potter used to bring us pasties from Jones' Bakery (where the Chinese takeaway is now).
On the way home we used to collect paraffin from Dowlings (where Tom Bounds is now) and sweets from Kate Teagle in Church Street (where Jane's sewing is now).
How I would love to be able to squeeze into the photo and have a nostalgic look around. Happy days.
Contributed by Avril Layton-Morris
Herefordshire memories
Gwendoline Langston
This photo shows my grandmother, Gwen Langston (1891 - 1963), with Mickey who was an Irish Terrier.
A memory of Kington contributed by Peter Harding-Roberts
Before school
Mr & Mrs Potter managed Bon March shop and they had two young boys, Robert and Edmond. My mum, Edna Griffiths, helped to look after the children and, being pre-school age, I used to go along with her. Mrs Potter used to bring us pasties from Jones' Bakery (where the Chinese takeaway is now).
On the way home we used to collect paraffin from Dowlings (where Tom Bounds is now) and sweets from Kate Teagle in Church Street (where Jane's sewing is now).
How I would love to be able to squeeze into the photo and have a nostalgic look around. Happy days.
A memory of Kington contributed by Avril Layton-Morris
Extracts From Kington & Herefordshire books
Kington was also once
described as having a ‘maze
of narrow streets … where
too many of the old houses
have been refronted, but
still have the attraction of a
wildly irregular skyline’.
There have been relatively
few changes here, one of
the best being that the
Imperial Café is now a
second hand bookshop
called Castle Hill Books.
An extract from from"Herefordshire Living Memories".
Amongst the many hills that can be seen from the summit
of Bradnor Hill, Hergest Ridge lies towards the south west.
This is a name that will be familiar to fans of Mike Oldfield’s music
and it is easy to see how this countryside could inspire anyone.
An extract from from"Herefordshire Living Memories".
The town is known as Kington simply because it was the King’s town
at one time and it is generally assumed that the king in question was
Edward the Confessor. However, Offa’s Dyke passes right beside the
town and so some people have suggested that the king is actually King
Offa who reigned some 250 years earlier.
An extract from from"Herefordshire Living Memories".
Lady Margaret Hawkins, after whom the school is named, was the wife of Sir John Hawkins, one of the
commanders fighting against the Spanish Armada in 1588. She bequeathed £800 ‘to keep a free school in
Kington … for the instructing and teaching of youths and children in literature and good education’.
An extract from from"Herefordshire Living Memories".
The Kington Golf Club was established in 1924 and there can be few golf clubs that occupy such a magnificent
site. It is located on the slopes of Bradnor Hill, just to the north of Kington, with wonderful views in all directions
even if the golfers in the picture seem to be ignoring them.
An extract from from"Herefordshire Living Memories".