Programme for the meeting held on Wednesday, 12th October, 1977. The evening started at 7.15pm with Institute notices and other business followed, at 8.00pm by a talk with slides on 'European Alpines in the Wild' given by Mr Joe Elliott of Broadwell Nursery. At 9.00pm there was time for memories of 1927 followed at 9.15pm ...
The index accompanying the Women's Institute slide collection gave the names of three mothers; Mrs Buggins with the twins [centre] and two impossible to identify, Agnes Bowld nee Wright and Mrs West, standing.
Originally this was the front of the vicarage and the front door was where the bottom centre window is now. It is thought that the change was made in Victorian times and a new entrance with a porch was built on to the front.
The Old Vicarage is a Georgian house built in 1805 directly opposite the church. Originally the front door was on the other side of the house but the porch and room above are said to have been added in Victorian times and became the front entrance.
This was given to Mrs Hammond on 5th April 1921 when she went to the aid of the occupants of a car that had collided with a baker's cart opposite the Old Post Office, mounted the grass verge and almost overturned. She took the two passengers in to her home and gave them tea while ...
Compiled by members of Mickleton Women's Institute in 1970s: High St, N side, opposite Medford House May 1975, camera facing NE Date plaque, raised lettering, on S end stone gable end. Assuming the arrangement of letters indicate it is possible that the following entry in the Marriage Register might relate to the owner of this house: Perkes, Thomas and ...
View of the front of Medford House on High Street.
The only information that accompanied this photograph was 'Sam Margetts, on the left, is carrying 'the bag''.
The index to the original slide collection had the word 'sports'. written after the title. This probably refers to the sports that took place on Club Day. This was an annual event until 1939. Held on Whit Saturday.
The first cottage on the left hand side is now known as Willann. The end part of it was a butcher's shop at one time. The first on the right hand side is called Peddar's Way.
Large cellar below the sitting-room with areas for storing bottles & dairy produce and hooks in the ceiling for hanging meat and game.
In the walled courtyard behind the old coach house - now a garage - and outside the kitchen, there is a well, which presumably supplied water to the house. There is also a pump, which is no longer working. In 2011, a pair of robins built their nest in vegetation growing on the inner wall of ...
Class photograph, taken in school playground with Headmaster's house wall in background. Female teacher on right - name not known. Date is that recorded in the index to the W.I. collection.
Showing Three Ways House in Chapel Lane before it became a hotel. Previous names were St Lawrence's, Salford House and Seaton Lea.
Mickleton WI was formed in 1927 so members were celebrating its Diamond Jubilee.
Miss Hammond is photographed outside her cottage.
Riding on the back of one of Webb's lorries. Back row, L-R: Fanny Norton, Tom Hatward, Edith Norton. Front row, L_R: Bessie Clark, unknown, Wyn Bennett, Elsie Nash. Note the telephone number, Mickleton 3!
Mickleton WI was formed in 1927 so this exhibition celebrated its Diamond Jubilee.
Mickleton WI was formed in 1927 so this exhibition celebrated its Diamond Jubilee.From left to right: ?, ?, ?, ?, Freda Struthers (nee Righton)
Mickleton WI was formed in 1927 so this exhibition celebrated its Diamond Jubilee.
Mickleton WI was formed in 1927 so this exhibition celebrated its Diamond Jubilee.
An identical photograph to another which was described in the original index as 'Fish Delivery at the Milking Pail'. The information in the index for this image identifies the man on the donkey cart as Mr. Booker, a rag and bone man. He was collecting rabbit skins for which he paid 3d. Others identified as ...