Publications - Amazing How Times Change

Amazing How Times Change (1992)

Lawrence of Arabia, TV's Gilbert Harding, Gandhi, Elgar and the Old Straight Track’s author Alfred Watkins, were still within living memory when Herefordshire Lore first interviewed local people.

"I had to take something to the stables in Commercial Road, but this fellow said: 'Don't come now missy. They're hanging someone at the goal.'"

"I remember the black gates, the old toll, that were along Widemarsh Street. In the day they were open but after a certain hour they were shut and you had to pay a toll. They were a nuisance."

"We filled hundreds of bottles and cans of tea for the navies building the new munitions factory down here in 1915."

"I lost my little girl to Dr * * * *. She died on the Monday morning and then he came. I cursed him. I said: ‘You should have come. You could have saved her life.’ She couldn't go in hospital see because they were sending the soldiers back from the war. And I said to him, well don't you ever send a bill for me, I said, because I'll never, never pay it. Nor he never sent me a bill.”