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Latest News from Herefordshire Lore Spring 2011
In this Spring issue we listen to Pencombe’s Fred Koksch remember his days as a prisoner-of-war and Peterchurch’s Eva Morgan of the time when POW Otto Carl saved her sister’s life.
Our own Rosemary Lillico recalls her trip to London to see Skylon – and here she is telling readers of the Daily Mail all about it.
Sheila Payne and Phyllis Dean recall The Sanitary and the Burghill hospital laundries while John Slatford remembers balmy days boating up river to the Camp Inn at Eaton Bishop while Jan Thomas is reunited with some precious photos of her drandmother, Betty Steffen, found by an IOA reader.
Meanwhile Roger Bartlett asks: whatever happened to Hereford's Crimean trophy cannon which once stood on the Castle Green? Our photo shows 18-year-old Kathleen Lawrence sitting on the cannon with London cousin Harry Shute in 1924.
“The late Percy Pritchard mentions in In Our Age 2009, but what became of it?”
Several readers mentioned it in 1999 including Ted Hadley, Kit Gundy, Kathleen Lawrence and Joan Loder while Douglas Hughes thought "the Russian cannon most probably did fall victim to the drive for scrap. There was a strong rumour that much of the scrap garnered for the war effort was still lying idle in the Stonebow Road depot long after the end of hostilities.
Roger, however, reports the Hereford Times of 1940 saying the Council approved the scrapping of all the guns on Castle Green except Roaring Meg and the Sevastopol gun ‘as having historical interest’.
“Many Crimean guns across the country were carted off for WWII scrap and lost -- did the Council in Hereford change its mind? Or where did the Sevastopol gun go to? The two guns currently by the Nelson Memorial appear to be earlier weapons, though their origin is also apparently uncertain.”
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Latest News from Herefordshire Lore Winter 2011
Out now: IOA 19 with stories and photos about Bulmers, Painter Brothers, Vivians the photographers, and an appeal for news of the Leominster’s Baron’s Cross Army Hospital.
US G.I.s on Leominster Station during the last War.
Thanks to Clohilda Dickinson’s daughter, Sandra Watson, IOA publishes another memory of a Munitions Girl from ROF Rotherwas.
Clohilda with the latest edition to her family.
Cathedral Close on Film
The Cathedral Close in Living Memory will premiere at the Borderlines Film Festival on March 31. www.borderlinesfilmfestival.co.uk
Have a sneek preview on the Catcher Media website
Young film makers working on the Cathedral Close project.
Where you there?
IOA looks for more memories of Skylon, built in Hereford for the 1951 Festival of Britain.
Archive Film Nights
Hereford May Fair in 1910, Tommies march out of the City in 1914, Kington Carnival in the 1920s, cider making in the 1930s, the cattle market in the 1940s and Leominster Three Counties Fair in the 1950s: these are just some of the cinematic delights to be screened as REWIND.
Screening dates are:
Wed 16 Feb 8.00pm Ledbury Market Theatre
Fri 18 Feb 8.00pm Leintwardine Village Hall
Sat 19 Feb 2.00pm Hereford Museum Resource and Learning Centre, Friars Street.
Wed 23 Feb 7.30pm Ludlow Library and Museum Resource Centre
Fri 25 Feb 8.00pm Burghill
Sun 27 Feb 2.00pm Ewyas Harold Memorial Hall
Early March: Kington (01544 231579 for details)
Tue 1 Mar 7.30pm Acton Scott Historic Working Farm
Wed 9 Mar 2.00pm Fownhope Memorial Village Hall
Sat 19 Mar 7.30pm Peterchurch, St Peter's Church
Wed 23 Mar 7.30pm Leominster, Lion Ballroom
Fri 25 Mar 7.30pm Cawley Hall, Eye
Sat 26 Mar 7.30pm Moccas Village Hall
REWIND is funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and additionally through Screen West Midlands’ Digital Film Archive Fund with support from the National Lottery through the UK Film Council.
Welcome to our Autumn issue of In Our Age, Issue 18.
Inside there's everything from further calls for a Foxley reunion and recollections of the Butter Market (the late David Benjamin pictured recalls Fish on Fridays) to PJ Prodby, Mott the Hoople and the still-remembered Highfield School at Ross-on-Wye. Were you there?" asks Ann Milne. And already Brian Bowring has replied: ìI was too.î More in the next issue.
Mark Edwards from Hoarwithy offers his ideas on the mystery photo (page 8). Is this the same place? Brian Skyrme thinks this is Bridge Street, Hereford. But is he right?
Saffron Cresswell emailed about Little Dewchurch. 'Could tell me anything about the village in World War 2? I'm doing a school topic and I'm very interested in Bank Farm House above St Davids Church.'
And Nancy Malins emailed to say Bridge Sollars plans a history exhibition for next Easter. Can you help either of them?
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Press Releases
Market memories hit the book stalls (PDF 24KB)
In the Munitions (PDF 24KB)
Various newspaper clippings (PDF 366KB)