I got my first vehicle when I was about five – an Austin J40 pedal. I loved its cream steering wheel with chrome spokes (oh so very 50s!) and that ...
I was actually born in Mancetter in 1949, and I lived there with my family until I married my husband at 18. We then moved in together in his parents ...
I ended up working here by accident: when I left school at the age of 17 (in 1968) I was asked what I wanted to be and replied ‘a cowboy’. ...
As I grew up I still kept myself involved in the farm, but my dad was very insistent that my first proper job was not with him but someone else. ...
My family have always lived in this area, my dad inherited his farm from his father and he still runs it to this day in his 80s! I loved growing ...
There were other community things that the factory got us involved in. Every year that I worked there we would sign the ball that would be used in the Atherstone ...
Folly buildings were added to the landscape by people who admired the romantic and the picturesque. They usually imitate the style of a previous age (sometimes even being built as ...
Dunchurch has been ‘yarn bombed’ to celebrate 100 years of the local Women’s Institute (WI) which started in 1919. Trees, seats and historic features have been decorated in gaily-coloured knitting ...
I used to paint with five other painters, and I’m the only one of the five left – the others passed away quite some time ago. They called us the ...
