Category: Village Voices

Some long time residents memories of village life. Unfortunately many of them are no longer alive.

Blackland, Bowood, Chapel, Cherhill School, Greens Lane, Guernsey Villa, Hayle Cottages, Reading Room, Theobalds Green, War, watercress

Madge Cornell

I was born in the year 1926 at 36, Hayle Cottages, Nr. Calne. (that was the postal address) and I ...
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Blacklands Crossroads, Reading Room, Shop, Theobalds Green
Margaret Joan Embling (nee Drew)

Margaret Joan Embling (nee Drew)

I was born in Calstone in 1930 in a house behind the Chapel at Theobalds Green. My mother was Lillian ...
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Bowood, Farming, Home Guard, Michael Maundrell
Michael and Enid Maundrell

Michael and Enid Maundrell

Michael: In the beginning ………… We are not exactly sure when Calstone and the Maundrell family came together, but it ...
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Old Calstone - after a conversation with one of the ’Worthies'

Old Calstone – after a conversation with one of the ’Worthies’

This is how it was during the first twenty years of the century : The Rector of Calstone was the ...
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Farming, haymaking, horses, Old Houses, Reading Room, School, Shop, War

The Mills Family Memories

Maurice’s Story My mother and father, Minnie and Jim Mills were originally Gloucestershire people where I was born at Lydney ...
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