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Guarlford History Group

Reminiscences - memories of bygone Guarlford

In gathering information for our books, the Guarlford History Group were privileged that people shared with us their own personal memories of times past, some written and some passed by word of mouth. This archive forms a rich aural and social history of the area to which we hope to add. Some of the stories given to us are listed below and more appear in the local history books 'The Guarlford Story' and 'The Guarlford Scene'.

Please click on the links below to find out more,


About Leslie Halward (author)

About Marie Hall (violinist)

Agricultural Timeline

An Evacuee Remembers

Beard Family Memorial Bench

Flying Circus

Frank Jarrett

Guarlford Detachment Home Guard

Growing up in the 1920s

James Neal and the Railway Tunnel

John Bedington (RN, DEMS)

John Henry Tandy (The Great War)

Pilot Rescue

Poems by Ernest Edward Jackson

Recollections of Keith Chester

Recollections of Alf Young

Reg Green,  "I got on my bike"

Sam Beard's Doodles

Sinking of the City of Nagpur

Sunday School

The Pack Horse Way

The Tin Tabernacle

The WFWI Banner


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