Merriott Local History Group
Digital Archive 2014 –
03. Personal Memories Archive
03_01 PERSONAL MEMORIES ARCHIVE
This list
03_02 Merriott As I Knew It 1920 -1930s
Memories of the village by Hilda Tasker
03_03 School Days In Merriott -1930s - 1940s
A unique record of long ago school days, with examples of school work
03_04 Recollections Of Farming In The 1940s
Memories of Westgate and Moorlands farms
03_05 Merriott Did You Know
Cuttings of previously published items about the village in general, including personal memories of village life of long ago
03_06 Brief Encounter Pt 1
Happy childhood memories of Merriott in the early 1940s
03_07 Brief Encounter Pt 2
More happy childhood memories of Merriott in the early 1940s
03_08 Banbury Farm Revisted
A return visit to a childhood home in 2011 after a gap of almost 65 years
03_09 Come, Walk With Me
A nostalgic, late 1930s walk along the length of Boozer Pit and Higher Street recalling people and places of 80 years ago
03_10 An Old Pair Of Bellows
The 1933 Boozer Pit fire – a childhood memory. An addition to Brian’s memories of Boozer Pit recalled in Come Walk With Me (above)
03_11 Village School, Class Of 1959
Recalling childhood friends and memories of the village of 1959
03_12 Emma Chant's Recollections
Recorded recollections and observations of a Merriott resident, the late Mrs Emma Chant, recorded by the author in the late 1960s in connection with his interest in rural dialect and folklore
03_13 Memories of Working At The Tail Mill Factory
Recalling working at Merriott Mouldings in the 1960s – 1980s. See also Tail Mill: Down all the Years in the Village Archive.
03_14 Memories of Arthur Hut
Boyhood memories of visits to Merriott some 50 years ago, and of Arthur Hut, the last of the village old-timers.