Local Memories

In the SGA Archive there are a number of very interesting reminiscences by writers connected to the village in different ways:

Bernard Barton

• Buckskin and Old Lace
• The Godfrey Sisters – Lacemaking spinsters and foster carers
• A Year of Augusts  –   Annual visits to Stoke Goldington with the family

George Barton

• Reminisces of Holidays 1893
• My Mother and Others

Bob Bliss

• Bliss Family History – Details of Local Inn keepers from the 18th C

John Boyden

• An Evacuee’s Story

Jane Chambers

• Memories of Mount Pleasant 

Bob Clarke

• Childhood Memories of Stoke
• Getting about in the Countryside

Esther Wesley

• Life Below Stairs (Gayhurst House)

 

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