Dorothy Norton who was 93 at the time of her interview and her daughter Angela Fairhurst (nee Norton), lived in Great Witley for many years, first at Stourport Road and then in the Glebe.
Both have many and varied memories if their lives in Great Witley and recall some of the Great Witley characters of times gone by.
Dorothy & Angelas recording: Norton_Dorothy&Angela_20141027_1_3_A (43 mins 35 secs)
Start | Topic | Period |
00.20 | Living in and around GW | 1930s |
01.40 | Sydney Nortons death and funeral during WW1 | 1910s |
02.25 | Village life during WW2 | 1940s |
03.27 | Life at Yells Cottages and then the Glebe | 1950s |
04.47 | The Toll House and Hundred House livestock market | |
05.00 | Joe Hill and the travelling stallion visiting the Hundred House. | 1940s |
05.30 | Sheep dipping at the Hundred House market yard | 1950s |
06.03 | Redmarley Hillclimb | 1950s |
06.39 | Parish Church summer only services. Husband Noel in the choir & mint imperials dropped by Noel down to Dorothy | 1930s |
08.15 | Mr Billy Austen | 1940s |
08.45 | Husband away in 8th army for 5 years during WW2 | 1940s |
09.56 | Noel in Worcestershire War Ag after WW2 | 1940s |
11.50 | Angelas memories of GW school days, school trips and childhood living on the Glebe | 1960s |
16.00 | Arthur Moores coaches | 1950/60s |
17.45 | The Hundred House thrift club. Uncle Jacks fatal accident | 1960s |
19.10 | Uncles Jacks funeral and the grave which was too shallow. PC Tom Dallow overseeing its deepening | 1960s |
20.10 | Horse drawn buses in GW | |
20.30 | Arthur Moores coaches transporting the Hop pickers to Shelsley | 1940/50s |
21.00 | Dorothy – Wartime blackout and mistakenly making coffee using gravy browning | 1940s |
21.50 | GW Home guard and finding live bullets in the garden. | 1940s |
22.50 | Wartime evacuees | |
24.30 | Witley Court lodge and gates | |
25.00 | GW Trades people. Post man who lived in the weigh bridge office | |
26.03 | Ruby Clarks milk round and upsetting the= horse drawn milk float at Dick brook bank | |
27.27 | Angela – School day memories and Mrs Evans the teacher and the needlework lesson. | 1960s |
28.30 | Fire at GW school | 1960s |
28.20 | GW v Abberley school sports day | 1960s |
29.50 | GW School gardening lessons | 1960s |
30.20 | Dorothy GW WI Secretary memories | 1960s |
34.35 | Dorothys brother Cliff Medlicott, his father and a life on the land. | 1950/60s |
36.30 | Angela – memories of school milk deliveries | 1960s |
37.00 | Dorothy memories of dances held at Mrs Bridges cafe the Highways. | 1940s |
38.30 | Great Witley Chapel. | |
39.30 | Lead shot removed from trees in Witley Park. | |
40.00 | The fire at Witley Court and Noel and other choirboys helping remove furniture etc. Later vandalism at the Court | 1930s |
42.30 | Dorothys 93rd birthday and she says ‘all my chairs are still the right way up’ | 2015 |
I used to live next door to Angela and her family
My family were the Baldwin’s
Mum Floss, Dad John (Arthur ) Ann, Michael, Caroline, and Derek
We lived at 13 the Glebe.
When my brother Derek was killed in a motorcycle accident aged just 16
Mum said we must change the number so she put an A after the 13
Then later named our house Tower View
I would love to hear from anyone who remembers me or my family.
Caroline Clark.