Some of the loves of Bill Elisha

We’ll leave May, his wife, out on this occasion. As far as we know Bill and May had a long and happy marriage which lasted from 1929 until Bill died in 1984. We are not even going to talk about fo...

Peggy and Rufus

  Today we have another picture of Peggy Welch – recently given to us. In this photo she is not alone. She has a friend called Rufus with her. Rufus, as we now see, was a dog. This photo da...

A quick release dog lead

Norman Neate is a name we have met before on this site. He was the son of James Neate and took over his father’s brewing business, becoming the last commercial beer brewer in the parish. He was als...