17 Apr 2024 | 2.30pm | Rausing Building
£7 (including tea and cake)
Tickets available online and in The Athelstan Museum Shop
This talk about ‘How Times have Changed : Life in Little Somerford 1954-72’ will be given by Ceri Vyner.
Ceri I can do a talk on Little Somerford as it was in the 1950s & 60s and the changes which took place during that time. Also with reference to some of the places & characters in the village then, if that would be acceptable to you. I knew the Reeve family very well. They still farmed using a carthorse when we were small.
I still remember the old shop as well as the later one, the school, village life as it was. It’s recent history, but compared to life today it’s another world.
Title still to be decided. Let me know if this would be acceptable to you. There would be a lot of things which people would identify with.
Sharon suggested that I talk about my book. I can do a talk on Little Somerford as it was in the 1950s & 60s and the changes which took place during that time. Also with reference to some of the places & characters in the village then, if that would be acceptable to you. I knew the Reeve family very well. They still farmed using a carthorse when we were small.
I still remember the old shop as well as the later one, the school, village life as it was. It’s recent history, but compared to life today it’s another world.
Title still to be decided. Let me know if this would be acceptable to you. There would be a lot of things which people would identify with.
“The garden that once was still haunts my dreams and no season will ever be the same again … “
When Ceri and her brothers move to Fern Cottage in the small North Wiltshire village of Little Somerford, they discover a place unchanged by modern life. The kitchen garden is a riot of fruit trees and vegetables, and the old farming family next door still works the land with horses.
This is a community full of character, and slowly the life and beauty of Little Somerford steals into Ceri’s heart …
