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	<title>Cradley - A Village History</title>
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	<description>A unique book about the history of a Herefordshire village</description>
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		<title>Memories</title>
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Elderly residents

Records of Queen Victoria&#8217;s Golden Jubilee celebrations
Cradley Mummers
Times before the advent of the telephone, electricity or mains water
An explosion at the Post Office
Wild animals from a circus come to stay in Cradley!
Many personal reminiscences

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		<link>http://www.cradleybook.org.uk/?p=11</link>
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		<title>Buildings</title>
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Cradley Village Hall, painted by Paul Hunt


Village Hall with beams dating from 1531-2
Many 17th century cottages and Lord of the Manor&#8217;s house
Farms and barns
A working mill
Cider mill
Part-Norman church with Saxon stones

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		<link>http://www.cradleybook.org.uk/?p=10</link>
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		<title>Transport</title>
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The Cradley Charabanc


Salt routes from Roman times and before
Holloways and tracks
Road repairs from parish council records
Carts and wagons
Carriages
Turnpike cottages
Canals, railways and the coming of the car
Cradley&#8217;s charabanc
Morgan cars

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		<link>http://www.cradleybook.org.uk/?p=9</link>
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		<title>Occupations</title>
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Carpenter at work in Prestons 

Blacksmiths, carpenters and wheelwrights
Cordwainers
Stonemasons
Limeburners
Coopers and hoop-makers
Gloveresses and washerwomen
Millers
Clergymen, teachers and doctors
Shopkeepers and publicans

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		<link>http://www.cradleybook.org.uk/?p=8</link>
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		<title>The Countryside</title>
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On Seed Farm

Old farming methods
Water meadows and drainage
Hops and cherry orchards
Cider apples
Mills on Cradley brook
Enclosure and Encroachment
Field names, old woodland and charcoal burning platforms
Quarries and lime-kilns

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		<title>Schools</title>
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Cradley Old Boys&#8217; School 

Cradley Old Boys&#8217; or Turner&#8217;s School (Village Hall today) endowed in 1667
William Jones, Headmaster for 58 years, who prepared the Tithe Map of 1839
Old school records and Log books
Cradley National Girls&#8217; School of 1856
Storridge School and the Earl Beauchamp link

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		<link>http://www.cradleybook.org.uk/?p=6</link>
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		<title>Care of the Poor</title>
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Lying-in Card 

Poor houses and workhouses
Payments by Charities
Vagrancy
Apprentices
Emigration
Friendly Societies
Newspaper reports from 1836

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		<link>http://www.cradleybook.org.uk/?p=5</link>
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		<title>Churches, Chapel and Mormons</title>
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The Ayscough Memorial Window in Cradley Church 

Important Mormon links with Cradley, including a diary
The Norman Church of Cradley, St James the Great
Parish registers from 1650
A Seat Roll of 1735
Three Choirs Festival founder, Rev. T. Bisse
A Countess of Huntingdon&#8217;s chapel

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