Memories of the Ridwares

Betty Weetman (née Manifold) – an account written by her in December 2001 in her 82nd year, using information told to her by her grandmother, mother and father.

Joyce Hopkins (previously Hancock, née Knight)
From interviews and conversations over a period of time from c.1997 to 2023

Interview with Emma Goring (nee Downing) and Margaret Barratt by Sylvia Leech 28 February 1997

An interview with John Cheshire at his home in Blithbury, 6th October 2000, conducted by Sylvia Leech

The Post Office in Hill Ridware between the wars

Dorothy Grimley’s life story as written by her daughter Nellie Garner