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Published 2 September 2015

On Saturday 19th September at the Village Hall, 2:30- 4:30. Ivy Butcher and the Kings Bromley Historians will be launching their new publication ‘Hark Back’. This book consists of transcriptions of taped interviews that Ivy and David Butcher had around 1980 with surviving members of the Lane family and with various villagers. Their memories stretched back to before the First World War. The book provides a unique insight into life at the manor, before it was abandoned in the 1920s, and what it was like to live in a village before electric light and mains water and where horses and carts were more common than motors.

There will be an exhibition of photographs from the Historians’ archive which will illustrate extracts from the book. Ivy’s previous books and other Historian’s publications will also be available for purchase, including the recent ‘The Life and Times of Agnes, The Little Queen of Kings Bromley’. This tells the story of Agnes Lane, 1809-1885, within the context of the social history of the village and the nation. She had 14 children, of which 8 survived, and ‘reigned’ at a time when her class also ruled the country that ruled the world.

Teas and refreshments will be available