A wedding group c. 1920 following the marriage of Lily Granger and Eli Clist. The small girl standing front left wearing boots is Cissie Granger. The bride is in the white dress in the front row, her groom is standing behind her.
V.E. Day Celebrations 1995
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50th. Anniversary V.E. Day 1995. A number of activities in Hemyock included a Fete on the Recreation Ground. In this picture the Hemyock Singers are outside the Parish Hall entertaining everybody with suitably nostalgic and patriotic songs.
Goddard’s annual garage sale.
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The Annual Garage Sale in Derek Goddards. Another excellent fund raiser. An average of
Hemyock Gymkhana 1980
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A scene at a Hemyock Gymkhana in the early 1980s. Pictured is the Hon.Sec and Treasurer of the Gymkhana, Mrs Phyll Kallaway (The mounted young lady is a Miss Wyatt). Phyll is one of Hemyock’s leading lights when it comes to organising fund raising events. The Gymkhana, over the years, has raised money for a wide range of causes including Jimmy Savilles Stoke Mandeville Appeal Fund.
Coronation Celebrations 1953
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Coronation Celebrations in the village in 1953. Dancing through the streets. Early leaders in the dance are Thelma Lowry and Mrs Pike, June Bradbury and Mary Salter, Barbara and Les Bowden, Mrs Netherway and Marjory Webber, Barbara Hole and Michael Pike, Mrs Reed followed by a large part of the population of Hemyock.
Hemyock Baby Show
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Another generation of Hemyockians pictured with their proud mothers at a Hemyock Baby show c1949/50. The proud mothers include Mrs Joan Lawrence with John sitting in the from row right also Mrs Granger, Higgins, Salter, Pursey, Still and King.
Fashions through the Ages. WI 1950
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Members of the Women’s Institute modelling, Fashions through the Ages, in the 1950s
Back Row L to R. -Joan Lutley, ?, Mary Netherway, Emily Salter, Barbara Hole, Mrs Naish, Lilly Guppy. Middle Row L to R – Marion Lowman, Mollie Lutley, Mary Rich, Marjory Webber, Alice Clark, Elsie Board. Front Row sitting L to R- Joan Hannaford, Mrs Bennett, Evelyn Pike.
Hemyock Women’s Institute
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Members of the Women’s Institute gathered in Hemyock Parish Hall. The occasion was the presentation of the clock on the wall behind the ladies to the parish. The ladies pictured L to R (surnames only):-Back Row – Finch, Naish, LeFevre, Lutley, Lutley, Lowman, Hole, Granger, South, Fuller, Farrant, Bennett. Middle Row- Guppy, Clist, Board, Ackland, Clatworthy, Priestman, Edwards, Doble, Warren, Woodman, Farrant, Baker, Evans. Front Row- Willey, True, Shere, Hallam, Lowry, Netherway, Salter, Pike, Cork, Hutchings. (Photo published courtesy of Express & Echo)
Last Hemyock Royal British legion meeting. 1988
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The last meeting of the Hemyock Branch of the Royal British Legion (Women’s Section). (1988)
Back Row. L to R. Dorothy Howsom, Sarah Lowman, Edna Dunn, Elvira Dunn, Phyll Kallaway and Dorothy Gammon (partly hidden), Dora Fuller, Mrs Payne Front Row- L to R. Vera Gard, Mrs Hutchings, Mrs Clarke, Sarah Bale and Margaret Lowman.
There are no longer branches of the British Legion in Hemyock