1940s

Village life 1948

Jim Stubbs supplying village milk from mount pleasant milke parlour also parish chairman 1945-1962

Marriage and Birth 1943

Wedding of Charlie and Jessie April 26th 1943 – Front door of East Grange House

The Northern Echo: over 2000 lifes lost

Henry Knowles of Glebe Farm volunteered for the army at the outbreak of the second world war

Soldiers at the village institute during wartime

Henry Firby, Alfred Hoare, Johny Hoare, Jack Rispin, Sam Hoare

John Peacock Farmer. East Grange Farm at start of second world war. Hard times ahead.

Family remembers cheating death as doomed bomber limps home