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Please Note: Our offices and factory are now closed until Thursday 2nd January when we will be pleased to deal with any queries that have arisen during the holiday period.

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Highworth, St Michael's Church c.1955
Photo ref: H157015
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A Selection of Memories from Highworth

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Highworth

Sparked a Memory for you?

If this has sparked a memory, why not share it here?

I was only two when I moved here from south London but I remember going to school there just through an alley way off the market square, and headmaster's office was a hut in the playground. Lived in Queens Avenue which were the new council houses built as my dad worked for Vickers Armstrong at the time. Wonderful happy memories, never been back since we moved when I was around 10 years old back to London. Rember crying ...see more
I live in America now. I have a family here, but I would like to return to Highworth one day. I was born there and Christened in St Michael's Church in 1954.
I am a New Zealander, as my more recent ancestors have been for more than one and a half centuries.  My ancestors had emigrated from Highworth twice during the 1800's - firstly to Australia for 9 years with the new Australian Agricultural Company in the early 1820's ...and, then back to Highworth.  In 1841 they again emmigrated, but this time permanently to NZ.  Descendant families have been in NZ ever since. ...see more