Kelly's Directory
The following extract from Kelly’s appeared in 1885 By 1905, the Kelly’s Directory entry for Norton in Hales looked like this #history
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William Ruston
Bill Ruston of Newcastle under Lyme has kindly added some wartime memories of Norton. A schoolboy at the time, he came to Betton every...
Mary Keay
Mary Keay has kindly provided the Norton website with a compilation of her memories of village life going back to the 1920s. She has a...
Joice Wilson
Joice was not an evacuee and was in London during the Blitz. However her mother became ill and she was invited to come and stay at Brand...
John Rathborne (Jack) OBE, BSC
John Rathbone was born in the village in 1904 and, via scholarships that he won, gained a Degree in Chemistry at Manchester University,...
Fred Holding
Born in the grounds of Oakley Hall in 1920, Fred led an interesting and varied life. Fred Holding Eulogy Many of the people here today,...
Edward Gill
Edward Gill is well known to many villagers, as one of the evacuees who came to Norton in Hales at the outbreak of World War 2. He has...
Dot Robinson
For a flavour of farm life in the last century, reading Dot’s memoirs is a must! Mrs Dorothy “Dot” Robinson Contributed by Cynthia Lucas...
Doreen Challinor
Sadly now passed away, these recollections of someone who came to the village in 1942, vividly recall life as a school cook. Homemade...
Allan Ebbrell
1939 Evacuee to our village, Allan Ebbrell, who lives in West Yorkshire, has now sent us his most evocative and moving memoirs of his...
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