The Northlew Memory Bank

The ‘Memory Bank’, is a place for photos, video and audio memories of people and events in the village. This can be anything that people would like to share that relates to life in Northlew. Historic pictures would be great but we’d also welcome more contemporary pictures. We hope that the Memory Bank will be a place to preserve memories as they happen.

There have been so many events to remember. The Jubilee celebrations, carnivals - carnival queens and competitors, fetes, Northlew Amateur Dramatics Society (NADS) performances, football club, the silver band, the produce show are just a few. Many family celebrations; weddings, anniversaries and even funerals can be recorded and remembered. There must be pictures around of building the new bridge and the playing field renovations. We would welcome anything you would like to share. Photos and other material can be copied and put on the website and the originals returned. It would be very helpful if the people in the pictures were named and the place and date added. With this we can cross reference material so it will be easy to use the Memory Bank for research.  For more information or talk about sharing your memories please contact clerk@northlewparishcouncil.gov.uk.

Village Friends - Articles written by Christina Oxley for the Northlew News

Excerpt from Northlew News Summer 2021 Edition

Les Friend was born on 12th March 1927 on the family farm, Wadland Barton, Ashbury.  His grandfather had been the original occupant of the Wadland Barton Estate farmhouse, which was built in 1685, working on the land as tenant farmers of the Ashbury Estate.  Richard Chapman Friend and his wife Ethel (Les’s parents) took over the management of the farm, eventually buying the original farmhouse from the Ashbury Estate.    Read more

 

Excerpt from Northlew News Spring 2021 Edition

Memories of Mrs Hilary Isaac (nee Adams).  Hilary has lived in Northlew all her 90 years. Hilary’s father was born in 1901, he inherited the family farm, Overlake Farm Kimber, he was the 3rd generation to run the farm. The original farmhouse was a Devon longhouse with the family living at one end and the animals at the other. Sadly, it burnt down around 1913 and so a new house was built in 1914. Read more

 

Current Day

Liz Mary

Rob Woolley 

 Liz Mary 

Christina Oxley 

 

 

 

An Artist's Impression

Holly Dancer 
Lucy Turmaine 
 Holly Dancer

 

 

Lucy Turmaine 

Early Postcards

Below are two early postcards of Northlew provided by Gillian Dixon.   Please click here to see more