weddings at the church

I got married at the church in 1993 to Loraine Adams. Other members of my family were also married there: my mum and dad,  Bob Groves married June Seabrook in 1962, My grandparents John Seabrook married Joyce Martin, my great aunt and uncle, Eric Bailey married Connie Martin-and more recently my brother-in law Ian Adams married Nicola Millward and my brother Tim Groves married Emily Cooke!! I have two chances of continuing the family tradition!!

It would be interesting if anyone else can list any family weddings on here- I will add some pictures of the above weddings at a later date.

I wonder if anyone got married here before they were famous?

Below my dad Bob Groves and mum June Seabrook were married at the church in the big freeze of December 1962-the picture shows them getting into the car just outside the lychgate, notice how deep the snow is!!

Another wedding I remember going to at the church was that of Linda Knight- then of number 2 Church st. when she got married to John Ruffle-must have been about 1973?

The village green

We were lucky enough to live opposite the village green so used to play there more than our own garden!! There are a lot of memories of the village green as a child. The excitement when the tractor arrived with the numerous cutters on the back to cut the grass-when he had gone we had hours of fun with the cut grass in those long hot summers!! There were little holes in the hedge along the bottom where we could crawl through under the hedge and make hideouts!There was a big rock in the corner by the churchyard railings-covering a hole where you could lift it up to find bugs! There was a telephone wire running across the middle of the green-we used to kick the football over it and get told off!! There was the bench just past the rectory which we used to sit on with the peeling green paint!

There were no goal posts -we used to use rolled up jumpers! No playground equipment-we used to have so much fun though making the most of what was there!! Remember it like it was yesterday!!!