Send and Ripley HISTORY SOCIETY
The Send and Ripley History Society is undertaking a research project into Send and Ripley residents involved in WWI, either in the services or as a civilian on the Home Front. We are interested in hearing from anyone who has memories or family stories, memorabilia, or documents relating to any activities, whether as members of […]
The original cine film was taken at the Ripley Village Coronation Celebrations on the 2nd June 1953 and was shown at a village event shortly after the Coronation and later converted to video tape.
Every New Year’s Eve leads to a bit of jubilation, hope springing eternal that the next year may turn out to be something better than the last. With many people it’s a case of modest celebrations in the home, sometimes with a little ceremony, where the traditions still give pleasure and such artistry as hand bell ringing survives.
The post war housing shortage in Britain prompted one developer to convert surplus Horsa Gliders into homes and vacation trailers.
The exhibition will run from now until early in the New Year and is open every Saturday from 10 -12.30. Come to see the wonderful models of the mill and a charming Victorian watercolour, which is on loan.
The new exhibition at the museum is about the HOMEFRONT in World War II. The thinking behind this is both to acknowledge the 70th anniversary of the end of the war and to launch the Society’s little bomb shelter as an ‘experience’.
The Society borrowed some interesting panels from the archaeological service and displayed locally found flints. We were also fortunate to have the loan of finds from one of our members as well as some of his remarkable reproduction tools and weapons.
An exhibition that concentrated on the tradition of market gardening in Send and Ripley. It looked at the role of seasonal gypsy labour before the war and the contribution of the land girls in World War II.
This was a fun exhibition as it looked at many of the famous people who have come to Send and Ripley over the years. It was an exhibition that ‘grew’ as it went along, with many stories emerging as it went along.
This exhibition featured two local medical ‘celebrities’ – Dr Richard Stoughton, who is buried in Send and invented a cordial Elixir and Kenneth White, the Ripley pharmacist during the last war. He was probably the first man to produce penicillin for civilian use.