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Harvesting is in full swing around the village, the downside is the amount of dust that covers everything. The above photo shows Arthur Melhuish and Lenny Wade harvesting using Green Farm's first combine.. You can read our latest newsletter as written For Telstar 388 July & August, 2025. In this we reported on our May meeting when some committee members shared some of what we knew about Stowupland's Shop and…

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From 1881 map showing Barn Cottages

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March is Women's History Month, at SLHG committee meeting we got thinking about local ladies who had played important roles in our village, such as Ena Carter, Ada Kinch and Mary Bloom. Without Ena's hard work researching Stowupland's local history would be a lot more time consuming, SLHG is extremely grateful for the foundations she laid down for us. Ada Kinch was an inspirational head teacher for our local children,…

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Architect drawing for the proposed new Retreat

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Read our December 2024 Newsletter as published in Telstar 382 with Jerry's review of Nicky Reynold's talk about the WW2 Lumber Jills or listen in to Jerry's Jabbas. For our last meeting of 2024, one of our trustees gave us a talk on local pubs. The image above shows the architect's view of our Retreat as it would look after the rebuild in the 1960s.     Neil has spoken…

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