Adderley Heritage Trail
A walk through our history
This is a very exciting part of the Adderley Project which we hope people will feel able to get involved with and share their memories for others to read or listen to.
Volunteers have now been trained, by the Oral History Society, in how to record oral histories and would welcome the opportunity to sit down with you and record your memories for everyone to enjoy now and in the future. Memories go with you, please leave yours behind for future generations.
by Geoffrey Butter Geoff Butter has shared with us here, his early memories of the village hall in Adderley. What a treasure that hall was for local people to enjoy socially. If you have memories you …
This is a wonderful account of memories of WWII whilst living in Adderley by the son of the Rector EJP Adams
You can listen to Barry who has been a resident of Adderley for thirty years and is well known around the village. For those who don’t know him he was responsible for the amazing flower displays …
The Heritage project has been contacted by Brian Lee who grew up in and around Adderley. Brian is 86 this year (2024) and has really enjoyed reminiscing about the place he knew and loved as a child …
A wonderful reminiscence from Brian Lee who was born and brought up in and around Adderley. Brian shares his memories of his father ‘Bob Lee’ with us in this article below written in 2024 …
Adderley before the French Norman conquest of 1066 would have been Anglo-Saxon. Adderley was held and owned by Edric, known as Edric the Wild. Adderley was then known as Eldredelei, which …
The Corbets, as Lords of the manor have had an enormous impact on the lives of the people of Adderley in particular, but also the surrounding district since they came to Adderley in the sixteenth …
Adderley Church, four miles from Market Drayton, sticks out like a sore thumb – out from the pleasant pastoral Shropshire landscape and out into the direct line of the Audlem road, which has to curve …
This text is taken from an Estate Agents Details about Raven House Raven House has a long, frontage to the Market Drayton-Nantwich road on the outskirts of the pleasant village of Adderley, and part …
Raven House was built in 1824. It was at first, three separate houses, now it is just one. Behind the house is a courtyard, a barn and three terraced cottages in which the farm labourers used to live. …
Adderley Church Fete Poolhouse The Garden Party and gymkhana on June 30th was a great success in every way. We are most grateful to everybody who helped with the Stalls and Sideshows and …
He’s got Canadian geese, Chinese geese, peacocks, peahen. parrot, muscovies, mallards, black Indian ducks, goats, horses, pigs, sheep, dogs… and a temperamental Barbary ape named “Sugar”. …
Adderley Hall, the seat of Sir Corbet Corbet, Bart. The ringing of the bells, and display of a large flag on the tower of the church, ushered in the morning. Divine service was performed …
Some WI. Notes — 1988 for 70th Birthday celebrations April 19th Having been a member of this W.I. for a long time, (56 years), I have been asked to try to recall some memories of the W.I. through the …
A photograph of Adderley Village Hall taken in 1965 and letters that relate to the hall and Adderley Men’s club from 1968.
The Adderley Sundial has a long history and Geoff Butter has spent time trying to piece together the story which, in many ways, reflects the changing story of the village. Here are some of the …
These schoolchildren of bygone age look pretty glum as they pose for the camera The picture was taken at Adderley School in 1895 and has been loaned by Mr Thomas Wilshaw, of 18 Puleston, …
Wehrmacht: the paratroopers of the Album with drawings of a prisoner of war in the POW Camp, 192 Adderley Hall, Shropshire, Wales. Wehrmacht: the paratroopers of the Album with drawings of a prisoner …
Memories of the Dad’s Army days of the Second World War will be prompted for Adderley folk by this photograph of the village’s Home Guard taken in 1944. It has been loaned to the …
A brief outline of Adderley’s history from Edric ‘The Wild’ to the Corbet family. In Saxon times Eldredelei was held by Edric, known as “The Wild”. He owned …
The Corbets, as Lords of the manor have had an enormous impact on the lives of the people of Adderley in particular, but also the surrounding district since they came to Adderley in the sixteenth …
Adderley Railway Station was built by the Nantwich and Market Drayton Railway. It opened in 1863 one day after the Market Drayton Station which opened on 19th October 1863 and Adderley on the …
Adderley people do not have to travel far to visit a park. They have one on their doorsteps — but in rather an unusual location alongside the Shropshire Union Canal. And with its shrubs, trees and …