Reminiscences

A collection of thoughts and memories from and about some of Kilmington's residents. 
The ‘Coryton Quadrilles’
In 1844, William Tucker Esquire of Coryton Park commissioned five short pieces of music for the piano titled: Le Georgio, L’Elizabetta, Le Guillaume, Le Roberto and La Marianne. Together, they make up the ‘Coryton Quadrilles’ – compositions intended for dance and sure to have been played in the grand ballroom with notes echoing through the corridors of the mansion between then and his death in 1855.  Read more...
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Isobelle Ray May at Ninety
Well known Kilmington resident and local teacher, Isobelle Ray celebrated her 90th birthday on 8th October 2009.  She told Brian Lavender that she was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, of Scottish parents, Doctor Robert and Jean Ray.  Read more...

Down Memory Lane
Stewart Adlam and Greta Stoddart who now own Oxenlears, the large house down the lane from Hills Farm in Kilmington which was owned by the Trott family for many years, invited to tea the surviving members of the 13 strong Hall family that used to live there in the 1930’s.
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Kilmington's Renowed Poet
Greta Stoddart, who live at Oxenlears in Kilmington with her partner Stewart and their two sons Jesse and Frank, has won critical acclaim for her collections of poems: At Home in the Dark (Anvil) for which she was awarded the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize in 2002.  Read more...

A Remarkable Woman,
Rosemary Hurford
Family and close neighbours arrived at Rosemary Hurford’s home in Kilmington on Christmas morning to celebrate her 80th birthday with champagne and cake.  Her family had held a lunch party in the Village Hall on 14 December, attended by her many friends.  Read more...