Leekfrith Bygone Days
is a historical society formed in Feb 2008 with the aim of researching the history of the Leekfrith parish and it's surrounding areas. Leekfrith parish is a few miles north of Leek Staffordshire and includes the Roaches, an area of outstanding beauty.
Headlines- updated 19 Oct 2009
Message Board - leave a message, you may find a long lost relative.
A cutting from the Post & Times from 1958 has been added to the Lud Church Documents page. Active projects>Link to Lud Church documents
Images of postcards of Lud Church from early 1900's added. Go to Active projects>Link to Lud Church photographs.
Pages for the Chapel and Lud Church projects have been added. Some press cuttings have been added for the Lud Church project. Go to Active projects>Lud Church documents
An Archive page has now been started with a pdf file of the 1999 Flower festival pamphlet "Memories of Meerbrook"
See this website about Rushton Spencer to see what kind of information we could get!
Audio of Edna Barlow, a resident of Upper Hulme, has been added to the Reminiscences page
A new Reminiscences area has been added to the website. This will include audio recordings and transcripts of conversations with local residents of Leekfrith.
We have six active projects at present.
These are.....
1. Wells and springs
2. Water Mills
3. Properties flooded by the reservoir
4. St Matthews church Meerbrook
5. Meerbrook Chapel
6. Lud Church