Storypics.My Ledbury and Me

The Secret of Lizard Mountain
is now available in all major outlets, ie W.H.Smith, Waterstones and on line at Amazon. Written by myself, a local author, Brian Morris.
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This novel is also available as a download for £1.25 at www.lulu.com Click the title below to go straight to The Secret of Lizard Mountain

See my "Ledbury Reunited" page for memories of other people who lived and grew up in Ledbury. Thanks to everyone who has contributed.

Last updated : 27th May 2009 Ledbury reunited.

See "The winter of 1963" in Memories.

What was it like growing up in Ledbury in the fifties and sixties?

How much has this small market town changed in the last forty or so years?

My name is Brian Morris and I want to use these pages to tell you about Ledbury as I remember it and what it was like to grow up in this lovely little town and all the changes that I have seen in my lifetime. I hope you find it as interesting reading about it as I have writing about it.
If you know me and shared the same adventures and fun with me then please let me know and remind me of them using the link to my e-mail just below. Thanks.

I thought I should write a little bit about myself and my family and maybe you might get some idea of the sort of person I am now. Reading through the rest of the site, you will probably deduce what kind of yob I was as a youngster. I'm only joking really. I was no angel, but I wasn't a psycopath either. As kids, my friends and I didn't go around beating up old ladies to get a few quid for drugs. We were brought up to respect older people and got a clip around the ear-ol' if you didn't. I'm not kidding either.

Anyway, on with the little bit of info about me which I will be adding to when I have the time. Thanks for reading anyway.

I was born on the 17th of September 1951, the exact time I don’t know, in the small market town of Ledbury in the county of Hereford. My parents Douglas and May Morris, both now sadly deceased were, at the time of my birth, living in what I can only term as emergency accommodation. It was actually the old Prisoner of War camp, known simply at the time as “The Camp”. There weren’t any proper houses at the time, just the old nissen huts previously occupied by German and Italian prisoners of war, some of whom stayed on in Ledbury after the war and integrated well into the local community.
Anyway, I don’t remember any thing about my short time living in a nissen hut because we were soon living in a new house in Margaret Road, number 32 to be precise which was home until I married and moved to this damned awful city of Hereford. Awful because they seem only concerned with preserving the old way of life without moving forward and I believe the two can go together.

Well, I had four sisters and one brother. Sadly, two of my sisters I never knew because they died before I was born. Margaret was five years old and was knocked down on a zebra crossing in Ledbury just before Christmas 1943 when my father was in Italy serving with the royal artillery. Unfortunately with circumstances prevailing, he wasn’t allowed home for her funeral. The other sister was Jeanette who developed measles complicated by pneumonia. She was just fourteen months old when she died..

These are the two sisters that I did know. Pat is the eldest on the left and Mary is on the left. Sadly, Mary is no longer with us having died tragically at the age of 32 in 1985. I guess that anyone who knows me will know the circumstances of her death in S. Wales where she lived with her three children.

These are my late parents, May and Doug Morris.
Dad worked all his life as a lorry driver and mum worked most of her life at Ledbury preserves where they made loads of jam. I'm not sure what they make there nowadays.
I do have an elder brother, Ray but as yet, I don't have a photo of him to put up here. He's ugly anyway so maybe I won't bother.
Only kidding really.

Now that's enough about me so now it's time to carry on reading my memories of a Ledbury long gone and sadly missed.

For more information about modern Ledbury and what's going on take a look at www.visitledbury.co.uk You may well be surprised at what a small market town can accomplish and realize it's well worth a trip in person.

I would like to hear from anyone who knows me or anyone who has any information or would like to correct any mistakes I may have made in my recollections of the Ledbury I grew up in.
If you have any old photographs of Ledbury which were taken circa 1950's 1960's I will be pleased to include them on my site. You can e-mail me at the address below. Thanks.
brian@storypics.co.uk

Some Useful Links

*Clive Massey*	My thanks to my friend, *Clive Massey* for helping with advice for building this website. Without his encouraging words, I may not have even got it started. Click here to visit his own web pages. Thanks to him again for helping me with ideas for my books.
*Cool Stuff*	Want to see some useful stuff? Then click here. No pop ups, no viruses and no spyware, just lots of Cool stuff for you to see and use.

*My Writing*	And click here to read about me and my writing.
	Here's a link for all you gamers who enjoy role-play-games. It's run by a friend of mine and is free from spyware and viruses. Take a look at Kmant.com

Ledbury Civic Society
"Looking after Ledbury"

A new website for Ledbury and about Ledbury and of interest to everyone living or having lived in this picturesque little town.

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