Village History


Ryburgh Schooldays

Memories of Ryburgh School.


A Farmers Foundry Tumbril

The ongoing restoration of a derelict piece of farm machinery


What the papers say in the 1700's

Ryburgh from Eighteenth Century newspapers


Ryburgh Yesterday from your photo albums

images of Ryburgh past taken by David Howe, Eric Pilch and from the photo collections of various others.


The Ryburgh Swifts

Charting the early history of Ryburgh's football team from 1911 from the Parish Magazine


Percy Who?

Nic Costa's 1983 article about Percy Everitt


Percy Everitt in Court

Percy Everitt's private life seems to have been as eventful as was his working life as seen in these newspaper cuttings from July 1886


The Smiths of Ryburgh

This book first published in 1990 by Crisp Malting Limited is no longer available in print and is reproduced here by the kind permission of Mr Euan McPherson Managing Director of the Crisp Malting Group


An appreciation of Foundry Worker Herbert Waters by Percy Ellison

A letter preserved in the the Scrap books of Eric and Jean Pilch


Hector Middleton and the Foundry

A transcript of a conversation with David Howe c 1970

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