Village History


The Great Ryburgh Streaker and other reports from the press

Last Updated: 17th September 2018

Events which shocked Ryburgh in the C19th. before the advent of Television and the News of the World.


Ryburgh Schooldays

Last Updated: 16th July 2025

Memories of Ryburgh School.


A Farmers Foundry Tumbril

Last Updated: 23rd February 2017

The ongoing restoration of a derelict piece of farm machinery


What the papers say in the 1700's

Last Updated: 7th July 2015

Ryburgh from Eighteenth Century newspapers


Ryburgh Yesterday from your photo albums

Last Updated: 25th September 2019

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


The Ryburgh Swifts

Last Updated: 3rd September 2023

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


Percy Who?

Last Updated: 31st January 2015

Nic Costa's 1983 article about Percy Everitt


Percy Everitt in Court

Last Updated: 18th December 2014

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

Last Updated: 27th September 2021

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

Last Updated: 19th July 2014

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

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