Over the past ten years the Creekmouth Preservation Society has collected countless memories from former residents of the village. Here you can read a small selection of nostalgic recollections of life in Creekmouth.
Jesse Sleight (b.1922) remembers going to Creekmouth School. ‘As far as I can remember I went to school when I was aged 3 and a half. Mum used to come over at lunchtime and bring me a biscuit and a cup of cocoa. We had a teacher named Miss Adams. She was a tall, blonde
My children and grandchildren would love the life then. Lots of fields to play in, jumping ditches to see who could jump the farthest. We were lucky: Fields, trees to climb, no traffic. We were always outside. Other than Scarlet Fever and Diphtheria we never ailed for anything. We used to build tents out of
