Wollaston Village
Community Contributions
This website is built on local knowledge. Every photograph, memory, document and family story shared by residents helps tell the full story of Wollaston village life — past and present.
What we're looking for
Every contribution matters
The Wollaston Village archive is a community project. We are not a museum or a professional archive — we are a group of residents trying to record and share the history and life of the village before memories fade and photographs are lost. Whatever you have, however small it seems, could be exactly what we're missing.
Photographs
Old photographs of the village, streets, buildings, events, people and everyday life. Any era welcome — the older the better.
- Street scenes
- Village events
- Family portraits in the village
- Old shops and businesses
- School photographs
Memories
Personal memories of growing up in Wollaston, working here, shopping here or visiting. Written accounts, recorded conversations or brief notes all welcome.
- Childhood memories
- Working life
- Old shops and services
- Village characters
- Events and occasions
Documents & Records
Old letters, receipts, bills, programmes, newspapers, maps, school reports, trade directories or any paper records connected with Wollaston.
- Trade directories
- School records
- Church programmes
- Local newspapers
- Business receipts or adverts
Family History
Family trees, genealogical research or family stories connected with Wollaston families — past or present.
- Family trees
- Census research
- Occupational records
- Family stories
- Connections to village trades
From the community
Recent contributions
A collection of 1930s–1970s photographs showing the High Street, the old Co-op and village life donated by a local family.
A resident's memory of buying sweets from the corner shop on Howard Road as a child — now a hair salon — shared by a family with roots in the village going back generations.
Memories of Pearson's Garage and the Shell petrol pumps opposite the old Wollaston Inn, contributed by a former resident.
Recollections of the Co-op butcher's on Newton Road and the bakery near Thrift Street, from a resident who grew up in the village in the 1960s.