My father, history teacher and local historian Peter Griffin (11th March 1943 to 31st January 2020), lived for almost his whole life in King’s Stanley. Since he was a teenager, he spent many years visiting archives and meticulously researching the history of the village his family has lived in for over four centuries. When he died last year, he left a complete manuscript, which family and friends have now published as a 400-page volume.
Peter Griffin’s History of King’s Stanley, which also covers Middleyard and Selsley, is an in-depth account of life in the village from pre-historic times to the present day. It includes chapters on Roman evidence; the Anglo-Saxon and Medieval periods; Manor and Borough; agriculture; the cloth industry; religion; the Parish Vestry and Parish Council; population and welfare; education; law and order; politics and the military; the Marling family; and social life.
The book contains 69 black and white illustrations, a two-page map of the parish, and a comprehensive index, which includes many local family names.
For more details please see
www.historyofkingsstanley.org
