Lesley Hadley & Kay Patterson​

Lesley & Kay at home in The Austin Village. Photographed March 2018 by Stephen Burke. Lesley Hadley & Kay Patterson “We didn’t realise this place even existed, for us Longbridge was industry and cars, we knew nothing about it really but it certainly didn’t suggest a little oasis, I was just amazed to find a […]

Megan Evans

Megan Evans. Photographed March 2018 by Stephen Burke. Megan Evans “It’s been the heart of Longbridge for a 100 years. There are not many places that you can say everyone knows each other and everyone will help each other. The street parties we had every year, I absolutely loved them, literally the whole year you would […]

Hazel Griffiths

Hazel Griffiths in her garden in The Austin Village. Photographed March 2018 by Stephen Burke. Hazel Griffiths “A lot of people don’t know about the village and a lot of people who come because of other stories about it, they just fall in love with it and they stay. A lot of people come to […]

Harry Blondell

Harry Blondell Harry has lived in the village since 2001. He shared the process of building a scale replica model of an Austin Village bungalow, as it would have appeared in 1917.  “I retired in ‘98 and we moved here in 2001. There was plenty to do, I done it all through like, that took […]

Alan Taylor

Alan Taylor at home in The Austin Village. Photographed February 2018 by Stephen Burke. Alan Taylor “People have visited from various areas and I don’t know of any exception of people not saying what a nice place it is to live, and I’ll take their word for it. I’ve been here all this time, which […]