12 results within Place Kiviks församling

My grandfather, Carl Olsson, bought an area of 15 hectares for SEK 8500 in South Mellby. It really was a primeval forest, but he wanted to start growing fruit there – and everyone mocked at him about his idea. He dug everything by hand, the whole area. S…

My great-grandmother started baking bread for the builders working on the new church in South Mellby in the 1880s. She baked it in her usual wood stove in the house, and the workers at the church construction site appreciated her bread so much that they d…

In 1966, I was 17 years old and had my first summer job - but it was not a usual one: I helped in a psychiatric clinic in Stockholm. My aunt was a senior nurse there at a department for patients with depressions. I assisted the staff during the summer and…

My parents started working at the Port Pension (Hamnpensionatet) in Kivik in the late 1930s. In 1949, they began to rent Vik’s Hotel themselves in Rörum and did so until 1962. In 1954, they also bought Hotel Hanöbris in Kivik, which they run parallel to V…

In my youth, I was most interested in music and literature. So when one of my friends, with whom I played music, moved to Gothenburg, I decided to follow him so we could continue to play together. In the 1970s, it was easy to find a job after college and …

On June 1, 1965, I was almost 17 years old and started working at Skånska bank (Scanian bank) in Kivik. It was a regional bank that was bought up by Handelsbanken in 1989/90. As customers, we had private individuals and small to medium-sized companies. At…

I grew up in Kivik in the 1940s in very simple conditions. My parents got divorced, which was extremely unusual at that time, especially in Kivik. But I decided early on that this would not determine my future, and I decided: "Someday, I'll come …

The psalmodicon is an instrument invented during the 1820s, which has been very popular in schools and churches. Because it is such a typical church instrument, I think it illustrates well my working life as a cantor. Music is my life. Already as a child,…

I left secondary school (realskola) in 1956 and had the dream of becoming become a gymnastics teacher. But then I met a gym teacher who definitely advised me "you shouldn't think it's a bed of roses to teach kids gymnastics!” Instead, I star…

Nils Nilsson started a carpentry factory in Vitaby in 1917. He had previously worked at the sawmill in Kivik, and then took over the premises in Vitaby. My father, Sven Algot Andersson, started as an apprentice in the factory in 1927. When the owner died…

My story is about my parents' strawberry farming. They moved to Mellby in 1956 and bought a small 300-year-old farm that had pigs and cows earlier. But during the 1950s, raising animals was no longer profitable in small-scale farming. So in 1958, the…

This plate depicts my grandfather's windmill, Mellby Mill. Per Nilsson built it in 1859, together with a house for the miller. In 1898, my grandfather bought the mill, moved there with his family, and settled in the house next to the mill. The sack an…