Bisham, The Dining Hall, Bisham Abbey, National Recreational Centre 1953
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Photo of Bisham, The Dining Hall, Bisham Abbey, National Recreational Centre 1953

A Selection of Memories from Bisham

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Bisham

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My paternal grandmother, Kate Paine Whitbourn, was born in these cottages in 1896.  Her father was the head carpenter at Bisham Abbey. The Paine family had lived in Bisham for several generations. When I was little, Gran and I would visit the kirk and 'water' her grandad.  He was a great cricketer. We would stop at the monument, the war memorial, to read the names of Charles Paine and Guy and Berkeley Paget ...see more