Brown Owl Hotel c1965, Burnham
Brown Owl Hotel c1965, Burnham Ref: B250086
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Schoolboy Caddy
I spent many a happy moment as a schoolboy caddy at BBGC at the end of the 50s and early 60s. It was also a very useful source of pocket money. I regularly caddied for local businessmen, the likes of the MD of Weston's Biscuits, Herbert Greenshield, as well as a number of visitors. The professional at that time was Joe Burnham who was always prepared to buy lost balls we found to help our meagre income. The golf course also played host on occasions to important groups of visitors... I well remember the visit of the Australian Cricket touring side in the 1950s and Lord and Lady Astor were frequent players on the beautiful course. I was introduced to the Club by several of my uncles, especially Sid and Fred and cousin Gerald who was an apprentice pro at Temple, who were members of the flourishing Artisan section at the time. It really was a very democratic club and I hope it has managed to stay that way. Great memories,... Read more
Marriage
St. Peters church is where my ggg grandfather John Peck married my ggg grandmother Martha Robbins in 1813.
''''Burnham Beeches''''
.... as a little girl, I always remember going here with my Mum, my Aunt Edith and my cousin Dick.
Mum would say we are going to 'Burnham Beeches today'. I could never quite understand when we got there, where the sand and sea was ... and I realise now that 'Beeches' meant 'trees' .. and not the 'seaside'!
General Memories
My family were the Elstones who lived in High Street on the 1881 census, although they were all in the Burnham area for many years.
My grandfather was Manager of Websters Coal Yard at Taplow station, but then returned to the village to live in the flats just north of the High Street in about 1960.
I think some of the 'Chant' side of the family are still living there.
Rhodes Green 1779c
My great-great-great-grandfather Rhodes Green was born in Burnham and lived and worked in Church Street. On the 1851 census he is listed as a shoemaker (master) and employing 2 men. His sons are shoemakers and his daughters are shoe binders. My friend Jean's ancester is John Tilbury and he is on the same census, he is also living in Church Street as a shoemaker (master).
My Grandfather Had The Foundry
I am taking a guess at the year, my paternal grandfather was one of the partners in a foundry called Wood and Stannard. The business was at the lower end of the High Street, and oposite the road to the church and the Five Bells pub. Not entirely sure what year he left Brittania House (as that was what it was called),
I have very vivid memories of Dr Summers and his monocle, I was told he was a Colonel in the first war. I remember seeing him riding a HUGE horse down the High Street (well I was only small!). Although we lived in Cippenham, My Dad's links were to Burnham and I feel more of a nostalgia for the Burnham old days, than anywhere else. Must just be old age, eh?
Summer in The Country
In 1949 when I was six, my two cousins and I were sent to Burnham Beeches for a holiday. We lived in the East End of London.
We loved it there, it was summer and very hot, to play all day in the fields was such freedom. The family with whom we stayed were called Walters they lived in a converted Nissen hut . The eldest child was named David, also a younger girl. The father worked in a sweet factory which made Mars bars and Spangles I think.
I still remember fondly my first holiday in the country. I wonder if anyone in Burnham remembers three East End kids that came to stay in the summer of 49.
Growing up in Burnham
In this year I was 5 years old, and just starting school in the church hall in Gore Road, which is the road in which I also grew up.
I remember Burnham as a small, close-knit community, we went to church every Sunday, it was friendly and safe.
My Mother's family were one of the first to inhabit Burnham, and are recorded in the doomsday book, the family name was Brookling.
I have many happy memories of playing in the meadows, before the sprawling estates were built in Minniecroft and Lent Green Lane.
We all knew Cleares, Hearns the butcher, the local Doctors, in the High Street, Dr Summers, Dr Daily and Dr Mitchell-Fox.
Clonmel had not been built either, and it seemed all of us kids knew each other in the village.
How it has changed! Now you can walk down the village and not see a soul you know, sad, but that is progress, the pace of life, and community has been lost in the many years since... Read more
