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Harwell photos

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Harwell maps

Historic maps of Harwell and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis.   View all Harwell maps

Harwell map

Historic map of Harwell

Oxfordshire map

Illustrated Victorian map of Oxfordshire

Harwell map

Historic Map of any Harwell postcode

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Harwell books

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Oxfordshire Photographic Memories
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Abingdon Photographic Memories
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Henley-on-Thames Town and City Memories
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Harwell books
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Memories of Harwell

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Oxfordshire memories

Grandad

I spent several summer school holidays in Didcot with my mate and grandad,
he lived in Newlands Avenue with my Uncle Bert. Grandad ran the bar in the army camp. He used to send me round to wake up the men first thing. The man in charge was a Sergeant Biggs. Mum worked in the post office where she met Dad,... [more]

Shared on 09 December 2008 by Thomas Johnson.

The Prior family of Steventon

My grandmother lived in Steventon with her own grandmother around 1880. She was Florence Prior and her own gran was Eliza Prior who by then was a widow and a laundress living in Timsbury Cottage. I have tried to find the cottage but the only place I have seen with a similar name is Timsbury Villa. I sometimes wonder if it... [more]

Shared on 12 January 2008 by John Howard Norfolk.

The best time of my life

I was 8 when I moved to Steventon.  We used to live in Didcot while I was a baby.  I enjoyed Didcot and liked the town side of it.  Also we moved here because my mum and dad wanted to live in the countryside while I was growing up to my teens. My mum is called Sharon Tappin and my dad... [more]

Shared on 08 June 2007 by Rebecca Tappin.

Homesick

I went to Steventon as a 'Mother's Help' to an Italian family.  I came from near Manchester. I had to clean, look after a baby and a toddler and help with cooking.
But I had never been away from home before and decided it wasn't for me.  It was a lovely house on the Causeway which was a listed building. The... [more]

Shared on 02 June 2007 by Dianne Littlewood.

A year in England

At the age of 11 I lived in Steventon with my family at 103 The Causeway for the school year 1968-69.  This was a tremendous experience I have treasured all of my life.  I attended school at St. Michaels and went to church there.  My father was on a sabbatical leave as a college professor which is how we ended up... [more]

Shared on 10 February 2007

Boot Inn 1955, now The Old Boot, a private house

Ceased operation as a pub in 1959. Now (2007) privately occupied by the Beran family. Previous owners were a builder who divided the land, the village schoolmaster, and the Jarvis'. A few relics of its pub days remain with serving hatches still visible and vertical planking in the hallway. The black rectangle to the left of the building was the privy,... [more]

Shared on 14 January 2007 by Max Beran.

When my family moved to Sutton Courtenay in the 1960s this was the only shop left in the old part of the village. It was a fabulous place with big glass jars of sweets behind the counter, I used to visit here as soon as I received my pocket money! It was run by the Mussells, I think (pronounced 'Muzz-ells'). My... [more]

Shared on 20 June 2009 by Sean K.

George Orwell

George Orwell (real name Eric Blair), who was the author of '1984' and 'Animal Farm', is buried in All Saints' churchyard.

Shared on 07 December 2008 by John Lewis.

Extracts From Harwell & Oxfordshire books

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Oxfordshire Living Memories

Harwell has a long and chequered history, but it is probably better known today because of the Atomic Energy Research Establishment that was established nearby in 1946. Lilliput's shop, on the corner of the High Street and Drewitt's Corner, closed in the 1970s when the building was demolished to make way for more modern development.

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Abingdon Photographic Memories

The Crown and Thistle Hotel, first mentioned in 1605, was a coaching inn, and one of the town's best known ones. It is still popular, and has the truncated remains of its inn courtyard within – we see it here from the yard end of the carriageway through the building. The further part of the yard in this view now has a roof supported on posts to give shelter to tables and chairs.

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Abingdon Photographic Memories

Skirting the modern shopping centre, our tour reaches Stert Street, which runs south towards the Market Place; in the 1890s, it was one of Abingdon's main shopping streets. On the right, W H Hooke's bookshop (now a jeweller's) is the start of the market place encroachment. We are looking towards St Nicholas's Church. Until 1883, only its tower was visible; then two pubs which jutted into the street, one on each side, were demolished for road improvement. Little survives on the left... [more]

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