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Harwell, Oxfordshire
Harwell maps
Historic maps of Harwell and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Harwell maps
Historic map of Harwell
Illustrated Victorian map of Oxfordshire
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Harwell books
Displaying 3 of 3 books about Harwell and the local area. View all Harwell books
Oxfordshire Photographic Memories
Paperback
£14
Abingdon Photographic Memories
Paperback
£13
Henley-on-Thames Town and City Memories
Paperback
£13
1 Harwell photos appear in 1 Frith book titles. You can read extracts and browse photos from these books.
Memories of Harwell
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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
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
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
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
Extracts From Harwell & Oxfordshire books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Harwell, inspired by Frith photos.
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.
This is an extract from Oxfordshire Living Memories.
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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.
This is an extract from Abingdon Photographic Memories.
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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]
This is an extract from Abingdon Photographic Memories.
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