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Historic maps of Orcheston and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Orcheston maps
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Tilshead| Stonehenge| Wylye| Wilsford| Netheravon| Figheldean| Stoford| Fittleton| Haxton| Lavington| Great Wishford| Upavon| Erlestoke
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Memories of Orcheston
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Wiltshire memories
The Browns
First saw this house and street when I was a baby. Noads House was Mr and Mrs Browns house. It is still there in 2006 looking just the same!
The Old Post Office
I have found this very postcard in an old photo album of my late aunt, although mine I think is older, and not c1955. I believe that she lived here and may have been the post mistress in the 1930's/40's. Her name was Dulcie Donovan. the ref. on the postcard is Frith TSD(or O) 6. I wonder if anyone there remembers her.
Tilhead, Rose And Crown: Painting in Bar
Summer 1959 (I think) I was with Abingdon School Combined Cadet Force at Westdown Camp for our annual training week. The nearest pub, for us naughty under-age drinkers in the evenings, was the Rose and Crown. Apart from the excellent beer and the landlord's tolerant welcome, my abiding memory is of a simple watercolour(?) painting, possibly over the fireplace, of a night time veiw of the pub under a full moon with a bird standing behind a pig outside the front door. Below the painting instead of a title were the letters BEVOAPAOTRACOAMN. A pint for the landlord bought the translation: "Bird's eye view of a pig's a**e outside the Rose and Crown on a moonlit night". Is the painting still there? Indeed does the pub still exist?
Tilshead in The Last Century!
Tilshead was the place where I was born and have lived in for a long time. It is a quiet village of around 400 or so people. There was and still is a post office. There was a pub called The Bell but is now a private thatched house. There are still two other pubs, The Rose and Crown, and The Black Horse. There were three shops but now only one. There was and still is a petrol station - which has grown a lot since 1966. The village of Tilshead still has all but a (very) few of the houses which are shown on the photos on the Francis Frith website. It is a really homely and friendly place where anyone who enjoys the countrylife would like to live.
I Used to Live There.
I used to live with my family in the Black Horse Pub from around 1963-1965. I left just after starting secondary school. I still live in Wiltshire and often drive through Tilshead for a trip down memory lane. I am now in my early 50's but have many memories of my time there. Most notably my time spent in the little school in the village - just two classrooms. I have seen photos of Tilshead now and nothing much seems to have changed.
My Childhood Living in Tilshead
my memories of tilshead ,well i lived there from1953 till 1968[from the age of 2 to 15 years old..every body seemed to know each other in the village ,a friendly small community as i remember .I first went to tilshead primary school [yes 2 classrooms and a big pot belly stove for warmth in winter. .Mrs lambert was our teacher,and a strict but fair lady she was too ,we just happened to live next door to her in the last house in west end .no6.my friends were graham gosney [son of the local copper]paul booth ,dereck potter and more.there always seemed to be things to do ,i remember playing the pinballs and juke box in the canteen at the bottom of imber place,[which i am led to believe is now a pipe factory??]many hours were spent riding our pushbikes around the plains and army camps climbing in and out of the derilect army tanks they used for gunnery practice .many times a frantic pedal home as the RED flag was... Read more
Playing
I lived in Tilshead from about the age of five until I was 12. My surname then was Cruse and we lived at West End. I have very fond memories of my life in Tilshead. I still write to Mrs Ruth Kyte and used to go to their Sunday School every week at the Baptist Chapel. We used to have outings and I can remember going to Greatwood camp with the Sunday School.
Me and my brothers used to spend a lot of our time playing up at the lodge, it was a great place to be, lots of space and trees and walks etc, although it is now closed off to the public because it is military land.
We used to attend the school summer fete every year and take part in the maypole dancing. Our teacher then was Mrs Davies who was lovely, she was quite strict but fantastic, I've heard since that she sadly died in a road accident. We used to have lots of dressing up... Read more
