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MY SECOND HOME

In 1943 I worked on the Great Western Railway and sent by them to Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire as a locomotive fireman.  It was here that I met a young lady whose home was Lower Heyford, Oxfordshire.  She also worked in Leamington on the GWR as a Passenger Guard. This lady was later to become my wife.  After a short period of going out together she invited me to her home.

Her home 112 Freehold Street, Lower Heyford is shown in the picture, seen on the right with a Porch at the front door and a bush adjacent.  The Family were Mr. & Mrs. George Cuss. They had three children, 1. Alice, (Now Mrs. A. Stockley living at Swanage,  Dorset. ...read more here
A memory of Lower Heyford contributed by Roy Newton

The Bakery

When I lived in the village there was a bakery at the building on the corner of this road where it went down to the canal. The flour was ground at the Mill over the drawbridge for making the most delicious bread you could buy in those days. My grandfather worked at the Mill grinding the flour.
The last time I visited the village there was an antique shop in its place.
A memory of Lower Heyford contributed by marion june messenger

Dads first cattle

My dad had a yard here before the houses were built back in the 40s. He bought his first cows and used to milk them in a barn there.
I can remember as a small child being in the barn with mum and dad when an aeroplane crashed just behind the village hall on the corner of the cross roads close by. The pilot had parachuted out and survived. The plane was trying to get back into Upper Heyford at the time. It must have been near the end of the war or just after. No one was hurt anyway.
A memory of Lower Heyford contributed by marion june messenger

Where I was born

I was born at 24 Freehold Street in September 1939. My mother told me that a man who lived at the top of the street came down on his bike blowing a whistle to warn people of an air raid the same day. I can still remember most of the peoples' names who lived in the street.
There was a house at the top of the street that was a shop. I went to school with the girls from the family. We could play out in the street in those days and were safe too.
I remember the milkman coming round with his pony and milk float every day. My mother used to fetch water from a tap down below our ...read more here
A memory of Lower Heyford contributed by marion june messenger