Wallingford
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Banbury Town Walk Guide
Paperback
Banbury - A History and Celebration
Hardback
Henley-on-Thames Town and City Memories
Paperback
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haywards from loders dorset
John Hayward (1813) came from Loders in Dorset and settled in this area of Wallingford, of Benson, Bradfield, Englefield and married local girl Mary Anne Kitchen. His son Robert James eventually farmed Uxmore Farm at Ipsden, near Stoke Row in Berks/Oxon. I am collecting a photographic record of the Hayward family in these areas for a family tree.
Contributed by Yoga-Prakash Saraswati
Oxfordshire memories
haywards from loders dorset
John Hayward (1813) came from Loders in Dorset and settled in this area of Wallingford, of Benson, Bradfield, Englefield and married local girl Mary Anne Kitchen. His son Robert James eventually farmed Uxmore Farm at Ipsden, near Stoke Row in Berks/Oxon. I am collecting a photographic record of the Hayward family in these areas for a family tree.
A memory of Wallingford contributed by Yoga-Prakash Saraswati
Old caravan field near Benson?
My husband was at RAF Benson in 1969. We got married in November, but could not find any accommodation around the airfield. In desperation we rented a tiny caravan in a farmer's field south of the airfield. There was no running water and the one outside tap tended to freeze in winter. The few caravans were managed by an elderly couple - the old lady I remember vividly, as she had long straggly grey hair and always wore the same outfit: big baggy sweater over a kilt over blue jeans and wellingtons! To get to Benson you came out of the caravan field, turned left and at the end of this lane was a pub, ...read more here
A memory of Benson contributed by Jeanette Clarke
Memories of Benson
My memories of Benson started in 1946/7 when we moved to Sunnyside, which in those days did not have the recreation field. Nor did the village have street lighting apart from a couple in the High Street, one of which was on the wall of Franklin's Farm. The shops in those days were Slaughters Stores, High Street & Chamberlains Stores, Castle Square. There were 2 butchers in High Street (Wm. Lee & the other I can't remember the name), Stan Blisset had the hairdressers next to Slaughters Stores. Tom Shotton was the postmaster. Bill Aldridge ran the greengrocers shop, opposite Crown Hotel, and was later taken over by Wm Turner. Gurneys Garage was a small unit in Chapel Lane. My stepfather, ...read more here
A memory of Benson contributed by John WEBB
Extracts From Wallingford & Oxfordshire books
The Anglo-Saxons almost certainly fortified Wallingford, and there was once an important castle here, though
little of it survives today. The town was the last Royalist stronghold to surrender during the Civil War. At one time
Wallingford had 16 churches.
An extract from from"Oxfordshire Photographic Memories".
Wallingford’s imposing 17th-century Town Hall dominates this Victorian photograph. The building rests on pillars;
it contains portraits by Lawrence and Gainsborough, as well as a silver mace and the 15th-century town seal. On
the left is the 19th-century Corn Exchange, now a theatre.
An extract from from"Oxfordshire Photographic Memories".
In Wallingford’s town centre is a fine Market Place. The railed enclosure with the lamp post has gone, but the 1885 drinking fountain and canopy, to the right of the ‘growler’ cab, remain, or rather were reinstated in 1979. The buildings on the left have gone, their replacements dull to awful.
An extract from from"Down the Thames Photographic Memories".
The Victorian drinking fountain at the far end of the Market Place was given to Wallingford in 1885 by Alderman
Hawkins, who ran a draper’s shop, Field and Hawkins, in the town.
An extract from from"Oxfordshire Photographic Memories".
Back on the river, this view looks north-east from the Crowmarsh Gifford bank to Bridge House, with the remarkable spire of St Peter’s Church beyond. Designed by the normally staid Sir Robert Taylor, the church is inventive and free Gothic, but of 1777. The bridge is remarkable too, and long, with seventeen arches, three of them medieval, three of 1809 and the rest of 1751.
An extract from from"Down the Thames Photographic Memories".