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the green east hanney
I moved to East Hanney in 1956 at the age of 4, we moved to Manor Farm Cottage just behind the centre of the photo. the large tree on the left was known as "the big tree" and it was said that Oliver Cromwell camped there, the occupant of the house on the far end of the row was Mr Creed, I have a photo of me taken in 1957 just behind his house in the orchard, where the new houses are now.Every year a small fair was held on the green, the rides were supplied by Jumbo Collins from Challow, I left in late 1966 and the big tree was felled shortly after that.
A nice village for a ...read more here
A memory of East Hanney contributed by timothy gibbs
St Nicholas Place
I used to live at 1st Nicholas Place and use the shop in the photo when I was a child growing up in the village. The memories I have of the village were of good times.
A memory of East Challow contributed by greg holcombe
A foreigner's memories
My other half and I are having a great time here, in Woolstone at the foot of White Horse Hill for nearly 4 years now. I can only recommend this charming little village to anyone who wants to have an idea of the typical English countryside. Worth a visit for all nature lovers. You are always welcome here.
A memory of Woolstone contributed by Diana Horvath
Fortescue and Church families
I don't have a memory as such, but I have been researching my family history and have traced my mother's family back to this place. My mother was born in 1916 and lived in Oxford. However, her grandfather came from Marcham and I've now traced the family back (so far) to the 1600's. They were Fortescues and Churches, all from Marcham. In the main the males were farm labourers and my mother's grandfather moved to Oxford to become head gardener at one of the colleges.
There is a record of the family being joined by marriage 200 years ago and, also, my mother's parents were a Fortescue and a Church.
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A memory of Marcham contributed by anne woodford
Extracts From Buckland & Oxfordshire books
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 today apart from the two gables of No 3, a 15th-century house, partly hidden by the horse-less cart.
An extract from from"Abingdon Photographic Memories".
The Fraternity of the Holy Cross built the two bridges, the causeway across Nag’s Head Island, and then the long causeway that runs south for over a thousand yards across the flood plain to Culham, where they built a five-arched stone bridge between 1416 and 1422. Culham Bridge crossed the cut dug for Abbot Orderic in 1052 and known as the Swift Ditch. It is difficult nowadays to see that quiet stream as the main navigation channel, rather than the Thames itself, but so indeed it was for centuries. This view shows Burford Bridge.
An extract from from"Abingdon Photographic Memories".
Stevens’s Boatyard on the east end of Nag’s Head Island also incorporated the landing stage for the Crown and Thistle Hotel in Bridge Street, some hundred yards away from the river. Note the elegant steam launch tied up at the landing stage with its striped awning to protect passengers. The house between the trees is Cosener’s House, built on the site where the cosener or kitcheners lived – he was the medieval official who ran the Abingdon Abbey’s kitchens.
An extract from from"Abingdon Photographic Memories".
A little further along the road towards East Hanney is the 1930s Lamb Inn. Beyond it, the pair of gables belong to one of a crescent of 1950s council houses. The drainage ditch on the right has now been filled in and paved over as a footpath, and the area in front of the pub is now entirely a tarmac car park.
An extract from from"Abingdon Photographic Memories".
Of the great Benedictine Abbey of St Mary in Abingdon little survives above ground. Once the sixth wealthiest of England’s medieval monasteries, it was dissolved by Henry VIII in 1538, and much of its stonework was carried by river to London. This view shows the gatehouse which led from the market place into the abbey precincts, with the church of St Nicholas on the left.
An extract from from"Abingdon Photographic Memories".