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  Year: 1940s My Banbury gran's village.
My grandmother's name was Amelia Gough and she lived in the second cottage on the right at the bottom of the green on the road to Mollington, water was collected by bucket over the road from a tap in the vicarage wall.  She had two children Arthur and Mary, my mother.  We lived in Oxford and visited every two weeks arriving Saturday and going back to Oxford Sunday.  We went by train to Banbury stopping at every village on the way, then caught a little yellow and green bus to Warmington.  I made a lot of friends with the local children, we spent most of the time roaming round the fields, helping on the farm just below the cottages with a Mr Pugh I think his name was.  Or watching the cars come down Warmington hill with poor brakes and failing to make it round the bend at the bottom.  I have been back several times but there is never anyone in the old cottage, I would love to see what changes have been made.  In those days the sheep were dipped just below the pond, they were pushed down the ramp then shoved under the sheep dip then chased out.  Happy memories and times never to return.  Now semi-retired and living in Cornwall, even here it is changing, sadly not for the better.

Last edited: 01/08/2006 10:58 by Michael Bennett  

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