You are here:
Upper Brailes
Upper Brailes maps
Historic maps of Upper Brailes and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Upper Brailes maps
Upper Brailes photos
We have no photos of Upper Brailes, although we do have photos of these nearby places:
Compton Wynyates| Shipston-On-Stour| Edgehill| Moreton-In-Marsh
Upper Brailes area books
Displaying 1 of 7 books about Upper Brailes and the local area. View all books for this area
You can read extracts and browse photos from these books.
Memories of Upper Brailes
No memories of Upper Brailes have been shared yet - be the first!
Add your memory of Upper Brailes
or of a photo of Upper Brailes.
Oxfordshire memories
The Coleman And Coleman-Cooper Families
I am researching my family who were farming labourers at Barn farm in the 1800s. My great great great great grandfather was John Coleman who had a wife Anne and two children John and William. William son went to the Crimea and later married Eliza. John must have married at some point and had a son Caleb George Coleman-Cooper that leads me to think he married a Cooper. Caleb George was brought up by his uncle William and settled in Kensington, London. So I think John must have died young. I would love to hear from any Coleman or Cooper descendants from Sibford Gower and surrounds.
Theodode Lamb
Are there any photos of Theodore Lamb? I remember him very well.
School Holidays in Wartime Shutford, nr Banbury, Oxon.
My earliest memories of Shutford date back to around 1944, when as an eleven year old schoolboy I spent summer holidays with my grandfather Fred Turner (son of plush weaver Amos Turner), who at that time lived in Weald Cottage. Grandfather Fred was my mother's father, and my mother would bring myself and my two sisters, Shirley and Pamela, to spend part of the summer holidays in Shutford. We had a number of relatives in Shutford in those days and we were living in north London during the war, so a visit to Shutford gave us all a break. My father would spend a small part of our holiday with us and had arranged a train journey that got us to Banbury without having to travel into London to the station at Paddington! This route headed north west out of Watford via Bletchley, Winslow and Buckingham and eventually arrived in Banbury via a single-track line with many stops at tiny halts, and I... Read more
The Hook Norton Brewery
This Oxfordshire village has a fine brewery and one summer's day they organised an open day, tours of the brewery, ale sampling and entertainment. I was part of that entertainment playing my accordian with the Whitethorn Band. The acoustics were absolutely fabulous as we sat on the kegs of beer and provided music for Whitethorn Morris and their repertoire of clog dances. When we had finshed both our tour of the brewery and our entertaining I was asked by the organisers where I had parked my car which I thought was rather strange! Then I realised why - they gave me two crates of Jackpot Ale as a thank you to our team of dancers and musicians. Our lovely day was rounded off with a visit to the Pear Tree Inn and a garden picnic in the nearby cottage of Richard Hellyer. Fine weather, fine beer, fine company, fine dancing and dare I say - fine music! A lovely memory of Hook Norton.
CORNWELL CHURCH
This is a beautiful little church, well worth the walk to get to it. My great-great-great grandfather is buried in the church yard and I went there in 2004, with my mother when she came home for what was to be her last visit. She died a short two years later from a muscle neuron disease and the wonderful memories I have of that trip and the beautiful places we visited are a blessing. Cornwell Church has a wonderful sense of peace and tranquility about it, and when I returned last summer (2008), with my daughter, it brought great joy to my heart to be there again.
Escape to The Country
I travelled to Chipping Norton to start a new life. When I stepped off the coach on the high street and looked across the road I saw a very grand looking building and a sign saying The White Hart Hotel. My next thought was I am going to work in that hotel, which I did! I was also able to live-in, as other staff also did. The White Hart at that time was a privately run hotel with a friendly informal atmosphere, especially in the public bar which was very popular with local residents. The hotel was originally a coaching inn, and was one of the last, if not the last, to be used as such. The White Hart was also said to be haunted especially the oak room which had an original oak four poster bed, the walls original oak panelling throughout with a hidden door in the walls that led to an ensuite. Chipping Norton or "chippy" as its known is a lively place and I found the... Read more
Peace And Quiet
Late summer evenings in Bloxham. Best place on earth. We are so lucky to live here.
