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The Green c1965, Warmington

The Green c1965, Warmington
 
 

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Happy Childhood

I was just reading the memory by Geoff Taylor and thought how weird it was that his grandad Robert Bignell was a shepherd at the Manor House and I Patricia Bignell am currently employed at the Manor house as housekeeper. Could there maybe be some uncanny connection? It is probably sheer coincidence that we have the same surname. I commute from Banbury to work there.

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... Read more

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