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Winterbourne Dauntsey maps

Historic maps of Winterbourne Dauntsey and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis.   View all Winterbourne Dauntsey maps

Winterbourne Dauntsey photos

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Old Sarum| Salisbury| Wilsford| Bemerton| Amesbury| Britford| Harnham| Bodenham| Bulford| Stoford| Cholderton| Great Wishford| Stonehenge| Coombe Bissett

Winterbourne Dauntsey area books

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Memories of Winterbourne Dauntsey

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Dad''s Panic

Dad was village copper for several years (our old Police House is now "Peelers" in Thorneydown Road) and had a number of people he got on well with.  He tended not to panic too often but one day a message came through that had him rush out in panic because of the loss of one of his friends, Pat Pocock from the Post Office.

I can't remember the exact year but it was early 1960's.

Later the Post Office was moved to a shop in Thorneydown Road and later still it was taken over by Frank Gaulton who still ran it when we left Winterbourne in 1964.

My Grandfather

This is approximately the year when researching my family history that I became aware that there is a plaque in the church for my grandfather, George Reginald Mundy of the Wiltshire Regiment, who was killed in action on 23/7/1916 aged 40.  He left a widow and 5 children, the youngest being only 3 months old.
My grandmother died  in 1932, only 4 years before I was born, and yet I cannot remember any of my grandparents being talked about.
Kath Jones, nee Mundy


SORRY, BUT WE USED TO CALL IT GIBBS AND SPEW

Three Swans And Brewery 1992
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Yes, I worked there when I was 15 with two other boys. I remember Tony Fletcher and Alan Blackman (are you still out there?). It was a dark warm place when on full tilt, it looked like London in the fog. I remember the characters like old Seth, he could drink beer straight from the fermentation tank whilst it was still hot, yes, it was free, we used to have a ration of two pints a day hence I was legless after my first, then I used to save it till the weekend to sell to the oldies who could drink as much as they could get. Seth was a bomb, he loved the gee gees but it would take him 26 minutes to go to the bookies and back so he devised a way of getting out. I didn't know where he did work in the brewery, only that every now and then he would come to where I was on the barrel wash, it was a monster to... Read more

The Town Path

The Cathedral From The River 1887
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Have seen this view many times in my younger days back in the late 1920s and early 30s, just after crossing the footbridge over the river, when on my way to see my dear old gran at Harnham. I can still remember the smell of the old mill.

Street Where I Live

Catherine Street 1906
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Nice to see that not a lot has chnaged since this photo was taken to what it is like to day.
More cars and people now of course.

The Old School

Godolphin School 1928
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My place of work. I have done a lot of work on collecting archive photos and making electronic copies of some of the many fascinating letters and articles written by the old girls 1880's to present.

GIBBS MEW BREWERY

Three Swans And Brewery 1992
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Does anybody remember Gibbs Mew Grewery on Gigant Street?

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