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Reminiscing
I was born in NW London. My first visit to Woburn Sands was about 1950 when my Uncle Ted and Aunt Ada moved here. They lived at the 'Dene' Aspley Hill. Aunt Ada did the housework for Mrs Russell the owner of the 'Dene' and my uncle ...Read more
A memory of Woburn Sands in 1950 by
Nostalgia
I lived on Hatton Hill Road in the 1940/1950s. Remember the bombs landing across the road in the park and sheltering under the stairs. Bryant and May bombed where my father worked, he then had to travel to Garston each day for the rest ...Read more
A memory of Litherland by
Poetry
This poem was sent to mac by Mrs S. Holmes: Death of Chelmsley Wood The sheer delight of summer afternoons, As through the fields in cotton frocks we walked, The long grass licking at our gangly legs, While we in deep contentment ...Read more
A memory of Chelmsley Wood in 1995
Evacuee
I was evacuated from London to Oxford with Burlington School on 1st September 1939. At first we had our lessons in the old Milham Ford School premises but after a few weeks transferred to the new school in Marston where we shared the ...Read more
A memory of Oxford in 1940 by
Kings Cottage
Whilst at Priors Marston my grandfather, Rowland Joseph Marsh and his wife Annie Elizabeth Lavender had twins: Leonard and Vera Marsh. They already had a daughter Kathleen Annie. I am the eldest daughter of Kath Marsh, who is ...Read more
A memory of Priors Marston by
Ww1 Soldier In Long Marston
I have postcards of Long Marston circa 1914/15 sent by my grandfather while he was serving in the Northumberland Fusiliers (WW1) .On the back of one he has written "this is where we parade every ...Read more
A memory of Long Marston in 1910 by
Personal Reflections
I was born in Sandleaze, Worton in 1957. I was brought up at 1 Mill Road near the Marston boundary. I remember many things about the village especially the Rose and Crown Pub and the Mill. I remember with pride the ...Read more
A memory of Worton by
Best Guinness In Town!
The little white building in the middle is the Lamb & Flag. I spent many a happy lunchtime & evening there in the '80's. It was a Marstons pub, run then by Don & Sheila Jones, an Irish couple who I think had been ...Read more
A memory of Worcester by
Courtenay Road 1953
I moved to Wantage with my parents Ted and Phyllis Willey and my brother Ken and sister Susan. At Garston Lane school one of my first friends was John Campbell who lived in Courtenay Road. We were aged 8. Another friend was Jim ...Read more
A memory of Wantage in 1953 by
Not From Wantage
well sorry to say i dont come from Wantage but my mum did so ive had the pleasure of coming to see for myself what Wantage is like but i must say i could move here my mum was at Garston lane school way back in the 30s and also saint ...Read more
A memory of Wantage by
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In 1931, the widow of Stafford Bourne (the son of one of the founders of Bourne & Hollingsworth's store in London) sold Garston Manor to Benskins the brewers, who transferred it to the North West Metropolitan
The walls of Garston, Waverley and Monks Way (left) face Chapel Cottage, which dates from 1780 and has a fashionable frontage of Ionic pilasters and a pediment.
The picture is north- eastwards to the gable ends of the Cedars and Garston (centre right).
Dersingham is on the ridge running north towards Hunstanton; many of the houses are built of local carstone.
This is one of several villages in west Norfolk where the main building material is local carstone, rather than the flint used throughout the rest of the county: the buildings to the left of the photograph
Many people visit the Black Boy Inn, which has expansive views northwards across the vale towards North Marston.
The rhyme goes: 'Piping Pepworth, Dancing Marston, Haunted Hillborough, Hungry Grafton, Dodging Exhall, Papist Wixford, Beggarly Broom, Drunken Bidford'.
This view is taken looking south towards Oving from Bowling Alley's junction with the North Marston to Whitchurch Road.
From the rear of the Black Boy are fine views towards North Marston, the hill dropping sharply into the valley.
The parish church of St Mary is built from deep golden Carstone with limestone details.
The River Cherwell is quieter than the Thames; a popular run on a summer evening is up for a drink to the Victoria and Albert pub at Old Marston, whose garden runs down to the river.
Children crossing the river at Marston, once a village but now a north Oxford suburb.
The road on that side is the Marston Road.
One guide book states that 'an interesting visit may be paid to the Marston Mine, 300ft deep, with a roof supported by huge pillars of salt... frequent subsidence of the earth, owing to the pumping out
The rhyme attributed to him goes: 'Piping Pepworth, Dancing Marston, Haunted Hillborough, Hungry Grafton, Dodging Exhall, Papist Wixford, Beggarly Broom, Drunken Bidford'.
In the 17th century the building that is now The White Hart Royal was a manor house, and Charles I stayed there in July 1644 after the Battle of Marston Moor.
