Harwell: Village for a thousand years

  • Harwell Book
    • Introduction
      • Contents
    • Beginnings
      • The Beginnings of Harwell
      • The Charters
    • Middle Ages
      • Harwell Church
      • The Medieval Manors
      • Cruck Buildings
    • Tudors
      • The Tudor period
      • Berkshire Farmers and their Homes
      • The Harwell Mug
      • Harwell: The Family Name
      • Trade Tokens
      • In the Civil War
    • Charities
      • John Loder
      • Christopher Elderfield
      • Poor’s Orchard
      • William Wells
      • J. King
      • Frances Geering
      • Matthew Eaton
      • Robert Loder
      • Bag(g)’s Tree
      • An Old Harwell Recipe
    • 19th C
      • Enclosures
      • The Great Fire of Harwell
      • Fire at Didcot Station
      • Harwell and the Early Posts
    • People
      • The Manor of Bishop’s Harwell, or Lower Manor, after the Middle Ages.
      • Bob Lay, Bob Lay, Bob Lay
      • The Bosley Family
      • John Lay of Prince’s Manor 1815 – 1888
      • From a book sold for the Blewbury Village Organ Fund in 1874.
      • Thomas James Pryor
      • The Day Family
      • The Hitchman Family
      • Other Old Harwell Families
      • Pillar House, Harwell
      • A Country Doctor (Dr Richard Rice)
      • Kelly’s Directory reports on the Harwell of 1891
      • The School
      • A Pictorial Miscellany
    • 20th C
      • Stanley Day
        • The Turn of the Century
        • A Visit to Harwell
      • Tape Recordings
        • A Houseboy at Harwell
        • Eliza Hutchings
        • Harwell Bakeries
        • The Eggs
        • Old Neighbours
        • Fire at King’s Farm (c.1908)
        • Will It Light?
        • Miss Irene Clarke’s memories.
      • Poem by H.S. Baker
    • WWII
      • Guinea Pig Club
      • Eric Greenwood
      • Harwell in Wartime
      • School Life in Wartime
      • The Harwell Players
    • 1945 -1985
      • The Atomic Energy Research Establishment.
      • Harwell Parish Council
      • Water and Sewage
      • Nursing Service
      • School Life after the War
      • The Winterbrook Youth Club
      • The Public Houses
      • The Whit Monday Feast
      • Wild Flowers of Harwell
      • The Bee Orchid
      • Village Footpaths
      • St Matthew’s Church Today
      • Harwell Women’s Institute
      • Harwell Bowls Club
      • Harwell Football Club
    • Cherries
      • Robert Loder
      • Cherries (1965)
      • Gordon Bosley
      • John Masefield: The Cherries
    • Appendices
      • Appendix I the Harwell Charters
        • Introduction to The Harwell Charters
        • Charter No 1
        • Charter No 2
        • Charter No 3
        • Appendix I Charter References
      • Appendix II Buildings
      • Appendix III Glossary
      • Appendix IV Contributors
      • Appendix V References
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A Pictorial Miscellany

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M1 Fourteenth century arrowheads found in the Grounds Meadows, north of Harwell, where Cow Lane meets the main railway line.

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M2 Cherry pickers at Middle Farm.

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M3 Waiting for The Queen to drive through the village, 1957.

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M4 Evan’s footpath, above Holloway, 1918

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M5 May Day Morning, by L. Leslie Brooke.

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M6 Bag’s Tree, in 1971, reproduced from newspaper cutting -see page chapter 4.

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M7 The War Memorial, photographed in 1921.

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M8 Dr Richard and Mrs Rice and their four sons serving in His Majesty’s Army and their three daughters in nursing service.

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M9 Tug-of-war at the Feast.

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M10 A page from the Parish Magazine, June 1918.

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M11 Sir Mortimer Singer reading at the dedication service of the War Memorial.

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M12 Photo taken after the British Legion dinner welcoming home all the Village ex-servicemen. Some of the names are as follows and those with an asterisk were still alive in 1985:

Top row: Tommy Slade, Tommy Crackle, D.Chown, Severn Storr, Stan Greenwood, Willie Elderfield, Tommy King, Leonard Jeffrey.

Second row: Jack Harris, Baden Powell, Sid Prior, Robert Lay*, Bill Prior, H.Prior, Tom Bailey, Ely Froud, John Cox.

Third row: L.Harris, Frank Blissett, H.Williams, B.Belcher, S.Harris, Alden, George Hams, Tommy Snuggs. Fourth row: Tom Cox, Ellaway, B.]efferies, Dearlove, Bill Corderoy*. Bottom row: Arthur Hine, Teddy Blissett, Sid Tyler.

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M13 Harwell Empire Day, 1921.

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M 14 Empire Day Certificate 1915.

Comments

  1. Philippa Morris says

    May 1, 2016 at 08:24

    To me they were Mr Lay, Mr Froud, Mrs Dearlove and so on.

    Reply

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