Janet Wallace (née Scott) 1934-2024
With the death of Janet Wallace in April, the Wychwoods Local History Society, has lost one of the last of the generation still living in the Wychwoods, who created our […]
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The Rector Returns: A Follow-Up
/in Personal Memories/by Alan VickersThe Reverend Doctor Thomas Brookes was the Rector at Shipton from 1773 to 1814. The story of how his rather powerful portrait came to be returned to Shipton in 2013 […]
Margaret Ann Ware 28th June 1933 – 4th July 2023
/in Society News/by Alan VickersFor more than four decades, from the 1960s, Margaret and Frank Ware were energetic contributors to Wychwood society and are fondly remembered by many particularly in the Wychwoods History Society […]
A Magic Lantern Splutters Back into Life
/in Research/by Alan VickersThe society has had access to a set of scans from recently-discovered glass plate slides owned by the late Ellis Groves 1872-1914. Here, I describe a small selection of these […]
A Wychwoods Wedding: Reply to a recent inquiry from the WLHS website
/in Guest Articles, Personal Memories/by Alan VickersA lady called Jo Lewis wrote recently to the Wychwoods History Society to say that her mother-in-law, who died last December aged 100, had in her possession a wedding photograph […]
Joan Howard-Drake and her contribution to local history in the Wychwoods
/in Society News/by Alan VickersThe death occurred on 31 October of Joan Howard-Drake following a long struggle after she suffered a severe stroke about a year earlier. Joan and her husband, Jack, were founder […]
The Small Tin Church – Little Ben Rings Back
/in Research/by Alan VickersThis article, first published in the Wychwood Magazine some years ago, features the story of the bell from the small Shipton church, long since demolished . The bell featured in […]
The Rector Returns – A Well-Travelled Painting
/in Research/by Alan VickersThis article, first published in the Wychwood Magazine some years ago, features a well-travelled portrait of Revd. Dr. Thomas Brookes, Rector of Shipton from 1773 to 1814, which currently hangs […]
A Portrait of an Old Lyneham Gentleman
/in Guest Articles, Personal Memories/by Alan VickersMemories of being a Home Help in the 1980s In the early 1980s Jill Fox joined the band of Home Helps in and around the Wychwoods. She was issued with […]
“Keeping a Watch” – Memories of Shipton One Hundred Years Ago
/in Personal Memories/by Alan VickersThe Wychwoods Local History Society website often receives enquiries from the wider world. Recently John Longshaw contacted the WLHS from Sussex. He said that his late father, Leslie Longshaw who […]
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