Here is another in a series of extracts from our many Oral History audio files. Our archive contains many recordings of talks given to the society in the 1980s and […]

Here is another in a series of extracts from our many Oral History audio files. Our archive contains many recordings of talks given to the society in the 1980s and […]

In the society archive, there is an extended audio recording of an interview with Jim Pearse by Trudy Yates, made on December 2nd 2006. Here is a copy: Towards the […]

Here is a record by Jim Pearse of his time at Honeydale farm (formerly part of the larger Coldstone Farm) where he grew up as a child and where in […]

Our collection of Oral History audio files has recently been digitised. Almost 100 audio records of selected society talks, BBC features and many interviews of Wychwoods residents are included in […]

The 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 […]

Here we publish an extract for our series of excerpts from our many Oral History audio files. In this one , Cissie Carpenter talks about a serious accident which befell […]

Here is a short extract from one of our many Oral History audio files. In it, RAF veteran Albert “Bim” Champness includes a summary of his extended family and also […]

Here is another in a series of extracts from our many Oral History audio files. In it, former 1920s Shipton Court resident Dorothy “Dor” Thomson tells of her meeting in […]