Dulcie Arundell and the Tale of the American Soldier at Shipton Station
Here is a snippet from one of our many Oral History audio files. In it, Dulcie Arundell tells the story of a night-time meeting at Shipton Station. Listen Here Transcript […]
Personal Memories
Reminiscences from former and current residents of the Wychwoods and surrounding areas
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George Bradley and his London Wartime Deliveries
In this extract from the WLHS Oral History archive, we find George Bradley telling the story of his one single failed delivery during World War II. George Bradley’s Bedford lorry […]
Megan Bradley and the Canadian Soldiers in World War II
Here is an extract from an Oral History audio file of Megan Bradley’ s March 1988 conversation with John Rawlins Among memories of evacuees, low-flying Spitfires, and requisitioned land for […]
Their Finest Hour Project – WWII Memorabilia Digital Collections Day
We invite Wychwoods Local History Society members and friends to consider contributing their own WWII memorabilia to an important OU and Heritage Lottery funded initiative. Bring your stories and objects […]
A Wychwoods Wedding: Reply to a recent inquiry from the WLHS website
A 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 […]
More Memories of Shipton -The Village Shops and Roundsmen | From the Society Journal No. 10
Here is a second extended piece by Dorothy Brookes, taken from the WLHS Journal No. 10 (1995). We republish it here as part of an occasional series celebrating the work […]
Early Days at Shipton | From the Society Journal No.7
Here is an extended piece by Dorothy Brookes, taken from the WLHS Journal No. 7 (1992). We republish it here as part of an occasional series celebrating the work of […]
A Portrait of an Old Lyneham Gentleman
Memories 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
The 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 […]
Early 1960s Milton School Memories
At the Wychwoods Local History Society we are always delighted to receive local photographs to add to our archive. Two fine pictures have come to the society recently, courtesy of […]