Author: Alan Vickers

Personal Memories

“Keeping a Watch” – Memories of Shipton One Hundred Years Ago“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[...]

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Research

Maria Matthews: A Gifted Life in ContextMaria Matthews: A Gifted Life in Context

We were recently preparing to put the History Society’s Second Wychwoods Album (first published in 1990) on the Society’s website,[...]

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Research

The Shipton TillyardsThe Shipton Tillyards

by ALAN VICKERS This article is also available as a PDF, downloadable here. Wooden cash tills, usually with an opening[...]

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Personal Memories

Combe Mill RecollectionsCombe Mill Recollections

The following article by Alan Vickers is based on the written notes of Jeff Broxholme, who has lived at Milton[...]

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