Category: Personal Memories

I am pleased to share this letter from Glenda Lewis, a descendant of Wychwoods emigrants to New Zealand. Glenda is[...]

It was with sadness the Wychwoods Local History Society learned of the passing of Dr Kate Tiller OBE. Kate is[...]

Here is a record by Jim Pearse of his time at Honeydale farm (formerly part of the larger Coldstone Farm)[...]

With the death of Janet Wallace in April, the Wychwoods Local History Society, has lost one of the last of[...]

Here is a snippet from one of our many Oral History audio files. In it, former 1920s Shipton Court resident[...]

The Reverend Doctor Thomas Brookes was the Rector at Shipton from 1773 to 1814. The story of how his rather[...]

For more than four decades, from the 1960s, Margaret and Frank Ware were energetic contributors to Wychwood society and are[...]

Here we publish an extract for our series of excerpts from our many Oral History audio files. In this one[...]

Here is a short extract from one of our many Oral History audio files. In it, RAF veteran Albert “Bim”[...]