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Views & Panoramas

This view, c. 1910, across upper Bidcombe from the Rodborough Fields at Lilyhorn has not altered greatly over time. A few more houses and trees but still one of the gems of the area.

Views and Panoramas both of and from Oakridge, Bournes Green, Waterlane and more ...

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Unknown - Can You Help?

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Some photographs we have we cannot identify or put a name to - can you help?

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Transport, Infrastructure and Services

Broadband to Oakridge for History Club PDF.pdf

Canals, Railways, Water, the Telephone, Electricity, Roads and more ...

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The Thames & Severn Canal - Ashmead's Mill to Sapperton Tunnel

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Join us as we travel from Ashmead's Mill east along the canal to Sapperton Tunnel using photographs mainly from the late nineteenth and early…

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Shops, Pubs and Inns

Hazel Couldrey Sitting on the wall outside the village stores in the grounds of the house known as The Cottage, Oakridge Lynch.

Shops, Pubs and Inns were and still are, fundamental to our social history. Modern economics means that many have gone, having failed financially and…

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School

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The Chapel School, the Parochial Church School, the local Polytech school and more ...

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Resource Centre

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A collection of resources and links to external resources to aid researchers and those who wish to extend their knowledge or follow up on their…

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Reminiscenses

George and Dorcas Juggins

Reminisences of Oakridge's past by residents, visitors and travellers.

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People and Families

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Whether they still have descendants locally or not (and many do), the families that populated Oakridge in the past made it what it is today.

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