Reminiscenses
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Reminiscenses
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Reminisences of Oakridge's past by residents, visitors and travellers.
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Remembering George and DorcasThey adored animals but hated kidsGeorge and Dorcas Juggins lived along Ashmeads. I grew up knowing George and Dorcas; they adored animals but they…
David Collins (Bussage)I remember as a schoolboy at Chalford Hill School hearing about the German plane which crashed over at France Lynch, a Junkers…
Recordings of George and Dorcas JugginsGeorge and Dorcas Juggin became a legend in their lifetime, with a fame extending far beyond the Stroud valleys in which they lived: it can truly be…
It was in August 1956 that I began my first visit to Far Oakridge, by train from Tavistock North Station, Devon on the 8.59am steam train to Exeter St…
Alison Gardiner's poem 'My Grandparents' remembers her Grandparents and their life in the 1930's
The Reminisences of Vice Admiral Sir Louis Holland Le Bailly who grew up in OakridgeOakridge Lynch from the 1920'sReminiscences of Vice Admiral Sir Louis Le Bailly K.B.E., C.B. I was in the Pacific at the time but I am told that in…