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- Collection: Pat Carrick Collection
Queenie Pearman remembers WWI & WWIIDuring WWI the women in the village took in machining work for one of the factories on Brick Row where Mr White, who lived in the village worked. The…
Wilful Damage at BisleyWilliant Gardner, Frank Gardner, Walter Whitinq, and Alfred Alley, youths of Oakridge, were charged with doing wilful damage to a void house at…
When the Trains Stopped at Chalford - by Geoffry DearmerFifty years ago "The fastest train in the world" was reputed to be the run from Paddington, Reading, Swindon to Kemble. After that it dawdled…
Rowley YoungRowley Young comes from a local family. He left school at 13 and went into the stick factory before starting to learn cabinet making at night school.…
Reflections on Matthew Gardner's account book for work, 1851If you don't believe in the Archers, try the Gardners; for one thing, they're true. An Oakridge Lynch resident, Mrs Nurding, has unearthed a real—life…
Recollections of Oakridge School in the Time of Mr AllenExtracts from an interview with Kathleen Hunt & Eileen Minchin. When I was a child at Oakridge School the most I can remember were about 125 or…
Oakridge Orchestra - An interview with Mr Austin GardinerI used to play the cornet in the Oakridge Orchestra. But I lost my front teeth in a motorbike accident and turned to the violin which my father and…
Oakridge Memories - Wilf Merrett, 1/2/2000Back in the 1930s an aunt of mine occasionally visited a friend in Oakridge who lived in a primitive cottage with no amenities and an outside loo.…
Miss Berta GardinerIt is rare these days to come across the old-fashioned family retainer. Such was Bertha Gardiner of the Old Mill, Oakridge Lynch, whose death at the…
Memories of the Past - The Late Mr CouldreyWhen I was working at Little Hattons (the Cottage next to Hattons, near Maker's Mill) in the late sixties when Mrs. Sutton was in the big house I came…