2 10 469 https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/43314/archive/files/36e02857a8563582bd489d7bebc98132.pdf?Expires=1776902400&Signature=d74rCQdKx81jo4EtI-zaF0EAyU2r4bBNUBw578jAXZffM5780gIM9bsN2ELPtd9sFDIqNaXXf2naXh6EvZk3BWA7rhC-RNtWpMOOK5D-q7yNJqAHvZi-BiSdsaZXz1Sjo3cIpBxQgS2Rx5hspCkwx0e%7EnHx6wDLMQP8iD%7EwtAilw5R7z70akJiIPUMk%7ELmklumHjtsVahDw24%7Ed01GO1elLEDzFQCKGFLf1oQ8PrUhpUZ123fTjhvyAVLWIT-npHkOgV%7E0rhkFRbQ-083qe4jiUx-1ZFGRnkd%7E4SOLnJ90EPo-ROzD1Wy47YV9mFK9XGm5zYOqjqYx8AH0vgIOdESw__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 754d53882c856fe7ea544020794b3b15 PDF Text Text � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rowley Young Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Pat Carrick Collection Subject The topic of the resource Pat Carrick, one of the three author's of 'Oakridge - A History', collected a large amount of original content as part of her research. This archive contains facsimiles of much of that content, including research notes, letters, remembrances and more. Inevitably, the book contains only a part of the detail collected, and the purpose of this archive is to both recognise the great work which was undertaken, but also to provide an original resource for other researchers. The content remains the copyright of Pat Carrick and must not be re-published without permission. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Pat Carrick Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rowley Young Description An account of the resource Rowley 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. He joined Peter Waals at Chalford when he was 15 and remembers that they got no pay at all for the first three months on trial, then 2/6d a week, increasing by 2/6d a year over the six-year apprenticeship. Rowley Young's father used to supply the cartage (horse drawn) to bring the wood selected by Peter Waals from the Ryeford Sawmills to Chalford. Rowley Young can still show you pieces of ebony and holly strips made by hand with a treadle saw for the inlay work. It was a task he said which the apprentices became quite good at as they were given so much practice at it! He remembers working on the belfry screen for Stroud Parish Church - the Screen at Chalford, tables 16' long, 2" thick and 4-5' wide. for Eton College (they proved too big to go in through the doors!). One occasion when laying oak flooring in a house near Painswick, they were startled by eight or nine people coming down the chimney. Every piece of flooring was planed and grooved by hand a secret nailed He members too a visit with Peter Waals in Windsor to see the Dolls House, and the occasion of the first Wembley Exhibition, when Peter Waals' exhibit - an English Walnut Writing Bureau - was queried because the maker was "not English"! 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Title A name given to the resource Reflections on Matthew Gardner's account book for work, 1851 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Pat Carrick Collection Subject The topic of the resource Pat Carrick, one of the three author's of 'Oakridge - A History', collected a large amount of original content as part of her research. This archive contains facsimiles of much of that content, including research notes, letters, remembrances and more. Inevitably, the book contains only a part of the detail collected, and the purpose of this archive is to both recognise the great work which was undertaken, but also to provide an original resource for other researchers. The content remains the copyright of Pat Carrick and must not be re-published without permission. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Pat Carrick Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Reflections on Matthew Gardner's account book for work, 1851 Description An account of the resource If 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 document more fascinating than you would be likely to find in a year's fiction—reading or listening. It is a thick manuscript notebook inscribed, in the copperplate handwriting of the day, “Matthew Gardner’s Account Book for Work, August 18th 1851, Iles's Green". From that date on, right through the second half of the Victorian century, it records the family work routines in a way that will strike the contemporary reader as both familiar and remote. Well—known locations keep cropping up like Edgeworth, Sapperton, Pinbury Park, Bird's Frith, Daneway, Park Corner; though the names of the characters (Isaac, Joshua, Jacob yes, and Jethro too) have so antique a ring that you'd think a modern script—writer had dreamed them up. But they're real — as real as those cash lists complete with careful old—currency sums down to halfpennies and farthings, no doubt valuable data in itself to specialist historians. This is more, though, than just a local account book. It's also a spasmodic diary and public chronicle, recording not only domestic happenings of note but wider events as well — a kind of early What’s On, you might say, filled out with a few weirder items of national news as if to show how frivolous, if not downright demented, these are in comparison. Reality and sanity, certainly, begin at home. 'Mary and I went to Bisley Church with my brother Isaac, being the day he was united to his Dearly Beloved", an 1857 entry records. Some of the material is nearer to Thomas Hardy than the Archers, Like the mournfully meticulous noting of the exact amount of money (down to "in the pocket along with pension money, 7d”) found in a dead relative's pockets; or the laconic recording of a man who was "shot dead by his son Fred in a field near the Barn.” Just like that. But mostly the local excitements were about the theatrical Cotswold weather - snow blocking the to London and-back.” Royalty was thinner on the Gloucestershire ground in those distant days which may perhaps help to explain an interest in exotic monarchies and their ways, as exemplified in the strange, sudden entry recording that "the family of the Shah of Persia are (1889) 154 Sons and 560 Daughters” There is also, nearer home, a disturbed glance at the reformed calendar ("There was a general Conflageration about it”) though we'd already had a century to get used to it. England caught up with the Gregorian reform in 1752, by which time we already found ourselves eleven days behind the rest of Europe. Can Oakridge still have been missing its lost eleven days? My own favourite entry, however, is essentially domestic and is dated May 24, 1876, with Mr Joshua Gardiner recording a kind of stern public proclamation to Mr James Whiting; understand you have been telling the inhabitants of the village it was me or my boy that put the Pin in your Cushion at the Chapel. Of this we are both innocent I think you had better take it away at once or if I hear anything more about it I shall remove it myself. I think the best place for you and the Cushion would be in one of the free seats." Any further adventures of the Chapel Cushion, with or without pin, sadly remain unrecorded, If this is the funniest entry, the grimmest is surely one dated ten years earlier, about three villagers who with others "Insulted Two Police Officers on Oakridge Common, receiving two months' hard labour at Gloucester. One of them, according to Joshua Gardiner's note, "died in twelve days after he came home from the ill treatment he received undergoing his Punishment.” The man, Jethro Haines, is seen as "the first martyr" against the common enclosure then in process. Here, with a vengeance, is a ghost from battles long ago. Note. 'The spelling follows that in the manuscript. Matthew Gardner spells his name without an "I” but "Gardiner" seems to be mostly used for other members of the family, Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource P. 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Title A name given to the resource Recollections of Oakridge School in the Time of Mr Allen Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Pat Carrick Collection Subject The topic of the resource Pat Carrick, one of the three author's of 'Oakridge - A History', collected a large amount of original content as part of her research. This archive contains facsimiles of much of that content, including research notes, letters, remembrances and more. Inevitably, the book contains only a part of the detail collected, and the purpose of this archive is to both recognise the great work which was undertaken, but also to provide an original resource for other researchers. The content remains the copyright of Pat Carrick and must not be re-published without permission. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Pat Carrick Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Recollections of Oakridge School in the Time of Mr Allen Description An account of the resource Extracts 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 129 children there. We had Scripture every morning. Mr. William Allen was the master and there was 'Teacher Louisa' (Louisa Gardiner, later Mrs. Andrews who then left school and went to live at Eastcombe). Miss Williams lived at Bisley and I thought her marvellous, a born teacher, though possibly an uncertificated teacher. Someone used to come in once a year to test us on Scripture. The vicar, Mr. de Freville was here about 30 years. We got arithmetic every day and of course we weren't allowed to walk around in the class like they do now. We used to stand in a draft (draught)? Three sides of a square; he gave us questions and we'd see if we could get to the top. We had Drill (P.E. nowadays) outside just where they do now. For Needlework in the Infants we had to do that awful fraying on calico; our poor fingers! It was used to stuff pin-cushions. On Friday afternoons we used to do knitting - black stockings, and you had a mark if you did four rounds; they took years and years and the stockings were of different kinds of wool eventually, green and blue, and never seemed to be finished! When we were in the Infants we read about Bunny and Furry, the rabbits and about Denny and Tatty, I think, though I can't remember much about that. When Mr. Allen was a bit late coming back we used to all have to recite tables till be came; he used to grumble because we used to sing the tables, "Twice one are two...." not like they do now when they start 'once two are two......They had some big sheets, in fact I think they are still there they brought them out when we had the Centenary; 'the cat sat on the mat' was how we learned to read, and we did not learn phonetically. I can't remember anything about Christmas or Carols at school. Later on, though not in my time, Mr. Weston taught my children; his daughter is Dame Margaret Weston now Director of the Science Museum at South Kensington. I was at school with Miss Nellie Daroll and Winnie Rowles who lived at Bournes Green. We wore little lace-up boots for school, black woollen stockings which my mother used to knit, white pinafores embroidered and with epaulettes, and broiderie anglais, all startched. The boys wore jerseys, or some wore suits with Norfolk jackets and short trousers and stockings. The school has changed hardly at all, no additions, only that this end looking up the road, is divided off where they cook, though the toilets have been renovated. I loved school! Children were there from the age of three to about thirteen or fourteen in those days. But I left when I was about ten and went to Stroud to Badbrook School. I walked to Chalford to catch the half-past eight paper train; there was no bus. We caught the twenty-tofive rail car from Stroud and got home about quarter-to-six. A long day for a ten-year-old!!! (Oliver Hunt told us about the bus that used to come to Bakers Mill but that was a lot later, perhaps ten years later). Children from Waterlane used to bring sandwiches but we came home to dinner. The children who brought sandwiches had no supervision and ran about eating if they felt like it; teachers were there I suppose but not standing out in the playground like they do now. The school hours were 9 - 12 , then 1.30 till 4 0'clock. 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Title A name given to the resource Queenie Pearman Poem - 'Sunday School in Days Gone By' Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Literature, Poetry and Song Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Queenie Pearman Poem - 'Sunday School in Days Gone By' Description An account of the resource 'Sunday School in Days Gone By' Each Sunday morn by 10 am to Sunday School we scurried. With well brushed hair and faces bright, Shoes we polished the previous night 'Was that the bell?' We hurried. When all of us had settled down, It was time for us to sing, 'All things bright and beautiful' which was our favourite hymn. No matter some were quite tone deaf, and many out of tune, We sand so loud we raised the roof, Teacher prayed the end come soon, We then had prayers and a Bible story, A stamp to show we had attended. And perhaps a prize if we saved enough when the Christian year had ended. We had a treat in August on our Patrional day, With races on the Vicarage lawn and everyone was gay, We jumped in sacks and hopped three legs, Wheelbarrows, Spoons and Eggs. With prizes three pence, two and one, Oh how we nearly killed ourselves to come home number 1. A party too at Christmas in a tin hut called a hall, With sticky buns and jelly, we really had a ball, A bran tub and a Christmas tree, with candles brightly lit, If you offered this to modern kids I expect they'd have a fit. 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Title A name given to the resource Oakridge Orchestra - An interview with Mr Austin Gardiner Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Pat Carrick Collection Subject The topic of the resource Pat Carrick, one of the three author's of 'Oakridge - A History', collected a large amount of original content as part of her research. This archive contains facsimiles of much of that content, including research notes, letters, remembrances and more. Inevitably, the book contains only a part of the detail collected, and the purpose of this archive is to both recognise the great work which was undertaken, but also to provide an original resource for other researchers. The content remains the copyright of Pat Carrick and must not be re-published without permission. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Pat Carrick Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Oakridge Orchestra - An interview with Mr Austin Gardiner Description An account of the resource I 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 taught me to play while I was at school. I was a member of the Chalford Brass Band — Silver now. In my father's time Oakridge was a Liberal stronghold. When Charlie Allen won, we used to sing, "Vote, vote for Charlie Allen, he's sure to win the day"! The last remainder of the Drum-and-Fife Band used to march round the village with torch Poles with sack-bags dipped in tar made the torches. Bits of tar came down n your shoulders and burned holes in your jacket. This was 1912. They played Irish Jigs, Scottish Reels, and "Break-Downs" — a sort of Jig. They have engagements at Tarlton and they walked over there. They also went to Edgeworth and Miserden. They went Christmassing and called at the big houses including Edgeworth where on the way back Mr. Stevens with the big drum disappeared down a quarry during the short cut through Westwood. This is opposite the Trench, near Keepers Cottage. Squire James used to be then at Edgeworth — a nice man, good to poorer people; a number of Waterlane men used to work for him. Oakridge Orchestra was 12 to 15 strong and was engaged by Rev. de Freville to play at St Bartholomew's Festival on the 24th August. It was also on the lawns of the vicarage if dry and if wet in the Parish Hall where we practised. The Hall used to be below the stables and near the School House. We played excerpts from Rigoletto and Il Trovatore and lovely old tunes like "Lass of Richmond Hill" and "The Last Rose of Summer". Dr Percy Dearmer wrote in a national newspaper, "The Village I know best has a large and excellent band, but they tell me, they have never been asked to play inside the Church." He meant Oakridge Village for he lived then at Lyday Close. The band did play at the Chapel however. When the Foxtrot and the One-Step came into fashion a few of the younger members formed a Dance band about1930. They carried on till 1939 and played at Bisley every Saturday night through the 1939 war at the W.I. Hall there. 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Title A name given to the resource Oakridge Memories - Wilf Merrett, 1/2/2000 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Pat Carrick Collection Subject The topic of the resource Pat Carrick, one of the three author's of 'Oakridge - A History', collected a large amount of original content as part of her research. This archive contains facsimiles of much of that content, including research notes, letters, remembrances and more. Inevitably, the book contains only a part of the detail collected, and the purpose of this archive is to both recognise the great work which was undertaken, but also to provide an original resource for other researchers. The content remains the copyright of Pat Carrick and must not be re-published without permission. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Pat Carrick Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Oakridge Memories - Wilf Merrett, 1/2/2000 Description An account of the resource Back 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. Later when I attended Marling School I met one or two lads from the village, and how envious they were of us townies living in comparatively modern villas with gas, electricity and even a bathroom. Life in Little Russia was hardly idyllic in those days. One summer day in 1940 we schoolboys became aware of some unusual air activity and soon rumours reached us that a German aircraft had crashed near Bisley. That evening with 2 or 3 friends I cycled to Oakridge and joined a large group of people gaping at the crumpled fuselage of a Junkers 88. The wreckage was guarded by soldiers who obligingly snipped off squares of wing fabric for eager souvenir hunters. Some twenty years later Betty and I attended the Oakridge village fete and met Fred Gardiner one of the remaining craftsman working in the Gimson tradition. We couldn't then afford a refectory table but instead commissioned a beautiful oak and cedar lined work cabinet which cost us all of £18. We were then living in Bisley but traffic was building up and with two small children to consider, we began looking for a quieter and safer home and this brought us to Crossways Oakridge Lynch in 1967. The previous occupier, a weekender, was rather unpopular, because being a radio ham he had decorated the house with a spider's web of aerials which allegedly interfered with television reception. This was speedily dismantled meeting general approval. We were fortunate in having good neighbours Oliver Hunt and Ted Davis in particular. The former gave us a real welcome and was most willing to advise or lend a hand whenever needed. Ted looked after most of the cars in the village, keeping us on the road with the minimum of expense. All the neighbours in fact were friendly and helpful, including Nellie Davoll father had been one of Gimson's craftsmen, and evidence of his handiwork was in her cottage. Betty became involved in village activities , joining W.I. and starting a playgroup, I occupied myself in the garden building walls and creating a driveway, in process of which I opened up a cave (or stone mine) one of many existing in the village. This caused considerable interest and even attracted the attention of Dr Ransome the local bat expert. When our children Mark and Gillian reached school age, Betty obtained a part time post at the village school which was less than 200 yards away, and she continued there until her retirement in 1989. Crossways provided ample space for the four of us, and also my mother who occupied a bed sitting room. She was a life long Methodist and attended the village chapel until her death in 1974 at the age of 88. Encouraged by Oliver Hunt and Evelyn Weare we also attended the services ,eventually becoming members. Joe Bateman had been chapel organist for fifty years and when he finally gave up, Betty was persuaded to take his place with considerable reluctance on her part. There was no Sunday school in the village and Betty together with Evelyn Weare and Grace Cooke started this activity in the chapel room with much success in the early stages. Both Betty and our daughter Gillian were enthusiastic members of the Oakridge players appearing in a number of pantomimes in the 1970's & 1980's. Gillian had hoped to become an actress but has now settled for the much less precarious role of fund raiser for Greenpeace. We became founder members of the current Oakridge Society and organised a Bygones display in the chapel room which led to the creation of the village museum. This was a most fascinating project and many villagers helped to make it a success. Our other involvements in the village centred on the Garden Club, Wa1king Group and Oakridge Society. Chris Abbey and myself being joint chairmen for a period. We were keen supporters of the footpath project and I helped to organise a 10 mile walk to raise money for the cause. We left the village with some reluctance in 1985 but are now happily installed on a hill overlooking Stroud and still return to support the chapel on Sundays. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The Pat Carrick Collection https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/43314/archive/files/f8d829a65f31f8b78f7fb862ed90002c.pdf?Expires=1776902400&Signature=HOWGfy9-ATIv8ymfOInVvpjfMPSdAXxKA77UQjxUFwxYoVW6Tg5PCRiK3ZOEidLeE9r9EFBHPj5c5vjt2iY6ZQzKiIZqiheXZvva69dCntF61B3h99qbPkrJ%7E3REdlm0g7Hfg7fpbasFkx2eUaSi1-Hx%7Ed%7Ew8YpwC%7Ev7sk2pmlb9z6fGWcHI8kCR0fi%7Eg36qFtlsFOskVJTY5ybIWNqUY4Tpq0F2eqZC1AEkQ7DWy3FA1tSBJGGsI8lQpiMt3rXyK8Cgwi6nb3v0IxZ6PekCCPfbkyw8oi-0R4-Y-1L7dEwYsEEzf7AwLcTwokXoeVkY93TP97Oq8AtcIbHFC5nvVA__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM bc12a0fcef4651ff5576155a54a32404 PDF Text Text � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Miss Berta Gardiner Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Pat Carrick Collection Subject The topic of the resource Pat Carrick, one of the three author's of 'Oakridge - A History', collected a large amount of original content as part of her research. This archive contains facsimiles of much of that content, including research notes, letters, remembrances and more. Inevitably, the book contains only a part of the detail collected, and the purpose of this archive is to both recognise the great work which was undertaken, but also to provide an original resource for other researchers. The content remains the copyright of Pat Carrick and must not be re-published without permission. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Pat Carrick Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Miss Berta Gardiner Description An account of the resource It 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 age of 90 we reported in a recent issue of this paper. Miss Gardiner went, at the age of 13 as kitchen maid into the home of Mr. and Mrs Charles Birtwhistle of Cheltenham. Her abilities and personal qualities quickly won the appreciation of her employers and she finally became personal maid to Mrs Birtwhistle. When, a few years later, Bertha returned to Oakridge to spend a holiday with her own family, Mr. and Mrs. Birtwhistle came too, fell in love with the village and, in 1905 just 60 years ago — bought The Old Mill. Here, Bertha was set up as housekeeper and general custodian and their welfare, her energies and wide capabilities carrying her into a far wider circle than that of the merely domestic round. 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Title A name given to the resource Memories of the Past - The Late Mr Couldrey Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Pat Carrick Collection Subject The topic of the resource Pat Carrick, one of the three author's of 'Oakridge - A History', collected a large amount of original content as part of her research. This archive contains facsimiles of much of that content, including research notes, letters, remembrances and more. Inevitably, the book contains only a part of the detail collected, and the purpose of this archive is to both recognise the great work which was undertaken, but also to provide an original resource for other researchers. The content remains the copyright of Pat Carrick and must not be re-published without permission. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Pat Carrick Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Memories of the Past - The Late Mr Couldrey Description An account of the resource When 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 on a inscription which may be of interest. Written - in charcoal I think- on the reveal of the attic window on the lime wash was an inscription: The Daneway estate came into the hands of the Hancox family by purchase from John de Clifford of Frampton-on-Severn in the 20th year of King Richard 2nd Anno Domini 1397 and continued till 1860”. Thomas Walter Handcox Esq being the last possessor of the families of this present house and estate, a period 463 years. Crest of arms granted granted 1683. William Hancox was a captain in Oliver Cromwell's army and he was High Sherriff of Gloucestershire. Can anyone tell us if this inscription still exists at Little Hattons? Access to the attic was difficult and I had to get a ladder to get in through the window into the roof-space. Extracts from the Chalford & Oakridge Parish Magazine were given in 'What's On' issue, but the following details about Oakridge School early 100 years ago might be of interest. In October 29th 1886 we learn: "The annual examination of the Parochial School by Her Majesty's Inspector took place when the school was found to have obtained to such a high state of efficiency that the excellence merit grant (i.e. the highest possible) was awarded. No greater praise than this could be given to Mr. Allen and the other teachers." In the issue of October, 1888: With no ordinary success 97% of the children having passed their examination and for the third year in succession, the excellent or highest merit grant was awarded. "We hope that Mr. Allen's son, Lance, and his family who now live in Manchester will know we remember his father with respect and affection”. Did you know that our first post box (not post office) was installed in the cottage behind Briar Cottage (where Mr. & Mrs. Sidney and Irene Smith now live), on ground now owned by Hungerfords? Then as far as we know, it went to the Old Post Office site where Caroline and Elizabeth Hunt were and Miss Ivy Wright now lives. There used to be several cottages in the church field and on the land now belonging to Hungerfords, the old Vicarage Orchard. When we were children there were heaps of stones and the remains of the foundations there. Mrs. Clouldrey's father, Albert Geroge and his brother Walter Eli Gardiner remembered these cottages and were born there in one of them. Perhaps this part was more the centre of the village in those days. The old Parish Council minutes tell us a great deal about 19th century Oakridge. From the minutes of June 10th 1899. we learn that Mr. Eli Hunt and Mr. J. Weir be asked to obtain a satisfactory estimate or tender to fill up the quarry on the Oakridge village green and that the work be properly carried out". This refers to the lower part of the green and if you look carefully there today you will find it is still a stony area which we expect the children at the school may have found out for themselves. It is also known that there used to be a well at Sammells Hill which used to supply the village. Does the well still exist? It might be on Mrs Farmer’s or Mr & Mrs Turner’s land? The Parish Council minute of Nov. 4th 1899 declares: Henry Hunt be asked to repair his well adjoining the well at sammells, the well to be cleaned out and a wooded lid be supplied to cover it". What do you call the hill from the Broadway up to the Chapel? The minutes of April, 17th 1912 say: "The Path known as Joseph's Hill near Head Well was bodly cut up mostly by surface water". Some people today call this Rebecca's after the old lady who lived where Millfield House (Penmore's House now) now stands. Whiting's Hill was the name for the path between Cobdens (Mrs. Iris Hunt) and Hillcroft (where Mrs. Diasy Gardiner died last July) and running up past Clair Cottage. This is mentioned in the Parish Council Minutes of Nov 20th 1907. What happens if sheep get on to Oakridge Recreational Field today? August 3rs 1901 Parish Council minutes informs us that "Oakridge Recreational Field to be let for sheep pasturage to Mr. E. Hayden at El per annum from 29th September, 1901. On March 11th 1910 permission was given to Mr Peglar to graze sheep in his ground. On March 26th, 1906 permission was given to Oakridge Cricket Club to level and seed the Cricket Pitch. The Allotments were moved from Forty Acres (was this on the north side of the Waterlane Road?) to their present site on February 21st 1903. Mr Trinder is called on to prepare six acres of the vacant allotment land at Oakridge at El an acre. It was agreed to pay Mr. Trinder for loughing the new allotments. On December 12th 1903 Mr. Armitage "to make best arrangements possible with Mr. Stanton with respect of compensation for the new Oakridge allotments". in 1904 Mr. Stanton paid half a year's rent as compensation "for the neglected state they were in" https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/43314/archive/files/bff508094d576f3b387734ae8f5a0296.pdf?Expires=1776902400&Signature=clt%7Ekc75s%7Eq4qoCTTTN02XRj7jEN0nemJ4JxwqSDjOK9XWgwzyMjN2n49Wv%7Ey8z2gBAtXfF2Ho5HqxvMFBUBZAKsUd5g8UbEig9uba0Kkf56HBKZ4PAoU%7ETexg8Vb9w5LiaUwnMVPdRxbBETgZnCjoQtH7MgTauhb-LTzHzotBIgVH6nWGlhobfjyMoKAdrdRHHyeVNzeE8poX7ID6NP1DQv5X1kfqp5bKaS2LwewheC3mBxQMqtaTNXRZpvxUfCAYVyLWAdqzN3WHKC6DDypyjhqrCpWFLmFmhIvP5hOJpGymva11rnYaxIt9r4rkSlcceJ5pi6MDwavarjsafawA__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM d68d406e8eeaaf226f5f70373247b746 PDF Text Text � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Memories of Frank Finch Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Pat Carrick Collection Subject The topic of the resource Pat Carrick, one of the three author's of 'Oakridge - A History', collected a large amount of original content as part of her research. This archive contains facsimiles of much of that content, including research notes, letters, remembrances and more. Inevitably, the book contains only a part of the detail collected, and the purpose of this archive is to both recognise the great work which was undertaken, but also to provide an original resource for other researchers. The content remains the copyright of Pat Carrick and must not be re-published without permission. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Pat Carrick Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Memories of Frank Finch Description An account of the resource Most people in Oakridge knew Frank, and many people much further away, too. He was born into the well-known farming family in the hamlet of Tunley, in a beautiful part of the surrounding area of Oakridge. He was cheerful, Lively, and full of jokes and amusing stories. He was incredibly knowledgeable about a wide range of things, and gave good practical advice about anything. He was warm hearted, and would help out, sometimes quietly in the back-ground, wherever he could. He was full of charm and charisma, and could literally charm the birds out of the trees. He had a pet robin at one stage, which would fly onto his shoulder. He was very definite in his views, and wouldn't hesitate to tell someone if he thought he was overstepping the mark - sometimes in quite strong terms. In his younger days, he was a terrific motor-cycle rider, and loved playing in the motor-cycle football team. He was a keen scrambler, and won many cups in scrambles. Not to forget too his acting abilities. In several pantomimes in the village, remembering specially the wonderful "Witch of Tunley Wood" written by Jack Poole, ably accompanied on the piano by the talented musician, Patricia Farroll. There was a sweet performance of "Oh Rowan Tree" in that pantomime by Susan Carrick, and the picture of Frank leaning on his thumb-stick with a long blonde wig, his feet in boots placed at right angles, and leather knee pads is unforgettable. He frequently shot his white cuffs (as they used to say). There was method in this, because he had notes written on them to aid his memory. He had a wonderful singing voice , as many who joined in on the singing sessions at the Stirrup Cup in Bisley will remember. He was very proud of the job the farmers did in the 2nd World War, in putting everything possible to the plough, and of the task of the Home Guard. If you have seen Juliette Shipman's film of the Stroud area during wartime, you will have heard his story of the manning of the barricades on the Bisley - Eastcombe road, and Frank and group calling out to an innocent cyclist "What' s the password" then Trembling "Mmmmm ! I don't know". Frank and crew "We shall just have to shoot thee then", Peels of laughter! and the story of the German airman, who came through the golden cornfield, with ears of corn between his toes. "Where are your boots?" " Gone! " said the young German making a 'flying to the sky' gesture with both hands. And where's your socks Flying- to-the-sky gesture again. Frank puzzled for years as to where his gun had gone. He thought he saw him throw it into the hedge to his left, but it was never found. Frank was part of the lost charm and innocent fun of the 20th century, and he moved on far too young. https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/43314/archive/files/fa695b9de1eb96ed376e9366f51f1e96.pdf?Expires=1776902400&Signature=lSov-qua-d3UuKZWABqeeEvOR6meFfBkGmA4gvSXgfE483LHEhp8iAYlHSUOmQG7qvDNmyq5-HK5c%7Es57eBtTxKu8Uj2EiyRp5TroEGZ%7EzXz%7EynGtsBKdhPvMEaJMbIAvTCHNVBJJgp-sTu8t0owPaAqdrBNfQYghZhwMPS8BAp8lGmwYe4wNiNEbXGQiu32zdPX0bTC8IemkdOeGobfs0ZVbTvYKsSzzx7Z1b5tG0Hsx%7Ee5irV5ww%7E85epTJ4MTA51bXTbTZQFLK4ObWfQudAMFU7CzOJJdaCo8YLnfnPqQFCCrD1T5Twwt%7EWV8fXrSHiH4nP19moL%7E5cMikjg4sQ__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 23800ecf3f0cac4ff9cc3bdedeb0ee33 PDF Text Text � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Memories of Convivial Evenings at "The Crown," Waterlane Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Pat Carrick Collection Subject The topic of the resource Pat Carrick, one of the three author's of 'Oakridge - A History', collected a large amount of original content as part of her research. This archive contains facsimiles of much of that content, including research notes, letters, remembrances and more. Inevitably, the book contains only a part of the detail collected, and the purpose of this archive is to both recognise the great work which was undertaken, but also to provide an original resource for other researchers. The content remains the copyright of Pat Carrick and must not be re-published without permission. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Pat Carrick Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Memories of Convivial Evenings at "The Crown," Waterlane Description An account of the resource I well remember my father, Edgar, telling me of the time when the then Landlord, Charlie Ewer, had difficulty in getting his customers to leave, long after "Time" was called. So in desperation he went outside, found his garden hoe, and used it to slice through the light fitting in the bar, thus putting the whole pub in darkness. Then he suggested that they left! In my day of frequenting the Crown, the local Bisley P.C. was also a regular customer, in the evenings, he was always in uniform, except for, his tunic and helmet, which we regulars did not take too much notice of. Except for one night, when we can only presume that he had a rather "bad" day, he left dead on closing time and within minutes was back in his complete uniform and ordered everybody OUT as it was gone time!! This was was when Bob and Norah Hawkins were the Landlord, and Landlady. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource John Fry Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The Pat Carrick Collection