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Letter and Interview with Sir Stafford Cripps Daughter

Sir Stafford Cripps 1889 - 1952 In Attlee's Government 1945 - 50 as President of the Board of Trade and Chancellor of the Exchequer. Policy of…

Ken Bucknell Remembers

Mr Ken Bucknell has many vivid memories as a young man living in Waterlane, below he remembers his Grandfathers years as sexton:Frederick Halliday…

Exodus to New South Wales

In August 1837, there had been a mass exodus from the village to the young colony of New South Wales. The great poverty among the agricultural…

Dame Margaret Weston

Dame Margaret Weston or Peggy Weston as some may recall her was born in Oakridge in the late 1920's, the only daughter of the village Schoolmaster.…

Childhood Recollections of Services at St. Bartholomews

As a little girl almost five decades ago, I was often present at Evensong in Oakridge Church sitting in a seat close to the organist who was Mr. Hunt.…

Mrs Ann Hornby (nee Sadler) Remembers

We first knew Oakridge in 1922 when my parents rented what is now known as Lyday Close from Dr. Percy Dearmer, as a holiday cottage. I was seven years…

Ann Hornby on the ARP Wardens

During the war, my father was the head ARP Warden for the Village.There were a number of Wardens, and a group of boys who acted as 'runners'. One of…

An Old Document found by Mrs. Woolls in the attics of her house at Tunely

A rolled up document was on stiff parchment paper. One side of the document is an indenture for the lease of some land in Bisley from Thomas Baker to…

Alison Gardiner Remembers

Water lane in the 1930's was a very different hamlet from what it is today. The central point was The Crown Inn, run by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hewer. It…