Category: People.

People who lived in our, or had direct connections, to our parish.

People.

Just some quotes on the subject of History.

Peter Hunt

  “History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”  ― Winston S. Churchill “If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. ”  ― Michael Crichton. (Plus many variations by others.) “I was alive when the Dead… Continue reading Just some quotes on the subject of History.

Families., Industry, Local characters., People.

Mr George Webb and the Ganarew Motorcycle Company.

Peter Hunt

So far as the advent of motor cars and motorcycles were concerned, Britain was at least a decade behind France and Germany. In 1896 there were only ten cars in the whole of the UK.* Mr George Webb of Crockers Ash had probably been in business before this selling conventional pedal type cycles from his shop… Continue reading Mr George Webb and the Ganarew Motorcycle Company.

People.

Dorothy Peel: our local heroine – the 19th century equivalent of Mary Berry!

Peter Hunt

Constance Dorothy Evelyn Peel OBE (née Bayliff; 27 April 1868 – 7 August 1934) was an English journalist and writer, known for her non-fiction books on cheap household management and cookery. She was the seventh child of Richard Lane Bayliff, a military captain, and his wife Henrietta (née Peel) and was christened at St. Swithin’s… Continue reading Dorothy Peel: our local heroine – the 19th century equivalent of Mary Berry!

Families., Local characters., People., Places.

ELIZABETH POSTHUMA GWILLIM From Whitchurch.

Peter Hunt

ELIZABETH POSTHUMA GWILLIM.  (Abridged by Hilary Stratford from ‘The Extraordinary Lives of Elizabeth Posthuma Gwillim and John Graves Simcoe’ by Ann Gwillim Parker) Elizabeth Posthuma Gwillim was the daughter of Elizabeth (a widow, her husband having died in 1721). At the time of her birth in September 1762, her mother was living with her grandmother… Continue reading ELIZABETH POSTHUMA GWILLIM From Whitchurch.