Aynho
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The End as a School
I can remember Feed My Lambs closing when we went up to the new school.
I did 3 years at this one, an old type of school - one door for boys and the other for girls. The heating was from coke burning boilers and it was good to be able to go out and get the coke. The other thing we lost when it closed was going across the playground to the outside toilets. Lovely in winter.
A memory of Brackley contributed by Ian Haverly
Motorbike days
Nice to look at the old photos of Brackley as I was born here in 1963. I lived at 54 Manor Road for many years. I moved away for a while but it was nice to return. I used to ride motorbikes with a group of friends - Steve & Andy Fell & Mark Thomas to name a few. Id love to contact CHRIS & BARBARA BALL who emergrated to Oz with there new baby ZOE in the late 1970's. If there's anyone out there who remembers me wheelieing my green loud kawasaki up the High Street let me know???. Thank you for a nice web site ST
dennste@aol.com
A memory of Brackley contributed by stephen tanney
Childhood
My father was the village policeman until 1958 and we lived in the Police House which doubled as a Police Station (there was a counter for public use at the front of the house). We left for Corby in 1958 when I was 6.
My memories are of the blacksmith's forge (opposite the secondary school), Nobby Brown's dairy (next to the railway station), the picture house, Northrop's butcher's shop, the Fleur De Lys pub (landlady Jean Shrimpton), black topped bread from the bakery, the Fox and Hounds pub, bus journeys on a Bedford OB bus, Saturday shopping trips to Banbury on the train, cricket at Preston Capes and the village primary school.
Other names I can recall are John Kingston (dairy ...read more here
A memory of Woodford Halse contributed by Alan Hamilton
Early years
My early memories of Woodford, were being taken by bus, from Byfield Primary School, to the Moravian church, in Parsons Street, for the polio injection, also of going to the cinema, which was opposite the Post Office, to see the Big Country.
Some of my relatives, worked on the railway, I spent a lot of happy times, watching the comings and goings, to the sheds, watching the Master Cutler and the Yorkshireman, the two high speed mainline trains, at that time.
A memory of Woodford Halse contributed by neville eyles
Extracts From Aynho & Oxfordshire books
Aynho, on the Oxfordshire border south of Banbury, is a beautiful ironstone village dominated by its great mansion, Aynho Park House. The house was owned by the Cartwright family from 1615 until soon after this view was taken. After uncertain years, the mansion has now been converted into apartments by the Country Houses Association. This view is of the north front, which faces the village, while the south overlooks the River Cherwell valley, across a somewhat mutilated Capability Brown parkland of the 1760s.
An extract from from"Northamptonshire Living Memories".
This quiet lane, now the B4100, was a teeming main road until the M40 relieved it of traffic in the early 1990s. Now it is relatively peaceful again. All these stone houses and cottages remain little altered, although the pavement is now smarter. The road has also been widened and has a pavement on the right. This delightful village completes our tour of this most attractive and historic county.
An extract from from"Northamptonshire Living Memories".
We are looking westwards
along the Grand Union Canal
on its way to Birmingham, at
point where it originally joined
the Oxford Canal. This junction
was later moved further on,
and the ‘cut’ to the left became
the entrance to the ‘pound’. The
building on the left is the Stop
House, where boats would stop
to pay their tolls as they moved
from one canal company canal
to another. The ‘Belmont’ (centre
left) is the butty to the ‘Stanton’
(next to it), belonging originally
to Barlows. Butties were the un-
powered boats towed by their
powered partner.
An extract from from"Daventry Living Memories".
The marina was
originally a reservoir
to maintain levels
in the Grand Union
Canal; it was also
used as a pound to
moor working boats.
Water was pumped
from here up to
the top lock. The
line of bushes and
trees in the middle
distance hide the
embankment of the
railway line, which
ran from Weedon
through Daventry
to Leamington.
The service was
withdrawn in 1959.
An extract from from"Daventry Living Memories".
This view of the Rec shows the steam engine hiding the terrace of houses known as Mount Pleasant. The building on the
extreme left is Stead & Simpson’s shoe factory, one of the last shoe manufacturers to survive in Daventry, once home to
many factories and craftsman. Steads’s factory has now disappeared, to be replaced by Tesco’s supermarket and obligatory
car park. Fortunately, the Rec still survives.
An extract from from"Daventry Living Memories".