tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17469811978305652742024-03-14T21:53:41.295+00:00Eton Wick HistorySteve Denhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07788605340419796324noreply@blogger.comBlogger512125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1746981197830565274.post-51543417764213260812024-03-04T06:00:00.009+00:002024-03-04T06:00:00.135+00:00Photographic History of Eton Wick and Eton - The Choir of St John the Evangelist Church, Eton<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitodAa1qija29xc92BXibMVKfLlYhfeRfp6ZW6Ytl0si-QpIXmwposRepwbIX_QP61vpb6TeT99UY8YlcGoWcbwlVaY2E5g1lLczmfs3gwjDXR3AkRfNnI0XYI-H5NKsKk_5XiyZYvJSjOEhjtn0GC9EKBxtsjMY96BDV0fevEDn638Bi98ZpOEVVH6TSe/s2441/eton%20church%20choir%20image.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="2441" height="378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitodAa1qija29xc92BXibMVKfLlYhfeRfp6ZW6Ytl0si-QpIXmwposRepwbIX_QP61vpb6TeT99UY8YlcGoWcbwlVaY2E5g1lLczmfs3gwjDXR3AkRfNnI0XYI-H5NKsKk_5XiyZYvJSjOEhjtn0GC9EKBxtsjMY96BDV0fevEDn638Bi98ZpOEVVH6TSe/w640-h378/eton%20church%20choir%20image.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">Eton and Eton Wick had choirs until the 1970s. This is
Eton's large and enthusiastic choir of 1966/7, pictured in front of St John the
Evangelist, Eton, at that time the Parish Church. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">In the back row (adults): W Stickley, R Boxall, D Pidgeon, A
Welsh, P I F Bowyer, R Pike, J Stacey, S Fairbain, M Newland, L Pike, E Gater,
C Blake, and the Choirmaster/Organist.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">In the middle row (Boys): S Amor, R Hillyer, K Pallett, (?) Middlemas,
the Rev. David A N Evans, P Angell, S Maw, (?) Maw, P Burt, W Pike<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">Front row: N Fairburn, (?) Middlemas, (?) Maw.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">This article was first published in </span><a href="https://www.etonwickhistory.co.uk/p/publications.html" style="font-family: arial;" target="_blank">A Pictorial History of Eton Wick & Eton.</a></p><br /><p></p>
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probably the largest bombing attack on this area during the entire war. The
original Air Raid message Purple at 00.01 was changed to Air Raid Red by 00.08
hours. For the next hour enemy activity over London intensified and a
heavy AA barrage ensued. This was the seventh raid on Britain under <a href="https://militaryhistorynow.com/2015/03/10/the-last-blitz-hitlers-1944-baby-bomber-campaign-against-london/">operation ‘Steinbock’</a>
part of Goering’s reprisal campaign of retaliation for the bombing of
Germany. The attack on the night of 22/23rd February was carried out by
155 aircraft with 55 bombers directed against targets in West London made up of
Dornier 217 M’s, Ju 188’s and Me 410 A’s.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">At about midnight clusters of flares had been
dropped over the Thames which drifted southwest towards the Weybridge area. About
this time 15 Messerschmitt Me 410 A’s took off from Vitry - en - Artois. They
were quickly picked up by ground radars and air borne radars of the Mosquito
Mk.XIII of 96 Squadron based at West Malling in Kent. A night fighter
action started near the South coast and continued over the Slough, Maidenhead
Bray area. The action was successful as the crew of Mosquito XIII HK 370,
Sqn/Ldr Caldwell and F/O Rawlins claimed a probable Me 410 and later confirmed
as the Me 410 crashed at 00,15 hours 55 miles south east of Bray at Framfield,
Sussex, the German crew being killed. As the raid continued, the Do 217’s
joined the Me 410’s and possibly to elude their pursuers jettisoned their bombs
at 00.35 hours on St. Leonards farm, south east of Oakley Green and Bray. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpQFajqjDb9NgATlpJWz4uXUy96mFE0VJnhurSkwgwdMSNExf8HRcSfl-IaSXf-UNDNu8PYxIAWgFaxosAviJCtsa8p0LY6AJiyR55dKI7cox2JXrPE7fM1xpgcQeQ6s-eGCN5LfPZIIeUNJyD0VN-7hngK_RRDk-h-71WudmMofHNUlgFb7Iq4a4bx7DO/s789/ME%20401A.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="292" data-original-width="789" height="148" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpQFajqjDb9NgATlpJWz4uXUy96mFE0VJnhurSkwgwdMSNExf8HRcSfl-IaSXf-UNDNu8PYxIAWgFaxosAviJCtsa8p0LY6AJiyR55dKI7cox2JXrPE7fM1xpgcQeQ6s-eGCN5LfPZIIeUNJyD0VN-7hngK_RRDk-h-71WudmMofHNUlgFb7Iq4a4bx7DO/w400-h148/ME%20401A.png" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p>Five minutes later at 00.40 hours ten bombs, five
of which were UXB, fell between Bray Police Station and the 8th Fairway of
Maidenhead Golf Course. Two houses where slightly damage but no
casualties. At the same time a large H.E. bomb exploded in the U.S tent camp in
a field behind Bray Police Station. ,and although the relevant Incident Report
stated </span><i style="font-family: arial;">“No Casualties. Some Tents Burned” </i><b style="font-family: arial;">, </b><span style="font-family: arial;">this
was not strictly true since Private Donald Champlain of Melbourne, Florida, a
telephone technician with the U.S. Army Signal Corps on detached service from
Popham Scrubs, was injured by the blast and taken off to hospital. Mr Champlain
recounted the </span><span style="font-family: arial;">incident…</span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>“About midnight on the 22nd February a German
bomber pursued by an RAF Night Fighter jettisoned his load onto our bivouac
area releasing a 1000lb Heavy Explosive and a Thermal (Phosphorous). The 1000lb
landed 25 feet from where I was standing, being knocked unconscious, with
perforated ear drums and other injuries, including broken ribs”</i><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>“There were approximately 300 US Troops quartered
in pyramidal tents. The unit was the 9th Engineer Command (9th air Force). I
recall the Headquarters located in a stately mansion, probably what is referred
to is Bray Court. I was a Signal Corpsman sent with others to install their
telephone communications, as they (9th Engn.) had just moved into the area.”</i><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Fifty three years later, in May
1997, Donald Champlain finally received the Purple Heart for the injuries
caused by enemy action in Bray.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">As the attack continued other bombs fell in the
Maidenhead/ Bray area, one falling in a field west of Sheephouse road leaving a
crater 12ft by 5ft diameter and damaging 50 houses. It is thought that this
device could have been dropped by the Me 410 engaged by the guns of 564 Battery
stationed on SM7 Site, Dorney Common.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">The 564 (M) HAA. Troop stationed on Dorney Common with
four 3.72” AA Guns, engaged the Me 410 at 11,800 ft with CS type fire using 42
rounds of ammunition. The battery return states, An Me 410, after engagement by
site SM7, banked sharply, jettisoned bombs and flares close by and crashed in
flames at Radnage, near High Wycombe.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">A witness who happened to see the crash said, “It
approached from the south at very high speed, the engines screaming at full
throttle, leaving an extremely long trail of flame. Indeed as the aircraft hit
the ground, this flame set fire to a nearby hedge”. Later one of the main under
carriage legs was excavated and this was stamped with the type description Me
210, so perhaps this aircraft may have been a modified Me 210, but since the Me
410 was a development of the 210 then certain components were probably used in
the later aircraft. Battery commander Major Haines sent a guard party to the
crash site. They returned to Dorney Camp with one of the plane propellers, a trophy
of their victory.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">(research Leslie Kitson-Smith. Maidenhead.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: arial;">This is an extract from <a href="https://draft.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/1746981197830565274/6359341934579315177"><span style="color: blue;">Round and About Eton Wick: 1939 - 1945</span></a>. The book
was researched, written and published in 2001 by John Denham</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">. </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Please join us and learn more about our local area. Refreshments will be provided.
We look forward to seeing you there.</span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white;"><br /></div>Steve Denhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07788605340419796324noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1746981197830565274.post-35487156523300934022024-02-12T13:49:00.001+00:002024-02-12T13:49:00.152+00:00Photographic History of Eton Wick and Eton - Eton Parish Church Fete<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLU3ilPfuyveYxpLIJJrgBEMvx3stlpFTom_VImze2jwnvWXCxash0wMO3tg1ZRmhKxIXJLlHrdCMu6Hd-33I6OHudcCvYKnLW1ZYR1Y85p9mYITeT5fNDxO_hxkQhhx61cyOhKq99a20hmYl8_4XUHIja76NiqIb0XyPuo6I-Yg9VbSvvnKk_wPGZUi7e/s1136/eton%20church%20fete.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="759" data-original-width="1136" height="429" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLU3ilPfuyveYxpLIJJrgBEMvx3stlpFTom_VImze2jwnvWXCxash0wMO3tg1ZRmhKxIXJLlHrdCMu6Hd-33I6OHudcCvYKnLW1ZYR1Y85p9mYITeT5fNDxO_hxkQhhx61cyOhKq99a20hmYl8_4XUHIja76NiqIb0XyPuo6I-Yg9VbSvvnKk_wPGZUi7e/w640-h429/eton%20church%20fete.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">This photograph is believed to be the 'celebrity' opening of the summer c1974 Fete, by the Emperor 'Iedo Kung Fu' and his entourage. From the left are: the Rev. Christopher Johnson, Rita Pidgeon, Lesley Ballard, Celia Russell and George Paget. George was a very well known character, often to be seen with his carriage and horses taking tourists and bridal parties to their destinations (and the odd appearance in 1960s cinema films). </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">This article was first published in </span><a href="https://www.etonwickhistory.co.uk/p/publications.html" style="font-family: arial;" target="_blank">A Pictorial History of Eton Wick & Eton.</a></p>
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from daylight raids at times showed signs of battle with the damage plainly
visible to those watching; occasionally debris was seen to fall from the
bombers. The coloured recognition flares of the day were fired by the low
flying and crippled aircraft to ensure their safety from the anti-aircraft
guns. Unidentified allied aircraft could and did invite attention from local
Ack-Ack Batteries.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiilZNZ20mJHsvKuCp1w0GM8cG78eYe01K8_IfmqHpkSeEBlZiiRURq5Z_pb_iXyejciemkVJc656Hs63ipMggKijU6WdvxVO1DRcQilk_iwZ6dtTpvtssAp-Qdef1s7T-umJ7Cf4ax1WFVKTvAd5SCZldJJIkORLHc0qH5MR0PxN2PvKhGIENjQVs_UpC4/s194/Jan44%201.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="164" height="194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiilZNZ20mJHsvKuCp1w0GM8cG78eYe01K8_IfmqHpkSeEBlZiiRURq5Z_pb_iXyejciemkVJc656Hs63ipMggKijU6WdvxVO1DRcQilk_iwZ6dtTpvtssAp-Qdef1s7T-umJ7Cf4ax1WFVKTvAd5SCZldJJIkORLHc0qH5MR0PxN2PvKhGIENjQVs_UpC4/s1600/Jan44%201.png" width="164" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;">Four years of war had brought a dwindling supply of non-essential
goods to the shops. Caleys of Windsor, in an endeavour to overcome the
difficulty, placed advertisements in the local paper offering to buy good
quality second hand jewellery, silverware, leather goods, good toys,
perambulators, carpets, and furniture. </span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">The Eton U.D.C. chairman spoke of the acute shortage of
administration and maintenance people which made it difficult to maintain many
public services such as maintenance to roads and footpaths which had declined
since the beginning of the war. The proposal to amalgamate offices, such as the
Ministry of Food in Eton with Slough, were not welcomed by local housewives who
complained it would be inconvenient. After joining Slough, the Eton food office
remained open for two days a week. Complaints to the council Surveyor from
mothers who were finding it difficult to push a pram through one path which had
become overgrown and was half the original width and also of the damage done by
people who rode their hacks on the paths instead of the road brought no firm
answer. The Surveyor replied that the matter would be looked into, but it must
be realized that it was difficult to obtain labour and materials for those jobs
that were not directly connected to the war effort.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">The Council Medical Officer reported on the virulent
influenza epidemic that had swept the country during the winter, confirming
that the outbreak was subsiding locally, and the worst was now over. He also
spoke of an Eton College boy, who had been given permission to pursue his hobby
of bird watching at the Slough Sewage farm and was attacked by a family of
Coypu. The boy had lashed out at the animal and killed it by kicking it in the
head. These large rat like animals were thought to have escaped from a fur farm
in Henley in 1935 and established themselves on the streams around the
Cippenham area. </span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">Salvage of many materials was still important in 1944 and Eton
U.D.C. took the decision to continue the collection of wastepaper at Eton Wick,
previously carried out under the supervision of Mr Chew. Fifty pounds had been
raised from the salvage operation and the</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi88Ok4s8rfVyBWjYt6DEHbJOrsX926rJw6EMdyMk_VNx6rKYwlkJEHxc3Qc3bYPLAlwNLW02qVPkItEBS_gvnmXYohodGZWcqpwBTthVER2VfypGmfbKkBLQJFgk2-5-mBIOnTVm9M6-Pw2CWp4sql9hhTmEHzjWwXJ_xXyTjuzrD2WpdjSk8fArSOPr_Y/s320/Jan44%202.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="278" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi88Ok4s8rfVyBWjYt6DEHbJOrsX926rJw6EMdyMk_VNx6rKYwlkJEHxc3Qc3bYPLAlwNLW02qVPkItEBS_gvnmXYohodGZWcqpwBTthVER2VfypGmfbKkBLQJFgk2-5-mBIOnTVm9M6-Pw2CWp4sql9hhTmEHzjWwXJ_xXyTjuzrD2WpdjSk8fArSOPr_Y/s1600/Jan44%202.png" width="278" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;">monies were invested in National
Savings. The saving certificates, purchased on behalf of the council, were in
the names of the late Mr Chew and the Surveyor.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">Much of the salvage collected early in the war, such as
household aluminium pots and pans and railings taken from public parks and
private houses, was of poor quality and of little use to the war industries so
was left lying in dumps. The <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Surveyor when commenting on the salvage situation said the council had a
beautiful collection of salvaged bottles that could not be disposed of so the
collection had been discontinued.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Light iron
was also a problem and no more was collected, but as Eton had a baler, the
collection of tin cans continued. Iron garden gates and railings had been taken
away in 1940 by council salvage teams. It is alleged that a local resident
buried his ornamental gates in a field to save them from the salvage.</span></span></p>
<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Friday January 21st.</b></span></span><b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></b></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: arial;">A mixed
force of approximately four hundred enemy aircraft, including heavy bombers,
raided London. Ack-Ack* Batteries stationed in the Slough - Windsor locality
went into action with very heavy gunfire and a similar raid followed on the
night of 29-30th, again followed by heavy gunfire from the local Ack-Ack* Batteries.
Night raids on London over the next few weeks brought more heavy AA fire from
the surrounding gun sites. At least one shot down enemy aircraft was claimed by
608 Battery whilst stationed in this area. Much later a rumour was circulating
amongst the battery troops that it had been a Canadian plane which forced
landed with no-one badly hurt. The crew said after flying through the Flak of
Germany and back ours was the most accurate. The last raid on London known as
the Little Blitz was on the night of April 18th, 1944.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p><br /><p></p>Steve Denhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07788605340419796324noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1746981197830565274.post-36658532977171667522024-01-15T06:00:00.006+00:002024-01-15T06:00:00.129+00:00Photographic History of Eton Wick and Eton - The Eton Players <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieeBIE1mMV0haRVCFam78iJz_WOpOjtdBQbbSBdQwO_nfLmKg4xDBpnKuJzY9ihsZ2jxYfy75j6TRX22ClQzGHJus-GFMRGSEIxSElZbKN3ojNIhSr77boxQRaM9mIfyjhSv6ayx0s_ugaM-Dr8v4jkhcCcj2GVGsf5aVurXUxL0XbKb-zTeVUEN9shrEL/s1284/eton%20players%20image.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="848" data-original-width="1284" height="422" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieeBIE1mMV0haRVCFam78iJz_WOpOjtdBQbbSBdQwO_nfLmKg4xDBpnKuJzY9ihsZ2jxYfy75j6TRX22ClQzGHJus-GFMRGSEIxSElZbKN3ojNIhSr77boxQRaM9mIfyjhSv6ayx0s_ugaM-Dr8v4jkhcCcj2GVGsf5aVurXUxL0XbKb-zTeVUEN9shrEL/w640-h422/eton%20players%20image.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The Eton Players drama group was formed in the 1960s by Mrs Alice Burrow. The group presented a number of plays, performed in the Eton Church Hall and the Parish Church. Most of the costumes were designed and assembled by Mrs Peggy Payne of Eton High Street and local jumble sales provided the materials. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">In the photograph, from left to right are: Pauline Evans (wife of David A N Evans, Vicar of Eton), Sylvia Collier, Brenda Herriot (wife of the Headmaster of Porny School), Ivy Bowyer, Mary Pyke, Rita Pidgeon and Barbara Herriot. The play was 'The Six Wives of Calais'. Eton Parish Church Fete.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">This article was first published in </span><a href="https://www.etonwickhistory.co.uk/p/publications.html" style="font-family: arial;" target="_blank">A Pictorial History of Eton Wick & Eton.</a></p>
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Military stores consisted of such things as Air Force blue shirts and foot powder,( a medicated talc for feet, soldiers for the use of !!). </span><span style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxDKKLBx0sWbaPV98Myb-fbVrARc0u4ta8XzijBCAm4Rr950GEtfCYcCWgR_Y83BhXIsrzU9C8ESevjW35ghiH9wFPbYXOoBdR-ZLcgGfSq46K_6dYUs9yKYu_B0MeiCmjFUZtwWUJYJ1pNBFXUJ3IgEvD2CLKX46mYK1GHDHsGGN7gZ_HzWvPnG_jv1po/s145/POW%20manor%20Farm.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="145" data-original-width="117" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxDKKLBx0sWbaPV98Myb-fbVrARc0u4ta8XzijBCAm4Rr950GEtfCYcCWgR_Y83BhXIsrzU9C8ESevjW35ghiH9wFPbYXOoBdR-ZLcgGfSq46K_6dYUs9yKYu_B0MeiCmjFUZtwWUJYJ1pNBFXUJ3IgEvD2CLKX46mYK1GHDHsGGN7gZ_HzWvPnG_jv1po/w258-h320/POW%20manor%20Farm.png" width="258" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="white-space: normal;">Clothes rationing made the shirts a desirable item on the Black Market and a temptation to thieves. One night, shortly after the end of the war in Europe, using a lorry, thieves smashed through the barn doors and made off with a quantity of shirts. The shirts, all one size, bore the size mark 22. German P.O.W's arriving for work the following morning at Manor farm espied the shirts lying around and proceeded to kit themselves out. Although Manor Farm must be over a mile from one end to the other, the news that Police, CID, and Military SIB had arrived at the scene of the crime spread like a forest fire. The P.O.W's aware of the consequences if caught in possession of stolen property, immediately set about disposing of their loot putting shirts down the toilet, into buckets and in any other suitable place. One German prisoner working out in the field had no alternative but to bury his shirt and carry on working stripped to the waist on a very chilly day. When questioned by the investigating officers, every one swore that Willie never wore a shirt or coat when working. Was he a tough Willie or a wily Willie who fooled the Military SIB?</span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The fate of the Dutch barn was sealed in 1958 when it was sold to the Slough scrap merchant W.N.Thomas, demolition being in the capable hands of Andy Skeels of the Wick. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>This is an extract from </span><a href="https://www.etonwickhistory.co.uk/p/round-and-about-eton-wick-1939-1946.html" target="_blank">Round and About Eton Wick: 1939 - 1945</a><span>. The book was re</span><span>searched, written and published in 2001 by John Denham. </span></span></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Steve Denhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07788605340419796324noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1746981197830565274.post-4136995936073406472023-12-18T06:00:00.008+00:002023-12-18T13:43:38.759+00:00Eton Wick Newsletter - Issue 48 - December 2023<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7myDl2PCabf1o2XrLPC5IyVtGHqjZa2wWCLyGsB0CPECVhSJEBhyUuGmnPoiC_sFQuX9Vl4aR99z7BliP6Z0WZMY8Q32HsEqfVg_nKimO789lkIUCOsAnyLngzinzcUy16cJbeg5cL_zNavaataGBxU0T6PKnFJrkg1jwLXo3Wjj5SMLVZddCfWWck6rH/s2448/Front.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="1741" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7myDl2PCabf1o2XrLPC5IyVtGHqjZa2wWCLyGsB0CPECVhSJEBhyUuGmnPoiC_sFQuX9Vl4aR99z7BliP6Z0WZMY8Q32HsEqfVg_nKimO789lkIUCOsAnyLngzinzcUy16cJbeg5cL_zNavaataGBxU0T6PKnFJrkg1jwLXo3Wjj5SMLVZddCfWWck6rH/w456-h640/Front.jpg" width="456" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://issuu.com/etonwickhistory/docs/dec23">View the December 2023 edition of </a></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://issuu.com/etonwickhistory/docs/dec23">the Eton Wick Newsletter on Issuu.</a></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4p2x9OAvyGQ9XRybHtcM-LdyveC8FLJ496P0uJC7rRHwNAfm-FYahEBkNiru0JBfaiIbGJDHh5uFC0URrEqP6hBvDhQ5qTb7EqZob-ffn4jQP5m9DzCFuIPCYMMnfOyuNm-xwpFpp4ooq5uS3Dd5pen1SvwHLK2_hY1vvjrbELdTXd8N1lvoIe47j1lq7/s3552/Page%202%20-3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2480" data-original-width="3552" height="279" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4p2x9OAvyGQ9XRybHtcM-LdyveC8FLJ496P0uJC7rRHwNAfm-FYahEBkNiru0JBfaiIbGJDHh5uFC0URrEqP6hBvDhQ5qTb7EqZob-ffn4jQP5m9DzCFuIPCYMMnfOyuNm-xwpFpp4ooq5uS3Dd5pen1SvwHLK2_hY1vvjrbELdTXd8N1lvoIe47j1lq7/w400-h279/Page%202%20-3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Note. 240 pennies were equal to £1 </b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>How and Where they lived in the Village </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">No person can be an Island and no community can really isolate itself from its neighbours so what influenced the daily life of the eight-teeth century inhabitants of Eton Wick.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJVFyHVWe-XT5Q-6G8oIMuhEcdpz6-1Ne8PP0N4s2LzMCxCHjLf9VqTcQdWpOhLECveq5dYZ_8SCOnXMzeAEveZcHS0vyBb2t3lNwUM66sQVepX1iNUhHGvNz-l2pZZSwkqidJC7hgUY48YH4OLjc5g1fxcey3lBPTuAkC6R77Guayz-2mymtDDBF4E4jO/s464/EW%20Map%201797.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="306" data-original-width="464" height="422" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJVFyHVWe-XT5Q-6G8oIMuhEcdpz6-1Ne8PP0N4s2LzMCxCHjLf9VqTcQdWpOhLECveq5dYZ_8SCOnXMzeAEveZcHS0vyBb2t3lNwUM66sQVepX1iNUhHGvNz-l2pZZSwkqidJC7hgUY48YH4OLjc5g1fxcey3lBPTuAkC6R77Guayz-2mymtDDBF4E4jO/w640-h422/EW%20Map%201797.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">As to where they lived within the village is hard to define and the lifestyle changes during the century brought many changes to local farming and other employment. In the eighteenth century the area now thought of as the old village became the centre of the community for the first time. A parish map of 1797 ('itself a copy of an older one of 1742) cottages laying dispersed along the short stretch of common from shows about ten cottages laying dispersed along the short stretch of common from the Wheatbutts </span><span style="font-family: arial;">to Sheepcote not far way from the brook or one of its tributaries. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">In the rest of Eton Wick, to the east, north and west there were only about another dozen, and most of these were the older timber-framed houses giving a total of about twenty or so homesteads. Two of these houses can be dated with reasonable certainty as having been built within the first quarter of the eighteenth century - <a href="https://www.etonwickhistory.co.uk/2015/01/wheatbutts.html">Wheatbutts </a>and Hope Cottage (now part of nos. 37 and 39 Common Road). </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Wheatbutts was built for William Lyford, a butcher from Eton, between 1704, when the land was described as 'all that close of arable land called Wheatbutts and 1716; by which time the house had been built in the corner of the close and the rest converted into a orchard. It is known that by 1716 William Lyford was living at Old Windsor so it is doubtful that he ever lived at the Wheatbutts as the property was sold to the Eton Poor Estate.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Hope Cottage was built a few years later in about 1725. At that date a small close of just over an acre was bought from William Lyford by Anthony Warwick, a yeoman of Eton. Again it is doubtful that Warwick ever lived in the village for he was landlord of several cottages including five in Dorney,. Seven years later in 1732 he sold the cottage in Eton Wick to the tenant, Elizabeth Griffiths, a widow. She and her married son, William, converted it to an ale house known as the Bull's Head. Probably about this time the cottage was divided into two.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">William bought the property from his mother in 1745 and continued to be the victualler there for the next eleven years (1756). William sold the property to the farmer, John Fennel. Whose widow, Elizabeth, continued to live there until her death in 1785. In her Will she left one of the cottages to her niece, Anne Hope, by which the cottages became known. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">At the time of her death this cottage was the home of Robert Tarrant whilst the other cottage, in which Elizabeth herself had been living, she left to relative, Robert Wilkins and his wife and son for their lives. Among her other bequest was a green iron bedstead and her furniture to Anne Hope whilst the rest of her goods and chattels went to Anne Hope and Mary Wilkins,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Even before the Bull's Head had closed its door another alehouse had opened in the village. this was the Three Horseshoes. Exactly when it received its first licence is unknown but, like the Bull's Head, it is recorded in the Victuallers' Recognizances of 1753. </span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC-l7P84irB5fFQ0CBF2ZWSNxOx2KAqySoFwsgyWD431EPTm2302D5bO9qa64GZVkXoreYoefmV3ZSwZ57YKfznBHL5gGdjzaSHmdez0xmWJNt_Oev2WOsvG2hAe8rGd2LGtAV4Xuc8pvK/s279/Three+Horseshoes.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="173" data-original-width="279" height="397" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC-l7P84irB5fFQ0CBF2ZWSNxOx2KAqySoFwsgyWD431EPTm2302D5bO9qa64GZVkXoreYoefmV3ZSwZ57YKfznBHL5gGdjzaSHmdez0xmWJNt_Oev2WOsvG2hAe8rGd2LGtAV4Xuc8pvK/w640-h397/Three+Horseshoes.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;">Three Horseshoes Pub 1910 </span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The house itself was built sometime before 1705 when it was purchased by Joseph Johnson, yeoman of Eton Wick, from John and Mary Bell. The Pub has been owned by various Windsor Brewers including in 1762, Richard Grape. It is intriguing to speculate which of these two inns was the first in the village, though it is possible that neither was, as is suggested by an isolated reference in the parish registers to 'The Small Fox' at Eton Wick . Perhaps the village could not support two pubs.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">About fifty years on in 1813 a survey showed the local farming community of Eton as having 6 farmhouses, among which could have been Bell Farm, Saddocks Farm, Crown farm, Manor Farm, Dairy Farm or Little Common farm with 150 cottages the majority of which were in Eton, about 20 homesteads being in Eton Wick whose population was then about 100. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Dorney had 5 farmhouses and 12 cottages. but the rich farming community at Burnham boasted 8 farmhouses and 15 cottages; the latter two being enclosed. Farms within Eton varied in acreage from 20 to 200 acres whilst Burnham with much land under the plough has establishments from 40 to 1000 acres. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Eton Wick, unlike some other Hamlets and small villages of England at that time, was not an isolated community, being bordered by Eton. Windsor, Burnham, Slough and Maidenhead with which there was probably almost daily communication by someone on foot or by horse and cart. Also the village proximity to the River Thames gave its residents a nodding acquaintance with the bargemen plying between Maidenhead and London therefore local and national news of events filtered through by word of mouth to the village. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">No doubt, during the 18th century, as at the present time, the locals of Eton and Eton Wick discussed and expressed their views on National political events in so much as it affected their daily lives,. for example the accessions of the of King George's 1st, </span><span style="font-family: arial;">2nd and 3rd, the war with the French. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">the capture of Gibraltar , the union of England and Scotland; the appointment of Robert Walpole as first Prime Minister of Great Britain, and the Declaration of Independence by the American Colonies, together with the scare of the local smallpox outbreak in Windsor in April 1729 having just experience one of the coldest winters on record that ended in March 1729.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">However uppermost in the minds of those getting a living or sustenance from the land was the enclosure of the common lands. Although there may have been other employment opportunities in Windsor, Eton and Slough the right to the use of the land to produce ones food if only at a subsistence level was paramount to the villagers. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">For the whole of the eighteenth century and beyond the open field system remained the way of farming in the parish; each farmer cultivating his various strips of the field to grow corn, barley, oats, beans , turnips, cabbage and potatoes, also the full use of grazing rights on the common land and pastures would be utilized. (A true field being a large area of arable land divided into strips.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">How much mechanical and animal power was available to the village freeholder or tenant is difficult to assess but the Buckinghamshire Posse Comitatus for 1798 indicated that there was approximately 40 draught horses within Eton and Eton Wick. Robert Mills of Crown Farm had 4 draught horses ,1 wagon and 3 carts whilst it appears that John Atkins of Bell Farm owned 5 horses, 1 wagon and 2 carts. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The improved farming methods over the century and the increasing employment opportunities that became available in Eton during the century gave rise to a higher standard of living which induced some tenants and commoners to give up their strips to the more successful. There were certain rules and arrangements to be abide by as a document from the sixteenth </span></p><p><i style="font-family: arial;">This was part of the script for a talk given by John Denham at a meet of the Windsor & District University of the Third Age in 2003.</i></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p>Steve Denhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07788605340419796324noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1746981197830565274.post-64043170406706244422023-12-04T14:29:00.007+00:002023-12-05T10:02:14.033+00:00Eton Wick History Group Final Meeting - William Simmonds, sculptor, puppeteer & engineer and the Mystery Picture<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQXtvDIkn_2m7z0bcAfef1EPp7ntd6uCXi6sau4wSVga-8kYJnhvfcENLQtevM7y77F3imY7azn8qoA4osVXEKq9FVYL0RVTinGq0ckCRij1o_4m6qNyGYBd52isyVe8XUFibN-QZZDRN5zh8ZUSwbX6Ug9QXlgS8viWWk1L7fAsm7w7W1n-eNiiAne3Aw/s1931/last%20EWH%20poster.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1931" data-original-width="1391" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQXtvDIkn_2m7z0bcAfef1EPp7ntd6uCXi6sau4wSVga-8kYJnhvfcENLQtevM7y77F3imY7azn8qoA4osVXEKq9FVYL0RVTinGq0ckCRij1o_4m6qNyGYBd52isyVe8XUFibN-QZZDRN5zh8ZUSwbX6Ug9QXlgS8viWWk1L7fAsm7w7W1n-eNiiAne3Aw/w462-h640/last%20EWH%20poster.jpg" width="462" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">7:30 pm </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">13th December 2023</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Village Hall</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>Steve Denhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07788605340419796324noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1746981197830565274.post-31423776006915471812023-12-04T06:00:00.028+00:002023-12-08T13:46:39.392+00:00World War 2 Eighty Years On - 'Spit and Polish' and two crashed Flying Fortresses<!--Global site tag (gtag.js) - Google Analytics-->
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">The proximity of Windsor Castle with the Royal family and others of military rank brought a certain amount of ‘Spit and Polish’ to the local Ack-Ack camps, including Dorney camp due to the possible visits by "Red Tab " Officers from the War Office King George VI once visited the Dorney Ack-Ack camp having passed through the village un-noticed. By 1943 the camps had acquired a look of permanence with the inclusion of a fairly large NAAFI hut where Troop entertainment, such as Bingo, Film Shows and Dances were held. As this was a mixed battery, there was never a shortage of partners for camp dances where two musicians from the village, Andy Skeels on piano and George White on drums, often supplied the music. Both had been evacuated to Eton Wick to escape the bombing of London. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">It was not all war and no play for the gunners, for in June 1943 the first sports meeting was held by the local H.A.A. Regiment at the old Polo Ground Datchet. A Bathing Belles competition, in which a number of the locally stationed A.T.S. girls took part, was judged by a committee of R.A. Officers. Various field events were also arranged in which both Gunners and A.T.S. took part. After the prizes had been distributed by the Brigade Commander, an enjoyable day was rounded off with a dance and cabaret. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_23mxeJS9CsMDEfVxkzui_naJB0MqKUi7joB4EbehJSzk42WfeWH2CICJymXm7-l39Oi8Ht0fIHzTNyYiQbzcrCSSFe0hqKU8O1tjijRH0r6T2MImLeW-w_S9WPK6iUePtZNjohnig9-Q4N6w6PIm1OxzgZqdG6uEIZGatUsPV_8al_NpEFi3MFE1_zXK/s881/AA%20site%20and%20personel.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="380" data-original-width="881" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_23mxeJS9CsMDEfVxkzui_naJB0MqKUi7joB4EbehJSzk42WfeWH2CICJymXm7-l39Oi8Ht0fIHzTNyYiQbzcrCSSFe0hqKU8O1tjijRH0r6T2MImLeW-w_S9WPK6iUePtZNjohnig9-Q4N6w6PIm1OxzgZqdG6uEIZGatUsPV_8al_NpEFi3MFE1_zXK/w640-h276/AA%20site%20and%20personel.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp8WzytVkTZwtGkJZ7JQUfbqsaScuZjtG9UpgjLnOl2TdcCehiNmp2KCf5DOo8vkkYjnGyu_8NvoVDmsshI05H9iPY-75iGSuvWIOHoh1112jgH4AdVSAoOU4ijsFKxOppkWsZEKF8NbCgpt2I87l-_sLjZohV_FyJUJoDDxmJdgJfcIRKqBhP29ORkAcn/s1629/B%20troop%20564%20heavy%20AA%20battery.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="904" data-original-width="1629" height="356" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp8WzytVkTZwtGkJZ7JQUfbqsaScuZjtG9UpgjLnOl2TdcCehiNmp2KCf5DOo8vkkYjnGyu_8NvoVDmsshI05H9iPY-75iGSuvWIOHoh1112jgH4AdVSAoOU4ijsFKxOppkWsZEKF8NbCgpt2I87l-_sLjZohV_FyJUJoDDxmJdgJfcIRKqBhP29ORkAcn/w640-h356/B%20troop%20564%20heavy%20AA%20battery.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-family: Calibri; font-weight: bold;">‘</span><span lang="en-GB" style="font-family: Calibri;">B Troop’ 564 Heavy (M) AA Battery R.A. 183 Regiment R.A. 38 Division. SM7 Camp Dorney Common. 1944<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-family: Calibri;">Officer Commanding. Major Haines (</span><span lang="en-GB">seated centre</span></span><span lang="en-GB" style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">). Reverend Wingate, Vicar of St John the Baptist, Eton Wick.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table>The intensified Allied air offensive was seen and heard as Flying Fortress (B17) heavy bombers of the United States Air Force frequently flew over the village on their way to bomb targets in France and Germany. It was taken for granted that the aircraft overhead were friendly, but there was always the danger of a bomber crashing in the locality from having been damaged in an attack over enemy territory. Such an incident occurred to a U.S.A.F.(B17) bomber returning damaged from a daylight raid on Schweinfurt. The drone of the plane circling was heard in the evening at dusk as it continued to circle over the Windsor area for some time. After a while the increased roar of the engines was heard to be followed by the noise of the crash as the damaged Flying Fortress (B17) did a wheels up landing onto Beaumont College rugby pitch at Runnymede. but luckily, no injuries were sustained by the crew in the crash other than being rather shaken. The bomber had received damage to the hydraulic system during the raid over enemy occupied territory. A shaken but relieved crew made their way to the Bells of Ouesley public house where they were entertained by the landlord, Mr. Barnett. Hundreds of sightseers visited the site during the weekend.</span><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNV6elW8ZNvMjqRaEjT3by_SpGqb7lp7kWt4EJIRvmRTae2EccPwkqM0f0nGtnyQ56UKSMvU5ZRLN0nSPNRrPD82xezMvGLWXF3O7aSB6X9yFVgs0_CKi_euXaJ0dpttXf9_fw4xuUN3Zw-x_Y61vOpyT6yyZE9N6CdrSFLsImhPhVjzdLTyeF2_Xf8RMO/s524/Crashed%20B17.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="174" data-original-width="524" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNV6elW8ZNvMjqRaEjT3by_SpGqb7lp7kWt4EJIRvmRTae2EccPwkqM0f0nGtnyQ56UKSMvU5ZRLN0nSPNRrPD82xezMvGLWXF3O7aSB6X9yFVgs0_CKi_euXaJ0dpttXf9_fw4xuUN3Zw-x_Y61vOpyT6yyZE9N6CdrSFLsImhPhVjzdLTyeF2_Xf8RMO/w640-h212/Crashed%20B17.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">A second Boeing B17 of 91st Bomber Group crashed at Old Windsor <br />on December 30th, 1943.</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Strict fuel rationing curtailed the service provided by the Blue Bus from Dorney - Eton Wick - Windsor, also it limited the availability of Taxis. An order, issued by the Ministry of Fuel and Power, stated that from the end of May 1942 no petrol would be available to Hackney Carriages licensed after April of that year. The only taxi in the village at this time was owned by Mr. Phillips who had got his taxi license in the December of 1942 before the report came out. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Mr. Chew taking up the plea for a petrol ration, made the point to the Surveyor, that Mr. Phillips was fulfilling a very necessary need in the village as Eton Wick had already lost one taxi. A decision was taken to apply for a supply of petrol which resulted in a successful application. Motor fuel was available for private cars for essential war service, generally in the community. One case of misuse of fuel which resulted in a summons was the result of the watchful eye of P.C. Rainer the village constable. On four occasions within the month, he had noticed that the organist to Eton Wick chapel was collected after service by car. On questioning the lady driver, he established that the petrol was for church work, but he did not consider fetching the organist after the service lawful church work. Three and a half gallons of motor fuel was the ration that had been allowed for three and half months. On coming to court the Magistrate thought the case too trifling and dismissed the charge with cost. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfwUrYETIl_qDFoYA_brzsNzW9QtOz7NaerI0XSoCS2zNwt0cIpCUJIe7trtxZAVSnx7-6xUQKVfhELIlDbdWQZjBP7Jg5sAf1-wFNXhEXaduCV_ivwEG62viqyOlx_VG8OolIUqgVE1Hi/s400/blue+bus_0003.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="255" data-original-width="400" height="408" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfwUrYETIl_qDFoYA_brzsNzW9QtOz7NaerI0XSoCS2zNwt0cIpCUJIe7trtxZAVSnx7-6xUQKVfhELIlDbdWQZjBP7Jg5sAf1-wFNXhEXaduCV_ivwEG62viqyOlx_VG8OolIUqgVE1Hi/w640-h408/blue+bus_0003.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;">From 1940 until late 1945 the Blue Bus Service operated by Mr. Cole was also subject to strict fuel rationing curtailing the Windsor to Eton Wick service, the last bus of the day being 9pm.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Travel difficulties experienced by the village were not helped by the influx of wartime inhabitants. The inadequate bus service made it difficult to get to work or to other activities. Often the bus coming from Dorney to Windsor was full on reaching Eton Wick which brought forth angry complaints from the village residents Eventually letters were sent to the Traffic Commissioners about the inadequacy of service by the Eton U.D.C. but no improvements resulted from these complaints and stronger action would follow by the village community in 1944.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Is your journey really necessary?</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">This reminder appeared on posters at many railway stations. Non-essential travel was discouraged because of military requirements. In 1943 some seaside beaches that had been closed as an anti-invasion measure were again opened to the public, there was no rush as travel on overcrowded trains and very limited seaside accommodation made holidays difficult. The innovation of "Holidays at Home", an organized week of activities by the local councils and voluntary organizations, helped munitions and other workers to enjoy their annual weeks’ summer holiday. Military displays, sport meetings, fun fairs, concerts and displays showing some of the local war production were held on Agars Plough during the week. Large gatherings </span><span style="font-family: arial;">were attracted to these entertainments.</span></p><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxGHiGW3ysAq3e1a3ZyQrYJYbFDUT9L0n0_ll-Ags0Qo79HIe4rbnMHYnpopyKFFXYqG6wVJnPV7oMiEJhw2eYZIzf0khbJYtc8dHuG1JfNuYNuJ12_q1ktWDlwcCxPskO845fFVqwKUCkmVOixNg7quHt0O3igCnLQA7C1YyCiEIFwb0ozICeHPsb-T3X/s498/Holiday%20at%20Home.png"><img border="0" data-original-height="291" data-original-width="498" height="374" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxGHiGW3ysAq3e1a3ZyQrYJYbFDUT9L0n0_ll-Ags0Qo79HIe4rbnMHYnpopyKFFXYqG6wVJnPV7oMiEJhw2eYZIzf0khbJYtc8dHuG1JfNuYNuJ12_q1ktWDlwcCxPskO845fFVqwKUCkmVOixNg7quHt0O3igCnLQA7C1YyCiEIFwb0ozICeHPsb-T3X/w640-h374/Holiday%20at%20Home.png" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Army Gymnastic team giving a display during a ‘Holiday at Home Week’.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Displays of all types by the armed services were put on to recruit Men and women </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">for wartime services and also supporting special National savings weeks </p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">On the declaration of war, the Government had commandeered the railways and some motor transport for the movement of military personnel and other essential war supplies. Whereas the proportion of passenger traffic to goods pre-war had been in the ratio of 80% to 20%, the ratio was now became reversed. A poster campaign constantly reminded civilian passengers that munitions and troop movement together with food and fuel had priority. The reduced number of passenger trains gave rise to longer journey times than normal. Blackout regulations, air raids, and the huge number of passengers traveling, often with as many standing as sitting. Service personnel often travelled with their full military kit which took up as much room as a normal passenger which made for uncomfortable travelling. During air raids, trains stopped at the first station they arrived at, allowing passengers to alight if they wished. Servicemen and women returning to their units from leave had to make an early start back in case they arrived at their camps late and were charged with being absent. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper;"><i style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>This is an extract from </span><a href="https://www.etonwickhistory.co.uk/p/round-and-about-eton-wick-1939-1946.html" target="_blank">Round and About Eton Wick: 1939 - 1945</a><span>. The book was re</span><span>searched, written and published in 2001 by John Denham. </span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-GB"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-GB"> </span></p>Steve Denhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07788605340419796324noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1746981197830565274.post-35163878571668913992023-11-27T06:00:00.008+00:002024-01-14T14:16:00.596+00:00Photographic History of Eton Wick and Eton - The Eton Wick Methodist Sisterhood<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDN198ZQQ-lhED5yLYbG9_bXdRdvcOYG5EAbQ5p88M7W-wWCdD9Lu3VHHJb0Z47KqNQ_pqOo1eXdQIAElsS4SN8UA7-fdqSqkgKeQDXiEWnFXwaDNORLZoAG7B0bSMSGilxOm8wDBsh43fZMkkf7NRqI7GRKKmEG8rD01UDpUzAC3_3zuFEg8NmKhlMopY/s404/Eton%20Wick%20Methodist%20Sisterhood%201.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="277" data-original-width="404" height="438" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDN198ZQQ-lhED5yLYbG9_bXdRdvcOYG5EAbQ5p88M7W-wWCdD9Lu3VHHJb0Z47KqNQ_pqOo1eXdQIAElsS4SN8UA7-fdqSqkgKeQDXiEWnFXwaDNORLZoAG7B0bSMSGilxOm8wDBsh43fZMkkf7NRqI7GRKKmEG8rD01UDpUzAC3_3zuFEg8NmKhlMopY/w640-h438/Eton%20Wick%20Methodist%20Sisterhood%201.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><span style="font-family: arial;">This photograph was taken c1960. Back row (heads only visible): Mrs Slaymaker, Mrs Gardner, Miss Majorie Morris, Mrs Lily Jacobs (probably) Third row: Mrs Sophie Chamberlain, Mrs Jacobs, Miss Mary Ayres, Mrs Brown, unidentified Second row: Mrs Harris, Mrs Woodley, Mrs Paice, unidentified. The child is believed to be A. Higgins, grandson of Mrs Woodley. Front row: Mrs G Kelly, Mrs Dobson. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">This article was first published in </span><a href="https://www.etonwickhistory.co.uk/p/publications.html" style="font-family: arial;" target="_blank">A Pictorial History of Eton Wick & Eton.</a></p>
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earliest dwellings were built on the highest land north of the Great Eton
Common. From the 14</span><sup>th</sup><span> century to the 18</span><sup>th</sup><span> century the six
farmhouses continued that development. The 1797 map indicates houses on the
southern side of Common Lane including the Three Horseshoes.</span></div></span><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The first half of the 19<sup>th</sup> century brought further
house building including the Parsonage, Bell Farm Cottages, Harding Cottages
and Prospect Place. Most of these were rented to working class tenants. As the
century progressed more houses were built some on the gardens of the cottages facing
the Great Common. These included Hope Cottages, Palmers Place and others. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">The largest development began in 1880’s on some of the land
of Bell Farm where Boveney Newtown grew with Alma, Inkerman and Northfield roads,
and Moores Lane. The development was beyond the western edge of the Parish of
Eton which at that time was Bell Lane. As recorded in the 1881 census when
there were there household it grew and grew. By 1911 there were 125 households,
two more than Eton Wick. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></o:p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjuRtpwH0UV2Oy1VA0C8FgR-ZxtyrqC0AJRCS64cfczZlhp0tWcf13_5jYvBSSvOcIqiAb7q0XBRijU-ehi2kwhnUm5dMZkeFOwJDV-zv32pdmTb7aZKrTxbYTt1L_h4XfnV2GzVp0oodkDhla9jvT4cKAm0ndP1YbAV6ddZ_CIlH-qLEY8WJZXBbhyohEx" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="547" data-original-width="780" height="448" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjuRtpwH0UV2Oy1VA0C8FgR-ZxtyrqC0AJRCS64cfczZlhp0tWcf13_5jYvBSSvOcIqiAb7q0XBRijU-ehi2kwhnUm5dMZkeFOwJDV-zv32pdmTb7aZKrTxbYTt1L_h4XfnV2GzVp0oodkDhla9jvT4cKAm0ndP1YbAV6ddZ_CIlH-qLEY8WJZXBbhyohEx=w640-h448" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ordnance Survey Map 1899 courtesy of <a href="https://maps.nls.uk/">National Library of Scotland</a></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">By 1899 there were two distinct communities with the land
south of Alma Road and west of the Eton Parish mostly undeveloped. A few houses
were on the south side of the Eton Wick Road including the Shepherds Hut and
Victoria Road was outlined. The 1925 map shows further development south of
Alma Road.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></o:p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga0XEnHGULSvmrcPitYNZA66hXG_L00mM8e9jmXqPBls1UKjpS3mCnEifM2g9dq7vA8y0Eb1nmG2eAUCkvasAhxblBKGjmr0EXqHJmwJgksxFMbDF6Vur00kV5VQfEHXKQO0gKhLMK_mRrFrPLUWUnbhAc-2wW9gi_aCa6i7kwET7hj9LrbKudHteKtt7N/s1170/1925%20map.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="821" data-original-width="1170" height="450" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga0XEnHGULSvmrcPitYNZA66hXG_L00mM8e9jmXqPBls1UKjpS3mCnEifM2g9dq7vA8y0Eb1nmG2eAUCkvasAhxblBKGjmr0EXqHJmwJgksxFMbDF6Vur00kV5VQfEHXKQO0gKhLMK_mRrFrPLUWUnbhAc-2wW9gi_aCa6i7kwET7hj9LrbKudHteKtt7N/w640-h450/1925%20map.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ordnance Survey Map 1925 courtesy of <a href="https://maps.nls.uk/">National Library of Scotland</a></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5zttpQdf5poOa5HCtCPz99zW_2957SKBz4Dv5_PEiUx9mqGebJBEcL-gqx3ziXOXAZMXyRm9_D1YSmIX9Qs3bjMzagaGmCLYTQqwJae4bBWfk5ffwlaU3gttqtWiJf2P9FEKmlhOXKyhNjzfrhtTL7kKv13ze8ObB5YkwRy8SoFMkaAIAaWChrnqWmCvR/s770/1932%20EW+B%20Map.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="770" height="468" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5zttpQdf5poOa5HCtCPz99zW_2957SKBz4Dv5_PEiUx9mqGebJBEcL-gqx3ziXOXAZMXyRm9_D1YSmIX9Qs3bjMzagaGmCLYTQqwJae4bBWfk5ffwlaU3gttqtWiJf2P9FEKmlhOXKyhNjzfrhtTL7kKv13ze8ObB5YkwRy8SoFMkaAIAaWChrnqWmCvR/w640-h468/1932%20EW+B%20Map.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Ordnance Survey Map 1932 courtesy of <a href="https://maps.nls.uk/">National Library of Scotland</a><br /><br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">The inter war years saw some development south of Alma Road including a few houses in Tilstone Avenue and Close.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8GWnCKK48THBU1bZaW14QIIMmMV9e9taoYL6EtbDfLv0jaEyVg2LDg7G49gHI6fWwEHr7fEi-XPYfHo04dEtuopx_fOfok5sA-joCeSNVfPGMDwDgvWY4kLhk0IpZaA3BGEtfX_k0y8vyF830MuOFRqCPwoK8RfsqKTCrtyp765e3-Z0ZYLPoU4FjNqtG/s2780/EW%20lammas%20%20commons.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1817" data-original-width="2780" height="418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8GWnCKK48THBU1bZaW14QIIMmMV9e9taoYL6EtbDfLv0jaEyVg2LDg7G49gHI6fWwEHr7fEi-XPYfHo04dEtuopx_fOfok5sA-joCeSNVfPGMDwDgvWY4kLhk0IpZaA3BGEtfX_k0y8vyF830MuOFRqCPwoK8RfsqKTCrtyp765e3-Z0ZYLPoU4FjNqtG/w640-h418/EW%20lammas%20%20commons.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Map showing rights under the <a href="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1965/64">Commons Registration Act of 1965</a> <br />copied from The Story of a Village: Eton Wick 1217 - 1977</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">This map indicates that there were six registered Commoners under the 1965 Act. These included Crown Farm, Dairy Farm, Little Common Farm, Manor Farm and Saddocks Farm.</span><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></o:p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-mgSvU1DlDtDf7rdmxFyoUbbch5QZj3gEO3EXxjbj34_ihorA7v0pb1xsxs0jLfz9lLfIOYHRmEZv0IhgYRvlt0nCOFx-Zz3pud_MxK37E_lkl8VcuGt9FGcgf7N-8p-P5hNN9kB35tR5auJIx0r4nv_tcEhzli-Ul9f4BaG3mLjU3b5ffQkACsqTrEZt/s477/EW+B%20Map%201968.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="313" data-original-width="477" height="420" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-mgSvU1DlDtDf7rdmxFyoUbbch5QZj3gEO3EXxjbj34_ihorA7v0pb1xsxs0jLfz9lLfIOYHRmEZv0IhgYRvlt0nCOFx-Zz3pud_MxK37E_lkl8VcuGt9FGcgf7N-8p-P5hNN9kB35tR5auJIx0r4nv_tcEhzli-Ul9f4BaG3mLjU3b5ffQkACsqTrEZt/w640-h420/EW+B%20Map%201968.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ordnance Survey Map 1968 courtesy of <a href="https://maps.nls.uk/">National Library of Scotland</a></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">The 1968 map reveal the limits of the village development
with Haywards Mead, Princes Close, Queens Road and Cornwall Close filling the
remaining available land on the south side of the Eton Wick Road. The final major development in the village was on the wheatbutts in the 1970's.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></o:p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiveE3xLsEa3p9QtzF6n5EdBwz5x-dC5HvX7Pg2ZxE3E8VV7Auzi5BP4xy7kRTkwHTU0ZdNKXulfT_5Y19rCK3kIG_3e-2WqSGPDwdJEWlXwH1aHFikrsxi79yUTDDGkaNDIFooP_pFqO1iw4YDXh2PQXZLnBSMKxIx800_yHi81wAFK46VxhDyp0CTkyd2/s1613/2023%20Map.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1147" data-original-width="1613" height="456" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiveE3xLsEa3p9QtzF6n5EdBwz5x-dC5HvX7Pg2ZxE3E8VV7Auzi5BP4xy7kRTkwHTU0ZdNKXulfT_5Y19rCK3kIG_3e-2WqSGPDwdJEWlXwH1aHFikrsxi79yUTDDGkaNDIFooP_pFqO1iw4YDXh2PQXZLnBSMKxIx800_yHi81wAFK46VxhDyp0CTkyd2/w640-h456/2023%20Map.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ordnance Survey Map 2023 courtesy of <a href="https://maps.nls.uk/">National Library of Scotland</a></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">The latest OS map of 2023 show how the village development
has been restrained by the Lammas Land and Commons. The number of households was also limited by the single road that restricts potential for evacuation in the case of flooding. The experience of the Thames floods of 2014 showed that the Jubilee River did protect the village. There has been more house building allowed including particularly in Princes Close, Queens Road and Victoria Road.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHNHzgtahjR63V1oxuAOeq7CsokDvv-SNHp6A9TV-fDV-3bTFCkaC7qAdrBovj4WM7FA-AMoiWoYok1ZDaLRq7-WIiUydU23zbTbWZe4IFls4tmDu66BToz5YPJPFtetTdyCMKDvHTanHhOjGcMO_rlG_10T-Wlrk577uHSMQfaqmfY7ttyFkyFBmSPRtX/s656/Slough%20Windsor%20Enclosure%20Map.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="584" data-original-width="656" height="570" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHNHzgtahjR63V1oxuAOeq7CsokDvv-SNHp6A9TV-fDV-3bTFCkaC7qAdrBovj4WM7FA-AMoiWoYok1ZDaLRq7-WIiUydU23zbTbWZe4IFls4tmDu66BToz5YPJPFtetTdyCMKDvHTanHhOjGcMO_rlG_10T-Wlrk577uHSMQfaqmfY7ttyFkyFBmSPRtX/w640-h570/Slough%20Windsor%20Enclosure%20Map.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Enclosure Map courtesy of the <a href="http://www.berkshirenclosure.org.uk/find_via_map.asp">Berkshire Records Office.</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">Both Slough to the north
and Windsor to the south have both grown as enclosure acts were passed for the Manor
of Upton cum Chalvey, 1819 and the Manor of Windsor Forest, 1817. If the 1826 Bill
to enclose the Manor of Eton cum Stockdale and Colenorton had not been rejected
Eton Wick would probably have become part of Slough.</span></p>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1vgnzKtxe7ReEI2souLNP7Xt1kzwsm1-w8Hbh79i8F30_3EThj2RgoaJD0KcYwALD3RUrYzACATYHWchdZtgFz-WNMvbVMzTMuTMqaS_WTBktWr7juzz0eKQwieSE1IMdv1PQMFFjk4Am/s1600/AE+Prior+12Nov43.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="746" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1vgnzKtxe7ReEI2souLNP7Xt1kzwsm1-w8Hbh79i8F30_3EThj2RgoaJD0KcYwALD3RUrYzACATYHWchdZtgFz-WNMvbVMzTMuTMqaS_WTBktWr7juzz0eKQwieSE1IMdv1PQMFFjk4Am/s320/AE+Prior+12Nov43.jpg" width="214" /></span></a><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Albert was born on Boxing Day 1912. He had a younger brother
Thomas, and two sisters named </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Annie and Joan. The family home was at 7, Bell
Cottages, Alma Road, Boveney Newtown. As with the majority of Eton Wick lads,
he attended the village infants school until he was seven years old, and on
April 13th 1920 he registered at Eton Porny School where he continued his
elementary education until he was 14. On leaving school he was apprenticed to
Goddards of Eton as a carpenter and cabinet maker. Upon completion of his
apprenticeship he was employed by Eton College as a qualified tradesman.</span></span></div>
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Monday five-a-side competition for sons of Discharged Sailors and Soldiers of
the Great War living in Eton Wick, Boveney or Dorney. There were two other
Prior families living in Boveney Newtown and in South View. All were related
and all had a strong affiliation with St. John the Baptist Church of Eton Wick.
Albert, his brother Tom and their cousins all sang in the church choir, and his
uncle served as the church verger for many years. Albert acquired his first
motorcycle, an old A.J.S. machine which caused him constant and frustrating
trouble with its kick-start. Later he changed the model for a more up to date
Sunbeam and his troubles were over. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">With the threat of war during the late 1930s he became an
A.R.P. (Air Raid Precaution) warden, and was invited to take employment in an
aircraft factory at Langley. Had he chosen to accept this change of employment
his skills would certainly have ensured exemption from military service. As a
result of working in Eton he met and married Dorothy in 1938. They settled into
their smart new semi-detached house in Moores Lane and being close to Albert's
family home in Alma Road they aptly name the house "Nearome". <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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now 27, was soon to be in uniform. His sister said he was loathe to take up
arms with intent to kill, and if in fact this was so, it may explain his
decision to join the Corps of Military Police. Previously his motor cycling had
been very local, but now came a period when as a military policeman he was
required to escort military convoys throughout the British Isles. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and the early days were anxious ones. Fortunately a supportive family was close
by. Perhaps now Albert was wishing he had taken the job offered him at Langley.
Twice he made very brief visits to his wife and baby son, Christopher, before
making the last farewell for overseas service. It has not been satisfactorily
established whether he went direct to the Far East, to India as his sister Joan
has stated, or to the Middle East as his son thinks probable. The following
year he sent a telegram postmarked from Sansorigine and dated January 14th
1942, briefly saying: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">"STILL OK LOTS OF LOVE BABYS BIRTHDAY AND MUMS ALBERT
PRIOR" <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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three weeks later Dorothy received another telegram, this time post marked from
Singapore and dated February 9th 1942 saying: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">"SAFE WELL LOVE ADDRESS CMP MALAYA ALBERT PRIOR" <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">There could not have been a worse time to arrive in
Singapore, for just six days later General Percival surrendered the island
garrison of 85,000 men to the advancing Japanese Army. They had infamously
attacked the Americans at Pearl Harbour on December 7th 1941, entered Burma on
the 11th December, taken Hong Kong on Christmas Day and Kuala Lumpur on January
10th. In theory at least, the swift Japanese advance had left them with an
attacking force inadequate to conquer Singapore and the early surrender was
never expected. The 85,000 prisoners of war were terribly misused and ill fed,
with many thousands dying of disease, sickness and malnutrition. It was 15
months later that Dorothy received the first official information in a brief
letter from the C.M.P. Record Office dated May 26th 1943, reporting Albert to
be a P.O.W. in Japanese hands at Malai Camp. More than two years elapsed before
she received a further notification dated October 25th 1945, reporting that he
had died of colitis on November 12th 1943. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">Albert Prior is buried in <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/Thanbyuzayat+World+War+II+Cemetery(%E1%80%9E%E1%80%AF%E1%80%9E%E1%80%AC%E1%80%94%E1%80%BA%E1%80%95%E1%81%9E%E1%80%AC%E1%80%94%E1%80%BA)/@15.972747,97.7162436,1075m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x30e8748a9f2b87bd:0x5dc02acab4aab56a!8m2!3d15.9727419!4d97.7184323?hl=en-GB?utm_source%3DGoogleMaps-en-GB" target="_blank">Thanbyuzayak Military Cemetery</a> in
Burma, 116 miles south east of Rangoon. The cemetery contains nearly 4,000
graves, which include 1,700 British, 1,350 Australian, 15 Indian, 80 Malayan
and over 600 Dutch. Unlike most C.W.G.C. cemeteries the graves are marked by
bronze plaques. Albert's grave is No. 4, Row D, Plot B.6. </span></div>
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">His widow Dorothy did
not marry again. She continued to live in the home they had established
together for the next 40 years before moving to the West Country to be near her
son, Christopher. For many years she was a Sunday School teacher in Eton Wick.
Albert is commemorated on the village memorial situated in front of the church,
where he had sung as a choir boy and later as a man. His name is also on the
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">This is an extract from <a href="https://www.etonwickhistory.co.uk/search/label/Their%20names%20shall%20be%20carved%20in%20stone" target="_blank"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Their Names Shall Be Carved in Stone </span></a> </span></div>
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Steve Denhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07788605340419796324noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1746981197830565274.post-17829572828035465282023-11-02T13:25:00.004+00:002023-12-08T13:43:58.160+00:00The 18th Century Village of Eton Wick – Part Two - Life for Cottager's in the Wick <p><span style="font-family: arial;"> 18th Century Cottager in the Wick </span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOf8L-THt5WR-f6cuOeG2yf1VnrUaW4R9KFdfmB99XCc1ZZOyJx58dmR1yYg1PKwH-qiVmkmEZFb7GU1T2Y1jgqvSRZQxqcHrZb1o_yBmadhz5CIdB35qfTGtHJPZl3N-9g-d4OOaRQL2sBw6MVYrEm-EpejVN_CDynfu5EHMr52nJTfYojDqlmc5K59iC/s1594/EW%20Map%201797.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1051" data-original-width="1594" height="422" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOf8L-THt5WR-f6cuOeG2yf1VnrUaW4R9KFdfmB99XCc1ZZOyJx58dmR1yYg1PKwH-qiVmkmEZFb7GU1T2Y1jgqvSRZQxqcHrZb1o_yBmadhz5CIdB35qfTGtHJPZl3N-9g-d4OOaRQL2sBw6MVYrEm-EpejVN_CDynfu5EHMr52nJTfYojDqlmc5K59iC/w640-h422/EW%20Map%201797.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">1797 Village map courtesy of Dr Judith Hunter's <a href="https://www.etonwickhistory.co.uk/p/the-story-of-village.html">Story of a Village</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The early years of the Century were hard for families getting their subsidence from the land and for those few families living in the Wick the daily toil brought its woes and ill health. Prey to diseases as smallpox, diphtheria, influenza, and tuberculosis to say nothing of accidents. There was also a high risk to women dying in childbirth. Cottages built in Eton Wick were timbered framed with infilling of brick and cob. The floors of stone slab or compacted earth covered with rush mats with an open wood burning fireplace and lighting by candle or perhaps an oil lamp provided warmth and lighting in the small dim rooms. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Clothing was mainly home made by wives and daughters of the family and a variety of footwear such as leather boots, canvas shoes, wooden sandals and clog type shoes dependant on the family financial status was worn by those working on the land. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The more successful farmer or small holder no doubt could afford to buy foot-ware but often for the poorer it would be hand me downs or go barefoot. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">With a water supply from well, pond or river health and cleanliness were two factors that suffered. Fleas and head lice were prevalent. The passing years brought slow improvement.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">During the century to those living in Eton and Eton Wick, trade increased in Eton with new premises opening with tailors and dress makers, boot and shoemakers, together with other trades. These were family businesses where young people from Eton Wick found employment, and with the change in their financial fortune left the land to the more successful farmer. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">By the year 1830 there were approximately seventy professional business services and shops in the Eton High Street supplying local needs and hand made goods to the London shops. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The increasing local trade and wealth gave rise to house building in Eton Wick as the century drew to its close continuing during the 19th and 20th centuries until all available land free of lammas rights or common land within the Wick had been taken for building. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>This was part of the script for a talk given by John Denham at a meet of the Windsor & District University of the Third Age in 2003.</i></span></p><p><br /></p>
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IS now satisfactorily established that this generation can hold its head high
on the subject of floods. We can now no longer have the " Wellington
" flood, as that of 1852 is called, cast in our teeth. We have seen with
our own eyes the highest of the century; in fact it is even probable that this
has been higher than the historic flood of 1774, recorded in the buttery of
College Hall, the measurement of which is reckoned from the floor of the
cellar,— and since that time it is believed that the floor has been raised. It
is a remarkable coincidence that the last three high floods—those of 1852,
1875, 1894—have all been at their highest on November 17th. On that day, in
1852, the great Duke of Wellington was buried, and it is recorded that rain
had then fallen every day since his death. On a previous occasion, the exact
date of which we cannot determine, he was returning to the Queen in a coach
and four, and his horses were carried off their legs between Fifteen Arch Bridge
and Beggar's Bridge. In those days sanitary matters were of little account, and
the outside world did not, on the news of the rising water, at once jump at the
conclusion that the boys would either be drowned or die of a pestilence; and in
1852, with the exception of a few houses, the School placidly pursued. its
usual course, though with limited amusements.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 5.4pt; mso-line-height-alt: 11.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">This
year on Thursday evening, the 15th Nov., the water was half-way up Brocas Lane,
and the lane between Winter's and South Meadow could only be reached in a punt
; moreover telegrams from Oxford and Reading made it clear that there was the
certainty of a heavier flood impending, although the result must have exceeded
all calculation: at the same time, had this only been fully realised on Thursday,
or even Friday morning, much confusion and want of organization might have
been avoided. On Friday morning the water was slowly finding its way into the
street down the Vicarage Lane, and rose rapidly all day, soon sweeping away
planks which had been placed for pedestrian traffic. By the time it was dark,
the street from Halliday's shop to the Local Board offices was only passable in
carts, and in Eton we were practically on an island.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 5.4pt; mso-line-height-alt: 11.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">There
was a very brilliant moon,-and the present writer, making his rounds at io
o'clock, found the road dry as far as Barnes' Pool; the water, which was coming
down Mr. Hale's passage, satisfied as it seemed with the wreck of Mr. Benson's
house ran steadily away down the drain. The stream was running very strong down
Baldwin's Shore. Mr. Vaughan's house we believe had gone home. Mr. Luxmoore's
only means of communication with the world was by a ladder into the Chapel
yard. How the hinges of those gates leading into that solitary wilderness must
have creaked and groaned when their rest was disturbed.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 5.4pt; mso-line-height-alt: 11.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The
house on which we once read in gigantic letters of Eton blue "50 not
out" is now a stronghold of wet-bobs, and the famous blues who inhabit it
were certainly in their element; the water must have been over a foot in the
pupil-rooms and was just running into the rest of the house. At the end of
Keate's lane a powerful man was making great efforts to keep the drains clear,
which, on the authority of one who saw them working, were eventually the means
of arresting the entire inundation of the College. Rumour says that all night
long did this undaunted spirit work, defending his position with a broom
against an incessant fire of Euclids and small books, intended to prevent the
escape of the water and so precipitate the breaking up of the School. We could
only get as far as the corner of Judy's passage when the water was pouring
through the gate into Mr. Donaldson's garden. Mr. Durnford was working hard
getting up carpets, and none too soon, for on the next day the water was four inches
over the whole of his ground floor. There was a punt stationed for the night at
the end of Mr. Mitchell's passage, and the last thing we saw was a little knot
of Masters gazing at the water on the Slough Road, which prevented them going
further than the stile into the Field. The moon made the scenes very vivid.
There was no wind, but a low roar coming from the river by the weir, and from
the water rushing over the Slough Road and through Fifteen-arch Bridge.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 5.4pt; mso-line-height-alt: 11.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">It
is necessary to realise that at Upper Hope the river divided, the mass of the
water keeping its usual course, but a great stream poured through Cuckoo-weir,
thence through the arches along the bottom of Warre's field over the Eton Wick
Road, which formed the first cataract. All across the Slads and Babylon the
water was deep and broken but ran on steadily across Mesopotamia and Jordan to
the second cataract on the Slough Road. It carried away the palings of Upper
Club, two being taken right across the Playing Fields, knocking down the iron
rails of Ward's cottage. Old Ward slept that night with the water pouring
through the house deep enough to actually wet the mattress. The flood went on
its course through Datchet, to lose itself on the great stretch of low-lying
land between Datchet and Wraysbury.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 5.4pt; mso-line-height-alt: 11.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">We
shall most of us remember the morning of Saturday. All those who were in early
school heard the notice which came round, but the first sign that the school
had broken up was the headmaster in cap and gown escorted by a figure in
complete armour of waterproof. From a very early hour, in fact as soon as it
was light, we had been watching the proceedings, and had observed the masterly
preparations for immediate evacuation, conducted by adjacent householders. An
eminent exponent of natural science had been heard to express his opinion that
Barnes Pool Bridge was bound to be blown up, and it was very reassuring to find
him at the post of danger watching the wonderful scene of confusion which
began about 9 o'clock.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 5.4pt; mso-line-height-alt: 11.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Everyone
had to send a telegram and get an answer, and not even the urgent demand for
journey money could make the bank open before lo. The South-Western line was
blocked, the train having had to come through Datchet on Friday night with the
water a few inches from the level of the top of the platform. The Slough road
was unsafe, so the stream of cabs, carts and punts up the street to get to
Windsor Station lasted the whole morning, and the cabmen must have voted that
the flood should become an annual institution.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 5.4pt; mso-line-height-alt: 11.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">After
the school had gone, we, who were left, settled down to three days steady work
of relief in the town, distributing coals, soup and bread, which everyone was
most generous in providing.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 5.4pt; mso-line-height-alt: 11.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Private
enterprise was first in the field, but the local authorities soon came to the
front, and a great effect was produced by a large cart full of supplies, hauled
up the street with the Chairman of the Local Board and one of his colleagues,
borne as it were in triumph, like the gods of Peace and Plenty. Drinking water
was also a serious difficulty and had to be taken in barrels from the College
pump.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 5.4pt; mso-line-height-alt: 11.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">In
the afternoon the Queen drove as far as the bridge and offered to send carts
from the farms to carry people, and to deliver supplies. This was an admirable
thought, and indeed no better suggestion could have been made.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 5.4pt; mso-line-height-alt: 11.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The
poor people were all most patient, spending their-- days looking out of their
upper windows, and thankful and grateful for anything that was brought them.
The Spectator was right in saying that one of the best effects of this great
flood was in bringing all classes together.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 5.4pt; mso-line-height-alt: 11.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The
weather throughout was beautiful and the strange effects of the water,
especially as seen from Boveney and Dorney, were very memorable. The nights
were gloomy and made more so by the failure of the gas, which gave out in Eton
on Sunday night.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 5.4pt; mso-line-height-alt: 11.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The
most successful light we saw was a flaming torch, a relic of the jubilee
procession; these in any number would have been most useful.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 5.4pt; mso-line-height-alt: 11.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Many
are the deeds of heroism, real and imaginary, recorded in the few days when the
water was at its highest, and though we have not space for them individually,
we feel we cannot conclude without venturing to sincerely congratulate those
who had so narrow an escape under Fifteen arch bridge, on Saturday, November
17th.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 5.4pt; mso-line-height-alt: 11.15pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">This
article was published in The Eton College Chronicle 6th, December 1894.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 93%; margin-top: 5.4pt; text-align: justify;">
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></o:p></p>Steve Denhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07788605340419796324noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1746981197830565274.post-13162277349703285982023-10-11T11:29:00.001+01:002023-10-11T11:29:12.320+01:00 The 18th Century Village of Eton Wick – Part One - Why Eton Wick is surrounded by open fields<p><span style="font-family: arial;">The Village landscape was like the majority of Berkshire and Buckinghamshire in years leading up to the 18th century one of open fields, commons and other waste land with small tenant farmers, cottagers and squatters utilizing a rented un-enclosed strip of land from the Lord of the Manor or exercising a common right to graze their pigs, geese or maybe a cow upon the common land. During the late 17th and early 18th century improvements in animal husbandry and the harvest of arable crops gave impetus to enclosure of land by landlords and the Government. These changes in farming practice at that time could have led to later developments that would have made Eton Wick Urban in the late 20th century, an urban sprawl but for the opposition of the villagers and the influence of Eton College in the Houses of Parliament. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiouULbDOtpJTAHG5HfmoCP1HgpSnkurkW935JrjovXdXuz49cp5pSrOCBZziEKfPoVT5vpDJX-bnGW7RwaeeF6IhQg3z-biE_Bs5jVPfYKuW6nc-fZcDyk7bjEnqtuVZhzVnvRfhJYgYtCboZflxAOz9UvqmsZZQjIyUabxXg8SP70p-G90E-o934B_3J1/s235/Screenshot%202023-10-10%20121322.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="235" data-original-width="160" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiouULbDOtpJTAHG5HfmoCP1HgpSnkurkW935JrjovXdXuz49cp5pSrOCBZziEKfPoVT5vpDJX-bnGW7RwaeeF6IhQg3z-biE_Bs5jVPfYKuW6nc-fZcDyk7bjEnqtuVZhzVnvRfhJYgYtCboZflxAOz9UvqmsZZQjIyUabxXg8SP70p-G90E-o934B_3J1/s1600/Screenshot%202023-10-10%20121322.jpg" width="160" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: arial;">For at least 700 years Eton Wick was administered through the Vestry of Eton but in 1894 this came to an end through the Civil Parishes Act. Eton Town became an urban District and Eton Wick became a Civil Parish in the Eton Rural District. The decision by Henry VI to build Eton College whose presence over the last six centuries has influenced the lives of those living in Eton and Eton Wick immensely, whether through the purchase of property or the employment of services and labour. </span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYAqvg1B1NMhYVYiRYNepbNi0OfDCkwblqaUzSzVufPypQv22_4vu5lxmKCAgjFikusRwlikfALRN7bhYmbJjmtNI_hsRtdGrqpOUeitqRNfjZlwhKDgS24qqC4AtwnLLfb8SVQE0hXTukHed7Sb62D-QZOkBhIpHulGmEGeZrJOo5gfhiajcvJiN1navb/s969/Anne%20to%20George%203.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="366" data-original-width="969" height="242" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYAqvg1B1NMhYVYiRYNepbNi0OfDCkwblqaUzSzVufPypQv22_4vu5lxmKCAgjFikusRwlikfALRN7bhYmbJjmtNI_hsRtdGrqpOUeitqRNfjZlwhKDgS24qqC4AtwnLLfb8SVQE0hXTukHed7Sb62D-QZOkBhIpHulGmEGeZrJOo5gfhiajcvJiN1navb/w640-h242/Anne%20to%20George%203.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Queen Anne, King George 1st, King George 2nd and King George 3rd<br />The first four monarchs of Great Britain after the Union of England and Scotland in 1707</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_Spanish_Succession">The 18th Century had commenced</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolutionary_Wars">closed with England at war with France</a>. Queen Anne succeeded to the throne in 1702 to be followed by George 1st in 1714, George 2nd in 1727 and George 3rd in 1760. Technical innovation during the century brought vast changes to the way of life. The introduction of the flying shuttle to speed the pace of handloom weaving, followed by the efficiency in the use of steam power but some of the main advancement during the century was in agriculture. One Historian calculated that in the early 1700's each person engaged in farming fed 1.7 persons and by the end of the century one agricultural worker fed 2.5 persons. The late 1600's and early 1700's saw improvements in use of the soil which gave increased cereal and root crops leading to better fed cattle to produce more dung thereby increasing more yield from the land, also the improved yield of grain and the introduction of the turnip root crop allowed cattle to be winter rather than slaughtered for lack of winter feed. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">This together with new agricultural tools, like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jethro_Tull_(agriculturist)">Jethro Tull's development of his seed drill</a>, were</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;">publicized in books such as the<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Young_(agriculturist)"> Annals of Agriculture by one Arthur Young in 1784</a> to be read by the progressive farmer and landowner. It also led to the birth of the agricultural engineering industry which also spawned the industry's catalogues for seeds, plants, and machinery. Similar books were published by Eton Printer and Bookseller, Joseph Pote, one title being '<a href="https://archive.org/details/gentlemansfarri00bartgoog/page/n18/mode/2up" target="_blank">Gentleman's Farriery,</a> (or, a practical treatise, on the diseases of horses). <a href="https://openlibrary.org/books/OL17114666M/The_gentleman's_farriery">The book was written by J. Bartlet and first published in 1753.</a></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Landowners realised that to achieve higher output and returns from the land, enclosure of the open fields and the abandonment of the strip as the fundamental unit of tenancy, together with the common lands would be a necessary part of these improvements. No doubt news of these technical developments and the expanding international and local trade were talked of and marvelled at here about as like today, but for the village tenant farmer and cottager it was still the sweat of his brow that tilled the ground, sowed the crops and husband the animals for much of the century, but the threat of enclosure must have been an increasing worry, probably being the main talking point for the tenant farmer and commoner of Eton Wick. The implications for those who leased their land from an absence landlord, would see it as having a disastrous effect for their livelihood with no redress and no-one to stand up for them. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5S9KKPqyOV_RJ2_CzTEzXD1B2o9pwQJvPfzo_MvTDXxSP3QdX93jntpyzz0GQdeE0w6rYv4A-nfBGeQaY0M164rg3FvzD-dEO9xsBBHMrH6vLnCPmBKhqD2IO2GFoyxoc4jSYYUmpbxJ5Cnyz1VWCyRlN7dDpDu-cyX6iR4HYF1Fe3OQutnbpmRXYnZBw/s401/sheep.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="203" data-original-width="401" height="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5S9KKPqyOV_RJ2_CzTEzXD1B2o9pwQJvPfzo_MvTDXxSP3QdX93jntpyzz0GQdeE0w6rYv4A-nfBGeQaY0M164rg3FvzD-dEO9xsBBHMrH6vLnCPmBKhqD2IO2GFoyxoc4jSYYUmpbxJ5Cnyz1VWCyRlN7dDpDu-cyX6iR4HYF1Fe3OQutnbpmRXYnZBw/s320/sheep.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;">Creeping enclosure of pasture had been practised since Tudor times with the widespread enclosure of Sheep ranges and with the penning of flocks to manure the land to sustain fertility. By rationalization of scattered inefficient holdings and their transfer as compact commercially viable units to farmers with expertise and a forward outlook on the market economy, enclosure of holdings gathered pace during the century either with the connivances of the Landlord or perhaps strong-arm influence. </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">At first legal enclosure was obtained by a Chancery Degree but this was superseded by the introduction of acts of Parliament in the eighteenth century. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The procedure for an Enclosure Act did not require the agreement of tenants but did require enough money to pay lawyers' and surveyors' fees, and for the planting of hedges and fences, roads etc. after the bill was passed. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">This was generally a formality as the Enclosure Commissioners surveying the land generally favoured those wishing to enclose and Parliament followed their recommendations. A general Enclosure Act was passed by Parliament in 1801 but by then more than 1,300 enclosure acts had been passed since 1760. </span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioyBGS_22rosJGWAtZbXF2c6i6eIzIRGOfo_3cKES7GD6Qqe7pulpl7m4rO2im9R_18CrMgwr7enOm25QqMskMsOWV-CiUmpgbc2GQbyMXYGq1leUGrAdJqh7bXSA3lorZoknSMKqH4hyf/s640/Plan+of+parish+Eton+1839.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="496" data-original-width="640" height="496" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioyBGS_22rosJGWAtZbXF2c6i6eIzIRGOfo_3cKES7GD6Qqe7pulpl7m4rO2im9R_18CrMgwr7enOm25QqMskMsOWV-CiUmpgbc2GQbyMXYGq1leUGrAdJqh7bXSA3lorZoknSMKqH4hyf/w640-h496/Plan+of+parish+Eton+1839.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The Parish plan showing field names.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiepMtURlpUq3-rIoYsTuZD18ojpys5gpaC-It6xKZvag7N9Vfb-z0IjbSBoQ8BdSyMTsPfPLJAq0aQDYeUwgSIVKW8QkDoIggA3kOR2bKjuPwSSKbaPMxeRHegpqhuIUfz5RoCBsBCWSaNz3NYYjag0h1FivkKOwXvQ9sX6CQLw0dsYp_Lt5d-3L1LkQB/s3504/Eton%20Wick%20Fields%20and%20commons%20map%20.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2480" data-original-width="3504" height="453" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiepMtURlpUq3-rIoYsTuZD18ojpys5gpaC-It6xKZvag7N9Vfb-z0IjbSBoQ8BdSyMTsPfPLJAq0aQDYeUwgSIVKW8QkDoIggA3kOR2bKjuPwSSKbaPMxeRHegpqhuIUfz5RoCBsBCWSaNz3NYYjag0h1FivkKOwXvQ9sX6CQLw0dsYp_Lt5d-3L1LkQB/w640-h453/Eton%20Wick%20Fields%20and%20commons%20map%20.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The common fields, meadows and The Commons.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNO9BSL9CWQudSsFzOyPkWMf781bOT8tHiQLqGeCpaJ9CI4dHb8TUbcOxxEDb89e3ehqBrqkqCT7JPp8cXeG40Ac46ADr4ilgZCigEfouFiMtkwNInC-cP0_O65FdgZ5_0n_oeokAugG6FU_p9p1sOQq_-qqppZwG0PLJ-Zc-E_MHbJ9PtaFGLeWNv700S/s3504/Eton%20Wick%20Fields%20strip%20map%20.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2480" data-original-width="3504" height="452" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNO9BSL9CWQudSsFzOyPkWMf781bOT8tHiQLqGeCpaJ9CI4dHb8TUbcOxxEDb89e3ehqBrqkqCT7JPp8cXeG40Ac46ADr4ilgZCigEfouFiMtkwNInC-cP0_O65FdgZ5_0n_oeokAugG6FU_p9p1sOQq_-qqppZwG0PLJ-Zc-E_MHbJ9PtaFGLeWNv700S/w640-h452/Eton%20Wick%20Fields%20strip%20map%20.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The strips on common fields.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6Y8dFjEHF0afox0w3O3RSFva6VHS35NjRJ5wGCyKB9m8DCGM3MDD88TSWf9v8aUL_uYMa077Hv4Oyh2kv912iqRtoF65p_950j1WlzetZpvWDZi5AnQB6AnHMn2_rs8C5U-maR8y5j8rCZPOD8yt7rhYMrTBhAWb8qx2odjJe57gOyvVPvy40gXmbRWTJ/s3504/Eton%20Wick%20map%201779.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2480" data-original-width="3504" height="452" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6Y8dFjEHF0afox0w3O3RSFva6VHS35NjRJ5wGCyKB9m8DCGM3MDD88TSWf9v8aUL_uYMa077Hv4Oyh2kv912iqRtoF65p_950j1WlzetZpvWDZi5AnQB6AnHMn2_rs8C5U-maR8y5j8rCZPOD8yt7rhYMrTBhAWb8qx2odjJe57gOyvVPvy40gXmbRWTJ/w640-h452/Eton%20Wick%20map%201779.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The Hamlet of Eton Wick 1797 showing strips, ownership, tenants and acreage.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">How and Why did this play an important role in the history of Eton Wick? </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Apart from the two commons, Eton Little and Eton Great there are Lammas lands which influence what can and cannot be done with the land within Eton and Eton Wick. The Lammas rights over much of the meadow and cultivated land in Eton and Eton Wick are a legacy from the Saxons and are a rare survival in this age. It was the right of those entitled householders to graze so many head of cattle in the fields once the corn had been gathered thereby fertilizing the land in the most natural way possible , from August 1st to October 31st. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">How many Commoners with these rights and residing in the village at the time is not known.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Lammas Day was the first day of August (the Gule of August) until 1752. With the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Style_1752#:~:text=Year%201753%2C%20in%20England%20%28and%20related%20regions%29%20followed,calendar%2C%20as%20adopted%20c.1582%20by%20some%20Catholic%20territories.">change to the Gregorian Calendar in September 1752</a> Lammas day 1753 fell on the 13th of August on which it was customary to consecrate bread made from the first ripe corn of harvest. (In Scotland it is one of the QUARTER DAYS.). Lammas Land (also Half Year Land) was common meadow on which manorial tenants were allowed to graze their livestock from Lammas Day until the next sowing.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Lammas Day: </span><span style="font-family: arial;">August 1st until</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> 1752</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"> Lammas Day: </span><span style="font-family: arial;">August 13th</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> from 1753</span></b></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The strip was the fundamental unit of cultivation and tenancy in the open field system. Information from Collier's map of 1743 shows that Lord of the Manor, Abraham Wessell was the largest landowner in the parish with College, second. There were four open fields, the Hyde, North Field, South Field and West Field, the latter so named apparently because It lay west of Eton rather than on the west side of the parish; in later centuries it appears to have been renamed Stonebridge Field. Each field was divided into strips, and these grouped Into furlongs or pieces with distinctive names such as Long Furlong, Middle Furlong, Stone hul (hill), Long Wythebedde, Broken Furlong and Rossey piece. There was also land known simply as Village land'. No hedges or fences divided these strips and furlongs but, although each open field was planted with the same crops like cereal, beans etc. The different alignment of the furlongs gave the fields a patchwork appearance. The holdings of each man or woman, either owned or rented, were scattered throughout the fields and meadows. It is thought that originally each strip could be ploughed in one day and that the strips of land had been shared between the fields and its furlongs. Within the parish of Eton/ Eton Wick but mostly in Eton Wick there were six small holdings of only one strip each and two holdings of three strips possibly by cottagers, who are named as Oakley and Widow Griffin.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The rights of pasturage and to subsistence farm the land was crucial to the village householder and his family, therefore an ever a watchful eye was kept for any encroachment by those wishing to increase the small land holding around their farmstead or home. A complaint was brought against Henry Bell of Bell Farm in 1605 for enclosing several pieces of the King's waste including so pieces of Lammas Land. He also built eight cottages that did not go well with the parishioners. They claimed that the buildings took away privileges and benefits of the common. It appears that Bell got away with his transgression. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">There were some wooded areas especially around Saddocks Farm with fully grown trees and coppice. The use of the timber seems to have been controlled by the crown as a later tenant of Saddocks Farm was given the right to take timber for the repair of farm carts and buildings. An elm tree was supplied from Eton Wick in the mid 1400's for the refurbishment of the Eton church tower. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The large open expanse of land without fences except where necessary, on the outer edges was divided into many strips. Exchanging ones worked strips with others so as to make one’s parcel of land larger and more convenient to work did take place as is shown by a detailed description of eighteen scattered acres owned by Sir William Stratton, exchanged for sixteen acres with John Jourdelay thus giving both more compact and manageable units. In the closing years of the eighteenth-century Crown Commissioners overseeing the enclosure of land showed interest in the enclosure of Eton's common and Lammas lands. estimated to cover three quarters of the parish. They did not consider it of any urgency taking no action until John Penn, Lord of the Manor of Stoke Poges bought the Manor of Eton in 1793. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">He, having succeeded against heavy opposition over the enclosure of Stoke Common then denied many poor families their right by custom of using the Common to gather wood for fuel which provoked more resentment against him. Bearing this in mind and wishing calm the situation Penn sought a compromise, <a href="http://www.etonwickhistory.co.uk/2018/05/the-eton-inclosure-bill.html">in his planned bill to Parliament for enclosure at Eton, he specifically excluded the Eton Great Common from his proposed Bill.</a> However, his Bill presented to Parliament did not take account of his oversight of not having consulted with the Crown or giving them an opportunity to appoint their own Enclosure Surveyor. Problems arose when trying to fairly rearrange and adjust strips and plots of land to formed compact blocks, such a difficulty occurred with the rearrangement of the land bordering Manor and Saddocks Farms. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">This hic-cup in the proceedings may have delayed Penn's plans a little because Officers of the Crown belatedly became aware of Penn's plans and realized it was too late to do any-thing except oppose the Bill. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Enclosure not only drew battle lines between landowners; but also, townsfolk and villagers took up the fight as they became worried at the prospect of losing their rights of pasturage, eventually therefore they took the only course open them, they presented a petition to Parliament. They protested that the Bill would diminish the livelihood of the inhabitants by depriving them the use of the Lammas lands, thereby increasing the burden on the Poor Rate.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Over one hundred and eighty people signed the petition or made their mark if they could not write, and among who were Joseph and Phillip Tarrant, John Atkins and Thomas Goddard and others from Eton Wick.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Other parishes had presented petitions, often in vain, as Parliament was made up of powerful land-owning families together with the new industrial magnates and Ecclesiastical gentry who tended to think in terms of protecting their own interests. As tithe- owners the Provost and Fellows of Eton College had shown interest in John Penn's proposed Bill, but it is possible that at the last moment they had considered the fact that being considerable leaseholders from the Crown their loyalty maybe called into question. As many old Etonians were Members of Parliament there is the possibility that College had some influence in managing the vote, but this is speculation, and cannot be proven as the records were lost when the Houses of Parliament were burnt down. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidvxHRgTDEkjSOMa_n-N08P-BsCxLPmJWN1HJD_-W3ytoajlFd_fSlJhham8m0t75eOcZwjIJ4qRUx8crQZJXL3lic55shWps3k33JB9HebIIw0iIRRVWWxQMpBVW2At0Plcm-PY4FRvpd/s252/EtonFlourishFlag.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="166" data-original-width="252" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidvxHRgTDEkjSOMa_n-N08P-BsCxLPmJWN1HJD_-W3ytoajlFd_fSlJhham8m0t75eOcZwjIJ4qRUx8crQZJXL3lic55shWps3k33JB9HebIIw0iIRRVWWxQMpBVW2At0Plcm-PY4FRvpd/w400-h264/EtonFlourishFlag.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;">The opposition by parishioners to Penn's plan for enclosure led to a standoff that lasted until the Bill was defeated on 1st May, 1826: With much rejoicing the town and village celebrated with bonfires and feasting no doubt helped along with beer and homemade wines of the day. A blue silk banner emblazoned with the words ' <a href="http://www.etonwickhistory.co.uk/2015/02/why-eton-wick-still-has-its-commons.html">May Eton flourish free and ever protect her rights’ </a>was paraded triumphantly through Eton proclaiming the feelings of farmer and cottager. No other Bill for the enclosure of Eton was ever presented to Parliament. The people of the parish continued to be vigilant in preserving their rights, even to the extent of taking a man to court around the year 1840 for building two houses on part of South Field near the village. </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">It was his own land: yet when the case was tried at Aylesbury, he was ordered to pull them down because they were built on laminas land. When in the middle of the nineteenth century the Crown once more became interested in enclosure, the College was opposed to it and the Penn estates were 'in circumstances that rendered it difficult’. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">in 1902 seventy-six years after the rejection of John Penn’s Enclosure Bill the Crown negotiated with the Lord of the Manor to overcome the inconvenience of the scattered strips and holdings. Lammas and pasturage were also exchanged, but rights were untouched. Some householders still exercised their rights to graze a horse or cow on the common or on other peoples' field into the 1920's from August 1st to October 31st. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://www.etonwickhistory.co.uk/2015/01/hayward-cattle-pound-and-common-lands.html">The Hayward— 1930's </a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimxgnSa8Dq9UdqJ32EKSPXRJuFqasndA1odgDopSkQyRn3ITBtK1ggrjKUNYF_oQHamJAjdN6fkB_3op35NTmF9HZYlR9wO0-pinRcrHwR4WowlBsBWJSijrIZT2Mkb6ZhrUCkLpNqYWZe/s310/the+hayward.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="218" data-original-width="310" height="281" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimxgnSa8Dq9UdqJ32EKSPXRJuFqasndA1odgDopSkQyRn3ITBtK1ggrjKUNYF_oQHamJAjdN6fkB_3op35NTmF9HZYlR9wO0-pinRcrHwR4WowlBsBWJSijrIZT2Mkb6ZhrUCkLpNqYWZe/w400-h281/the+hayward.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;">The cattle would have been in the charge of the village Hayward. It is recalled that the Hayward would lead one cow across the South Field each Lammas Day to lay claim to the Lammas rights. as they existed right up to the second half of the 20th century. Today there is no longer a Hayward as each farmer now looks after his own cattle.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The rights still exist though most people lost theirs through the Commons Registration Act of 1965. To some people the rights have become an inconvenient anachronism, while to the majority it is just something that has nothing to do with them but the lammas lands and the two commons were registered under the Commons Registration Act of 1965. This should mean that only by another Act of Parliament can this land be released for building thus protecting the village from speculative property developers and urban sprawl. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>This was part of the script for a talk given by John Denham at a meet of the Windsor & District University of the Third Age in 2003.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p><br /></p></div>Steve Denhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07788605340419796324noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1746981197830565274.post-9431373388701882632023-10-02T06:00:00.003+01:002023-10-02T06:00:00.153+01:00Photographic History of Eton Wick and Eton - Eton Wick and Boveney Women's Institute <!--Global site tag (gtag.js) - Google Analytics-->
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<p><span style="font-family: arial;">The Eton Wick and Boveney Women's Institute was founded in December 1933, due largely, like many other village organisations, to the influence of Edward Littleton Vaughan. His wife Dorothea was the Institute's first President. The Women's Institute is a national educational charity and Mr Vaughan was an enthusiastic supporter of education for the working class.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Through the years Eton Wick and Boveney W.I. has gained a high reputation for its friendliness and standard of work in the many County and National competitions and events in which it has taken part. The Institute has made its voice heard on many local issues including the closure of Windsor Bridge, the proposed closure of the Library and, most recently, the construction of the Thames Flood Alleviation Channel. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The Institute hosts events, both informative and purely entertaining for its members. To mark its 50th and 60th anniversaries in 1983 and 1993, Art and Craft exhibitions, open to all the village were organised. In 1983 members produced a Pictorial History of the village. The original is held in Eton College and a reference copy is available in Eton Wick Library. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4_c5rRmUbc6FlR5DTqmfFQ-L-_HkAJi2RXkS-mYufG3YqvpvOBlPG6rA5KjeYSMlNmfyx3aX54eHErU5I9kCdo-X0alY_tj1s4tnzVbFQA5mhVhujskzeWxxjJLbnTJZYb3J_XJPkltWnRnV7hXG7WS7Wea653NgapuKJvvzT9xDtPhDjzb6RhEi77kfo/s1244/EW%20WI%20photo.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="784" data-original-width="1244" height="404" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4_c5rRmUbc6FlR5DTqmfFQ-L-_HkAJi2RXkS-mYufG3YqvpvOBlPG6rA5KjeYSMlNmfyx3aX54eHErU5I9kCdo-X0alY_tj1s4tnzVbFQA5mhVhujskzeWxxjJLbnTJZYb3J_XJPkltWnRnV7hXG7WS7Wea653NgapuKJvvzT9xDtPhDjzb6RhEi77kfo/w640-h404/EW%20WI%20photo.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><p>Photograph taken on the Institute's 40th Anniversary party in 1973. </p><p>In the back row left to right: Unidentified, Mrs Greenwold, Mrs Paintin, Mrs Swatton, Mrs Harrison and Mrs Wyeth. </p><p>Third row (standing behind table): Mrs Durbin (later Leary), Mrs Crook, Mrs Flint, Mrs Butler, Mrs Attride, Mrs Day, Mrs Tatham, Mrs Hessey, Mrs Harding, Mrs Ballhatchet (President), Mrs Kinross, Mrs Neate, Mrs Lund, Mrs Sharrat, Mrs Wilson, Mrs Joan Bond and Mrs Charlton (later Moss). </p><p>Second row (either side of table): Mrs Millis, Mrs Elsie Bond, Mrs Friend, Mrs Jacobs (Past President), Mrs Borrett, Miss Bannister, Mrs Beckett, Mrs Jones and Mrs Ash. Front row (seated): Mrs Cutler, Nurse Lee, Mrs Wickens (Past President), Mrs Hartley (Past President), Mrs Pat James and Mrs Cooley. </p></span><p></p><div><span style="font-family: arial;">This article was first published in </span><a href="https://www.etonwickhistory.co.uk/p/publications.html" style="font-family: arial;" target="_blank">A Pictorial History of Eton Wick & Eton.</a></div>Steve Denhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07788605340419796324noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1746981197830565274.post-55018583215561848822023-09-18T06:00:00.001+01:002023-09-18T06:00:00.162+01:00World War 2 Eighty Years On - September / October 1943. <p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt;">The troop from 371 Bty. of 117 Regt. stationed at Dorney</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt;">Camp (SM7) was relieved by B troop from 564(M)HAA Battery. Formed and trained at Blandford, Dorset, 564 Bty. went to Bude for firing practice before moving into </span><a href="https://emmbrook-residents.org/our-area/the-history-of-emmbrook/" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt;">Emmbrook camp, Wokingham</a><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt;">, near Reading as heavy rain had made Emmbrook very muddy, making the move to Windsor most welcomed.</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-default-font-family: Arial; mso-greek-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latin-font-family: Arial; mso-latinext-font-family: Arial; mso-ligatures: none;">Enemy air activity was no longer of mass attack or Blitzkrieg on London, but small raids were still taking place which required </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">the Battery at site SM7 Dorney Common and other sites in the </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">district to be on the alert as Height taker and Plotter, Corporal Bratt remembers.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">‘Many broken night's sleep were endured as often the alarm bells would go two or three times a night. Then it was a case of out of bed, into your boots, grab your greatcoat and steel helmet and "</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">Run like Hell" as it was a distance from the A.T.S. huts to the Command Post. An Ack-Ack (anti-aircraft) site in the middle of a bad winter night was not a funny place to be.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">Whilst stationed at Dorney 564 Bty. bagged its first German Raider which crashed at High Wycombe.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">Corporal Bratt of C Section was on the height finder that night and witnessed the hit in the telescopic sights. On being stood down after the action, Major Haines Bty. Commander, ordered</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"> the NAAFI to be opened up and a celebration took place.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">Excited</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">with their success, an armed guard of an Officer and six gunners went to the crash and stood guard overnight. It was 564's victim and they wanted no one pinching their glory. Although life on Ack-Ack site was hard, especially during the winter months when Nissen huts could be cold and damp, being with a battery for a long period was like being with the family, more so when one had joined at seventeen and a half years.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">When </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">the guns went into action it was advisable for the village residents to take shelter.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">On one occasion the aircraft trackers mis-aimed and shot off the chimney pots of </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">buildings in Alma Road.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">L/Sergeant Whitaker of ‘D Section’ also a Height/Range finder recalls</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"> that a propeller off the plane, which crashed in the High Wycombe area, was given to the Battery to mark their first victory. Major Haines, had it</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"> mounted with a suitably inscribed brass plaque’.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"> This was</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"> the action of February 22/23 1944 -</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">see chapter 6.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-align: center;"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: bold; language: en-GB; mso-ligatures: none;">Fire Watching<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-justify: newspaper;"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: bold; language: en-GB; mso-ligatures: none;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">In the fight to reduce the effect of firebomb attacks regulations were introduced calling</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"> on every man working less than sixty hours a week and every woman working less than forty-five hours to</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"> do forty-eight hours fire watching a month.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: bold; language: en-GB; mso-ligatures: none;">Their equipment comprised of sand buckets, sand scoop and stirrup pump.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: bold; language: en-GB; mso-ligatures: none;">A distinctive grey Fire Watcher's tin hat was supplied. The estimated available number of firewatchers in 1943 was put at six million.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQwEJoKEwNcDIAhqMd5ETq7ryBeiUL3IrAhTkjs8A4nJVR7mTXCY9GTGNYneURmM1CA_zf-QQ4OPDjhnUwwCz2hzZmFtG4A0KpTgJFfL_RMnq0p3NgtjB6yZ1XZ7a8mCObOJUocUsxnWw5ejzc0CrzkHsbMo-kLUn0TrM1IsVKPm6HpD-SP941WNUJlxrI/s1920/Civil_Defence_Service_Flag.svg.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="1920" height="192" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQwEJoKEwNcDIAhqMd5ETq7ryBeiUL3IrAhTkjs8A4nJVR7mTXCY9GTGNYneURmM1CA_zf-QQ4OPDjhnUwwCz2hzZmFtG4A0KpTgJFfL_RMnq0p3NgtjB6yZ1XZ7a8mCObOJUocUsxnWw5ejzc0CrzkHsbMo-kLUn0TrM1IsVKPm6HpD-SP941WNUJlxrI/s320/Civil_Defence_Service_Flag.svg.png" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: bold; language: en-GB; mso-ligatures: none;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Defence_Service#:~:text=Fire%20Guards%20%28initially%20called%20the%20Fire%20Watchers%20Order,fires%20that%20had%20broken%20out%20to%20the%20NFS.">Note Fire Watchers were part of Air Raid Precautions. The ARP was renamed Civil Defence in 1941</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-justify: newspaper;"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: bold; language: en-GB; mso-ligatures: none;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper; text-justify: newspaper;">
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<p><span style="font-family: arial;">Dr. Sangster used to say that Margate was a nice place to
pass through. I thought the same about Eton Wick when I came to live at Windsor
and took my first bicycle ride to Burnham Beeches. When the old Eton Bridge was
open to traffic, I could cycle from Windsor to Eton Wick in eight minutes.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">Through coming on to the Methodist preaching plan I found I
had to terminate my journey at Eton Wick. It was wartime. Most of the young men
were away. I was too young, though I eventually joined the Home Guard and two
ARP's! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">At that time there was a group of teenage youngsters at Eton
Wick. There was also a lady called Sylvia Chew, who I considered to be very
gracious, and who called the kids together on a Friday night. It was called a
fellowship, though most of the attenders were girls. Today I suppose you would
call it a House Group. For some reason I attached myself to this group. There
was something rather unique about it, and one could learn so much about the
Christian faith in so short a time. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">Most people will know that Eton Wick is a favourite port of
call for local preachers. In earlier times the pulpit was conveniently
centralised so that one could see the whole congregation. Now one operates from
the corner, sometimes using the raised platform, sometimes not. But there is
still that "specialness" about your Church. Its people are not
reluctant to pray, and the atmosphere remains warm and friendly. Harry Carter,
another local preacher, used to say: "You'll have a good time at Eton
Wick." I didn't like the phrase, but I knew what he meant. The loving
attention and attitude of the congregation always assisted the preacher so
much. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">My first preaching appointment at Eton Wick was on January
30<sup>th</sup> 1944. Your membership has doubled since that date. May you
continue to grow in strength and into the avenue of God's Kingdom and may this
anniversary year give you good heart for the great times still to come. And may
you never lose that special warmth which makes a visit so pleasurable. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">PETER WRIGHT <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">The Eton Wick History Group is most grateful for the kind permission given by the Eton Wick Methodist Chapel to republish this history, </span><a href="https://www.etonwickhistory.co.uk/p/tough-assignment.html" style="font-family: arial;">Tough Assignment</a><span style="font-family: arial;"> on this website.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">This is the final excerpt from Tough Assignment. The original published price when it was published in 1986 was £1.95. </span><o:p></o:p></p>Steve Denhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07788605340419796324noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1746981197830565274.post-39536938282046938562023-09-04T06:00:00.008+01:002023-09-07T09:07:27.090+01:00Eton Wick Newsletter - Issue 47 - August 2023<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYC0IA_WyuEU1rwWojyvbQG1aV35CO-EwAyKfhaaVEB9UkU9CG9B7X9Dv_lCt08pxCllHIQaByUyEXUn0cWsCYqhq_Az7FC4elc3y6tfwhQUFQTA2JK-qR8DaFDcGSrVzfcU0eLQCjJNGmbL6Q5sUTeNmPWJ91zWa90XExnn55ORJn9kssfuNMKuA-8KZS/s2482/Our%20Village%20Aug23%20p%201.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2482" data-original-width="1761" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYC0IA_WyuEU1rwWojyvbQG1aV35CO-EwAyKfhaaVEB9UkU9CG9B7X9Dv_lCt08pxCllHIQaByUyEXUn0cWsCYqhq_Az7FC4elc3y6tfwhQUFQTA2JK-qR8DaFDcGSrVzfcU0eLQCjJNGmbL6Q5sUTeNmPWJ91zWa90XExnn55ORJn9kssfuNMKuA-8KZS/w454-h640/Our%20Village%20Aug23%20p%201.jpg" width="454" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; 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Parish Church may be of interest, especially to strangers.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">In 1864 the north-west window was filled with stained glass,
representing St. John in old age, and St. John writing the Book of Revelation.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">About the same time subscriptions were collected to fill the
great east window in memory of the Prince Consort, who had died in 1862.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">This was carried out by Mr. O'Connor in 1865. The principal
subjects of the window are our Lord's appearances after the Resurrection to
Mary Magdalene, to the Disciples by the lake, and to the women in the garden.
In the lower panels are represented the Bearing of the Cross, the Crucifixion
and Burial, and in upper tracery our Lord in glory.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">In the same year the south-west window was inserted. This
represents St. Peter and St. John at the Beautiful Gate, and the confirmation
of the Disciples at Samaria.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">The window in the chancel aisle, put in by Bishop Chapman in
1866 in memory of his daughter, depicts the raising of Jairus' daughter and the
meeting of Martha after the death of Lazarus.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">The other windows on the south side represent, 1st, the call
of the sons of Zebedee (in memory of T. and A. Ingalton), 2nd, ' the surnaming
them Boanerges,' 3rd (in memory of the eldest son of Thomas and Ann Ingalton),
'the raising of the widow of Nain's son.' On the north side nearest the tower
the window represents 'St. John at the Cross receiving the charge of the Lord's
mother.' It was given by Rev. N. L. Shuldham, formerly Conduct of Eton.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">All the above windows were executed by Mr. O'Connor.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">The other windows are the work of Buriison and Gryll. The
one in the sanctuary represents our Lord as the Great High Priest and
Melchisidek ; the panels beneath, the Institution of the Eucharist and
Melchisidek meeting Abraham.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">The second is Mary and Martha, with works of mercy below.
This latter was executed in memory of Mrs. Forbes, wife of Colonel Forbes of
Willowbrook, who for many years was an active and generous worker among the
poor of Eton.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">The brass near is in memory of a son of theirs, a young
officer killed in the Afghan campaign.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">In the nave, north aisle, are windows presented by Mr.
Ingalton Drake : Christ walking on the water, and Christ as the Good Shepherd.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">The reredos in alabaster was designed by Mr. Woodyer and
executed in 1868. The sanctuary wall was decorated and the arcade work carried
out in 1875.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">In the same year the tenor bell was hung in memory of John
Wilkinson, cast by Messrs. Warner, weighing 9 cwt., and the organ was built by
Messrs. Hill with swell and pedal at the cost of ‘549. A second manual was
added ten years later.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">The oak chancel screen was designed by Mr. A. Y. Nutt and
erected in 1883 at the cost of £121.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">The funds for the brass eagle lectern executed by Barkentin
and Kraal, Regent Street, were collected by a member of the St. John's
Communicant Guild.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">The altar candlesticks were given by the Rev. John Wilder.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">The altar cross was presented in 1890.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">The colouring of the nave pillars and walls, carried out by
Burlison and Gryll, was done by degrees 1892-1897.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">The lowering of the nave roof and removal of the clerestory
windows took place in 1893. In the same year a handsome brass alms dish was
given.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">In 1895 a silver-gilt chalice and paten of beautiful work
and set in jewels, executed by Barkentin and Kraal, was presented by Mrs.
Layard and Rev. E. B. Layard in memory of Mrs. Shephard.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">In 1896 the corona was given by the parishioners in memory
of the same lady. It was designed by Mr. T. B. Carter. The niches contain the
figures of the Twelve Apostles, carved in Italy, St. Paul taking the place of
Judas Iscariot.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">The litany desk was given also in 1896 in memory of the Rev.
Thomas Dalton.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">The chancel was repaved in black and white marble by Farmer
and Brindley. Stalls for the choir were also provided in 1897.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">In 1899 the organ loft and an approach to it was arranged by
Messrs. Wheeler, and the organ was reconstructed and enlarged.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">The clergy stalls were also given, and the altar rails were replaced
by altar kneelers. In 1903 a sanctuary carpet was presented by the Guild, and
in 1904 an oak pulpit was placed in its original position at the chancel arch.</span></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">Most of these additions or alterations were affected by
free-will offerings, and without any appeal to the public.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><i><b style="font-family: arial;">OLD DAYS OF ETON PARISH</b><span style="font-family: arial;"> by The Rev. John Shephard, M.A. was published in 1908 by Spottiswoode and Co Ltd. The text has been copied from the original book that is now out of copyright.</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.etonwickhistory.co.uk/p/old-days-of-eton-parish.html"><i>This is the final chapter from the Rev. Shephard's book. The complete book can be found by following this link.</i></a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p>Steve Denhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07788605340419796324noreply@blogger.com0