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Monday, 6 February 2023

Old Days of Eton Parish - CHAPTER XIII - A FEW STRAY INCIDENTS, 1774 TO 1854.

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THE end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth were marked by unusual storms and much distress. In 1774 occur...
Monday, 12 December 2022

Old Days of Eton Parish - CHAPTER XI - SOME FORWARD MOVEMENT IN TOWN AND PARISH.

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IN the middle of the eighteenth century there was very little life in the Church of England, except among the few who were stirred by...
Monday, 21 November 2022

Old Days of Eton Parish - CHAPTER X - SOME ETON BENEFACTORS.

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In 1695 Dr. Godolphin became Provost and Rector. He was noted for his liberality. The College owes to him the statue of the Founder which st...
Tuesday, 20 September 2022

Old Days of Eton Parish - CHAPTER X - SOME ETON BENEFACTORS.

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In 1695 Dr. Godolphin became Provost and Rector. He was noted for his liberality. The College owes to him the statue of the Founder which st...
Monday, 1 August 2022

Photographic History - Village Characters - Mr Edward Littleton Vaughan 1851-1940

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This photograph of Edward Vaughan was taken in the 1930s. 'Toddy' Vaughan was a house master in Eton College for 27 years. It was hi...
Monday, 4 July 2022

Photographic History - Village Characters - Mrs Dorothea Vaughan

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  Dorothea was married to E L Vaughan (Toddy) in the mid-1920s. He was by this time in his 70s. After Mr Vaughan's death in 1940 she c...
Tuesday, 3 May 2022

Photographic History - Village Characters - Harry Chantler

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Harry Chantler and his wife Hilda being presented with a cheque and a bound book containing the signatures of many local residents marking t...
Monday, 25 April 2022

Tough Assignment - Changing Attitudes 1966-1986

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The changes did not begin in 1966 - they had already started several years back when the first discussions took place over the question of A...
Monday, 28 March 2022

Tough Assignment - The 1960's and the 80th Anniversary of the Chapel

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By the sixties the pace of life was recognisably changing once again. Membership of the chapel continued to rise, reaching forty-three in th...
Monday, 21 February 2022

Tough Assignment - The 1950's - A Good Decade

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The 1950s were good years for the chapel. The number of children attending the Sunday School grew, and within a few years numbers had return...
Monday, 21 December 2020

Photographic History - Village Characters - Councillor Ronald Clibbon

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Ron Clibbon cuts the ribbon on the seat presented to the village by the Eton Wick and Boveney Women's Institute to mark the Bucki...
Monday, 9 November 2020

Photographic History - Village Characters - Harry Cook and Bill Sharp

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Harry (left) and Bill were both very keen gardeners and accustomed to being on the winner's rostrum. Here they are pictured as All...
Monday, 31 August 2020

The Baldwin Bridge Trust

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The other early parish charity was the Baldwin Bridge Trust. The original bridge must have been built by the early Middle Ages, but th...
Monday, 24 August 2020

Photographic History - Village Characters - Florence Ivy Wilson

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Photograph of Florence Wilson from around 1970. Florence was the daughter of Harry Briddes, a smallholder and greengrocer in the ...
Monday, 20 July 2020

Photographic History - Village Characters - Miss U.M. Badger MBE

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Miss Ursula Badger MBE came to live in Eton from Wales during WWII and since that time has worked unceasingly for the townsfolk. In...
Wednesday, 10 April 2019

Eton Wick and Boveney were part of Eton Rural Sanitary Authority

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Eton Wick was outside the area that the Eton Union Sanitary Authority  covered so the villagers were not entitled to use the hospital, nor w...