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Showing posts with label Lammas Land. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lammas Land. Show all posts
Friday, 24 May 2024

Photographic History of Eton Wick and Eton - Empire Day, possibly.

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  This interesting old photograph is a mystery, leaving much to be guessed at. It is possibly an Empire Day gathering, some time between 190...
Monday, 20 November 2023

Development of Eton Wick

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Map of 1797 copied from The Story of a Village: Eton Wick 1217 - 1977 From its origins as a farming area of the Manor of Eton the earliest d...
Wednesday, 11 October 2023

The 18th Century Village of Eton Wick – Part One - Why Eton Wick is surrounded by open fields

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The Village landscape was like the majority of Berkshire and Buckinghamshire in years leading up to the 18th century one of open fields, com...
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...
Wednesday, 18 May 2022

From the Parish Magazine - Eton Wick History Group Meeting - Local Entertainment Before the Age of the Telly.

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The members of the Eton Wick History Group enjoyed illustrated talks from three speakers when they met on the 8th July, 1998. The topic was ...
Monday, 21 June 2021

From the Parish Magazine - Eton Wick History Group Meeting - Celebrating the coming of the railway

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The History Group met on the 10 th , November to celebrate two anniversaries; one, was to recognise the 8th anniversary of the group's f...
Tuesday, 15 December 2020

World War 2 Eighty Years On - December 1940

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Bomb Damage at Upper School - image courtesy of Eton Collage Wednesday December 4th. At about 8 pm. bombs fell on the G.W.R. goods y...
Monday, 30 November 2020

Lammas Land at Eton by Robert Weatherall

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This map was originally published in A Story of a Village by Judith Hunter Lammas. The Name comes down to us from Saxon times about a ...
Monday, 3 August 2020

The Eton Wick Newsletter - December 2017 - `Our Village' Magazine

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Ten Years Old - or maybe sixty eight Yes, this issue of 'Our Village is number 30 and marks the tenth anniversary; but It w...