Here are the answers to the questions in the walkabout quiz… There were two teams who got 96, so an official winner was drawn from the hat, they and the runners up have been notified.
Read MoreWe are pleased to tell you that we have now put online Michael Read’s record of village benches and their inscriptions. We would like to thank him for sharing it with us and ll the effort he put into creating it. On the menus it’s under Village History, and can be viewed by following this […]
Read MoreWe have made a few changes to where things are located on the website. We introduced a new top level page “Records” which is the parent to all pages which present historical records, what remains under “Village History” are historical narratives & presentations. The menus have been adjusted to match this arrangement. “Aldbourne Digital Monuments […]
Read MoreIn March the Heritage Group presented the fourth of its 2021 series of online talks over Zoom – Terry Gilligan told us about the exploits of his grandfather Paddy, who was a well-known jockey in the early years of the 20th century. An edited recording of the talk has now been published here on our […]
Read MoreJulian was born in 331AD. His father was Constantine the Greats nephew, and he was emperor Constantius’ cousin. Born into Christian family, whilst growing up he avoided purges within the family and buried himself in study, professing no interest in politics, gaining a reputation as brilliant student. He secretly coverted from Christianity to paganism under […]
Read MoreThis is a set of 5 Robert Wells bells mounted in a belfry for use on a heavy horse or cart. We already have a number of 4 bell sets, but aset of 5 bells is something we had not seen before. Having bought them from that online auction site and arranged for a courier […]
Read MoreOne of these was listed on eBay, and we bought it for a small fee given the village link, then we were offered the other by the seller. They were given to Fred and Arthur Foster in 1919. Wtih some research and asking around we now know that the boys father was killed in […]
Read MoreNot everything we acquire is old, sometimes there are current items that will be of more interest as time goes by. This copy of the magazine documents, across four pages with photographs, the return of Katy Manning in the village very nearly 50 years after the filming in 1971. With the anniversary this year there […]
Read MoreThis is a token issued by Richard Clark in Aldbourne in 1658. During the English Civil War official coinage was in very short supply, and in order to continue trading many businessmen and towns around the country issued trading tokens which acted as a replacement currency. This token is rarer than the John Adee “3 […]
Read MoreIn digitising the record of where burials are located in the churchyard, kindly lent to us by the church before they went to their new permanent home we came across the following plan: It seems that at the end of the first world war plans were started for where the casualties could be buried, the […]
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