In May 2022 we were very happy to welcome Operation Nightingale and Breaking Ground Heritage, plus volunteer veterans and archaeologists to Aldbourne. The dig has […]

Today Operation Nightingale and History Hit TV were able to put out a press release about the two “dog tags” that were found when they […]

I recently came across this from the vestry minutes: 1827 List of subscribers and the amount raised for the purpose of purchasing an organ for […]

We’ve come across a newspaper article giving more detail of how Gunner Westall died. We have put a full transcription on his Roll of Honour […]

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 […]

We 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 […]

We have made a few changes to where things are located on the website. We introduced a new top level page “Records” which is the […]

Julian was born in 331AD. His father was Constantine the Greats nephew, and he was emperor Constantius’ cousin. Born into Christian family, whilst growing up […]

This is a set of 5 Robert Wells bells mounted in a belfry for use on a heavy horse or cart. We already have a […]

  One of these was listed on eBay, and we bought it for a small fee given the village link, then we were offered the […]