We were recently lucky enough to aquire this photograph On the reverse is pencilled “Aldbourne” and I’m willing to believe that – this photograph came […]
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Recent Acquisition: Letters of Charles McEvoy
In our village it is fairly well known that in 1910 the playwright Charles McEvoy turned the Old Malthouse into a theatre and used it […]
Book Release: Aldbourne’s Military and Wartime Past by Cassie Rust
Cassie Rust has written a detailed book (350 pages!) about the military and wartime history of Aldbourne. It is available on Amazon in kindle and […]
Not Aldbourne #1
Some of the research I’ve done turns out not to be Aldbourne related, but I’d like to put it on the web in case someone […]
Rectory Wood Metal Detecting Survey
Sunday saw a group of us meet with Rectory Wood with Neil Stevens and some of his colleagues, to do a metal detecting survey of […]
The Mystery Object
The announcement from the British Museum on Monday afternoon of the latest finds to be reported through the Portable Antiquities Scheme means that […]
Snippets from the 1911 Census
For the past twenty years I have gradually built up searchable transcriptions of the Parish Registers and National Censuses for Aldbourne on my own website […]