This is the first post – there’ll be another to follow – about the Elisha family in our series about people commemorated in local road names. For those that haven’t come across Elisha Close before, it’s off Beech Hill Road … Continued
After a long interval due to the epidemic we are now back to meeting face-to-face. With support from the Parish Council we will in future be meeting every third Tuesday of the month in Spencers Wood Pavillion between 2.00 – … Continued
Can you help us? Over the years the Group has collected several files of information about Grazeley – including the photograph on the right. Grazeley is not really a focus for our studies and we are looking for one or … Continued
Our most recent blog – one in a series about the families commemorated in recent road names – concerned the Pither Family and one branch in particular, a family of women farmers during the nineteenth century. Although this branch of … Continued
This week’s Blog is about the Pither family recalled in the road name Pither Close, off Fulbrook Avenue in Spencers Wood. The family was widespread throughout the district, first appearing in documents from the fifteenth century. In our book, More … Continued
This is the second in our occasional posts exploring the stories behind local road names. Last week we introduced you to the Earl of Fingal and his estate map and Appleby family, commemorated in Fingal Crescent and Appleby Walk. This … Continued
Ever wondered about your street name? Who was Elizabeth Rout commemorated in the name Elizabeth Rout Close? What has Fullbrook Avenue to do with overflowing streams? The answer is very little. And Marlow Place has next to nothing to do … Continued
In an attempt to make information easier to find we are consolidating previous posts on the Group’s Blog and publishing them in a new area on the website Our Village time Time. So far two themes have been completed, the … Continued
It’s more than a year since our last post. Like so many other organisations the Local History Group has not been able to meet for many months but we are now up and running again. We recently took part in … Continued
As you may have heard Loddon Reach magazine has been forced to cease production – online and hard copy. In future SWLHG will be even more reliant on our Website to bring you news and information about the Group and … Continued