{"id":107,"date":"2011-03-02T19:39:13","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T19:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swlhg.co.uk\/wordpress\/?page_id=107"},"modified":"2022-06-15T13:39:56","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T13:39:56","slug":"new-village-book","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/swlhg.co.uk\/index.php\/studies\/new-village-book\/","title":{"rendered":"More from Our Village of Spencers Wood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/swlhg.co.uk\/wordpress\/http:\/\/www.swlhg.co.uk\/web\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Front-cover-small-web-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2102 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/swlhg.co.uk\/wordpress\/http:\/\/www.swlhg.co.uk\/web\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Front-cover-small-web-1.jpg\" alt=\"front-cover-small-web\" width=\"299\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"http:\/\/swlhg.co.uk\/wordpress\/http:\/\/www.swlhg.co.uk\/web\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Front-cover-small-web-1.jpg 475w, http:\/\/swlhg.co.uk\/wordpress\/http:\/\/www.swlhg.co.uk\/web\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Front-cover-small-web-1-231x300.jpg 231w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our most recent book &#8211; published December 2016, tells the story of our village of Spencers Wood.<\/p>\n<p>Over 180 pages in words and pictures covering from when it was just a field, to the area we call home now.<\/p>\n<p>Covering natural environment &amp; development,\u00a0<em>A Walk around <strong>The Square<\/strong> (originally the first built on area in the village),\u00a0<\/em><em>The\u00a0<strong>Post office<\/strong>; The <strong>Schools<\/strong>\u00a0(<strong>Lambs Lane<\/strong>, <strong>Oakbank<\/strong> and the closed <strong>Ryeish Green<\/strong>) including the <strong>Library<\/strong> (the first Village School); The <strong>Village Hall,<\/strong> and the Churches &#8211; both the<strong> Congregational Chapel<\/strong> (no longer in use) &amp; <strong>St Michael&#8217;s &amp; All Angels<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>A look at the two large houses &#8211; <strong>Stanbury<\/strong> and <strong>Highlands<\/strong>, and how the Village\u00a0was impacted during the <strong>Second World War.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The book is a combination of three years of research with maps and photographs, combining a lot of memories and whilst we have endeavored to be factual, we will have undoubtedly have missed some information out, and made some errors &#8211; as all social historians inevitably do.<\/p>\n<p>If you want a copy, pls <strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"mailto:spwood.local history@googlemail.com\">email<\/a><\/span><\/strong> our site.<\/p>\n<p>Now <em>only<\/em> \u00a310 from the Post Office in Spencers Wood, Budgens in Three Mile Cross or via cheque to Mrs J Blow, Treasurer SWLHG at 10 The Square, Spencers Wood, Berks, RG7 1BS<\/p>\n<p>(<em>all subject to information that we are able to source and publish bearing in mind copyright laws.<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Our most recent book &#8211; published December 2016, tells the story of our village of Spencers Wood. Over 180 pages in words and pictures covering from when it was just a field, to the area we call home &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/swlhg.co.uk\/index.php\/studies\/new-village-book\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":83,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"page-fullwidth.php","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-107","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/swlhg.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/swlhg.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/swlhg.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/swlhg.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/swlhg.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":40,"href":"http:\/\/swlhg.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4025,"href":"http:\/\/swlhg.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/107\/revisions\/4025"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/swlhg.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/83"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/swlhg.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}