Music from the swedish Lucia tradition from The Youth Choir, Sofiakyrkan, Jönköping, Sweden
Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford Saturday, 5th 3.30pm
Horley Parish Church, Sunday, 6th 2.00 pm
Shenington Primary School Monday, 7th 9.15 pm
Deddington Parish Church Monday, 7th 11.15 am
Free entry to all these occasions
Mr and Mrs Gardner
Next door to The Red Lion pub was a tall thin building which was strangely out of place amongst the lower thatched houses of the village. It looked as though it had been squeezed onto a small patch of land.
However this is where the friendly elderly Mr and Mrs Gardner lived in the 1940s.
I remember Mr Gardner as cowman at Manor Farm. He milked all the cows by hand in the cowsheds at the side of The Vicarage kitchen garden, where he allowed us to watch him, at a distance. He sat on a small three-legged stool.
Like most men working with animals he wore leather gaiters, and like most countrymen who worked on the land he moved at a steady, even pace all day long.
The house was later pulled down.
Extract from A Vanished Past Volume 1 £15 Both Volumes and p&p £33. From Clare Marchant, Shaftesbury House, 15 Circus Street, Greenwich, London SE10 8SN or marchantclare@hotmail. Cheques payable to Clare Marchant.
St. Etheldreda’s would like to invite you to her Christmas Carol Service. It will be a very special evening, welcoming people of all ages and reminding us of how very lucky we are.
The Service will start at 6:00pm, after the children of Horley have Dressed the Crib at 5:45pm .
We will be singing carols accompanied by the church organ, and watching the children and young people of Horley perform readings, poetry and traditional songs.
For more information go to www.horntonprimaryschool.co.uk and call/email for your tour.
Here’s some, you can find the rest of A Midsummer Night’s Dream on GROUPS / Horley Footlights, while your there check out all the past productions …..
MSND On Stage
MSND Backstage
From A Vanished Past Volume 1 and courtesy of the WI Scrapbook: a two part map of Horley showing where people lived in 1965
View from Spring Field
It’s always sad when the season ends and it takes a few weeks to get used to not being there! During the season there are lots of volunteers who do a tremendous amount of work at the Club and it is much appreciated, however there are still jobs to be done and people are still pottering about at the ground.
Following the end of season and our AGM on Sunday 15th November, both senior teams will play in the same leagues next year, the 1st team will be captained by Dave Eaton with Adam Webb as Vice Captain, the 2nd team will continue to be captained by Mark Tubb with Jamie Abbotts as Vice Captain, Rose Beck will take the lead on Sundays with assistance from others. Julian Wright will continue as Club Captain. All this is good news for the Club, but we would like to record our thanks to Dave Taylor and David Clark – outgoing 1st team Captain and Vice Captain respectively – for their hard work over the past few years. Dave Eaton who has captained the Sunday team for the last year will continue his good work in the 1st team.
The Junior teams had a fantastic year with 5 of the Juniors progressing to play in the Sunday team with 2 also playing in our 2nd team on a Saturday. This was great to see and part of our development plan is to ensure there is progression through the club for Juniors. They ended the season with the annual parents v children match, the weather was hot and a fair match ensued, at the end Mike Patching presented the trophies on behalf of the MHT Trust, the winners were:
U’11 The Whole team
U’13 Thomas Shaw
U’15 Henry Moon
Most dedicated cricketer Jessica Newport
We thank the Michael Hardinge Trust for their continued sponsorship of the Juniors, this year we have added their logo to the junior kit to highlight the hard work they do.
Our Dinner Dance was once again held at Bloxham School, a wonderful venue where the theme was the Great Gatsby, it was attended by 80 members of the Club and to see how much we enjoyed ourselves please look at the pictures on our website www.horleycc.co.uk
All our events and fixtures will be on our cricket website or via our village website in the New Year.
We wish you all a Merry Xmas and Happy New Year and thank you for all your support this season – we look forward to seeing you next season.
Kind regards, Judith
Judith_17@btinternet.com
Mr Warren E Warren (1884-1971) and his wife Ida (died 1967)
Photo by John Saunders, Courtesy Alice Bowmaker
It was widely reported that Mr Warren Ernest Warren had been born in Canada although he showed no signs of even the slightest Canadian accent. He and his wife first lived in The Nutshell next to Phlox Cottage, and then bought and refurbished the house where Mr and Mrs Hicks Senior had lived – Jasmine Cottage, which had cascades of jasmine falling down the front of the house.
John Saunders took this photograph (Mr Warren) to illustrate countryside deliveries. The Shop at your Door oilman delivered to the many households still using paraffin for lighting, cooking and heating. This is one of the few pictures of Mrs Ida Warren, who worked for several families in the village including the Pratts at Essex House and the Saunders next door at Phlox Cottage and then Horley School House.
They had two daughters Maudie and Margie (Margaret) who were born in Canada. Mrs Warren regaled us with the tale of how she had been driven to hospital on a sleigh through a winter snowstorm for the birth of one of her daughters. It sounded both romantic and jolly to us, but it could have been neither at the time. Both Maudie and Margie left the area in the late 1940s or early 1950s and rarely returned. Mr Warren was a commercial traveller in the late 1930s, but was also reckoned to have been a book-keeper/accountant at some time in the past. He died in 1971 in the Brackley area.
Warren E. Warren was actually born in Hammersmith, London, one of a family of eight children. He worked for a period in Winnipeg Canada in the first decade of the 20th century. It is possible he acquired Canadian citizenship and so it may have been true he was Canadian though not born there. They had hopes of becoming farmers, but either that failed or they tired of the idea.
Mr Warren was a pale, small and gaunt man and a prolific smoker. He lived to be 87. There is a good photograph of him in the chapter on the cricket club in a later volume.
Extract from A Vanished Past Volume 2 £15 Both Volumes and p&p £33. From Clare Marchant, Shaftesbury House, 15 Circus Street, Greenwich, London SE10 8SN or marchantclare@hotmail. Cheques payable to Clare Marchant.
Interesting to compare and contrast our “grocery shopping” experience now with then:
Alice Saunders and Maureen Eeles buy sweets from Mrs Oliver, Photographs by John Saunders
During the war there was no village shop in Horley. Most people did best if they committed themselves to one grocer or another, and became a regular customer. Dossetts the Banbury’s ‘High Class’ grocers made pre-ordered deliveries to large households in the area.
Shortly after the war the elderly Mrs Roylance ran a little shop for a short while from her front room in Hillary Cottage. It was hard to keep going. Mrs Jack Oliver took it over when she left as cook of The Manor.
Mrs Jack Oliver serves Ann Saunders of The School House
Mr Jack Oliver serving in the shop and post office in The Square
In the 1950s the Gibsons of The Manor provided the village with a purpose-built Shop and Post Office in The Square which Mr and Mrs Jack Oliver ran and eventually owned, and which supplied all the basic non-perishable provisions that people needed. At the same time the small grocery shops, whether in Banbury or the villages found themselves in competition with new large food outlets like Keymarket.
The extended shop – below is a picture of Mr Jack Hobbs of one of Varney’s Yard cottages, now Ivy Cottage, leaving the village shop. By 1965 the shop had closed and a Co-op van was delivering groceries on a Tuesday
Carriers to and from Banbury were very important well into the 1930s, bringing food and goods to many households. As late as the 1950s the Sumner family still provided a residual service for those unable to get to Banbury. Robert Pearson writes in more detail about the 1920s and 1930s: ‘….. there were other sectors of country life where horses still provided an essential service. The village had its own motorised bus service into the local town twice a week (on market day, which was on Thursdays, and on Saturdays), but the carrier service was still operated by a covered horse-drawn wagon, which was fitted up with shelving…This service also operated on the same two days, and in retrospect must have been a nightmare to organise. First the shopkeeper had to visit all his customers to take down their orders (hardly anyone had a telephone in those days); then make his way to the town, buy whatever commodities were ordered, and then come back and make the individual deliveries. For all of this he made a modest charge. But to even think of him keeping all those orders separate in his head, in combination, of course, with some kind of record in the notebook he also carried, makes the mind boggle! All mental arithmetic; no pocket calculators.’
Mr Philip Coles, the grocer, was a constant figure in the village on Tuesdays. He, his brother Ernest and his sister, Mrs E.M. Blakiston-Houston owned the village grocers shop in Shenington, and took their van round several villages collecting orders from each house and then after searching through the shelves stacked with groceries and boxes full of goods on the floor of the van, returning with a wicker basket full of the food. During and in the years following the war the Coles’ business thrived, but suffered with the arrival of supermarkets and their lower prices.
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Hope you’re enjoying these glimpses into Horley’s past? Some aspects have really changed and yet there is something enduring about our village community that still prevails today.
I have worked with Clare Marchant to “look inside” her book and share an overview of the contents, contributors and the stories of life in Horley earlier in the last century. Posts so far:
What’s next?
A view on the changes during this period, like grocery shopping, the decline and regeneration, and a “now and then” view, such as this picture of the water tap taken outside Chapel Cottage.
We will take a look at some of the work Horley such as a Cowman, a Oilman and a Farm Labourer.
There will be a story by Clare’s sister that she wrote for her children about her life growing up here, it includes a story of a couple who lived in Chapel Cottage, and our very own actor of West End and movie fame.
Remember these are just glimpses, that we thought might interest you but there is so much more. It would make a wonderful Christmas present ……….. now you can get your copy right here in Horley from Mike and Sue Patching or at Horley’s Christmas Market this Saturday 28th.
Here are the ways to buy your copies of Volume 1 & 2 :
TheHorleyViews.com 