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Latest Issue 19 Spring 2018
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    • Hemmings Family
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    • Smith Family at Old Jockey
    • Weavern Farm and Mill
    • Prosser Chaffey
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      Box Bells Stopped for World War 2     Spring 2018   Issue 19

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Bells in the tower of St Thomas a Becket (courtesy Carol Payne)

Outbreak of War

A few months after war was declared at 11am on 3 September 1939 the bells at Box Church were silenced.
The expectation was the next ringing would warn of German invasion.

Dr Sally Hicks was at the 11 o'clock service and records her memory of that eventful day when Box Went to War.

We tell the history of the village and its residents in the years 1939 to 1945.
A reader from Australia has recorded his Memories of Wartime Box and we welcome your contributions to the story of Box in those years.
Lead up to War
What happened in Box
Military Village
When many wore uniform
Tributes to Servicemen
Box's men and women
Timeline 1939-45
Village and the nation
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People Index

Founder of Methodist Chapel
Edwin Bow's story (right)

Teenage Romance
Harris and Smith families

Prosser Chaffey
Who were the family?

George Dancey in WW1
The family traces him

Greater Gore Family
Well-known Box residents

Hemmings Family
At the Comrades Club

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Places Index

Wartime Box Schools
Box Schools from WW1 to WW2 with memories of staff and pupils

Weavern Farm and Mill
Farm and mill on the border of the village used for weaving to paper-making

8 Mill Lane
Story of the house and the Scoble family who lived there

Marrying Your Neighbour
Smith family at The Old Jockey

Box in 1950s
Do you remember these years?
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Light on Brunel Tunnel Saga
Updates from 1960s

Bargates Memories
Early story of the area

Frederick Moody Discovered?
In Married v Singles match

Q. Who was Daisy Noble?
A. The Real Maisie Gay

Oily Series
Underground discoveries
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Captain, the Donkey
Story of the famous underground quarry donkey (seen left)

Modern Alma
Update about Box Hill cottage

Building Box
Bargates and Vine Court

Air Crash at Hazelbury
Help needed to remember Dennis Moss
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Spencer's Farm, Ashley Lane, is part of the Farm Series (courtesy Carol Payne)

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Tudor and Stuart Box,
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Box in the Reformation and the English Civil War

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