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Latest Issue 31 Spring 2021 
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    • Local Roman Finds
    • Gingell
    • Jut the Ticket
    • Straightening & Levelling
    • Tottle Family
    • Rudloe Part 2
    • Bowdler
    • Bullocks Worldwide
    • James Shell of KIngsdown
    • Bill Peter Recalled
    • Rudloe WW2 Remnants
    • More Stink Pipes
    • Northey Tankard Found
  • Early Medieval
    • Britain in Late Antiquity
    • Box after AD 350
    • Why Speak English?
    • Art and Craft
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      • Issue 19 - Outbreak WW2
      • Issue 18 - Building Bargates
      • Issue 17 - Railway Changes
      • Issue 16 - Quarries
      • Issue 15 - Rail & Quarry
      • Issue 14 - Civil War
      • Issue 13: Box Revels
      • Issue 12 - Where You Live
      • Issue 11 - Tudor & Stuart
      • Issue 10 - End of Era 1912
      • Issue 9 - Health & Leisure
      • Issue 8 - Farming & Rural
      • Issue 7 - Manufacturing
      • Issue 6 - Celebrations
      • Issue 5 - Victorian Centre
      • Issue 4 - Slump after WW1
      • Issue 3 - Great War 1914-18
      • Issue 2 - 1950s & 1960s
      • Issue 1 - 1920s
    • Index By Author
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  • People
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  • General
  • Series
    • Northeys >
      • Early Family
      • World of the Northeys
      • Unpaid Bill: Smith & Northey
      • Family Tree
      • George Wilbraham
      • Life in Box
      • George Edward
      • Safe & Steady Son
      • Army Life
      • Theatrical Events
      • Rolls-Royce Pioneer
      • Northey Donkey Cart
      • Other Children
      • Later Family
      • Selling Up
      • Northey Legacy
    • Box School Series >
      • Box Charity School
      • Formation of Box Schools
      • Schools WW1 to WW2
      • Box Schools, 1920s
      • Boys' School, 1927
      • Evacuee Schoolboy 1941
      • Box School 1945-83
      • Class of 1954
    • Box Farms >
      • Weavern Farm and Mill
      • Old Jockey Farm
      • Hill House Farm
      • Coles Farm
    • Box Library Project
    • NATS Trails >
      • Heritage Trails 2019
      • Conservation Areas
      • Box NATS Trails 2018
      • Alcombe and Shockerwick
      • Mills on Box Brook
      • Saxon Footpaths
      • New History Trails 2017
      • Roman Road
      • Box Hill Trail
      • Georgian Middlehill
      • History Trails 2016
      • Mad House
      • Thomas Railway
      • Market Place Origins
    • Prehistory >
      • Kingsdown's Menhir Secrets
    • Roman >
      • Early History Hoard
      • Roman Road Finds
      • Ancient Discovery
      • Roman Mosaics in Box
    • Early Medieval
    • Feudal >
      • Magna Carta in Box
      • Monk's Tale
      • Norman Conquest of Box
      • Tracing Bartholomew Bigod
      • When it Rained and Rained
    • Late Medieval
    • Tudor & Stuart >
      • Box in Civil War 1642 - 51
      • Wolf Hall and Box
      • Marsh Family
      • People during Civil War
      • Original Box Revels
      • Tudor Local Government
      • Ordinary People
      • Religion in Box, 1475-1660
      • Where You Live in 1626 >
        • Ashley
        • Central Box
        • Ditteridge
        • Hatt, Old Jockey and Blue Vein
        • Hazelbury
        • Henley and Washwells
        • Kingsdown
        • Middlehill
        • Rudloe
      • Hugh Speke Shaped Box
      • Walter Bushnell
      • Reformation in Box, 1535
      • Ten Tudor & Stuart Mansions
      • Death at Thomas à Becket >
        • For Whom Box Bell Tolled
      • Tudor & Stuart Timeline
      • John Aubrey's Box
    • Georgian >
      • Napoleon versus Box
      • Revolutionary Times
      • Coaches in 1830
      • Agricultral Census 1803
      • Tithe Apportionment
      • Slavery Families
      • Mullins Family, Schoolmasters
      • Box Churchyard
      • Sheridan's Duel
      • Tree of Life at Middlehill
      • Box's Highwayman
      • 1752: Very Odd Year
      • Witches, Quakers and Chapels
      • The New Road, 1761
      • Vulgarity in Box
      • Rebuilding the Village
      • Speke Family
      • Georgian People
      • Georgian Timeline
    • Rail & Quarry >
      • Crane 57
      • Railway Men Remembered
      • Old Clay Pipe
      • Recalling Box Quarries >
        • Oily Series
      • Quarrymen and their Families
      • Built in Stoneyards
      • Quarries in 2000
      • Single Ticket
      • Trainspotting in Box
      • Light Through Box Tunnel >
        • More Light on Tunnel
        • Brunel Myth
        • Sunrise at Box Tunnel
      • Marl at Middlehill
      • James Moodey
      • Railway Staff in Box
      • Impact of Railways
      • Vivash Follow-up
      • Underground Quarries
      • Lambert's Stoneyard
      • Cranes at Work
      • Railway Policeman
      • Terror in Tunnels
      • Vivash Family
      • Railway Buildings and More
      • Why Railways Came to Box
      • Box in 1830
      • Building Box Tunnel
      • Boxing and Quarrymen >
        • More Jem Mace
      • Clift Quarry Steam Loco
      • Timeline 1830 - 1870
      • Trial Shaft
      • Underbridges
    • Late Victorian >
      • Edwardian Love Story
      • Northey Estate Sale 1912-1923
      • Box Fete & Friendly Societies
      • Methodism in Box
      • George Reeves, Quarryman Ganger
      • Dipsomania in Box
      • 1870 Start of Era
      • Victorian Farming
      • Ashley Leigh
      • Steam Mill and Cottages
      • Class Division
      • Grove Inn
      • Box House
      • Celebrations >
        • Jubilee Mug 1887
      • Parish Magazine History
      • Postcards of Box >
        • Postcard Solved
      • Skeate, Speck and Ponting
      • 1899 A Year of Festivities
      • Valens Terrace
      • Village Outings >
        • Excitement for Outings
        • Cycling Craze
      • Timeline 1840 to now
      • Local Pubs
    • Great War >
      • Photos 2014
      • Cecil Lambert's War
      • VAD Working Parties
      • After the War
      • Box School Research
      • School WW1 Projects
      • List of Servicemen
      • Embroideries
      • In Memoriam
      • Never Forgotten
      • Where They Lived
      • Christmas 1913 and 1914
      • Children in WW1
      • Neighbour Against Neighbour
      • Home & Far Away
      • Finding Private Hall
      • Box Before the War
    • Inter War Years >
      • Shops in 1920s
      • Fascism
      • Sports Day 1931
    • WW2 Index >
      • Land Girl Remembers
      • World War 2 Scrapbook
      • Box in 1943
      • Aircraft Factories
      • D Day Implications, 1944
      • Peace
      • VE Day 1945
      • After the War
      • Epitaph to WW2
      • Wartime Memories
      • Wartime People
      • Bath Blitz 1942
      • Invasion Threat 1942
      • Children in War
      • Air Raids on Box
      • Military Camps
      • Royal Visits
      • Your WW2 Tributes
      • Dunkirk Evacuation
      • Box Home Guard >
        • Home Guard Names
      • Life at Home
      • Evacuee Children
      • Village & Ammunitions Depot
      • Memories of WW2
      • In Service at Home
      • At War
      • Lead up to War
      • Servicemen & Women
      • Timeline 1939-45
      • VE Day Remembered
      • Dennis Moss >
        • Hazelbury Air Crash
        • Air Crash Wreath
        • Flight Crew Lost
        • Graham Brayshaw
      • Evacuated From Belgium
      • WW2 Resting Place
      • Sherman Tank Disaster
    • Modern >
      • Modern Art
      • Centre of Commerce
      • Shoe Sculpture >
        • Stiletto Sculpture
      • Characters in 1940s
      • Teenage Rebels, 1960s
      • Swingin Sixties or Not?
      • A Box Childhood
      • Box People from 1950s
      • Shops in 1950 Box
      • Box in 1950s
      • Village in 1950s
      • Summer of 1959
      • reCollections
      • Residents After the War
      • Coach Trips 1950s
      • Never Had It So Good !
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Corsham WW1 Commemorations

30/8/2014

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Don't miss this WW1 concert at Corsham School on 18 October.

It includes extracts from the diaries of Mary Deane,
the aunt of PG Wodehouse, who was a visitor at Cheney Court and a close friend of the Northey family of Box.

You can read more about this period at
http://www.boxpeopleandplaces.co.uk/northeys-of-box-1726-1919.html

Concert tickets are available from 1 September from the Corsham Tourist Information or contact us and we will put you in touch.

It sounds like a fascinating evening that will be of interest to everyone who wants to understand more about life in the Great War.
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Detritus by Jane Charlton

19/8/2014

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DETRITUS by JANE CHARLTON

An Exploration of the forgotten, discarded and lost.
Recent Paintings, Drawings and Sculptures
At WALCOT CHAPEL GALLERY
Walcot Gate (top of Walcot Street), BATH
Tuesday September 2nd to Saturday 7th  inclusive

We featured Jane's work at Middlehill Meals and now you can see more work at her Exhibition.

Jane has exhibited widely: Hida Takayama Museum of Art, Japan,Australia, Naples, and Italy;  Yorkshire Sculpture Park; Artist in residence at Cyprus School of Art. She taught Fine Art, full-time, in Bath, Oxford, Monash, Australia and York Universities,recently returning to Bath after living in York.


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John Hanning Speke Display and Lectures

18/8/2014

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BOOK NOW! 'BATH & THE NILE EXPLORERS' Monday 15th September 
Tickets on sale at Bath Box Office www.bathboxoffice.org Tel: 01225 463362

Monday afternoon starting 1pm
Reception, two talks and Q&A session at the Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Upper Borough Walls, Bath,

Monday evening 7.30pm
Neil McGrigor talks about his amazing journey down the Nile in inflatable boats 2005-6 at the
Bath Royal Literary Inst, 16 Queen Square
.

Tickets £6 each event, or
Combined tickets for both events: £10
(£6 BRLSI, RGS, BSA members)
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Story of Queen's Head

14/8/2014

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Box Rocks, the annual village get-together for all the family, is at the pub on August Bank Holiday Monday. It’s a great day out for parents and children to enjoy.

In the autumn we are going to sit down with licensees Dean and Lisa to discuss the amazing history of the events in the pub including: the curious death of a Blackburn millionaire; the tragic death of gifted young Ponting pianist; and the eloping of the landlord’s daughter.

If you know anything about these events, please tell Dean and Lisa; otherwise catch up with the story on the website later this year.
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Famous Box Families: Callaways

7/8/2014

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We have had a magnificent reply to our challenge to tell the story of Box families over the last century. Because it's scarecrow season we start with the merger of the Callaway and Abrahams families.

The Callaways were coal merchants and domestic coachmen and they married into the Abrahams family of
butchers, slaughtermen and owners of various local shops. They were living next door to the Rising Sun pub on Box Hill when it blew up in a gas explosion.

Thank you, Eric and Sandra, for the scarecrow fun and the fascinating history of your family.

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Box School Project

4/8/2014

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I have just spent a very rewarding 30 minutes reading Box Primary School  children’s  Research Project on the First World War. Despite my advancing years and a lifetime in the defence environment I was able to learn something new. They drew out, illustrated and expressed beautifully what to me were the three significant factors arising from the conflict, the advancement of military technology, that women were a valuable resource beyond being homemakers and that everyone was affected and involved not just the soldiers in the trenches. The photographs enhance and compliment the text and reflect the skills of the children in model making; very well done.

In reading the work it occurred to me that these children will witness the centenary of the Second World War, I do hope that they will encourage their children to research that war as thoroughly as they did the First.

Finally, to the children participating many,  many congratulations for a job well done, thank you. Of course I mustn’t forget that work of this quality would not happen without the encouragement and guidance of teaching staff in particular head teacher, Jo French, and history co-ordinator, Helen Murphy. They should be well pleased with the fruits of the Box children’s  efforts.
Dave Ibberson OBE

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Box School Project

2/8/2014

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Thank you, Box School and Box People and Places. Very proud and happy to see my son's work, the triplane, pre bomber attack, on the website. We have been looking for it and the other students' work.
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Box School WW1 Projects

1/8/2014

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Calling all parents of Sycamore Class 2014.
The children's research projects on World War 1 are now on-line for everyone to view at:
http://www.boxpeopleandplaces.co.uk/school-ww1-projects.html

Please pass this link round as we are so proud of the fabulous work the children have done to commemorate the centenary of the war.

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