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Latest Issue 31 Spring 2021 
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    • Celebrity Visits
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    • Doris Pepita Chappell
    • 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
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    • Why Speak English?
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      • Issue 24 - Highwaymen
      • Issue 23 - Georgian
      • Issue 22 - War Memorial
      • Issue 21 - Childhood 1949-59
      • Issue 20 - Box Home Guard
      • 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
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    • 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
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        • 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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     Lest We Forget November 1918 - 2018   Winter 2018-19   Issue 22
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Box War Memorial

Box's memorial to the First World War was bult in 1920 (photo left courtesy John Harris) to honour the dead of the First World War. Twenty-five years later it was tragically repeated with the outbreak of World War 2. You can read more about the origin of the Box War Memorial in our headline article.

World War 2 Series
We complete our series about the village in the Second World War with several articles:

Box in 1943 tells the story of Box Highlands School and its earliest teachers.
Nameless Places records the underground aircraft factories, the workers, and where they lived in the wartime village.
D-Day 1944 Footpaths concerned villagers as the war continued in mainland Europe and the Far East.
Peace Celebrations when the war ended after six years of conflict
After the War The consequences including changes in the village and the return of troops.
Epitaph Reflections on the war by Captain John Durnford of Greenslades, Market Place.
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Box's First World War Commemoration 2018
How our village remembered its servicemen on the centenery of the armistice marking the end of fighting in World War I.

Internationally, about 9.7 million people died as a direct result of the warfare and millions more from their injuries and the effect of gas. Russia had nearly 2 million fatalities, Germany 1.8, France 1.4, Austria 1.3 and Britain 0.8 million. To put these numbers into context, in Wessex today (from Gloucestershire to Cornwall and the Isle of Wight and all places in between) there are about 7.5 million people. The numbers defy comprehension. Click Here for village photographs.
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​People Index
Brunt and Garland Families The Box families who invigorated the inter-war years in the village.             
Old Jockey Families Story of old family photograph revealing marriage to the next-door neighbour.
Dr James Piri Martin  Beloved doctor's retirement from the village shortly before his death.
Odee Harris  Poet, lover, theatre impresario and Maisie Gay's partner. Also ventriloquist in World War 2.
Greenland Family Story of family journey from the Lamb Inn to the Falkland Islands via Siege of Ladysmith, South Africa.
HR James  Story of the Ironmongers in the Market Place, seen in photograph (right).
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Places Index

Life at Kingsmoor House  Living at Wiltshire Council's Children's Home in The Ley
Slades Farm in WW2  Memories of Jo and Peter Ody from a wartime WAAF
The Bear Hotel  Box's oldest pub (left), Liberal headquarters and starting point of 100 mile races
Barn Piece  The quarry with an agricultural barn which developed into Council Houses
RAF Rudloe Manor  Group 10 Headquarters during wartime and aterwards.
1 South View, Quarry Hill
The development of the Quarry Hill area
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Charabanc Outings
Wasn't it a lovely day for an outing - or better to walk?

Box Church Choir
Memories of a young chorister and Rev Lendon Bell

Kingsdown House Graffiti
Inscriptions uncovered (right)
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Sun through Box Tunnel
The final words on mystery of Brunel's birthday

Memories of the Swan Inn
Original documents by Vic Painter

Art Deco
In Napier, New Zealand
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Our 2019 Series is Georgian Box

During the course of 2019 we have some fascinating stories and some challenging ideas about how the amazing changes in the village's development between the Stuarts and the Railway Age. Articles include :

The story of Farting in Box (Yes, you have read that right)
1752 When the Year was only 9 Months
Box's Execution Sites
Slave Traders in the Village
Box's Waterloo Contribution
Sheridan's duel at Kingsdown (seen uncorking new ideas left)

Doesn't that all sound unusually exciting?
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Previous Series
There are dozens of additional articles and photos in dedicated series which you can access by clicking on the links below.

Tudor and Stuart Box, 1485 - 1660
Railway and Quarry Age, 1830 - 1870
Box Farms
Late Victorian Box, 1870 - 1920s
Box School Articles
Great War, 1914 - 18

World War 2, 1939 - 45
Box NATS History Trails
Box Library Project


Right: Kingsdown Farm in 1912
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