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           Kingsdown Post Office           Autumn 2021  Issue 33
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Life in the hamlet of Kingsdown with postmaster and baker ​John Brooke, staunch Baptist who became the role model for village responsibility. Unique photographs of the area at the start of the twentieth century.
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People Index

​Pictor Women
The strength behind the quarry-owners

A Devil's Device 
Celebrating Box Tunnel's 150th anniversary in 1991, pictured

​Box Georgian Stonemasons
Insight into work of early Box stonemasons
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​Salmon & Cockle Families at Fishy Corner
Where was this area in Box village?

Frank Oliver Wills
Famous family who lived at Fogleigh House

Llewellyn-Hughes 
Film star family at Springfield Villa  
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Places Index ​

​Vale View, Bulls Lane
View from this charming house, pictured

​Kingsdown Fair

History of the event, recorded for first time​

Retreat Carriage Conclusion
Uncoupling half of a house
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Box Parish Council
History of Box's democratic system
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​Discovering Box Roman Villa
The archaeologists and their finds
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Early Medieval Series:    ​Viking Age Box AD 800-1000
Wessex Under Attack
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When the Vikings arrived
Routes in Box
Saxon ​Roads, paths & rivers
Boundaries of Box
How large was Saxon Box?
Late Medieval Locations
​​Finding Saxon evidence​
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​​Thomas John Woodward in Box
This is, of course, the real name of singer Sir Tom Jones

What and Where Is This Location? 
Culvert in Box but purpose unknown, shown right - not Dirty Arch

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Elizabeth Sudell Sampler
​Sewn by wife of Box vicar Holled Horlock

​Best Book Ever on Quarrying
Review of recently-issued book by David Pollard
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