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Fogleigh House        Winter 2021-22   Issue 34

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Story of the magnificent High Victorian Gothic masterpiece sometimes called  Fogleigh House  built by Cornelius James Pictor.
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People Index

Joseph Gape PC
Box's village bobby before the Second World War who lived at Fairmead View

Residents of 2 Mead Villas
Story of John and Virginia Brooke and their family, including son Cecil and wife Gladys, pictured in 1938

Nurse Chalinor
The district nurse who provided many village health facilities in the early years after the formation of the NHS
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Box Lodge of Operative Stonemasons
Box masons who joined the union

Mary Lillian Holtom
Mary was an orphan who married at Middlehill House but we don't know why? Can you help?
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Vale View Cottage, Box Hill
Story of the Sumner family home on A4

​Box Tunnel Beam Engine
How water was cleared by Brunel's contractors

Coleridge House
Historic Market Place shop, now a house

Methodist Frivolity
High Jinks at Box Methodist Hall throughout the years, pictured
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​Victory Cottage
Strange name of the Box Hill cottage explained
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Early Medieval Series:    ​Scandinavian Rulers 1000-1066
Viking Influence
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Were Vikings in Box?
Common Field Farming
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Evidence of early farming
Box Before Normans
Area before 1066
Conclusion
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​What did Saxons do for us?
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​Next Year's Series: The Inter-War Years 

​The story of the years 1918 to 1939 includes some of the most traumatic in modern Box. Watch out for articles on:
  • Peace celebrations after the Great War
  • Unemployment in Box and the Great Strike
  • The Roaring Twenties and new fashions
  • Creation of Box Rec, the Bassetts and council houses
  • The building of Mill Lane Halt
  • Effect of Hitler's rise on the village

The series includes some of the most interesting photographs of the village that we have ever published. The photo shown is of young 1920 Box beauties, Elsie and Doris Wilkins, aunts of Stella Clarke.
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Boxfields Model Aircraft Club
Were you a member?

Gonks of Box
Can you help find them?

​Rev WV Awdry at Talyllyn
See the study where he wrote the Thomas books

Box Doctors at Large
Name checking them off-duty

Walk on the Wild Side
Murder and Mystery Tours
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