Railway Workers     Winter 2022-23   Issue 38 
A contingent of the many railway workers at Box Station around the year 1900. Arthur George Currant was the last of Box's Railway Gangers in charge of the track between Box Station and Box Tunnel before the GWR was privatised in 1965.
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Pybus Family
Buried outside the main church door
Doctors Nash 
Box physicians who lived at Ashley Manor
Rudloe Park Residents
The fascinating people who lived here and their gardens
Tragedy of Mackie Currant
Married hopes and war horrors
​​Missed Heritage Buildings
Can you add to the history list please?
Box Rifle Club
Story of a Boer War club 
Washwells
The Cottage and the area
Hillcrest
Frederick Neate of Box Hill
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Inter-War Series​
We conclude this year's series with five new articles. The inter-war years were an attempt to build a New Society with council housing offering modern homes for residents, such as these at The Ley. Next year's series is Modern Box.
New Technologies
How modern science tried to improve the variety of goods in Britain
​Disasters and Celebrations
From a double funeral pictured to the coronation of George VI
​War Looming 
The League of Nations unable to deflect warning signs of WW2
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Readers' Contributions
The funeral and tributes to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II was a compulsive moment of history passing before our eyes. Box parish chairman, Sheila Parker (right), read the Royal Proclamation to villagers at 6pm 11 September 2022 to welcome the accession of King Charles III. Read more...

We had a marvellous response to the Mill Lane Halt article
​in the last issue. Several readers have kindly emailed with their Railway Thoughts. How many Candles should be on the church altar - should it be forkhandles? Many Box residents had nicknames, including Donald Andrews who had been called Ickey Andrews since childhood. Guido Schild wrote to us from Berlin about his Bullock clock which had travelled arond the world with his family.
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