Gobson Common
In the next few months the village archivist , David Pope will be running a series of articles on ‘Gobson Common’ in The Hill. You will not find Gobson Common on any map today, it was renamed
Articles from the Archive
Child Okeford Cricket Club -part 2
Tom Hicks: “Bowlers Name?” Continued from last month.
The full chapter about Child Okeford can be
Child Okeford Cricket Club -part 1
As mentioned last month the archive contribution for the next two months will be extracts from Tom Hicks’
Cycle Speedway – The Okeford Otters.
Okeford Otters Cycle Speedway Team
The Western Gazette announced in May 1952:
“Child Okeford Cycle Speedway.
The new cycle speedway track on the playing field was officially opened on the occasion of the first home match of the season, a Shaftesbury and District league match the visitors being
Hayward Bridges
Hayward Bridges
Introduction
There have been at least five ‘Heyford’ or, later, ‘Hayward bridges since the Norman Conquest 1. The story told here has been
A history of roads and traffic in the village.
CHILD OKEFORD ARCHIVE
Child Okeford Parish Council Minutes: Roads and Traffic: Part 1
Child Okeford Auxillary Unit
The Auxiliary Unit in the Second World War
In November’s article about the Home Guard we mentioned the “Auxiliary
Child Okeford Home Guard
The Home Guard
80 years ago, on 14th May 1940, the Secretary of State for War, the Rt. Hon. Anthony Eden MP*, made an appeal for:
“men in Great Britain who are British subjects between the ages of
Graf Zeppelin
On Sunday 3rd July 1932 some of the inhabitants of Child Okeford were disturbed and amazed by the drone of what they took to be an aircraft –
they were even more amazed when they turned