Child Okeford Auxillary Unit
The Auxiliary Unit in the Second World War
In November’s article about the Home Guard we mentioned the “Auxiliary
Articles from the Archive
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
Fast Day – At Home
Britain in the time of Cholera.
Photographed by the author at the Dorset History Centre.I have been researching the life of a Dorset land surveyor called John Martin. He is important in the story of Child Okeford as at various
We Unite to Assist Each Other
‘We unite to assist each other.’
Notes on the history of the Friendly societies in Child Okeford
This Child Okeford Union Benefit Society banner will be familiar to many villagers,
19th Century Cricket Matches.
The earliest record we have found so far is a cricket match between Child Okeford and Marnhull in August 1856 which was played at Steepleton Park, as were later matches
A history of the recreation ground – part 1
CHILD OKEFORD ARCHIVE
Recreation Ground/Playing Field
Sadly we shall not soon be enjoying another wonderful Hey Day on the Playing Field but, instead, it is as good a time as any to wonder where, in the past, did the village
This Month from the Archive – Traffic a perennial problem.
CHILD OKEFORD ARCHIVE- No new thing under the sun.
Traffic !
Child Okeford Parish Council Minutes: Roads and Traffic: Part 1
Transcription of the 1845 Inclosure award.
Transcription of the 1845 Inclosure Award for the Parish of Child Okeford
The award was prepared
Child Okeford Brickworks
“Nothing, perhaps, has done so much indirectly for the improvement of farming and the
increase of food production as has efficient land drainage.”
C S Orwin History of English Farming 1949