Child Okeford Cricket Club -part 2
Tom Hicks: “Bowlers Name?” Continued from last month.
The full chapter
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Child Okeford Cricket Club -part 1
As mentioned last month the archive contribution for the next two months will
The Baker Arms Bicentenary
In Days of Yore…
In 1641 a man named Arthur Freeman owned a dwelling house on the site of the current Baker Arms.Whether it was the current house cannot be known but
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
Bell Ringers ; A commemorative tribute.
A terrible milestone was passed this week when the death toll of our fellow countrymen from Covid-19 passed one hundred thousand.
In commemoration a bell in St Nicholas church will be rung one hundred times, half muffled, on Sunday 31st January at noon.
In commemoration a bell in St Nicholas church will be rung one hundred times, half muffled, on Sunday 31st January at noon.
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
Ringers world- VJ Commemoration.
Salisbury Diocesan Guild
On Saturday, 15 August 2020 at Child Okeford, Dorset St Nicholas the following was rung.
Tenor: 10–2–27 in G
72 Stedman Singles
1 Gaynor Cox
2 J Lynne Crighton
3 Robert D Crighton (C)
Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of VJ Day