The Blandford Colonisation Society
There has never been a good time to be born poor but the early to mid nineteenth century was one of the worst.
There has never been a good time to be born poor but the early to mid nineteenth century was one of the worst.
Carrying on from last month’s extract from “One Hundred Years in Child Okeford”:
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One of the first items The Archive was given to copy and preserve digitally was a booklet entitled “One Hundred
There are few points in history where we can get anything like an accurate assessment of the size
In January and February we copied a “List
Our first post from the archive is a list of businesses in Child Okeford in the late 1920’s. The original is in our archive but we have no idea when this was produced or by whom but a comparison
“Welcome to the village, have you moved far to come here? Shillingstone? Not far then. Before you move in though could I see your Settlement certificate? You haven’t got one? Oh dear
The first recorded name of the village is in the Domesday book [1086] when it was known simply as Ackford. [The “Exeter” version of Domesday calls us Ackforda”.
The origin
Where does “Hey Day” originate? Is it one word or two? Sadly we have no idea. No one is able to tell us nor can we find any clue from village records. The