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| − | click [[Social Snapshot articles by Joan West]] about mid winter weather, dentists, VE Day Legacies. | + | click [[Social Snapshot articles by Joan West]] about mid winter weather, dentists, VE Day Legacies |
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| − | '''Use''' [[Social Snapshots]] here for Annual Records
| + | click [[Social Snapshots 2001-2022 inc]] for these years. |
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| − | '''2022.''' Tuesday 6th September. '''Liz Truss appointed Prime Minister''' by Queen Elizabeth. Voted in by the Conservative Party, following the resignation of Boris Johnston.
| + | click [[Social Snapshots 1969-2000 inc]] for these years |
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| − | '''2022.''' Thursday 8th September. '''Queen Elizabeth II died''' at 4.30 pm on Thursday 8th September 2022 at Balmoral, Scotland, aged 96. She came to the throne in 1952, aged 25, reigning for 70 years. Prince Charles is now King Charles III. | + | '''Use''' [[Social Snapshots]] here for other Records |
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| − | '''2022.''' 25th October. '''Liz Truss resigned as Prime Minister''' on her 50th day in office.
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| − | '''2021.''' '''Ted Janes died in December 2021.''' He had been Chairman of the [[Parish Council]] and the [[Village Hall]] Committee for many years. He was a J.P. He ran a youth club. He was the inspiration of [[Hallmark]] and [[Village Day]]. [[The Happy Wanderers]] Walking Club, [[The Horticultural Society]] and many other Village Hall regular events were established on his watch. Go to [[Ted & Jean Janes]] for their full history. | + | '''1968.''' report by [[Miles Marshall]]. In April 1968 Bomber and Fighter Commands were merged as Strike Command — to incorporate, a year later, both Signals and Coastal Commands. |
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| − | '''2018.''' July 2018 by [[The Local History Group]]. For our '''exhibition in November''' we plan to celebrate not only the end of WW1 but also the centenary of the Royal Air Force, formed from the Royal Flying Corps in 1918. Several men who trained in those early days had homes here during WW2, by then high ranking officers. | + | '''1958.''' '''The 81st Club was founded in 1958''' by [[Mrs Isdell-Carpenter]], [[Mrs Frances Rutland]] and Mrs Ferris. It would normally have been called a 'Derby & Joan', but it was decided to call it the 81st Club because it was the 81st in the county. click [[The 81st Club]] for history and photos. |
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| − | Please get in touch if you can tell us more or knew any of the families personally, if you know of others or have photos we could copy. Anyone in the History Group would be pleased to hear from you or ring [[Rosemary Mortham]] on 01844 345863
| + | '''1906.''' click [[Inquest Bristow's Quarry Death]] for findings on the '''death of Ralph Plumridge,''' aged 19, a stone cutter working for Bristow Bros. |
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| − | A full history of each will be given at the exhibition, giving photographs, details of their lifetime careers, their honours and awards, families and their association here with other details such as the planes they flew.
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| − | Also included will be the history of [[Bomber Command]] together with the controversy it provoked.
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| − | And the Suffragettes. see [[1913 Saunderton Railway Station Gutted by Fire]]
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| − | The celebration parade of the schoolchildren will be reported. see [[1918 School Armistice Celebrations]]
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| − | The influenza pandemic of 1919 will be mentioned. see [[1919 Influenza Pandemic]]
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| − | '''2018.''' '''Brian Panter died in 2018.''' The following is an extract from Brian's obituary. (Click [[Brian & Nell Panter]] for Brians full life story with photos.) | |
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| − | ---In 2017 at the age of 93, he was asked to speak The Immortal Words at 11am on Remembrance Sunday in the library at Princes Risborough, where he spent many hours. I was visiting and helped him put on his medals and walk round the corner. There was a small group of friends there, some librarians and a few members of the public, and he spoke the words with resonance and great depth. 'They Shall not grow old as we who are left grow old' had a special significance to him. So many of his peers and the women he loved were dead, he was finding old age intolerable and knew he was approaching the end his life. I felt very proud of him. It was the last remembrance Sunday he spoke at. By the following year his stroke had taken away his power of speech and we'd lost access to his memories and the connection to the act of remembrance.
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| − | '''2014. Connie Baker, born in 1908, died 23rd January 2014'''. click [[Fred & Connie Baker]] for her full life story and photos.
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| − | '''2014. Notice in Hallmark''' for the [[The Local History Group]]. Village History Group Event to be held at St John's Church from Sat 8th to Tues 11th November 2014
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| − | '''To Commemorate the Outbreak of World War One and to remember those who died''' and show its effect on our local villages.
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| − | Sat 8th.2.00 - 5.00pm History Exhibition open. Sat 8th. Nov. 7.30 for 8pm. Concert by [[Lacey Green Singers]]
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| − | Sun 9th Nov 10.00 am. Special Remembrance Service and 2 minutes silence. Placing of crosses in memory of each local serviceman killed.
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| − | Sun 9th Nov 2.00 - 5.00 pm History Exhibition Open (Teas served). Lecture by Rev. Arthur Taylor on Oxford & Bucks Light Infantry at 3.00 pm Cost £5. Also adult church choir singing period songs and hymns. Poetry readings including works by Rupert Brooke.
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| − | Mon 10th Nov. 7.00 pm Junior Choir Concert for Peace followed by refreshments, and History Exhibition. cost £5
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| − | Tues 11 Nov 11.00 am Special School Service in church to remember the 11th day of the 11th month, when the Armistice was signed. Also small exhibition suitable for children.
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| − | click '''[[2011 Home of Rest for Horses Updated]]''' for this article which describes the complete updating of the Home of Rest for Horses at [[Speen Farm]]. Several articles were already printed in Hallmark about the Home of Rest for Horses created in 1971. Click the following for more :-
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| − | [[Home of Rest for Horses]] by Walter Stein.
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| − | [[1982 Horses killed in I.R.A. Bombing]]. Copy of letter in The Horses Trust magazine
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| − | [[1984 Sefton comes to Lacey Green (biography)]]
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| − | [[1986 Celebrating the Centenary of the First Home of Rest for Horses]]. by Miles Marshall
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| − | '''2011. The Local History Group staged an exhibiton at Lacey Green School on Local History.''' click [[2011 Local History Exhibition]] for report and photos
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| − | '''2008. The Local History Group was formed in 2008'''. click [[The Local History Group]] for more about this organisation
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