Contents
- The Beginnings of Harwell. The Charters.
- The Late Middle Ages. Harwell Church; the medieval manors; cruck buildings.
- From the Tudors to Charles II.Robert Loder’s farm accounts; Berkshire farmers and their homes; the Harwell mug; the family name Harwell; trade tokens; the Civil War.
- Harwell Charities. Bagg’s Tree; an old Harwell recipe.
- Harwell in the Nineteenth Century. Enclosure and Award map; the Great Fire of 1852; fire at Didcot Station; Harwell and the early posts.
- Some Nineteenth Century Families, Houses and Personalities. The Lays of Bishop’s Manor; the three Bob Lays; the Bosley family; John Lay of Prince’s Manor; Thomas James Pryor; the Day family; the Hitchman family; other old Harwell families; Pillar House; Dr Rice; Kelly’s Directory report on Harwell, 1891; the school logbook, 1895.
- The Early Twentieth Century. The turn of the century; a visit to Harwell; tape recordings; fire at King’s Farm; will it light? Miss Irene Clarke’s memories; poem by H. S. Baker.
- The Second World War. Royal Air Force Station; “Guinea-pig Club”; an air ace from Harwell; Harwell in wartime, I and 11; school life in wartime; the Harwell Players.
- 1945-85. The Atomic Energy Research Establishment; Harwell Parish Council; school life after the War; Winterbrook Youth Club; public houses; Whit Monday Feast; wild flowers; village footpaths; Harwell Church today; the Women’s Institute; Bowls Club; Football Club.
- Harwell Cherries. Robert Loder’s farm accounts; cherries 1965; Gordon Bosley; The Cherries, by John Masefield.
Appendices
I. Harwell Charters and map showing boundaries.
II. List of buildings of architectural and historical interest.
III. Glossary.
IV. Contributors and acknowledgements.
V. References.
VI. Index. [not included online – please use the search facility]
Jenny Bosley says
February 7, 2016 at 12:17I would be grateful if someone could guide me as to why it is so difficult to be able to access the people pages on this web site. I am trying to get on to the Bosley family page but I am not having a lot of success, it just not seem to work well.
David Marsh (webmaster) says
February 7, 2016 at 13:03Jenny. Maybe the problem is that there is no “people page” as such. The main content of this website is a copy of the book “Village for a thousand years”. As you will see in the contents above, chapter 6 is called Some Nineteenth Century Families, Houses and Personalities, and here you can find the page about the Bosley family. In the drop down menu, the chapter is headed “people”, and if you hover over that part there’s another drop-down showing links to all the people pages. The direct link is: http://www.village4a1000years.com/people/the-bosley-family/
Several things may not work well – and for that I apologise. It’s a very complex menu, and you have to be fairly accurate in the way you move your mouse from the first menu drop down to the second one – move the wrong way and the menu disappears. In some ways the menu works better on a phone or tablet, when you tap to expand the menu sections. Well, that’s what happens with my android phone, and it could of course not be working on other phone types.
Let me know more about how it’s not working well for you, and I’ll see if there’s anything I can do to make it more helpful.