Theme: Flashbacks

There is a tendency to believe that the only drama in our villages during World War II was the tragic bombing of Long Marston School.

1943 – They were coming back from the Cattle Market in Aylesbury in foggy conditions. Three senior members of long term farming families in Long Marston and Puttenham.

This poem was written by John Mullis after a fire blitz in London. John was a wartime evacuee to Long Marston who later came to live in the area and published a book of 50 of his poems in 1970.

In 1953 Chapel Farmhouse and the orchard in front of it had were sold by the Gregory family to Dorothea Measom. On her death in 1956, the property was inherited by Herbert Samuel Stevens living in Chelsea, known as Jan Stevens, and reported to have been a close friend of Dorothea.

It will be clear from a number of our articles and interviews that Gordon Savage, Headmaster of Long Marston School from 1934 to 1944, was a leading character in the village of Long Marston.

Source; 13 year old Leslie Jones’s contribution to The Long Marston School Magazine SCOOP, 1940 edition.

1970s and 1980s

This is a verbatim extract from ‘SCOOP’ the Long Marston School magazine, which provides an interesting postscript to that momentous day in January 1941, when

Pat Carty, author of the book ‘Secret Squadrons of the Eighth’ is a remarkable man who gave years of his life to researching the mysteries

We have already featured the role of Father Anthony – the much admired (and feared) late vicar of our parishes – when he agreed to

In 1951, Wilstone Parish Council received complaints that cricket balls from the recreation ground were causing damage by landing on bungalow roofs during Sunday Morning