Village People
12 July 2023
What I love about living in a village is its history: the landscape, the buildings and the people who made them.
Wartime and Showtime in Long Marston Episode 2
20 July 2022
This story is a semi-fictional version of events, based on the actual minutes of the meetings which took place in Long Marston 1936-1940, and further information obtained from interviews with long term residents. The information from residents is based on their memories of past discussions with those who were there at the time so may not be totally accurate
Wartime and Showtime in Long Marston Episode 1
20 July 2022
This story is a semi-fictional version of events, based on the actual minutes of the meetings which took place in Long Marston 1936-1940, and further information obtained from interviews with long term residents. The information from residents is based on their memories of past discussions with those who were there at the time so may not be totally accurate
Long Marston past and present
10 July 2022
If the residents of Long Marston had been asked to isolate and not travel from their village less than 100 years ago, I don’t think many lives would have been affected.
Glimpses of an English village seventy years ago
20 November 2021
Time brings changes, some for the better, others less obviously so, and some even for the worse.
A Potted History of Long Marston and Puttenham
17 November 2021
When looking for sources to put together the timeline for our new website, we took more from this book than any other. The Long Marston and Puttenham Horticultural Society deserve great credit for putting it together.
The days of Currying Flavour in Long Marston
14 September 2021
This article covers an episode in the history of Long Marston that doesn’t go back as far as some other recent interviews; it covers the time in the 1990s when the Queens Head became well known as ‘The Curry Pub’, attracting people from far and wide to the village. The landlord from this time – Simon Sturt – shares fond memories of his time as landlord.
Long Term in Long Marston
25 August 2021
This article follows an interview with long term Long Marston resident, Eddie Clarke and his wife Rose, describing how Eddie’s family’s connections with the village extend back to the 19th century and how farming was such an important part of his life in the post war period.
Life in Long Marston – Early 1920’s
6 August 2021
As remembered by Mary Ridpath- nee Gregory
Long Marston History – even further back in time
21 July 2021
This is a unique transcript of an interview with Don Winfield, one of the few people old enough to remember our villages before the Second World War. Don has spent his whole life in Long Marston and his directly quoted words tell their own story of the village over time.
Long Marston from 1950 to 2021; change for the better?
23 June 2021
The lively social community of Long Marston in the immediate post war period is described through the eyes of Daphne, David and Alan, three members of one of the village’s oldest families, the Winfields.
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