
Tragedy hits local farming community
Long Marston had an eventful WWII. We know a lot about the bomb dropping on the School and the US aircraft crashing in the Braid but they were not the only tragedies to hit the village.
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Long Marston had an eventful WWII. We know a lot about the bomb dropping on the School and the US aircraft crashing in the Braid but they were not the only tragedies to hit the village.

Many villagers, including me, will remember going into The Boot, which closed around 15 years ago.

My name is Alan Reason. I was born in Wilstone in 1947 and lived there for sixteen years until 1963. Most of the buildings I knew as a child still exist even if now put to different uses. However, one Wilstone village building that has disappeared – and one I remember very well – was the village school.
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