Category: Local People
December 30, 2018|Local People | Personal memories
Mrs Selby and Mrs Gamblin
Mrs Selby is 91 years old this year, she came to Wickham in 1913. Mrs Gamblin was born in Wickham in 1905 – went to Wickham School when she was four years old, as she already had a brother at the school. Wickham School was known as the Little School and the Big School. The…
Find Out More »December 30, 2018|Local People
James Dunn, Frith Farm
Retirement of Mr James Dunn This week saw the retirement of Mr. James Dunn after fifty years of devoted and loyal service at Frith Farm. He joined the late Mr. A.E. Roberts at the farm in early 1907. First he did general farm work, but was soon attracted to looking after farm vehicles and equipment….
Find Out More »December 21, 2018|Local People | Personal memories
Mrs Pratt of Rookesbury Lodge
Mrs Pratt has lived at the Lodge for 53 years and remembers when Beverley and the Rectory were the only houses nearby. The biggest change in the village is the increase in traffic and the improvement in social affairs. When she was young, the only gaieties were the Foresters Fete at Little Park (or Park…
Find Out More »December 21, 2018|Local People | Personal memories
Mrs Sherwood of 2 School Road, Wickham
Mrs Sherwood has lived in the same house for 53 years and remembers when there were only two other houses besides the School in the road. To her the most striking change in the village was the starting of the busses and other transport. But she added that the people nowadays were less friendly and…
Find Out More »November 4, 2018|First World War | Local People | Naval connections | Wartime Wickham
The Battle of Jutland – The Wickham Connection
The Battle of Jutland, fought between 31 May and 1 June 1916, was the largest naval engagement of the Great War, involving 151 vessels of the Royal Navy Grand Fleet and 99 vessels of the German Navy’s High Seas Fleet. The battle started when Admiral Beatty succeeded in luring the German Grand Fleet into the range of the Royal Navy’s…
Find Out More »June 7, 2017|Local People | Personal memories
Memories of the Second World War & After: My conversation with Janet Bowater & Carol Hazzard
Carol and Janet have lived in Wickham all their lives and been best friends since school. People today still think they are sisters. Carol is now aged 79 and Janet 80. I visited Janet as she had some deeds which she wanted help deciphering and she kindly agreed to talk about Wickham. When I came…
Find Out More »June 12, 2016|First World War | Local People | Military connections | Wartime Wickham
Gallipoli – The Wickham Connection
The eight-month campaign which took place between 25 April 1915 – 9 January 1916 on the Gallipoli peninsula in the Ottoman Empire. It was one of the Allies’ great disasters of the Great War. As the war began, fighting was primarily on two fronts – the Western and Eastern Fronts. In November 1914, Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty,…
Find Out More »March 20, 2016|Local People | Personal memories
Alfred Stubbington – Market Gardener
Born in 1888, Alfred had a piece published in The Grower’s Gazette in 1949 in which he described the history of Hundred Acres hamlet. Alfred Stubbington was a market gardener of Wickham Parish, an industry important to the area in days gone by. In 1949, he had published the following article in The Growers Gazette: On or about the…
Find Out More »February 9, 2016|Local People | Notable people
Dame Dorothy Mary Donaldson – First Female Lord Mayor of London
Dame Dorothy Mary Donaldson, nurse, arbitrator, administrator, philanthropist and highly respected politician, philanthropist, was born August 29 1921 and died October 4 2003 aged 82. Born Dorothy Mary Warwick – although she preferred to be called Mary – in Wickham, in what is now Warwick Lane shopping arcade, she was the daughter of an ironmonger and his school-teacher wife. She attended…
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