Walkern History Society
Walkern History Society
WHS Meetings 2012
Events Diary
WHS venues
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Walkern’s early history
Iron Age Walkern
Roman Walkern
Doomsday Walchra
Doomsday Boxbury
Mediaeval Walkern
The Manor of Walkern
The Manor of Boxbury
Norman Walkern
Walkern Castle
Walkern Park and Bassus Green
The Lanvalei family
Trades & occupations
Bakers
Blacksmiths
Bootmakers John Cannon & Son
Brickmaking
Brick makers at Walkern
The Brickfields
The last Walkern Brickmaker
Farming
Thatching haystacks
Straw Plaiting in Walkern
The changing High Street
Views of the High Street
Wright’s Brewery
A 1973 interview with Fred Wright
Adverts & photos
People & Buildings
Churches
St Mary’s Walkern
St Marys bell tower
The Bells at St Marys
United Reformed Church
Baptist chapel
Wesleyan chapel
Farms
Bassus Green Farm
Boxbury Farm
Bridges Farm
Bridgefoot Farm
Finches Farm
Holmes Farm
Glebe Farm
Manor Farm [Walkern Place]
Rooks Nest Farm
Walkernbury Farm
Walkern Hall Farm
Walkern Park farm
Other farms
The Dovehouse
Pubs
The King’s Cross
The Red Lion
The Robin Hood
Three Horseshoes
The White Lion
The Yew Tree
Other brewhouses
Rectors & The Rectory
The Old Rectory
List of Walkern Rectors
Dr Benjamin Heath
Walkern Hall (Clay Hall)
John Izzard Pryor
Walkern Mills
Water mill
Windmills
Cottages
The Old School House
Social History
Amenities
Street lighting
Crime & punishment
1337, the slaying of Thomas le Gardyner
Jane Wenham: The Witch of Walkern
William Cox and the burning hovel, 1801
Death, Disease & Public Health
Death, disease and public nuisances
1875 Deplorable state of Walkern housing
Fire & accident!
1888 Fatal Accident
1910 fire at Glebe Farm
Education
Walkern Schools
School photos
Walkern teachers
Weddings & funerals
Walkern at play
Christmas Celebrations
Football in Walkern 100 years ago
1902 Coronation Cycle Parade
1935 Jubilee Celebrations
1906 Brass band
Walkern at war
War Memorial
WWI Zeppelin over Walkern
Welcome Home
Children of Walkern RBL
Walkern Royal Observer Corp
Walkern’s Warriors
Walkern Women at War
The Victory Club
Walkern Memories
Marjorie Ashurst
Joan Carter and Ivy Reeds
Janet Bardswell
Billy Green
Dennis Hart
Joyce Lamb
Derrick Richardson
Leslie Swain
Norman Tucker
Walkern Documents online
Directories
1831 Gazetteer
1850s
1851 Directory
1855 Directory
1859 Directory
1860s
1862 Directory
1864 Directory
1866 Directory
1867 Directory
1869 Directory
1870s
1870 Directory
1874 Directory
1878 Directory
1880s
1882 Directory
1886 Directory
1890s
1890 Directory
1894 Directory
1898 Directory
1899 Directory
1900s
1902 Directory
1908 Directory
1910s
1912 Directory
1914 Directory
1920s
1926 Directory
1930s
1933 Directory
1937 Directory
Baptism & burial records
Census returns
Diary Extracts
1826 Diary of Revd Skinner
Account books
Minutes
Sanitary Committee minutes 1856-1859
Vestry Minutes 1861-1869
Misc documents
1783 Lease of land including Walkern Windmill
1881 auction
1888 churchyard expansion
1910 Glebe Cottage alteration
1923 correspondence to Queen Annes Bounty re Rectory barn fire
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