Reflections from the Geddington, Newton & Little Oakley Local History Society event on Monday 27th November, 2023. As I settled into the cozy confines of the Chapel on Queen Street …

We take a look back on a series of posts, written in 2020, that attempts to draw the women, their hardworking lives, their independence and their bravery into the limelight …

We know her name, we may know a little of her history; her presence in the form of the Eleanor Cross is a constant reminder of her life and her …

The village nurse, like the village policeman, was part of the village furniture. In the nurse’s case, intimately involved with most of the families of the village and a source …

One of the quirky things about villages is the way names crop up in the most odd, but interesting ways. The village has a number of spaces carrying family names. …

The last carrier in the county Some surnames have come down in history because of the role or profession of the person. Smith is the most common, for Goldsmith, Blacksmith …

Well it is another good, fine day for the washing and airing of the laundry! Let me introduce myself; my name is Elizabeth, known to everyone here as Betsy. I …

My story is a little different to those that have gone before. My life was not one that made the news or had a great impact on events of the …

Welcome to my story. It begins, like so may others, in Geddington where my parents were born and where they were the landlords of The Star public house at the …

My name is Janet (Jenetta) Emma Matilda Freestone and I have lived in No 3 West Street with my family all my life. I was born in Geddington and was …