Barry Adby

Watlington has a lovely, friendly feel to it “I was born in Watlington Hospital in 1948 and brought up by my grandparents. They adopted me, and the adoption procedure was done in The Court House, in Watlington, where there used to also be the Police Station. We lived in the same house as I still…

Sam Wingrove

“Community is definitely the word for Watlington” My parents were from the Surrey area and met in the RAF. I was born in Watford in 1969 but I didn’t grow up there. We moved around a lot as my dad was posted in different places. We went to Germany, to South Wales, to Naphill, which…

Matt Reid

Doing the school run in the morning is a chance to catch up with everybody “I was born in Old Coulsdon in Surrey in 1973. It was a great time to be born. We were always out in the streets, playing football in the park or out riding our bikes. When I was five, my…

Jamie Carter

There are no Autism services here, so I am starting my own My dad, Mark, has always lived in Watlington, and his dad, Charlie, before him. My dad met my mum on the Isle of Wight when he was on a cricket tour. I was born on the island and we moved here when I…

Richard Harris

My association with the Primary School has meant a lot to me “My birth was registered in Hatfield – my mother was taken off a train there as I had started to appear. It was 1943, and I spent my first two years in Felixstowe where my father was stationed. After that I was brought…

Kitty Tait

The shops in Watlington have been really supportive “I was born in Shepherds Bush in London in 2004 and when I was three, my brother was five and my sister was seven, our family decided to get out of the city and move to the country. My grandparents live in Wallingford, not far away, and…

Jenny Wilkinson

“I want to get a big flame gun!” I was born in Toronto, Canada. I was a war baby. My mother was from a well-to-do Irish-Canadian family, and my father was a doctor with the RAF. He went back to England, and I was born. My mother and I came over when I was 13…