“Half an hour digging the ground with a fork is the perfect therapy” I was born on the 12th March 1937 in Masham, North Yorkshire. My grandfather had bought the old Theakston’s Brewery, and converted it into a country holiday home with 12 bedrooms, and that is where I was born. So, I was actually… Continue reading George Bruce
“The Library is at the centre of the community” I was born in Warrington in 1966, back in the days when it was Lancashire – it is now in Cheshire. I lived in a little village just outside Warrington called Grappenhall, with my parents and my sister, who was 10 ½ months younger than me… Continue reading Anna Tilley
“You can be part of the community – or you can be anonymous if you want” I was born in Austria in the late 1950s and grew up in a small industrial mountain village in northern Styria. Trieben was a small community with only 3000 inhabitants, and everyone knew everyone else’s business. The educational system… Continue reading Selma Becker-Parker
“We’ve got to know a lot of people through dog walking” I was born August 1st 1961, in Indiana, USA. My mother had eight kids in 9 years, and I was the sixth. By the time I came along the family routine was well established. My father was very orderly in how he ran the… Continue reading Philippe Rowland
“Watlington for me is like being hugged by the Chiltern Hills and the community” I was born in the mid 60s in South Africa. We had a great family life, with my mum, my dad and my younger brother. All my schooling was in Johannesburg, and from the age of 14 I was working as… Continue reading Steve Travis
“One of the most fulfilling things I do is go for a walk, and going for a walk with friends is even better.” I was born in Bishop Auckland, County Durham in 1972 and when I was one we moved to Stokesley. The easiest way to describe my childhood is that I grew up in… Continue reading Anna Badcock
“There were pram races down the High Street” I was born in 1970 in Townlands Hospital, Henley and lived at the top of Howe Hill with my mum, my dad and my older brother Gary. My brother lives in Lewknor now. We always felt part of the Watlington community, and I remember going to “WAG”… Continue reading Jules Bishop
I’ve had a really busy life. I’ve been a soldier, a policeman, a fireman. Uniform jobs all me life “I was born in 1933, the year that Hitler came to power. My Tadgu (grandfather) blamed me for the second world war. My first breath was in the front room of a coal miner’s cottage, where… Continue reading Glyndwr Jones
“A revelation as to the richness and variety of Watlington’s inhabitants” – Jeremy Irons & Sinéad Cusack Check out the book of the series! 56 portraits and interviews of the people who live in Watlington. The stories are fascinating in themselves and, as a collection, they represent a social document and historical record of a… Continue reading Watlington Folk – The Book!
Watlington Folk 