We’re sheltered from the big wide world “My dad was in the Army and he met my mother when he was stationed up north. I was born in Lancashire in 1946. My dad was from Watlington originally. He applied for a job as clerical staff at RAF Benson, and we moved to Chalgrove in 1953,… Continue reading Mike Young
Tag: Local History
Ken Cook
The cows used to come up the High Street “I was born in Kingham, Oxfordshire, in 1924. My parents were Watlington people, and when I was four or five years old, we moved back here. It was a nice little town. It was very self contained – you could buy anything here. You could even… Continue reading Ken Cook
