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… Continue reading Richard Harris
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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… Continue reading Jenny Wilkinson
Gillian Cottle
People look out for each other in Watlington “The M40 cutting is important to me. The first time I drove through it, my son Charles was 5 weeks old and weighed just 5 lb. It was like coming into a different world, with Oxfordshire laid out in front of you. We were moving to Chalgrove… Continue reading Gillian Cottle
Chrissie Bell
I love the Chiltern Hills and the woods “I was born on a farm in South Africa, and when I was 13, I went to boarding school in Bethlehem, 50 miles away from home. After school, I worked in a bank, got married, had two children, got divorced and life changed! I had a friend,… Continue reading Chrissie Bell
Jake Aspinall
It’s a very close knit community “My parents came to RAF Benson in 2001 and I was born in 2002 at the John Radcliffe Hospital. We lived on the base and I went to Ewelme Primary School. Then when I was nine, we moved to Watlington, and I started at the primary school here at… Continue reading Jake Aspinall
Rosie Wotherspoon
Watlington is a very close community “My parents moved to Watlington in 1996, and I was born in the John Radcliffe Hospital in 2000. I went to Rainbow Nursery from the age of 7 months until I was three years old. I remember Petra and Kelly who used to look after me. One memory is… Continue reading Rosie Wotherspoon
Mike Wiltshire
A marvellous place “I was born in 1940 and grew up in Lane End on the Stokenchurch to Marlow road. Cricket has always been my main game. As a kid, my idol was Dennis Compton. He not only played for Middlesex and England cricket teams, but he played for Arsenal Football Club as well! That… Continue reading Mike Wiltshire
