I was born in Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Aylesbury in 2007. I was four weeks early and had a build up of bilirubin (jaundice), which damaged a small part of my brain. This has affected my speech, hearing, muscle control and eyesight. This makes me a bit wobbly. In 2018, I had deep brain stimulation… Continue reading Elliott Baker
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Fiona Danks
“It’s the best of both worlds” I was born in 1960 in Kent, where my father was stationed for his National Service, and soon after we moved to Warwickshire where he took a job as a GP. We lived in a village surrounded by countryside, and I grew up with my two younger sisters. We… Continue reading Fiona Danks
Adrian Stanmore
“I’ve been keeping bees since I was at school” I was born in 1963 in the old Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford, and was brought back to this house where I still live now. This was the first house the council built in the lane, so it was called number one. My Gramp was the first… Continue reading Adrian Stanmore
Lionel Wilson
“The people are so friendly and helpful to an old man” I was born in 1928 in Barking, the second son of my parents. We moved to Upminster when I was about five and I lived there for twenty five years, until I was married. It was one and half miles away from Hornchurch RAF… Continue reading Lionel Wilson
Steve Nicholson
“It’s always good to see all the friendly and familiar faces.” I was born in 1952, in a deprived part of Leicester, to a single mother. She was in and out of prison so my grandmother looked after me quite a lot. My mother eventually married and had five other children; my stepfather didn’t want… Continue reading Steve Nicholson
Hugh Thomson
“There is lots happening if I put my head out of the door” I was born in London in 1960, and moved to Oxfordshire with my parents and one brother and two sisters, to Little Stoke, which is near Wallingford, on the river. After school I went and studied English Literature at Cambridge and… Continue reading Hugh Thomson
Ann Jollye
“There’s nowhere I’d rather live than here” I was born in Beaconsfield in 1936 and my early years were with my family in Penn, Buckinghamshire. I went to boarding school from the age of eleven and a half until seventeen and a half. When I left, I thought it would be nice to live at… Continue reading Ann Jollye
Angela Clark
“I’ve only ever worked on Watlington High Street in my whole life” I was born in Hythe, in Kent in the late 50s, and we moved to Ashford when I was four. I went to Primary School there. When I was ten my dad got a job in Reading, so that’s how come I am… Continue reading Angela Clark
Jaine McCormack
“Watlington is a very special, small community” I was born in Newcastle in 1957. I was brought up in rural Northumberland and lived there until I was 18. My family are mostly still up there. I’m a Geordie, and you can’t take the Northern out of somebody. There’s a lack of “side” – people… Continue reading Jaine McCormack
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… Continue reading Sam Wingrove
