Remembrance Day Poppy Display at Syresham in November 2014. One poppy for each of the fallen.

Peter and Ann Mackness became members of Syresham History Society in 2009 and commend its programme of talks and visits to other villagers. Their decision to become full members was based on Syresham’s convenient location, the programme quality and the friendships formed.

See here for the 2016 programme.

Anyone interested in learning more can contact Judith Shaw at [email protected]

See also Syresham Village Website.

Photograph courtesy Christopher Henn

It’s 2.03 pm on a beautiful, sunny, late summer day, the 25th August 1952 and an express train races across Sulgrave embankment. The photographer, standing at the end of Little Street, peers through the viewfinder and presses the button on his camera. Click, the above photograph is taken.

Once upon a time, this would have been the limit of our knowledge about the photograph, but the age of information technology has changed all that.

The 1952 timetable shows that the train was the “South Yorkshireman” which had left Bradford, hardly in South Yorkshire, at 10 am bound for London Marylebone, via Huddersfield, Sheffield, Nottingham, Loughborough, Leicester, Rugby and Aylesbury.

A framed copy of the photograph was kindly loaned by Christopher Henn. Research into the photograph by Sulgrave villager  and author Chris Behan is set out above and continues on the next page.

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See next page for photographs of Advent Calendar Windows Nos. 1 Village Shop. 2 High Barn, Manor Road. 3 12 Spinners Cottages. 4 Nutcracker Cottage, Manor Road. 5 Bengairn, Manor Road. 12 Eagle House, Helmdon Road.  17 Harry’s Cottage, Manor Road. 23 Church Cottage, Church Street.

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More photographs on the next page.

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Gingerbread men and gingerbread house! More photographs on the next page.

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See more photographs of The Crib at the Carol Service 2014

More photographs of the event and carol singing on the next page.

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Until the early 1960s, Bell Cottage was an inn called “The Six Bells”, which explains the theme of this advent calendar window “No Room at the Inn”.

More pictures of the window, the revellers, the Six Bells in years gone by and something of its history on the next page.

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