25 May 2009
Samuel Barfield wrote the book “Thatcham, Berks, and its Manors” but died in 1899, before it could be published. James Parker took on the material and had it published in 1901. To this day the book remains one of the most complete histories of Thatcham. It is spread over two volumes, one containing the appendices …
24 May 2009
For those who could not find employment here in Thatcham in the late nineteenth-century, but who were young enough to risk trying to make a fresh start, there was always emigration. Thousands of people left England in the nineteenth-century to seek a new life in a new country, including many from Thatcham. A “goodbye supper” …
23 May 2009
John Barfield, solicitor of the Priory in Church Lane, conveys land next to the Independent Chapel in Church Lane to be used for the British School (Non conformist). It opens in 1847 largely as result of the efforts of Mrs Barfield.
22 May 2009
John Barfield, solicitor of the Priory in Church Lane, conveys land next to the Independent Chapel in Church Lane to be used for the British School (Non conformist). It opens in 1847 largely as result of the efforts of Mrs Barfield.
21 May 2009
Edward Winbolt, master of Thatcham workhouse, dies in 1835. The workhouse closes in 1837, becoming a private house that is later split into four cottages. It had probably existed from c.1782 or earlier.