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Saturday 22 March 2025Summary for SE England: Outbreaks of rain overnight, heavy at times.
Book Swap Café
Welcome to our monthly chance to have coffee/cake and a chat. Browse our large selection …
Welcome to our monthly chance to have coffee/cake and a chat. Browse our large selection of books and borrow any you like. No need to bring a book to swap. No charge. Donations welcome.
Ceylon Spice Wheels
NB at the Village Hall this week, not the shop. Pre-order by calling 07984 880 …
NB at the Village Hall this week, not the shop.
Pre-order by calling 07984 880 802
…and tomorrow
Holy Communion
Quaker Meeting
Please visit http://banburyeveshamquakers.org.uk/sibford for meeting and contact details.
Please visit http://banburyeveshamquakers.org.uk/sibford for meeting and contact details.
Yin Yoga
Private event
… and after that
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Book Swap Café
Welcome to our monthly chance to have coffee/cake and a chat. Browse our large selection …read more
Ceylon Spice Wheels
NB at the Village Hall this week, not the shop.
Pre-order by calling 07984 880 …read more
Yin Yoga
Film Night – Mr Jones
Mr. Jones is a 2019 Polish-Ukrainian-British thriller biographical film, based on the true story of …read more
Mothers’ Day service
With a distribution of posies, followed by tea and cake in the Village Hall.
Offers …read more
Mothers’ Day Tea & Cakes
Sibford Walkers
We leave the Village Hall car park on foot or by car at 10 am …read more
Lent Lunch
…more events
News & Notices
Litter picking in Sibford Gower and Burdrop
Sibford Gower Parish Council are very grateful to Flora Ransom for volunteering to litter pick and clean the road signs throughout Sibford Gower and Burdrop as part of her Bronze …read more
Easter Egg Trail
The Sibfords Newsletters
Our daily newsletters provide the local weather forecast and list upcoming village events, new planning applications, etc. Subscribe here!
The Town Estate Charity
The Town Estate Charity Sibford Gower and Burdrop (Registered Charity No 253440) has a remit to use surplus funds for three purposes:
- the general benefit of the parish,…read more
Walks near Sibford
We are blessed with great walking country around the Sibfords. Visit the Sibford Walkers webpage for maps of over 50 circular walks. Each map page includes a link to download …read more
Fix My Street
The most reliable way to report problems with roads and local amenities, such as
- Abandoned vehicles
- Dog Fouling
- Drainage
- Flyposting or graffiti
- Flytipping or litter
- Pavements
- Streetcleaning
- Unlit lampposts
- Potholes…read more
Nextdoor social network
Nextdoor is a social network designed specifically for local communities. Locally it runs with the Ferris and the Gower as separate neighbourhoods, but it does share information between them. It …read more
…earlier news
Voices from the past
46 years ago
the Sibford Scene in September 1979
Sibford Folk Dance Club: Ladies and Gentlemen of the Sibfords, the Sibford Folk Dance Club meets in the Village Hall every Tuesday evening from …
Sibford Folk Dance Club
Ladies and Gentlemen of the Sibfords, the Sibford Folk Dance Club meets in the Village Hall every Tuesday evening from 8.00 p.m to 10.00 p.m. and we would like more of you to come along and enjoy yourselves with us. Anyone over the age of 13 years will be made very welcome.
Don’t stay away because you know nothing about it, or you are-too young or too old. If you can put one foot in front of the other, we can teach you folk dancing. Come along and try it, I promise that you will be agreeably surprised.
In September we are hoping to form a Junior section of our club. We would like lots of children and young people from 9 to 15 years inclusive to come along. We shall hold 4 meetings on September 4th, 11th, 18th and 25th from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. Please be punctual as you must leave at 8 p.m. The charge will be 10p per child per session. By September 25th we must have at least 12 wishing to continue to make the venture worthwhile. If we achieve this number we shall continue to hold the meetings every Tuesday evening.
David Cuthbert
130 years ago
Reverend Stevens's diary for Thursday 21 March 1895
Dull in morning, Sunshine at about noon. I called at Miller & Abbotts’ office yesterday and asked for the memorandum …
Dull in morning, Sunshine at about noon. I called at Miller & Abbotts’ office yesterday and asked for the memorandum of agreement with Richard Gaydon when I let him my fields and buildings four years ago. Miller & Abbotts sent it to me this morning.
I visited the school. I visited Cassell and his wife and found them both quite convalescent. I also visited Miss Sabin and found her better than when I last saw her. Saw also Charles Barnes and his wife.
I am sorry to learn that Mrs George H Hall of the Rectory Farm, Swalcliffe, is suffering from melancholia of a pronounced type, and that she was taken away to a private asylum yesterday. I saw the doctor (Routh) at Maycock’s the hair-dressers yesterday. He then said he feared the worst for her.
I wrote to Rev A W Russell, Rector of Hook Norton, saying I was sorry I could not see him when he called a day or two ago, and that I was in bed having been suffering for a long time with a bad cold which I only kept in subjection by taking as much rest and warmth as I could. I did not tell him he called at an awkward hour, 11 am.
This is the final diary entry in the volume, but the last couple of pages are filled with notes and addresses as below.
Surgical instrument maker Heather Biggs, 56 Wimpole St, Cavendish Square, London.
Conrad Meyer; Auckland House, High Road, Chiswick.
For relaxed throat, make a gargle of borax and alum in equal proportions
W E Brown, Reading Villa, Denmark Road, Watford
Thatching. Stubble £2.2.0 per load, done by a square of 10 ft. A load does 6 squares, i.e. 7/- a square. 4/- a square for coating tar-cord etc extra. Kitchen, coal house and stable 20 squares. Hovel 4 squares. John Lively 13/10/87.
Salad oil is best for carriage wheels, or lard oil.
Albany Temperance Hotel, Old Christchurch Road, Bournemouth. I was there December 9 1885.
Mrs Prosser, 28 The College, Bromley
Mrs Smith: St Wade: Bromley Park, Kent
W S Staff, 6 Hedgerley Park Terrace, Turnham Green W.
Kate Woods (Cooper) Barrington Villa, Spring Road, Ipswich.
“Ships that pass in the night” by Beatrice Harraden, 11th edition 1893. 3/6. London, Laurence & Bullen, 16 Henrietta St, Covent Garden, WC 223pp.
Rev E Bankes, Coleshill, Vicarage, Highworth, Wilts.
William Green, Esq, Sarisbury, Southampton
Miss Sotteck, Association of German Governesses, 16 Wyndham Place, London W.
Mr W N Andrew, Headmaster of Bodicote Church School, Banbury.
Hon Sec to Oxford Eye Hospital: B H Baden Powell, Esq, 29 Banbury Rodd, Oxford
Patent Horse Clippers. S Goff & Co. 17-18 King St, Covent Garden. Special Clipper 3/9, Excelsior Clipper 4/6
Miss Sotteck, 15 Tragheimer Pulverstrasse, Koenigsberg i Pr.
Mr Sibsee: at Dr Routh’s
Fastolf and Hornet raspberries. The latter are the best. Of Smiths of Worcester
Francis Hennig, “Nursted”, 10 Tweedy Road, Bromley, Kent
Rev T Daniel Hopkyns, 20 Colchester Road, South Hampstead, NW
Harry, 18 St. Mary’s Rd, Notting Hill; West
Miss Lomas, 18 Holmdale Rd. West Hampstead, NW
Union Moss Litter Co 25/- per ton on rail, 20 Broad Chare, Newcastle on Tyne
Rev Thomas Daniel Hopkyns, 20 Winchester Rd, South Hampstead NW
Mrs Kerr (Mrs Lindsay Page’s daughter), 22 Stanford Road, Kensington W.
Land agent to let farms Mr E Jackson, 11 Queen Victoria St, EC. Advertisement in “Times”, March 19 1895
Rev William Fisher, MA, 38 Charlotte Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham: Midland District Secretary of British and Foreign Bible Society

21 Mar 1895

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1/118 Outside Richard Walker's forge. Sally Walker sold sweets and tuck here; Sally's daughter Ursula married Johnny Scrubie. Occupied by Dame Ann Stephens in the late 1900s.

1/118 Outside Richard Walker's forge. Sally Walker sold sweets and tuck here; Sally's daughter Ursula married Johnny Scrubie. Occupied by Dame Ann Stephens in the late 1900s.