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Summary for SE England: Clear or sunny spells. Any isolated showers soon clearing.
9am - 10am Flow Yoga
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A friendly group, playing bridge to the best of their ability, and with new bridge …read more
Tim Healey gave us a faxcinating talk on drovers' roads last year and has returned …read more
2024 is an auspicious year for the people of Sibford, as it marks the return …read more
The Great Escaper with Michael Caine and Glenda Jackson.
On June 5th 2014, 89-year old …read more
We're just these guys, you know? Having a late breakfast.
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The developers are appealing the CDC refusal of their application for Planning Permission in Principle for the construction of up to five dwellings on the former Paddocks at the end …read more
Planning permission is being sought to build 3 - 7 dwellings on the Pheasant Pluckers Inn (Blaze Inn Saddles) site in Burdrop.
The application documents are available on the Cherwell …read more
If you haven’t already been jabbed, please support Sibford Surgery by booking your flu vaccination with them. They will be running a flu clinic at Sibford Village Hall on Tuesday …read more
Petra Berry writes: A big thank you to everyone who supported the Macmillan Coffee Morning. We had such a fun day and were so lucky with the weather.
We …read more
It was 30 years ago in October 1994 that a group of Tibetans escaping from Chinese repression reached the highest point of their route to freedom - at a pass …read more
Please note that the CPR Training session scheduled for 22nd October has been cancelled. The next session will be at 6.30pm on Tuesday 12 November.
During their tour of the UK the Tibetan monks from the Tashu Lhunpo monastery will be staying in Sibford over the weekend of 19 – 20 October. In addition to …read more
During their UK tour From the Roof of the World, Tibetan monks from the Tashu Lhunpo monastery will be staying in Sibford over the weekend of 19 – 20 …read more
Just as they did 10 years ago the Tibetan Tashi Lhunpo Monks, who live in exile in their monastery in India, will stop off in Sibford on their UK tour, …read more
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The Pageant – A View from the Audience
Like the millennium itself it was strange when it finally came; years of preparation and suddenly it was here. There we were sitting on the hillside, clad in woollies, Waterproofs and wellies it is true, but we were here and it was not raining.
I had watched the building of the set over the past week or two. It looked exciting and l was keen to see it brought to life. And brought to life it was, with an excellent script, enthusiastic actors, attractive costumes and the use of the lovely setting where the hills chop down to the stream.
The history of Sibford from saxon times to World War II unfolded before our eyes. Much of it was fun, but some very sobering, somehow more powerful enacted as it was in the spot near to where it happened. It brought home how many times this little valley has been wracked by war. The reading of the names of the servicemen killed in the two world wars was beautifully done and all the more powerful as so many of the names are still alive in Sibford today and reminded us of the cost to so many local families.
But it was not all doom and gloom. It ended on a wonderful note of hope with an effigy of the world being left in the hands of 2 small children.
It was dusk as we packed up and went home. l couldn’t help wondering what the badgers on the slope above, about to leave their setts for their nights foraging, and who have shared this spot with us for so many generations thought of it all.
Rain all day. Mr Cluff called this afternoon to make arrangements for the marriage of his daughter, a schoolmistress, with Mr Thomas, a farmer of Brailes.
Mr Frank Lascelles' 13th century house destroyed by fire at Sibford, 1929. The thatched roof of the house now known as "Carter's Yard" caught fire from a spark from a steam wagon, bringing bricks for the building of the Hill at Friend's School. At that time the house was named "Atte ye Crosse"; later "Crossways".
Mr Frank Lascelles' 13th century house destroyed by fire at Sibford, 1929. The thatched roof of the house now known as "Carter's Yard" caught fire from a spark from a steam wagon, bringing bricks for the building of the Hill at Friend's School. At that time the house was named "Atte ye Crosse"; later "Crossways".