My name is Alan Reason. I was born in Wilstone in 1947 and lived there for sixteen years until 1963. Most of the buildings I knew as a child still exist even if now put to different uses. However, one Wilstone village building that has disappeared – and one I remember very well – was the village school.
The question I most often get asked living in Long Marston’s Rose and Crown, is when did it stop being a pub?
Mary Grieve (1906-1998) or Miss Grieve as she was known in the village, won’t be a familiar name to newer residents, but she was one of the most celebrated people ever to live in Long Marston.
Just when you think that one book about the second world war could never be matched, another one comes along.
This book was launched on the 27th November 2022 at Marsworth Village Hall. It tells the story of the Polish Hostel which was a significant
In some ways, there could not be a greater contrast than between this tidily produced book and the previous history of Puttenham reviewed elsewhere on this website.
This is a volunteer project with anyone in the area that would like to get involved. It originally started out as adding a page to the tringrural-pc.co.uk website, but it seems our little slice of Hertfordshire has much more history than a single page can accommodate and so the project has over a very short space of time grown into it’s own website.
From 1939 to the 50s and from 2005 onwards when the Village News went full digital. Available to download in PDF format.
The latest issues can always be downloaded from www.wilstone.me.uk
This website has been developed on the initiative of Tring Rural Parish Council, to enable all residents of our villages to have the opportunity to find out more about our history. It has been created by a number of interested villagers working on a voluntary basis, putting together information from a variety of sources.
We see this as an evolving process, starting in the first instance with a timeline of the most important events in our village histories since the beginning of the First World War in 1914. We hope to extend this foundation in two ways; firstly by creating links to pictures, articles and other websites and secondly by going back to previous periods of history, ultimately as far back as Roman times.
The other way in which we hope the website content will evolve is via the feedback of as many villagers as possible, either to add to the timeline or to challenge us to prove that we have got it right. We would also like any pictures or articles which can be added to those we have already found.
