The two Miner brothers will be helping at the workday on the cress beds at Ewelme tomorrow, Saturday. If you want to know more come along though I should warn you that if you get Wallace talking he is difficult to stop. Tom Sent from my BlackBerry smartphone from Virgin Media -----Original Message----- From: Craig Pickup <c.pickup@gmail.com> Sender: oxfordshire-bounces@rootsweb.com Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2012 02:20:41 To: <oxfordshire@rootsweb.com> Reply-To: oxfordshire@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [OXF] The Lamb Inn at Ewelme Again from the Ewelme News, this time from 2008: The Lamb was a handsome Georgian building on the Benson road in a similar style to The Greyhound. Unfortunately, it had to be demolished in 1942 so the airfield runways could be extended. Tom Dymond, of 1 Euston Square, London purchased The Lamb from James Handscomb on 28 June 1927 for… “the sum of £400 the whole business of blacksmiths and all interests of the Public House including the blacksmiths shop with forge in, tools and stock in trade together with henhouse, pigsty and portable carpenters shop and all vegetables growing in garden and all fruit trees planted by me [Handscomb]. The whole business bringing in a profit of about £4 per week. [Handscomb] also agreed to take a deposit of £50 on interviewing brewers £250 when licence is transferred and £100 to be paid within two years”. Tom and Louisa Dymond, the new landlords, had a 19 year old daughter Marjorie who was particularly dismayed at being moved from London ‘to the back of beyond’ as she enjoyed living and working in a busy sophisticated City environment. However, she soon fell in love and in 1932 married Leslie Miners, the blacksmith who worked in the forge alongside The Lamb. Marjorie died in the Cloisters in December 2005 aged 97 and two of her sons still live locally - Vernon in Ewelme and Wallace in Cholsey. Mrs Dix also donated the charming photo is of young Wallace Miners aged about 3, and his dog Biddy taken alongside The Lamb – probably in 1935. http://www.ewelme.info/EwelmeNews/EwelmeNews-Aug2008.pdf This clearly give Benson Road as the location. On 4/5/2012 3:14 PM, Michael Walker wrote: > We were asked to date a photograph of The Lamb Inn at Ewelme. The inn > was demolished to make way for a runway at RAF Benson the building of > which started in 1937. Dating to 1928/9 was fairly easy from the hats > the ladies were wearing and the cars standing outside the inn. But we > cannot determine where exactly the inn stood and that is bugging us. > > The 1901 census tells us that it was in Ewelme Street - possibly what > is now called High Street and was named The Street not many years ago. > In the 1911 census a pub called The Lamb and Flag appears in Brook > Street, Benson but not in Ewelme. > > Using Google maps one can see that the northern ends of the runways at > RAF Benson are close to Benson Road which connects with Ewelme and its > extension into Benson is called Brook Street. > > Any news of this inn would be much appreciated. > > Regards, > Mike and Annette. > > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 9.0.927 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/4916 - Release Date: 04/05/12 08:10:00 > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Interactive Oxfordshire parish map: http://searches.oxfordshirefhs.org.uk/pardata.html > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to OXFORDSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Interactive Oxfordshire parish map: http://searches.oxfordshirefhs.org.uk/pardata.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to OXFORDSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message