Features and articles for those with an interest in Olney's recent past. Website specifically designed for use with smartphones.
ODHS TASTER POSTS
TASTER POSTS
The purpose of these posts is to introduce ‘tasters’ of historical interest to users as the means of quickly identifying key features of Olney’s history and particularly those that lie within the living memory of many older residents.
A primary aim is to demonstrate recent developments in the Olney History Highlights website which are designed specifically to accommodate the use of smartphones.
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A series of taster posts follows which are linked directly to articles in the Olney History Highlights website. This series will hopefully be developed in due course to comprise around 15 posts and will be published progressively.
Temporary Note 1:
This ‘taster’ approach was used very successfully during the early days of the Covid pandemic in 2020 when the ODHS website had been developed to a relatively advanced stage and needed to be accessed by local residents. In this case a series of posts which were devised as ‘tasters’ and published online periodically using ‘Facebook’software under the heading ‘Olney History Hub’. These posts quickly became popular, so much in fact that the usage of the ODHS website increased exponentially within a few months.
Temporary Note 2: It is possible that at sometime it might be prove advantageous to test adding a link a group of tasters/posts in some way to the existing Facebook Olney History Hub, but I guess that could be a while yet!
The Wide High Street (Upper Central – looking north) c.1900
Relevant features and articles for those with an interest in Olney’s recent past are to be found in the ‘Olney History Highlights’ website, ie: this website, which has been designed to accommodate the display contraints of smartphones.
The High Street (Southern End) c.1900
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Mid High Street (looking south) c.1910
Specific information on Olney’s High Street can be found via the following link:
GIRLS EMPLOYED AT THE LACE FACTORY – JULY 1931 From left to right: Doris Rice, Rene Shouler, Nora Green, Min Coles, Cis Sparrow, Joan Brown, Win Alsop, Con Smith, Con Lett, Nell Slater, Edith Tarry, Lois Sargent, Dollie Milward, Stella Green, Lil Tarpley, Grace Coles, Edna Ingram (Photograph kindly supplied by the family of the late Cis Elderton)
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Mrs Mary Wooding c.1930 – a typical Olney lace maker
A SERIES OF ADDITIONAL IMAGES FOLLOW FOR CONVERSION TO TASTERS IF & WHEN RELEVANT
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Olney Old Tyme Dancing Club enjoying their photo shoot! (Early 1950s)
‘Draper Extraordinaire’ – J J Garner’s shop from 1886 to 1972 & boasted Olney’s longest shop front.
Olney Railway Station – an early photograph
The Stevenson Locomotive Society Special at Olney – 14th April 1962. Photograph courtesy of Alan Richardson
Train crossing the River Ouse bridge and viaduct during floods in February 1951. Photograph courtesy of Simmons Aerofilms
GIRLS EMPLOYED AT THE LACE FACTORY – JULY 1931 From left to right: Doris Rice, Rene Shouler, Nora Green, Min Coles, Cis Sparrow, Joan Brown, Win Alsop, Con Smith, Con Lett, Nell Slater, Edith Tarry, Lois Sargent, Dollie Milward, Stella Green, Lil Tarpley, Grace Coles, Edna Ingram (Photograph kindly supplied by the family of the late Cis Elderton)
The former Sun Inn – Weston Road
Site of Olney Post Office from around 1935 to 1980. The Post Office shop occupied the ground floor of the LHS of the building. Entrance to the shop was through the door on the left under the arch.
Brian Mynard in the dairy of the farm in Lavendon Road
The film being shown was the 1927 ‘King of Kings’, a silent film directed by Cecil B de Mille – an iconic film of its day Photograph kindly supplied by Alan Richardson
The well-published postcard/photograph taken outside the cinema around 1920
Front view of Olney Convent School c1905
The re-union at Olney Convent on 19th September 1998
Relatively recent photograph of Dartmouth House
1878 Programme Cover Click cover to see the programme content
The well-published postcard/photograph taken outside the cinema around 1920
