ODHS TASTER POSTS - OLNEY HISTORY HIGHLIGHTS

TASTER POSTS

A primary aim of these taster posts is to demonstrate recent developments in the Olney History Highlights website which are designed specifically to accommodate the portrait orientation of smartphones rather than the landscape orientation of laptops and tablets.

High Street (Central looking north) c.1900

A further aim is to introduce items of historical interest to users as the means of quickly identifying specific features of Olney’s history, and especially those that lie within the living memory older residents.

It is planned to develop the series to comprise around 15 posts which will be published progressively.

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TASTER A1 – The Wide High Street

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.

Specific information on the history of Olney’s High Street can be found via the following link:

The Wide High Street

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TASTER A2 – Olney at Leisure after WW2 (1945 – 60)

During this period Olney looked forward to making the most of the national celebrations, annual fetes and pastimes including the following:

Olney Old Tyme Dancing Club enjoying their photo shoot! (Early 1950s)

The 1951 ‘Grand Fete’ was opened by Viscount Curzon

The start of the Olney Pancake Race in 1956

Click the link below for many images and text summarising:

Olney at Leisure after WW2 (1945 – 60)

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TASTER A3 – Olney’s LMS railway

Passenger train with Engine 84005 bound for Bedford – 8 February 1962

Olney Railway Station – an early photograph

The latticed footbridge – view looking to south-east (Bedford)

slsspecial(ar)w — The Stevenson Locomotive Society Special at Olney – 14th April 1962. Photograph courtesy of Alan Richardson

Train crossing the River Ouse bridge during the floods in February1951

Click the link for:

Olney’s LMS railway

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TASTER A4 Olney Market Place

The Market Place c.1810 showing the Lock Up to the left and the Sheil Hall to the right of the image

Crowds attending Olney’s celebration of King George V Coronation on 22 June 1911.

After re-surfacing with tarmac the Market Place, the market began to re-establish itself in the 1960s

Click the link for:

Olney Market Place

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TASTER A5 Olney Lace Factory (1928-43)

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is Lace-Factory-c1930s-2.jpg — The completed Lace Factory (1928)

Harry Armstrongs Lace Factory Celia b — 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)

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is Mary-Wooding-Died-28_4_1932-a-705x1024.jpg — Mrs Mary Wooding c.1930 – a typical Olney lace maker

Click the link for:

Olney Lace Factory (1928-43)

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TASTER B1 Charlie (Brian) Mynard’s Wartime WW2 Schooldays in Olney

During a video interview Charlie (Brian) Mynard, or simply Brian as we knew him, related some remarkable observations as a schoolboy in wartime Olney.

Brian worked on a farm in Lavendon Road for his father and grandfather for much of his working life.

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A few ‘government issued’ notices are included to illustrate how living conditions were influenced during those years.

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A couple of pictures of typical military vehicles are included that were either travelling through Olney or parked up overnight with their crews.

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NB In this instance the linked article has not been optimised for use with smartphones.

Charlie (Brian) Mynard’s Wartime WW2 Schooldays in Olney

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A SERIES OF ADDITIONAL IMAGES FOLLOW FOR
CONVERSION TO TASTERS IF & WHEN RELEVANT