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| April 6th | Today we have added the late John Willcocks’ “Notes on the Heraldry of St Mary’s”. He was an expert in Heraldry and the notes include fairly technical descriptions of the various shields etc. There are some illustrative pictures and we plan to fully record the interior of the church in due course. |
| April 1st | As I reported on the Welcome page, the biggest change in the Village since the Second World War was announced at the end of March. The departure of Treloars for a combined campus at Holybourne will have quite an impact on Froyle. Treloars originally bought the majority of Upper Froyle and, while there have been buildings sold off in the past (the Hen & Chicken for one!), we await the outcome of their planned move with interest and some trepidation. Hopefully we shall be able to record it for future generations. |
| February 16th | Over the past few days we have been checking (and correcting!) some of the pages. We have been concentrating on the “Then & Now” sections and have been able, thanks to English Heritage, to add information about those buildings that have a Listed status and feature on the “Images of England” website. We have also taken the opportunity to provide somewhat larger pictures for the “Then & Now” pages and have, hopefully, improved the Upper and Lower Froyle map menus. Work continues! |
| February 6th | Just added the third part of “Facets of Froyle” which includes details of the Drapers, Millers, Burninghams and a fascinating ‘particular’ of the Manors of Froyle and Husseys - a kind of valuation taken in 1658. |
| February 1st | The latest update is quite large and represents just half the information contained in Theo Beck’s “Facets of Froyle”. As the year progresses we hope to enhance the text with links to more information and pictures about people and places that are mentioned. |
| January 24th | Apologies to anyone trying to view our Panoramas page using Internet Explorer 7 with the Quicktime 7.4 update. If you experience a “An error occurred inside a plug-in contained on this page” it seems to be a bug in the latest 7.4 update - it does not occur with Firefox or Opera! We await news from Apple as it seems to be affecting an awful lot of other websites. |
| January 20th | We have added the Froyle Gardening Club Programme for 2008 and also put in a link in Froyle Business Links to “The Anchor” public house website. As the refurbishment project there comes to an end, this is the place to look for news of the pub's opening date. |
| January 4th | We have recently been looking at some house documents and have finally discovered when mains water and electricity arrived in Froyle. We always knew that it happened‘in the 1930s’, but we found out that Mr Duncan, the owner of Clodrey, signed an agreement on December 12th 1933 with the Wey Valley Water Co for a pipe to be laid to the village across his property. A similar agreement was signed for electricity cables (overhead supply) on October 30th 1929. |
| January 1st | Happy New Year to All! This month we will continue to add pages to Theo Beck's “Story of Blundens”. The ‘problem’ at the moment is how to organise it for web access - so, as soon as I can make up my mind(!) more pages will appear. |
| Work continues on “The Anchor” in Lower Froyle - more pictures when the refurbishment is completed. | |
| The Froyle Archive has been asked to produce a photographic exhibition running from March to June this year at the “Rural Life Centre ” in nearby Tilford. The subject is “Froyle, Village of Saints” and we will update its progress here. | |
| We hope to begin sending out specific invitations to former pupils for the Froyle School Reunion on June 21st. | |
| Chris & Annette Booth | |