A
reprint of a handwritten book that belonged to the Ayris family who lived in
Garford. Cures for all, from coughs to the strangles, and recipes for hams,
home-made wines and blacking.
A Tale of Two Benches ....... £3.00
The artist Robert Gibbings describes
a visit to Marcham in the 1950s to buy wood for a bench from Pointer's woodyard.
A reprint of a chapter from "Till I End My Song" and a short history of the
Pointer family.
CORAL RAG
The Journal of the Marcham Society
"Coral Rag" is taken from the local
coral rag-stone, the Corallian limestone on which Marcham stands and which
provided the building material for most of the old stone buildings in the
village.
Vol 1 ....... Out of print
CONTENTS
Foreword .... Eric Dunford
Wild Celery.... Janey Cumber
Lost and Found in Marcham.... Eric
Dunford
Marcham's Misfortune: David Jones, Vicar 1699-1724.... Manfred Brod
Marcham in the News.... Claire
Bolton
Marcham's Waterbirds.... Eric
Dunford
Recording Marcham's Buildings....
Jessica Brod
A Marcham Ghost Story .... Janey
Cumber
Vol 2 ....... Out of print
CONTENTS
Archaeology in Marcham and Frilford: Excavations on Trendles Field, Manor
Farm, Marcham, 2001
Janey Cumber
A Duffield Memorial Tablet in All Saints' Church, Marcham
Elizabeth Whitehouse
The Church that Marcham Might Have Had
Jessica Brod
Plants of the Parish
Sheila Dunford
Butterflies and Moths in Marcham
Jim Asher
Hedgerows
Anne Smithson and Bridget Rudge
Lost and Found in Marcham
Leila Tyrrill
Vol 3 ....... £3.50
CONTENTS
Archaeology in Marcham and Frilford: A Second Year of Excavations on
Trendles Field, Manor Farm.
William Cumber
Snails
Arthur Spriggs
Lost and Found in Marcham: Clay Pipes or "Fancies"
Eric Dunford
Conkering Heroes: How the Schoolchildren of Marcham Aided the War Effort
in 1917
Elizabeth Whitehouse
Plants of the Parish: The Snowdrop Galanthus elwesii
Sheila Dunford
Women in Marcham in the Seventeenth Century. A Survey of Wills and
Probate Inventoruies 1658-1709
Claire Bolton
Vol 4 ....... £3.50
CONTENTS
The Marcham Church Institute a Century Ago
Marion Pointer
Marcham in 1901
Jessica Brod
The Marcham / Frilford Excavations:2003
William and Janey Cumber
Slugs
Arthur Spriggs
Lost and Found in Marcham: A Charles I Half Crown
Mark Wiseman
Commercial Bakeries in Marcham in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Elizabeth Whitehouse
Vol 5 ....... £3.50
CONTENTS
Marcham at War: Military activities in the locality during the Second World
War
Nigel Dawe
German and Italian Prisoners of War in Marcham
Bill Pointer
World War II bombs in the Marcham Area
Marion Pointer
Lest We Forget: The war memorials in Marcham and Garford
Elizabeth Whitehouse
Skeletons at the Amphitheatre: An update on the Marcham/Frilford
Excavation
Hannah Fluck
Reading History from Plants: Marcham churchyard
Frances Watkins
A Lasting Memorial: The gravestones in Marcham Churchyard and burial
ground
Judith Fontaine
Vol 6 ....... £4.00
CONTENTS
Grapes at Frilford Heath: Bothy Vineyard
Richard & Sian Liwicki
Trendles Field: An Update. Excavations on Trendles Field, Marcham
2004-5
William Cumber
Lost and Found in Marcham: Part 5: Four pottery fragments
Claire Bolton
Marcham School in the 1930s and 1940s
Manfred Brod
Life on the Wall
Sheila Dunford
The Gore-Brownes of Oakley Park
Elizabeth Whitehouse
Vol 7 ....... £4.00
CONTENTS
The National Federation of Women's Institutes Comes to Marcham Park
Anne Stamper
Lost, Transformed and Found in Marcham: Part 6: Ammonites
Nick Lawrie
Field Walking in Big Leas Field, Manor Farm, Marcham
Roger Gelder
News from the Celery Patch
Anne Cole
Marcham Floods: July 1968 and Earlier
Marion Pointer
Dr Barnardo's Home Oakley Park
Judith Fontaine
Special offer: Any 4
publications for £10
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