Winslow in the 19th-20th Centuries

This page will contain links to information about, and photographs of, events in Winslow in the 19th-20th Centuries. More contributions welcome!

• Winslow Volunteer Cavalry (1790s-1800s)
• Army discharge papers
• Articled clerkship of Francis John Budd (1802)
• Sale of land: John & Henrietta Tookey to Richard Staniford, 1806
• Army discharge of Joseph Cooke, 1806
• Theft of horses, 1807
• The Winslow Club and the Aylesbury Club, 1810
• Militia Ballot List 1812
• Sale of Buckingham & Winslow Butter Waggons, 1812
• Sale of the property of Benjamin Ingram, 1813
• Bankruptcy of John Turpin, 1813
• Celebrating the peace in 1814
• Manor court 1815: encroachments
• Coach accident, 1817
• Opium prescription and growing at Winslow, c.1820-3
• Inheritance of John Curtis in Little Horwood, 1822
• Burglary, 1832
• Assault by paupers on George Grace the assistant overseer, 1835
• Register of electors, 1835-7
• London and Birmingham Canal, 1836
• Zilpah Walker (court case, 1838)
• Queen Victoria's coronation, 1838
• Vestry, 1838
• Vestry, 1839
• Vestry, 1840
• May Day, 1841
• Vestry, 1841
• A charge of stabbing, 1842
• Gas comes to Winslow, 1842-43
• Vestry, 1843
• Vestry, 1844
• A tale of a willing old nag with a sting in its tail (1844)
• Winslow Provident Society (1844-c.1904)
• Winslow Book Society, 1845
• Railway proposals, 1845
• Death of James Walker, 1846
• Sale of the property of Bridget Yeates, 1846
• Vestry, 1846
• Vestry, 1847
• Visit by Benjamin Disraeli, 1847
• Vestry, 1848
• Sale of property, 1848
• Vestry, 1849
• Alleged theft of coal, 1849
• County Court, 1849
• Vestry, 1850
• The Lock-up and policing in Winslow in the 1850s
• Sale of land to Samuel Burnham Dudley, 1850
• Highway surveyors' accounts, 1850
• Mrs Clarke's burglary, 1851
• John Mason Scott and the magistrates' court, 1851
• Vestry, 1853
• Benefit / Friendly Societies
• Upholsterer's sale, 1854
• Vestry, 1855
• Joseph Whichello of Winslow and the Indian Mutiny (1857-58)
• Vestry, 1858
• Vestry, 1859
• Attempted murder, 1860
• Volunteer Corps, founded 1860
• Forgery and embezzlement in Winslow Provident Benefit Society, 1862
• Sale of William Mortimer's stock, 1862
• The Winslow beef case, 1862
• Vestry and subsequent correspondence, 1862
• Vestry, 1863
• Royal wedding celebrations, 1863
• Vestry, 1864
• Bankruptcy of Dr John Denne, 1864
• Sale of part of Selby-Lowndes estate, 1865
• Whaddon Chase Steeplechases, 1865
• Vestry, 1865
• Vestry, 1866
• Penny readings, 1866-67
• Petty sessions, 1867
• Vestry minutes, 1867
• Amateur Brass Band Fete, 1867
• High Street cricket match, 1867
• Bankruptcy of James King, 1867
• 11 v 22 cricket match, 1868
• Vestry, 1869
• Early days of Winslow Fire Brigade (from 1869)
• Dudley v Monk, 1870
• Vestry and correspondence, 1870
• Married v single cricket match, 1870
• Sale of the Chandos Arms and other property, 1870
• Dudley v Stonhill, 1871
• Dispute over infants' school, 1871
• Vestry, 1871
• Election to the Board of Guardians & Vestry, 1872
• Vestry, 1873
• Attempted wife murder, 1873
• United Schools Committee, 1874
• The Winslow (Bucks) Lace Industry (1875-1925)
• Winslow Flower Show (1875-1948)
• Early Closing (letter in 1876)
• Buckinghamshire By-election, 1876
• Vestry, 1876
• Vestry, 1877
• Sale of land, 1877
• Postmaster controversy, 1877
• Oxfordshire Telegraph, 1878
• "The farmer and the labourer", 1879
• Winslow's first recorded football matches, 1879-80
• Dispute about 30 Horn Street, 1879-81
• Buckinghamshire Election, 1880
• Agricultural show, 1880
• Vestry, 1881
• Churchwardens' Vestry, 1882
• Controversy over burials, 1883
• Vestry, 1884
• Balloon landing, 1884
• Attempted fraud at the penny bank, 1884
• A threatening letter, 1884
• Proposed School Board, 1885
• Vestry, 1885
• Grace Brothers department store in Sydney, Australia (from 1885)
• North Buckinghamshire Election, 1885
• North Buckinghamshire Election, 1886
• Sale of land east of the High Street, 1886
• Election to the Board of Guardians, 1886
• Parish Reading Room, founded 1886
• Controversy involving the vicar, 1886
• Vestry, 1887
• New gasometer, 1887
• Queen Victoria's Jubilee, 1887
• Election for Assistant Overseer, 1887
• Proposed public room, 1887
• Exhibition of Local Antiquities and Curiosities, 1888
• Shire Horse Show (1888-1949)
• Bucks County Council elections, 1888-89
• North Buckinghamshire By-Election, 1889
• Vestry, 1889
• Vestry, 1890
• Vestry, 1891
• University Extension Lectures
• Winslow Town F.C.
• 1891 Buckingham By-election
• List of shops with Christmas decorations, 1891
• Lawn Tennis (from 1892)
• Bucks County Council election, 1892
• General election, 1892
• Vestry, 1892
• Freemasons: members of Wineslai Lodge, 1892-1921
• Vestry, 1893
• Guardians' election, 1893, and politics in 1894
• Vestry, 1894
• Bankruptcy of Harry Ingram, 1894
• Vestry, 1895
• Bucks County Council election, 1895
• General election, 1895
• Claydon and Winslow Cycling Club (1896)
• Cricket Club meeting, 1897
• Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, 1897
• The Bathing Place (opened 1898)
• Mrs Lambourne's funeral, 1899
• Boer War, 1900
• General election, 1900
• Blackberry trade (1900)
• Bucks County Council election, 1901
• Vestry, 1901
• Winslow Town Brass Band, founded 1901
• Winslow old customs (1902)
• Coronation of Edward VII, 1902
• Bucks County Council election, 1904
• Russo-Japanese War: Winslow supports Japan (1904)
• Edward VII travels through Winslow, 1905
• Exhibition of Antiquities, 1905
• General election, 1906
• Erection of telegraph poles, 1906
• Hockey match, 1906
• G.D.E. Wigley (d.1906)
• Bucks County Council election, 1907
• Murder and suicide in Hobhouchin Lane, 1908
• G.A. Midgley, ironmonger: workshop ledger, 1910
• School production of Dick Whittington, 1910
• George V's coronation, 1911
• Parishioners' meeting 1924
• Winslow and the General Strike (1926) by Ed Grimsdale
• Whitsun fete, 1932
• The great Winslow fire of 1933 by Ed Grimsdale
• George V's Silver Jubilee and Pageant, 1935
• George VI's coronation, 1937
• 1941-42 Farm Survey
• Farming in World War 2
• The air crash of 1943
• Horse Show and Gymkhana (1944)
• Public meeting about development, 1945
• Elizabeth II's coronation, 1953
• History of the British Legion Hall by Alan Wigley (PDF, 113KB)

Winslow Market Square during the General Strike

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Northampton Mercury, 15 Oct 1803
READ’S BANKRUPTCY
The Commissioners in a Commission of Bankrupt awarded and issued forth against THOMAS READ, late of WINSLOW, in the County of Bucks, Dealer and Chapman, intend to meet on Thursday 20th October inst. At Eleven of the Clock in the Forenoon, at the WHITE-HART in the town of NORTHAMPTON, in order to make a final Dividend of the Estate and Effects of the said Bankrupt; when and where the Creditors who have not already proved their Debts, are to come prepared to prove the same, or they will be excluded the Benefit of the said Dividend; and all Claims not then proved will be disallowed.
ROBERT ABBEY solicitor
Northampton Oct 7th 1803.

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Northampton Mercury, 16 June 1804

WANTED, at WINSLOW in the County of Bucks, An APPRENTICE to a CORDWAINER – For particulars apply to Mr. WILLIAM SEATON, Cordwainer, At Winslow aforesaid.

** A JOURNEYMAN, who is a good Man’s Hand, may have constant Employ and good Wages at the said Mr. Seaton’s.

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Northampton Mercury, 29 Feb 1812
AUCTIONEER and APPRAISER
BENJAMIN DUDLEY, Draper, Market-Square, WINSLOW, Bucks, most respectfully begs Leave to inform his Friends and the Public in general, that in consequence of the Event of Mr JOSEPH DUDLEY’s death, he proposes taking out a License, empowering him to act as an AUCTIONEER and APPRAISER, and begs Leave to assure those that may please to employ him, that his utmost Abilities shall on every Occasion be Exerted for their Interest.