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How it started

PictureThe Old Post Office 1912
The Society was started in 1994 from a suggestion by Gillian Selley. She had asked, through the Woodbury News magazine, if anyone in the parish was interested in a local history society. We began with about six members, including Eric Ware, Nigel Tucker, Esme Thomson, Margaret Parkinson and Pippa Thompson. Each month we gathered in more members. Our early meetings were held in the small room in the Village Hall on Tuesday evenings, but after one claustrophobic meeting we decided we would have to book the main room in the future. Nigel Tucker was our first chairman, followed by Reg Brown, Arthur Harris (who died in office), John Kirkcaldy, Michael Wilson and then Roger Stokes. The secretary for all the time, apart from a two year respite when Margaret Wilson took over was Gillian Selley. Margaret Wilson was the first treasurer, followed by David Elphick and David Bowers.

Since these early days the Society membership has increased to an average of around 70 members, and we have bi-monthly meetings with quality speakers, and arrange an annual outing to a place of interest each summer. Throughout the period, the Society has held several exhibitions in the Village Hall on matters of local history. The Society has also built up a large reference library where members, and members of the public, can research matters of interest. 

This website is being set up so that some of the information we have in our reference library can be shared by a greater audience. We also welcome information from Woodbury ex-pats living in all parts of the world, and to date this has proved most interesting.


This site is still under construction, so some pages may not yet be complete. There is a lot more to be added!



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Meetings:       2019 programme

                     
Publications:  Newsletter 2018
                     The Marianne Pidsley Story
                     Woodbury wild flower survey
                     Woodbury Tree survey 1
                     Woodbury Tree survey 2
                     Woodbury Tree survey 3

                     History Newsletter 2017
                     The Nigel Tucker Collection
                     Society newsletter 2016
                     Photo Booklet 3
                     Photo Booklet 4
                     Photo Booklet 5
                     Photo Booklet 6
                     Video presentations by Roger Stokes 2008 - 2017
                     Memories of village life by George Wilson

Archives:   The Great Flood of 1960
                 
Letter from Mr Turner to Winnie Wilson 1935
                  Various transcribed letters on WS history
                  Isaac Wilson's diary 1847
                  Wilson family documents 1717 - 1962

                  Farming Diarys 1918 - 1933
                  St Swithun's and Christ Church burial lists
                  Blacksmiths Diary  1918  (1919 and 1921 missing)
                  
Blacksmiths Diary  1920
                  Blacksmiths Diary  1922
                  Blacksmiths Diary  1923
                  Blacksmiths Diary  1924
                  Blacksmiths Diary  1925
                  Blacksmiths Diary  1926
                  Blacksmiths Diary  1927
                  Blacksmiths Diary  1928
                  Blacksmiths Diary  1929
                  Blacksmiths Diary  1930
                  Blacksmiths Diary  1931
                  Blacksmiths Diary  1932
                  Blacksmiths Diary  1933
                  Harry Stokes Ledger No. 7 1906 - 1913
                  Woodbury Church Regulating Rate 1631
                  Woodbury Church Warden Book 1787

                  Harry Stokes Ledger No. 6 1905 - 1912
                  Harry Stokes Ledger No. 5 1912 - 1923

                 Map and details of the Bell works carried out by Harry Stokes and partners 1858 - 1928
                 Woodbury Salterton School Admissions 1930 - 2010
                 Woodbury Salterton School Log Book 1866 - 1990

                 Woodbury Salterton School Log Book 1919 - 1962
                 Woodbury Salterton School Log Book 1866 - 1919
                 Harry Stokes Ledger No.4 1899-1924

                 Harry Stokes Ledger No.3 1911-1916
                The Valuation of Woodbury Parish 1859

                Two missing Overseers files
                Harry Stokes Ledger No.2 1924 - 1933
                Harry Stokes - Bellhanger, Carpenter, Undertaker, Blacksmith, Ledger No.1 1899 - 1905
                John Stamp audio interview 2003 parts 1 & 2
                Bob Miller and wife wartime story (audio)
                Diane Moger wartime memories of Woodbury (audio)
                Esme Thomson wartime memories (audio)
                Eric Ware wartime memories (audio)
From the archives:  Public Hall inauguration and subsequent sale documents


               
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  • Home
  • Meetings
  • PUBLICATIONS
    • The Nigel Tucker Collection
    • Presentations by Roger Stokes
    • Memories of George Wilson
  • Historic images
    • Old Postcards
    • Hand tinted postcards
    • Old Military images
    • 1935 Jubilee
  • FROM THE ARCHIVES
    • Oral History
    • Video
    • Old Books and Ledgers
    • Woodbury Bellhangers map
    • Wilson family documents
    • burials
    • The Great Flood of 1960
  • Tithe Map of 1839
  • Contacts