Alex (2026 Edition)At this year’s Leighton Buzzard athletic sport meeting H. Windmill was 1st in throwing the cricket ball, winning a bat and pair of gloves for his pitch of 93 yards 2.5 ft, and J Randall won a biscuit jar for his 2nd place in the steeplechase over hurdles and through brook. #1876OPS #OnePlaceStudies
R Vallentine is advertising his supply of the best manure, and reminds you of the manure to roots to meat to manure circle, meaning you essentially earn your money back! [not sure he’s thought through the repeat business implications of that] #1876OPS #OnePlaceStudies
The Heley Brothers are agents for the Biphosphated Guano Company. #1876OPS #OnePlaceStudies
This year’s parish officers for Wing are Charles Paine and Richard Hedges (overseers), Henry Chas. Adams and W. Underwood (surveyors), and W. Page (constable). #1876OPS #OnePlaceStudies
Editorial in this week's edition calling for an end to corporal punishment - a schoolmaster raised in neighbouring Linslade got five years prison for assaulting one of his pupils down in Devon (broke his skull, and the boy lost his sight). #1876OPS #OnePlaceStudies
It’s been snowing in Wing! A snowball fight evolved into a melee (in both day- and night-clothes) and ended up in court – two charged with breaking a window, one charged with assault and breaking a lamp, plus multiple counter-charges of assault. #1876OPS #OnePlaceStudies
Correspondence to the editor continues on the matter of the Provident Dispensary – this week Rev. P.T. Ouvry of Wing has responded to another letter from the former medical officers that criticised the dispensary’s subscriptions and methods. #1876OPS #OnePlaceStudies
The auction of poles (1,000 larch, spruce fir, ash, alm, some upwards of 15 feet) is only three days away, and it is timber taken from Lord Overstone’s Fox Covert Plantation. Mr A.L. Webster has catalogues available. #1876OPS #OnePlaceStudies
The Leighton Provident Dispensary (covering 13 parishes) was the brainchild of Wing’s Rev. P.T. Ouvry, who acts as secretary, and the Baroness de Rothschild #1876OPS #OnePlaceStudies
Looking back at #1875OPS for the Society for One-Place Studies #OnePlaceStudies #LocalHistory
https://www.one-place-studies.org/a-oneplaceadverts-view-of-1875-in-wing-buckinghamshire/
https://www.one-place-studies.org/a-oneplaceadverts-view-of-1875-in-wing-buckinghamshire/
A #OnePlaceAdverts View of 1875 in Wing Buckinghamshire - Society for One-Place Studies
For more than a decade I’ve been running a weekly project within my one-place study, reading the local newspaper corresponding to the date exactly 150 years earlier and posting on social media about any mentions of my place. At year-end these are collated and published on my website. 1875 was a fairly typical year for...