by Dan Bradford | Tue 27 Jun 23 | History
Grateley: the early Parish Council and the First World War The inauguration of the Parish Meeting in 1894 gave the parishioners more chance to be involved in the workings of the Parish. By the turn of the century the Meeting was settling to a pattern that was not to...
by Dan Bradford | Tue 27 Jun 23 | History
This era was the beginning of periods of reasonable stability and advances in technology. This gradually came to Grateley in the form of the railway with the attendant increase in trade and the appearance of traction engines in the fields. A complaint, recorded in the...
by Dan Bradford | Tue 27 Jun 23 | History
Towards the end of this period (1796-1815) there was a population explosion of some 15%, or more in every decade, and grain imports stopped by the Napoleonic wars meant that an increase in corn growing had become an urgent national priority and, incidentally, a means...
by Dan Bradford | Tue 27 Jun 23 | History
The Tudor Period 1485 – 1603 Hampshire, and obviously Grateley, was not the scene of any momentous events during the period immediately before this when, the Houses of York and Lancaster were embroiled in a bloody war in the midlands and north. The death of...
by Dan Bradford | Tue 27 Jun 23 | History
This period saw the great influence of the Normans on building, language, law and social structure. Anglo Saxon was still spoken in the country but there was an increasing influence of French language in business and law with Latin predominating in the Church. This...
