by Dan Bradford | Tue 27 Jun 23 | History
We are now 7 years after WWII, and rationing was still in place and would last for some items for another two years. On the death of George VI Princess Elizabeth became Queen Elizabeth II in 1952 the coronation service held in 1953. 165 coronation mugs were bought by...
by Dan Bradford | Tue 27 Jun 23 | History
The housing shortage at this time drove people of the parish to set up home in the abandoned Grateley Camp. Many families utilised the available accommodation by living in the huts and were eventually charged rent by the District Council, which regularised the...
by Dan Bradford | Tue 27 Jun 23 | History
In 1940 the phoney war was over and the Battle of Britain started and victory over the German onslaught, but England was still subjected to the Blitz. Churchill became Prime Minister of England and Mr WT Crook remained Chairman of the Grateley Parish Meeting. Food,...
by Dan Bradford | Tue 27 Jun 23 | History
It was in this first year after the war that there were the first signs of organised development in the Parish. The Parish Meeting resolved to ask the Rural District Council for 8 cottages under the Housing Scheme. Further research is required to establish how the...
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...
