Combined Village News

News: Aston Ingham, Bromsash, Gorsley, Lea, Linton & Upton Bishop.

Trees again

These last few weeks oak trees are being felled within view of my house. They are being felled to thin out the trees to allow those left to have more space in which to grow and prosper. This is all good forestry managemVEent: without this thinning some trees would die through a lack of light as the canopy grows over them. I am not against this felling (it needs to be done) but I do not like the sounds of an angry gnawing chainsaw and the cracking, crunching thumping as another tree falls in agony. I am sure that the persons responsible for planting these oaks had visions of their valuable timber being useful for building, furniture, flooring etc. They probably realised the need for wooden ships was over. What will their wood be used for? Heating! Biomass heating chicken houses. Our beautiful hearts of oak!
Peter Lockwood.

Ashbourne Family Saga
Having arrived at the destination in Galicia, the Schloss Vinderhoffen, where Edward stays overnight and next day, on the advice of his hostess, travels south across the mountains. The small party making their way to Pressburg guarding the important documents for delivery in Vienna. En route, they are subjected to the savagery of the wild, but it is the human beasts who give the most deadly trouble." This exciting story is only available in the Chimes Online at www.thechimes.org.uk, then select Info, Extras & Blogs, then click on Historical Blog. This may be history, but for the living.
Dorian Osborne

Linton and District History Society 2025/26 Talks
Society Chair: Roger Davies (rogerdavies1@sky.com)

4th June - Rod Barker The City of London
2nd July - Dr Stephen Blake The Cotswold Way: 100 Miles of History
6th August - Jonquil Dodd Grant Me the Carving of my Name: the Reputation of Richard III
3rd September - Tony Conder A History of Gloucestershire Inland Waterways
1st October - Founders’ Lecture in memory of Lee Hines: Simon Draper Place Names
5th November - Fiona Morison The Roses of No Man’s Land
3rd December - John Putley A Gloucestershire Christmas

2026
January - NO LECTURE
4th February- Gillian White Mary, Queen of Scots
4th March - Roger Davies Chairman’s Lecture Korea and the Glorious Glosters
1st April - AGM Teresa Squires A National Trust Pot-Pourri

For further information please contact the Society’s Secretary. Mrs Teresa Squires at sec.lintonhistsoc@gmail.com

SOME OF THE VILLAGES’ COMMEMORATIONS
FOR VE DAY 80