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26 Moreton Village Only


                        the very first car in Moreton goes to Mr. Shaw who was a former owner of Moreton
                        Thatch, and who no doubt, must have caused some excitement when he first drove it through
                        the village.

                           A copy of the Thame Gazette of the 11th July 1933 features Moreton Cricket Club
                        which, over the years, played in venues such as Backsides (the field behind Brook Cottage),
                        the field behind the Royal Oak and from 1951 in the field beside Moreton Cottage on
                        the lane to Tetsworth. It seems that when the matches were played on the field behind
                        the Royal Oak and Braddy was umpiring, it was quite remarkable how he was able to
                        achieve the drawing of stumps to coincide with opening time.














































                           The Bradbury girls, Peg and Jick, remember especially their association with the
                        Chapel in Moreton and Jick can still recite a poem known appropriately as “Forget
                        me not”, which she learned at the age of seven for the annual Sunday school anniversary.
                                                              This was quite an occasion in the village,
                                                              for which the girls would wear their pretty
                                                              straw bonnets. Sunday school was held on
                                                              Sunday mornings and was always well
                                                              attended. It would be quite normal to have
                                                              two-dozen pupils at that time. The harvest
                                                              festival was also an important occasion at
                                                              the Chapel with the produce later being
                                                              donated to the Thame cottage hospital.
                                                              The Mott sisters from Elmfield House –
                                                              May, Rose and Lillian – were much
                                                              involved with the work of the Chapel
                                                              together with Miss Thorpe from Willow
                                                              Cottage. Also, for a while, the Chapel had
                                                              its own lay preacher in Mr. Higgins who
                                                              lived at No. 5 The Furlongs and previously
                        Children pose after Sunday school, Mr Higgins  at Folly Cottage during the time that it
                        in the background.                    was also a shop.
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