Category: Occasional Papers

a brief history of the Fairford Branch Railway to mark 50 years since its closure on June 18th 1962

by Colin Moulden
FHS Occasional Paper – 10
Price £1

Based on articles from St Mary’s Parish News, 1998 written by Graham Young

Compiled by Alison Hobson
FHS Occasional Paper – 8

Compiled by Alison Hobson
FHS Occasional Paper -7
Out of print

This booklet was compiled with historical Information about former and present pubs and inns in Fairford to provide additional information for the picture presentation on pubs and hotels of Fairford by Edwin Cuss on February 16th 2012. It also lists all the beer retailers. Price £1 (p&p 50p) available from enquiry@fairfordhistory.org.uk or 01285 711768

by Chris Hobson (FHS Occasional Paper No 6)
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Thomas Morton was a curate of Fairford for Francis William Rice (5th Baron Dynevor) for almost three decades from 1851 to 1879. This paper traces the life of Thomas using a number of information research tools as an illustration of the wide variety of family and local history resources that are now available to the researcher. (more…)

by Chris Hobson (FHS Occasional Paper No 5)
Click here to download A Christmas Railway tragedy

On Christmas Eve in 1874 a mother and her two children caught the train from Fairford station for a festive holiday in the West Midlands. Sadly, they never completed their journey. This occasional paper tells the story of one of the most dreadful accidents in British railway history.

by Chris Hobson
(FHS Occasional Paper No 4)
Published by Fairford History Society, 2009
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A short biography of Mr Richard Green, one of Fairford Free School’s earliest masters and a highly respected citizen who is still commemorated on the old school building today.

by Chris Hobson

(FHS Occasional Paper No 3)

Published by Fairford History Society. December 2006

Please click  here Occ Paper 3 Valentine Strong

Valentine Strong was a well-known Cotswold stonemason who built Andrew Barker’s Fairford Park mansion house and was the father of Thomas and Edward Strong, Sir Christopher Wren’s master masons in the rebuilding of St Paul’s Cathedral following the Great Fire of London. Valentine Strong died in Fairford in 1662 and is buried under an impressive bale tomb in St Mary’s churchyard.

by Chris Hobson
(FHS Occasional Paper No 2)

Published by Fairford History Society. 2006
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A brief account of the Honeybone watch and clockmaking family of Fairford who had a shop in Fairford from the early 1800s to 1939.

Mr Honeybone outside his shop which is now Allium.

by Chris Hobson
(FHS Occasional Paper No 1)

Published by Fairford History Society. 2006
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A brief account of an officer of the Royal Navy who was a contemporary of Nelson and who developed the Navy List into an unparalleled reference work. His grave is pictured opposite in St Mary’s Churchyard.