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Wantage History Trail

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Following the success of our audio trail in Great Western Park following the stories of some of the fallen veterans of 11EOD&SR, we've worked with local community groups and churches to create a history trail of Wantage.

1. Orientation by Libby Hawkness-Smith (1 min 52)
2. Introduction to Wantage by Trevor Hancock (9 min)
3. Wantage Methodist Church by Rev Keith Underhill(4 min 11)
4. Vale and Downland Museum recorded by Olive Price (5 min 33)
5. St Peter St Paul Church by Dick Peters (6 min 13)
6. Guide Hut by Barbara Keep, Barbara Lovegrove and Jan Powle (9 min 8)
7. Townland Governors by Steve Trinder (5 min 1)
8. St Michael's Training Home by Sr Lizzie Ruth (3 min 7)
9. Schools in Wantage by Mike Haddrell (5 min 25 and 8 min 40)
10. Letcombe Brook by Mark Bradfield (6 min 49)
11. Betjeman Millennium Park (Betjeman Millennium Park Trust) by Flora Nuttgens (6 min 22)
12. Community of St Mary the Virgin by Sr Lizzie Ruth (3 min 44)
13. Wessex Mill by Emily Munsey, recorded by Helen Carter (5 min 36)
14. Wantage Tanneries by Sem Seabourne (10 min 34)
14b. Wilts & Berks Canal by Richard Shackleton (3 min 32)
15. Wantage Tramway by Didcot Railway Centre, read by Jim Birch (6 min 9 and 4 min 29)
16. Wantage Town Centre by Trevor Hancock, read by Andrea Yates (6 min 59)
17. Edward Davey by Sem Seabourne, read by David Johnston MP (7 min 43)
18. Icknield Way Morris Men by Sem Seabourne, read by Leonard Ash (5 min 28, 6 min 3 and 2 min 53)
19. King Alfred Kitchen by Veronica Sharley (7 min 30 and 7 min 14)
20. Wantage Workhouse by Hazel Brown (and Libby Hawkness-Smith), read by James Kent (8 min 33)
21. Closing credits

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