Skip to content

Upton Village

South Oxfordshire

  • Home
  • News
    • ‘Upton News’
    • Village News
    • Welcome to Upton
    • Local News
    • St Mary’s News
    • Obituaries
    • Didcot News
    • Oxfordshire News
    • Theatre Club News
    • Wine Club News
    • VPA News
    • Youth News
  • Parish Council
    • Annual Reports
    • Council Decision Making
    • Council Finance
    • Council Lists and Registers
    • Members and Employees
    • Policies and Procedures
    • Priorities and Plans
  • Amenities
    • Village Hall
    • George and Dragon
    • Blewbury Post Office
    • East Hagbourne Shop and Post Office
    • Library
    • Recycling Facilities
    • Thames Valley Police
    • Pharmacies
    • Cinema
  • Organizations
    • 50s Club
    • St Mary’s
    • Friends of St Mary’s
    • Wine Appreciation Club
    • Drop In
    • The Upton Coven
    • Theatre Club
    • Village Produce Association
    • Oil and Gas Syndicates
    • HUGS
    • Village Volunteers
    • Tea Birds WI
    • Blewbury WI
    • Karate Club
    • Blewbury Tennis Club
    • Blewbury Brass Band
    • Autumn Leaves
  • Information
    • Village Map
    • Calendar
    • Travel
  • History
  • Photos

People

  • Edward Elliot, sexton in 1862, with his wife Emily, Great Aunt to Gwen Greenough
  • Emily, the wife of Edward Elliot, sexton in 1862. Great Aunt to Gwen Greenough
  • Luke Smith, aged 47 in 1874
  • Grandfather Smith
  • Nathaniel Humfrey (centre) threshing at Upton, c1880
  • Nathaniel Humfrey, who owned 1355 acres in 1881
  • Nathaniel Humfrey (1826-1914) and Jane née Pearman (1830-1915), Upton, 1887
  • Sarah Smith
  • Mr and Mrs James, owners of the Old Forge in the early 1900s when it was also a grocery shop and Post Office
  • Wedding of Henry Guy Ellcock Pilgrim to Beatrice Lucy Wrenford in Calcutta, 1908
  • John Humfrey (1870-1952) and Jessie Rose Davis (1876-1952), married in Wokingham 1908, retired to Brookside, Upton
  • Gwen Greenough as a child with mother, and wife and child of the porter at Upton Station
  • Mr Bellamy, the post man, outside the Old Forge
  • Miss Wheatley
circa 1933
  • Garden at Windyridge (now Orchard Lodge)
Miss J A Wheatley in foreground
circa 1933
  • Miss Mercy Humfrey
seen from the Hollow Way with The Elms behind
circa 1933
  • Barn at Middle Farm before fire. Daniel Greenough (Gwen's father) on tractor.
  • Outside Middle Farm before the fire. Now "Corderoys".
  • Middle Farm after the fire in 1934.
  • Middle Farm after the fire in 1934. Charlotte Greenough, Wyn Greenough, Irene and her mother, Mrs. Kimber.
  • Ted Keep, Tommy and cart, Stream Road cross-roads
  • Ted Keep on tractor. From Mrs Keep's album.
  • The Pilgrim family at Prospect House
  • Guy Elcock Pilgrim
  • Richard Pilgrim
  • Gwen Greenough and her mother Charlotte
  • Daniel Greenough, Gwen Greenough's father
  • Family of Mr & Mrs Albert William Smith:
Harold, Arthur William, Jack Trewin, Freda Elizabeth, Gordon Sidney, Eleanor Gwendoline
  • Mrs Albert William Smith, Mrs Charles Hickling, Mrs Neate, Mrs Harold Radway
  • Elijah Winter, Gwen Greenough's grandfather
  • Harry (1870-1943) & Flora Slade (1872-1962) and Ewan Humfrey (1909-2008) at Stocks
  • Albert Edward Butler and Maud Mary Greenough
  • Joseph and Alex Fry, at The Manor House, 1930s
  • Threshing in 1935. In field now part of Upton Fruit Farm. From Mrs Keep's album.
  • Daniel Greenough on cart
  • Threshing in 1935. Fred Jones and Ted Keep standing under machine. In field now part of Upton Fruit Farm. From Mrs Keep's album.
  • The Fete
  • Gwen Greenough and Joyce Tyler [later Esplin]
At Prospect House - working for the Pilgrim family at the time
  • Jim Brinsden and Victor Saunders
  • Stanley Saunders (Navy), Jim Brinsdon (Army), Jack Trewin Smith (Navy, then transferred to the Fleet Air Arm)
  • Ernest Greenough, son of Walter and Emily Greenough.
Killed at the age of 23 on 30/10/42 on active service in Egypt as a gunner at El Alamein with the Royal Horse Artillery.
  • One of the evacuees from London who came to live in Upton, shown outside Owlscote Manor Farm. He helped with the cubs and scouts. His brother was Joe Loss, the band leader.
  • Captain J L Fry, MC REA, Upton Home Guard
At the Manor House
  • Upton Lodge, 1949 - Ukrainian refugees. Capt J L Fry seated third from left.
  • Obtaining water from the bottom of Fieldside
  • The Country Dance Team.
Elizabeth Radway, Stella Rowlands, Betty Gardner, Lil Keep, Hilda Rowlands, Gwen Greenough, Marcia Butler, Vera Butler
Shirley Mitchel, Freda Smith, Joyce Esplin née Tyler, Mary Chitty, Betty Tyler [Joyce's sister-in-law: Mrs. Philip Gerald Tyler], Doreen Belcher, Audrey Damnanovic
  • Frank Napper, Guy Napper's Father
  • Guy Napper
  • Massey-Harris 780? Perhaps late 1950s.
  • Maud Mary Keep and Miranda Keep
  • Thought to be Ben Brogden, 1920s?
  • Ron Hinchcliffe, 1940s
  • William Brogden, 1920s?
  • William and Ada Brogden, 1920s?

See the Village Calendar

Links to support organsations

Upton seen in 1930

Panorama of Upton looking north

This photograph of Upton was taken from a point south of the George and Dragon

Read more >

Return to top of page

Copyright © 2006-2021 Upton Village [krystal]