Sunday 24th May 2015
The seat at the junction of the village street, Church Lane and Pitmead Lane, Bishopstrow.
The fading and lichened plaque on the seat reads: ‘Presented by Leonard Francis 1985 in memory of Charles & Minnie Francis residents of Bishopstrow 1912 – 1976’
 Photographs taken by Danny Howell on Sunday 24th May 2015.
The Men’s Fellowship Breakfast, organised by the Upper Wylye Team Ministry, meets again at Bishopstrow House Hotel, on Monday 12th January 2015. The guest speaker will be Oliver Chamberlain, QVRM, TD, DL, who is the Chairman of the SW Reserve Forces and Cadets Association (was TAVRA) and until recently the Honorary Colonel of the Royal Wessex Yeomanry Squadrons. He is also a Land Agent and Surveyor in Dorset. He will talk about the Royal Wessex Yeomanry and the prospects for the Future Reserves 2020 re-organisation. The arrangements are as before, with the breakfast starting at 8.15 a.m. The cost is £10 per person, of which £2 goes to a Charity of the Speaker’s choice. If you would like to attend the breakfast, please contact Simon Firth (email: simon.firth3@sky.com or telephone 01985 850767) or Henry Collins (telephone 01985 850193)
Christmas Day 2013
The gravestone of John Robert Cox in St. Aldhelm’s churchyard at Bishopstrow.
The inscription reads: In loving memory of John Robert Cox who fell asleep 25:Dec:1899 aged 56 years.
John Robert Cox farmed Bishopstrow Farm.
Photographs taken by Danny Howell on Christmas Day 2013, 114 years to the day since Mr. Cox’s death.
Thursday 30th May 2013
The gravestone of Harriet and Herbert Percival Legg, at St. Aldhelm’s Churchyard, Bishopstrow. It reads: “In ever loving memory of Harriet May Legg, Died 13th August 1953, aged 69 years. Also of her beloved husband Herbert Percival Legg, re-united 16th April 1956, aged 72. Rest in Peace.”
The photograph was taken by Danny Howell on Thursday 30th May 2013.
A gravestone at St. Aldhelm’s Churchyard, Bishopstrow,
photographed by Danny Howell on the afternoon of Tuesday 10th April 2012.
The inscription reads: In Loving Memory of Thomas Frederick Heath who died 22nd Oct. 1881, Aged 38 Years. Also of Edith, his Wife, who died 20th March 1913, Aged 70 Years. “In perfect peace.”
A gravestone in St. Aldhelm’s Churchyard, Bishopstrow,
photographed by Danny Howell on the afternoon of Tuesday 10th April 2012.
The inscription reads: In Loving Memory, Dorothy Margaret
“Peggy” Williams, 10.8.1921 ~ 12.11.1987. Beloved Wife, Mother
& Grandmother. Also Peter Irwin Williams 10.8.1922 ~ 29.4.2004 Much Loved Husband, Father, Grandfather And Great Grandfather.
A gravestone in St. Aldhelm’s Churchyard, Bishopstrow,
photographed by Danny Howell on the afternoon of
Tuesday 10th April 2012.
The inscription reads: In Affectionate Memory of My Wife
Mona Hazlitt Robina Seymour Crockwell, who died May 11th 1940. Also of Leslie Horace William, Her Husband, Died 29th April 1961.
A gravestone in St. Aldhelm’s Churchyard, Bishopstrow,
photographed by Danny Howell
on the afternoon of Tuesday 10th April 2012.
Only the first five lines of the inscription survive:
William Willett,
of Bishopstrow,
Died 10th March 1895, aged 57.
He was for many years a faithful
servant on the Bishopstrow Estate.
The rest of William Willett’s epitaph is now missing,
the stonework having weathered and fallen off.
