Beryl Maile Illustrations
Reflected in Wantage (Part One) 1969
Page 11 “It [the Ridgeway] would also have the escorted travel of great personages going on matters of state”
Page 18 “….. The stream where the lambs are washed”
Page 21 “feasting in barbaric state in his [Ethelwulf’s] simple hall”
Page 26 “In 1086 he [William of Normandy] sent officers all over the country to make a Royal Inventory of who held what land, who had held it in his predecessor Edward the Confessor’s time.”
Page 28 “….. and gained the right to have a cemetery and keep the Consecrated Host and appoint a priest to serve them”
Page 47 “Thomas [Lock] was fined several times for allowing his ‘piggies’ to stray in the lane leading to the mill”
Page 56 “….. but that they feed neighbours and other poor folk on the day of my burial so that they prey for my soul”
Page 67 “Yet you had to have somewhere to grow vegetables, so you had a long narrow garden at the back”
Reflected in Wantage (Part Two) 1970
Page 90 “Craftsmen chipped and shaped the corbels” (Wantage Parish Church)
Page 105, 118, 125
Page 110 Corbels in the Parish Church of Wantage
Page 114 “Steward of the Manor ordered his bailiff to prohibit those congregations from meeting in the Town Hall”
Page 117 “On this piece of ground stood a barn where the Baptists of Wantage worshipped”
Page 123 “Standing on the White Horse – he [Thomas Bush] took the Vale as my Parish”
Page 143 “A school for twelve poor girls to learn reading and sewing”
Page 146 “They [Stiles Almshouses, Newbury Street] were a gift of Robert Stiles”
Black Wantage, 1971
Page vi ” The winds of change… drunks, murderers and thieves destroyed the Town”
Page 12 “Hammocks for the government”
Page 24 “the meal men are buying it up and send westward”
Page 31 “An air of deep concern hung over the meeting”
Page 50 “strong men hacking away at the fields”
Page 55 “lads trundling a wooden barrow laden with sacks”
Page 64 “The liberty to set up pig-pens or stalls for pigs”
Page 69 “Catherine Ormond walked across the Market Place”
Copies of Reflected in Wantage Part Two are available to buy in the Museum Shop, or there are reference copies in the Museum Shop and Library for browsing (Library access by appointment)