Banbury, Brackley & Buckingham are all along the road which is now the A422
a few miles north of Fringford.
Flora Timms, later Thompson, was born in Juniper Hill (Lark Rise) went to
school in Cotisford (Fordlow) and moved on to Fringford (Candleford Green).
Fringford looks to be about 12 miles from Buckingham. We just found
Juniper Hill about 4 miles from Brackley, so I daresay they may have
travelled there to market or whatever.
We visited Fringford last summer and are going back at the weekend, very
briefly.
I took an interest in the place because of the connection, haven't actually
found any information about any lacemakers in the family but did find a
photograph of someone from another branch of my dads people, sitting
alongside a lacemaker, maybe a relative or a neighbour, have no idea but it
was fun to see. Photograph taken in 1900:-) We saw her grave marker last
summer:-) I have the book in front of me. We did see the forge and the
building which was the post office in Fringford when we visited.
Shame we didn't get a better view of the lacemaking though, I doubt the
actress playing Queenie ever made lace, she did seem to make a good job of
putting pins in without actually touching the bobbins:-)
Sue T
I had a double interest in Candleford Green, generations back my dads
family came from Candleford (which is actually Fringford).
That isn't quite right. Fringford was Candleford Green and, if I recall
correctly Candleford was a mix of Banbury, Brackley and Buckingham.
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