The history of Chilterns chalk figures
Date: 07th March 2024
Learn about the history behind some of the chalk figures cut into hills across the Chilterns.
Tag Archive: Chalk
Ferrets, Food and Free Ice creams – Festival Fun with Chalk Cherries and Chairs
by Lizzie Krupa
Date: 19th August 2021
Read Lizzie's write up about the ferret racing, lace making and woodturning fun...and the free ice cream!
The Bodger, by Alice Dean
by Alice Dean
Date: 10th February 2020
Andy Dean, one of our Woodlanders volunteers, has found all kinds of treasures in his private archives, including this account of bodgers’ lives and work written by his grandmother, Alice Dean who became the family historian. Alice starts by describing watching her father-in-law, Richard Dean, working his pole lathe.