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Summary: 21 black and white photographs and 1 colour photograph of some of the people and places of Froxfield, Wiltshire. 1 - RAF sergeant Stan Dark with his wife Nonny, daughter Ena and baby girl. 2-5 - the Dixon family. 2 - Edgar Dixon, eldest son of Harry and Harriet, captain of Marlborough Grammar School football team 1913-14, seen here sitting with his team mates, a football between his knees. 3 - Edgar Dixon, 3rd right, back row in this group of Marlborough Grammar School pupils. 4 - Win Dixon with her friend Marjory Hatter and her dog Pincher, outside The Porter's Lodge in 1927. 5 - the wedding of Arthur Dixon to Ellen Louise Lloyd Hicks of Trowbridge, 6th February 1932, (back row, l to r) Edgar Dixon and the bride's father Charles Hicks, (front row, l to r) Winifred Dixon, the groom and bride and Kathleen Dixon. 6 - Alice Hatter sitting on a fence in Littlecote Road, 1928. 7 - head and shoulders portrait of Mr Raymond Knott whose father was the village policeman. 8 - Mr Raymond Knott and family. 9 - head and shoulders portrait of Mr Bert Myrham, son of Mrs Jim Povey. 10 - Mr Charles Naish the village baker, this photograph was taken to mark his 50 years as Parish Clerk. 11 - photograph of the illuminated address presented to Charles Naish. 12 - head and shoulders portrait of Sid Norris who was a "Bevan Boy" during WWII, employed in open cast mining in the north of England. 13 - Mrs Hannah Stroud and her daughter Maggie, Hannah died in her 103rd year. 14 - Froxfield Girl Guide Group photographed outside the school c. 1928, the girls are Doris Wells, Alice Hatter, Kath Naish, H Margesson, Milly Bowsher and Flory Savage. 15 and 16 - two views of Pit Cottages near Elmdown on the Rudge Road, the people in both photographs haven't been identified. 17 - the front door of one of the six cottages at The Barracks. 18 - the back door of one of the six cottages at The Barracks, these cottages were purported to have been used by the Royal Berkshire Yeomanry Cavalry regiment in the 1880's. 19 - rear elevation of Rudge Manor, which was demolished in the 1950's. 20 - an unknown gentleman and two ladies leaning on the gate of Rudge Manor Farmhouse c. 1939. 21 - a view of the church from the water meadows alongside the A4. 22 - colour photograph, Brendoncare Nursing Home, Littlecote Road, built on land at the rear of The College.