Braziers Park

Trevor Moss & Hannah-Lou at Braziers Park - 26th May 2012

Trevor Moss & Hannah-Lou singing a new song at Braziers Park, Ipsden - 26th May 2012

Balancing Opposites - Shamanic Workshop

Balancing Opposites is part of a series of workshop held at Braziers Park Community in Ipsden, England. The workshop gives an introduction to shamanism. It also allows you to find a way to approach things in your life that are seemingly opposites which cannot be reconciled.

King William the Fourth and Braziers Lane

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Braziers, Hailey, Stoke Row, Wyfold Court, Cane End, Mapledurham, Whitchurch, Goring (2)_xvid.avi

From Brazier's Park up to Hailey

Marianne Faithfull - One Foot In The Past (1993 Full Documentary)

Marianne Faithfull (along with her father Glynn Faithfull) gives a tour of her childhood dwellings at Brazier's College in Ipsden, Oxfordshire, England and reads from Rudyard Kipling's Puck of Pook's Hill.

Braziers, Hailey, Stoke Row, Wyfold Court, Cane End, Mapledurham, Whitchurch, Goring (1)_xvid.avi

From Brazier's Park up to Hailey

Ruins of Checkendon Polish Resettlement Camp WW2

The few remains of this once bustling camp are shown in the video. The camp which had been an American base during the war was acquired for displaced Polish families in 1948. There was a church , meeting hall and school. The camp closed in 1961. My video shows 4 remaining nissen huts, the brick mortuary and an unknow brick structure. The nearby Black Horse Pub is still owned by the same family that served first US GIs and later Polish Settlers. There seem to be other nissen huts in the farm yard behind the pub.

Sorry: The video is shaky maining because the bracken kept tripping me up.

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Many locals have memories of the camp in particular going to see films being shown in the camp 'cinema'. There also marriages. It seems harder to find information on the US occupation of the camp. Those GI's who 'mysteriously' disappeared in the early June 1944 never to return.

Many of the Poles settled here had been banished to Siberia by Stalin, rescued by Churchill who persuaded the Russian Leader that they would be very useful for the war effort.

Jack Daniels - Woodcote pump track

Jack Daniels on woodcote pump track