The Old Vicarage, Woodditton

History of the Old Vicarage

Listed Building

House, formerly the vicarage built for Rev. Walker in 1849.

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In Wood Ditton in the early thirties the boys had their first close encounter with an aeroplane. the then vicar, the Rev Stanley Austin, soon to be christened “the flying parson”, occasionally arrived home from Marshall’s flying club at Cambridge as a passenger in a friend’s small Gipsy Moth biplane. The plane landed in the meadow opposite Vicarage lane Cottages and the two men walked to The Vicarage, probably for some personal refuelling, leaving he machine in the field.

(R H Vincent, A Tanner Will Do)

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Each year as Guy Fawkes’s night approached …… For the year 1938 the Rev Ambrose Watson had given us permission to use the vicarage grounds and the boys all contributed by bringing materials for a communal bonfire….

But the evacuees at The Vicarage never really mixed with the village children ad remained a little London community exiled from their homeland….

(R H Vincent, A Tanner Will Do)

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1939 The Vicarage

Ambrose Watson, b 1907. clerk in Holy orders

Diana, b 1912, floral decorator

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Nancy Buseton, b 1912

Eilliam H Buseton, b 1923, farm boy

Marjorie Allen, b 1897, school mistress