Selborne, The Wakes, Gilbert White's House 1898
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The garden at the Wakes in 1898 looks more formal than it must have done in Gilbert White's time, 150 years before. Then he planted French and African marigolds, nasturtiums, sunflowers, larkspur, lupins, double scarlet lychnis, purple double stocks, sweet williams and lilies, as well as a passion flower near the brew-house door.
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A Selection of Memories from Selborne
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The brother of my 5xgt grandfather William Maxwell, was Thomas Maxwell, born in Harting in 1754. Thomas and Elizabeth's son Henry Maxwell, born 1807 in Harting, was by the census of 1841 living in Selborne with his wife Jane and two sons, Henry Thomas Maxwell and George Alfred Maxwell and daughter Emma Jane. Henry was listed as a Grocer and Draper and this business continued into the 1900s, run by his son ...see more
We lived on the outskirts of selborne, my parents and three brothers and sister, at Lower Noar Hill Farm and Homestead Farm. My great-grandparents, grandparents and parents farmed the land between Selborne Common and Noar Hill for more than 70 years. Before us it was the Ganders, who later emigrated to Canada for health reasons. My other grandparents lived in Goslings Croft in the village. My father was secretary of ...see more
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