Local Studies

On this page we have collected information about our local area both now and in the past. The work has either been done by pupils or donated by local residents. Hopefully this resource will continue to grow in the future.

Did you attend Grendon Underwood School? Then perhaps you are in some of these pictures. If you are or know someone who is, email us and let us know your names.

Mr Roy Windley remembers living in Grendon as a child. He also provided photographs of Marsh Gibbon steam Fair in 1972.

Annie George, a local resident talks about photographs taken in the village between 1900 and 1945.

The pictures and information in this section were collected by the George family of Grendon Underwood.

To celebrate the millennium, in the village, Year 6 pupils at Grendon School recorded interviews with Miss Annie George during 1999 and 2000.  Her pictures and stories are published  here as a record of what life in the village was like at the beginning of the last century.

Acknowledgements

Much of the historical text and photographic content of this section of our web site has been kindly donated by Miss Annie George and prepared by Mrs. Jane George to whom the school is greatly indebted. 
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Grendon Hall is now home to HMP Grendon and HMP Springhill

The old London Brickworks are now being used as a Landfill site

The village church is named after St Leonard

The land in our area is mostly used for farming

Grendon and Doddershall Woods are close to the village

Parish Boundary Walk: In recent years the tradition of beating the bounds has been reintroduced and the school likes to take part in this ceremony. To find out more and see photographs follow this link.