“Froyle,
100 Years of Memories”
collected by Annette Booth
originally published
in hardback by The Froyle Archive
and now available as an e-book in Adobe Acrobat (pdf) format
ISBN 0 9545460 1 6
What
is it about Froyle? We discovered it over forty years ago
on a damp, dull, February evening
while searching for an affordable house near London, and
we are still
here. Many others have come to the village intending
to stay for just
a few years and then move on, but they too are still living
in ‘The
Village of Saints’. Why?
The answer is the people. There is something about the spirit
of fellowship that exists in the village that gets to even
the
most insular
of folk. In the last twenty years we have lost our vicarage,
our school, our
shops, our pub and our Methodist Church and yet the feeling
of community has got stronger year by year.
This book records the memories of those living today and the
writings of those who have long since passed away, illustrated
with
more than
200 photographs, dating back to the middle of the 19th
century. Perhaps in the pages you can discover for yourself
just what
makes this small
village such a special place.