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26 Sep 2026 Pip: A slide show at a village hall, some leftover photographs, and the question “what shall we do with these?” — it turns out that is a perfectly reasonable way to start a four-year heritage project and, apparently, also a book. Mara: This episode follows David Marlow’s account of how the Great…

26 Sep 2026 The Great Brickhill Heritage Project began with a simple question. In 2022, during the celebrations for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, a large collection of photographs was assembled showing Great Brickhill, its people and its life. They were used in a slide show in the Parish Hall. When the celebrations were over, another…

17 Aug 2026 Podcasts Menu Page Pip: Great Brickhill has a history stretching back centuries, and now, thanks to David Marlow, it has a website to prove it. (Ignore the ‘UM’ in recording) Mara: This episode covers the launch of the Great Brickhill Heritage Project — how it began, what it’s built, and where it’s…

25 Sep 2026 Podcasts Menu Page Pip: Great Brickhill has centuries of history, and now it has a website to prove it — one that began, as the best things do, with a pile of photographs and a question nobody had quite answered yet. Mara: David Marlow has written a four-year account of exactly that…

Introduction The background to this story concerns COVID, the 2020 lockdown and the not-going-out syndrome. I had turned to writing, publishing and website development. I then saw an opportunity to combine these with another passion; photography.     The Heritage Site website was started by me in July 2022 as the result of a presentation to the…

People ask why we have this site set up as a membership site. This is why; GBHP.info contains a great wealth of information. It has been gathered over time from many sources, some public some private. The private sources are mainly families resident in the village or descendants of villagers. Some have been here for…

These documents have been presented to the Parish Council as dated:

Thank you Malcolm Wright for your excellent photographic record of our Sunday Remembrance Parade today. Our readers were Tom Rolls and Clare Hankins-Lewis. Wreath layers were David Marlow representing parish Ex-Servicemen, Councillor David Bratt, the Parish Council, a student representing High Ash School, and Rosemary Howell, representing the WI. Jeremy Hopkinson presided. The inclement weather…

Management Summary The GBHP Heritage Project has progressed to a fully functioning website in fifteen months. The process to transfer the Current Site from a private account to a New Site in the PC’s name are outlined below. The timetable and costs are substantially as proposed at the PC meeting on 3rd Jan 2023 plus minor…