25 Years Ago: How we moved the Bank
In Issue 100, Winter 2017, John Slatford recounts how the Bank was moved 25 years ago and became the Museum.
Ripley Matters – 100 Issues
In Issue 100, Winter 2017, Chris Elson, Vicar of Ripley, recounts how the magazine started and developed.
Goodbye St Bede’s …. Goodbye Mr Hall
From Issue 100, Winter 2017. St Bede's school in Send closed at the end of the autumn term 2016, and the pupils moved into a new building at the site of Send first school. St Bede's was [...]
Soapbox Challenge Raises Over £10,000.00 For Cancer Charity
From Issue 100, Winter 2017. On 5th August there were races, other entertainment and a Raffle. This raised over £10,000 for Macmillan Cancer Support. First prize in the raffle was a “Trolley [...]
Images of Send and Ripley – Lancaster Hall – October 2015
This article appears in Issue 92, Winter 2015. Send & Ripley History Society, in conjunction with Send Parish Council, held an art exhibition over the weekend of 3rd/4th October. ...
Centenary Commemoration of Robert Reginald (Robin) Skene
This is one of the articles from Issue 87, Autum 2014. The Foreign Secretary. Philip Hammond, spoke the words of remembrance and was the first to lay a wreath at the service of commemoration. ...
Charles Hughesdon 1909 – 2014
This article was not able to be included in Issue 87, Autumn 2014, because of lack of space. Charles Hughesdon was very much a local “character” until he moved in 1994 ...
Ripley Regatta
This is one of the articles from Issue 86, Summer 2014. Sunday 2nd March 2014 saw the first and possibly the last regatta to be held on the newly formed Village pond. ...