Saturday, 06 September 2025
Delivering the news from Henley on Thames and South Oxfordshire for over 100 years
FEW of those who were present at the Garth Hunt point-to-point meeting of Tuesday in last week, were aware that Cecil Aldin had met with so bad an accident as he did. He was leading the field in one of the races on his horse, Oliver, when he fell at...
PLANS for up to 130 homes on a field between Henley and Harpsden have been scaled back following public consultation. Bloor Homes says it is now looking to build only 60 houses on the northern half of Lucy’s Farm, off Gillotts Lane and Blandy Road,...
100 YEARS AGO
Henley Standard June 20, 1924
THE preparations for the regatta are being rapidly pushed forward. Although the flooded state of the river has hindered progress, there is no doubt that everything will be ready when the great river carnival...
50 YEARS AGOHenley StandardJuly 5, 1974LIVE rock music came to Henley’s Mill Meadows for the first time on Sunday without the faintest trace of trouble from the crowd which numbered around 100. The concert had been planned for regatta Saturday but...
STAINED-GLASS windows at a Henley church were smashed this week by vandals who caused an estimated £25,000 of damage. Eight of the ...
AN appeal to raise money to equip the new doctors’ surgeries in Henley is launched today. The Henley New Surgery Medical Fund has been ...
CONSIDERABLE dissatisfaction was expressed by many householders in Henley last week upon receiving notice from their milk vendors that ...
PTE R Howard, of the Henley, Oxfordshire and Bucks Light infantry, has been wounded in action. It was reported in Henley last week ...
ONLY a day after its introduction on Monday last, the closure of Henley post office from 1pm to 2pm each day came in for sharp ...
THE bumpy road of matrimony started with a jolt for a Mapledurham bride on Saturday. After tying the conjugal knot at the local church,...
CARERS refused to help a 99-year-old great grandmother climb her stairs — in case she fell and hurt them! Edna East, who lives with ...
MR and Mrs Clarice S Ramsay, of Fawley Court, were charged at Marlow last week with failing to register under the Aliens’ Registration ...
AT 4.30pm on September 30 passengers were on a No 7 bus due to leave Reading for Nettlebed when an inspector got on and said that the ...
RESIDENTS of Henley are to be given the chance to vote on whether they want a superstore at the Mill Lane sports centre. At a special ...
A FIREFIGHTER answering a call to a house blaze found his drinking partner had died in the inferno. Firefighters pulled Hugh Morton, ...
A DISTRESSING accident occurred at the Great Western Railway level crossing at Shiplake on Tuesday when Col Edward Eyre-Williams was ...
More News:
A HYDROLOGICAL survey of a village pond which started losing water at the beginning of the year will take place after deliveries of water failed to stabilise water levels. Sonning ... [more]
APPLICATIONS for Eco Soco’s annual tree give-away will open in September. Each year, the environmental group teams up with Community Action Groups Oxfordshire to give away free ... [more]
A MEETING of the Peppard WI on Wednesday, September 10, at the hall in Gallowstree Road at 2pm, will hear a talk by Hannah Bignall, on flower arranging. Details at: Stephanie.... [more]
PLANS to build nine new homes in Sonning Common have been approved. Reading-based developer Elegant Homes will build the mix of detached and semi-detached homes on 0.88ha of ... [more]
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