The Heley Brothers are agents for the Biphosphated Guano Company. #1876OPS #OnePlaceStudies

This year’s parish officers for Wing are Charles Paine and Richard Hedges (overseers), Henry Chas. Adams and W. Underwood (surveyors), and W. Page (constable). #1876OPS #OnePlaceStudies

Ooh, editorial in this week's edition calling for an end to corporal punishment - a schoolmaster raised in neighbouring Linslade got five years prison for assaulting one of his pupils down in Devon (broke his skull, and the boy lost his sight). #1876OPS #OnePlaceStudies

It’s been snowing in Wing! A snowball fight evolved into a melee (in both day- and night-clothes) and ended up in court – two charged with breaking a window, one charged with assault and breaking a lamp, plus multiple counter-charges of assault. #1876OPS #OnePlaceStudies

Lots of Wing news this week, what to choose, what to choose..... #1876OPS #OnePlaceStudies

Correspondence to the editor continues on the matter of the Provident Dispensary – this week Rev. P.T. Ouvry of Wing has responded to another letter from the former medical officers that criticised the dispensary’s subscriptions and methods. #1876OPS #OnePlaceStudies

Some more #1876OPS news – 1876 was a leap year! So today’s news is actually from 29 Feb, and from next week the #1876OPS project re-aligns datewise and will come to you on Saturday instead of Sunday.

The auction of poles (1,000 larch, spruce fir, ash, alm, some upwards of 15 feet) is only three days away - it is timber taken from Lord Overstone’s Fox Covert Plantation. Mr A.L. Webster has catalogues available. #1876OPS #OnePlaceStudies

The Leighton Provident Dispensary (covering 13 parishes) was the brainchild of Wing’s Rev. P.T. Ouvry, who acts as secretary, and the Baroness de Rothschild #1876OPS #OnePlaceStudies

A #OnePlaceAdverts View of 1875 in Wing Buckinghamshire - Society for One-Place Studies For more than a decade I’ve been running a weekly project within my one-place study, reading the local newspaper corresponding to the date exactly 150 years earlier and posting on social media about a...

ICYMI: “A #OnePlaceAdverts View of 1875 in Wing, Buckinghamshire,” recently added to our blog, was written by Alex @wychwoodnz.bsky.social in response to our #OnePlaceStudies blogging prompt for January.

Be sure to follow 1876 news—and ads—from Wing, via Alex's hashtag #1876OPS.

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3rd-year pupil teacher Mary Windmill placed Class II while 2nd-year Kate Lambert placed Class III and 1st-year Rispah Bolton Class IV in the recent pupil teachers examinations held at Linslade. #1876OPS #OnePlaceStudies

There is to be an auction of 1,000 fine larch and other poles at the end of the month. #1876OPS #OnePlaceStudies

An elderly drover taking cows from Aylesbury Fair to Heath-and-Reach passed by Wing Mill, had a pint at the Dove, then continued through Ascott Green to Linslade where he was found expired from exposure several days later. #1876OPS #OnePlaceStudies

Brickmaker George Truman was sued by the London and North-Western Railway Company for unpaid goods carriage charges, but was able to demonstrate to the judge’s satisfaction that he had in fact paid and the charges were a mistake. #1876OPS #OnePlaceStudies

Two cases against Wing defendants were dismissed due to not being brought in time – William Lathwell for uttering a profane oath (on Christmas Day!), and John Monk regarding support of Eliza Badrick’s child. #1876OPS #OnePlaceStudies

Wrote a blog post for @oneplacestudies.bsky.social #OnePlaceAdverts because oh boy do I have plenty of adverts to hand thanks to #1876OPS and the decade or so of its predecessors.

Baron Rothschild’s Boxing Day hunt was held at Ascott House. The champagne luncheon sounded divine. #1876OPS #OnePlaceStudies