Joe Howes (son of Olive Howes nee Hales) Aunt Lizzie (Polly) was the Wistow School Teacher for many years. Polly lived on land opposite Juggins Farm in a bungalow no longer there. Harry Woolley ran the school from 1913 onwards, which was church run. The Howes family ran the Three Horseshoes pub from 1912. The [...]

Harold (Jack) Lindsell – Harris Lane (in his 80′s) At 12 yrs old he used to walk to Warboys for school. Came to live in village at 4 yrs old from Warboys. In Church Road, by the Bance’s land, was a place that mended horse’s harnesses. Rev Pratt lived in Rectory. Where Phone Box is [...]

Peggy Glover (nee Coles)- Kingston Way (about 75-80 years old) Remembers a water pump near Fleur De Lys and by the Old School. There was a Blacksmith in the Fleur De Lys, who came daily from Wennington village. Also in Fleur De Lys, was the undertakers business, lovely hearse used to be parked there. Charlie [...]

From Patsy Coles  Deeds of Porch House, Manor Street, Wistow The oldest papers come from 1786, when the property was simply known as ‘the land almost nearly opposite the Manor House in Wistow.’ List of documents found:- 1786- Stanhope Pedley (lord of the manor) passed it to John Green. 1787- It was leased to Moses [...]

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