Trevor Hancock

Wantage historian

Trevor Hancock is a Wantage historian and a volunteer with the Vale and Downland Museum

Trevor Hancock is a Wantage historian and a volunteer with the Vale and Downland Museum

Latest articles from Trevor Hancock

A history of Wantage Recreation Ground

The 13th May 2020 sees the 100th Anniversary of the opening of the Recreation Ground in Newbury Street which was presented to the town of Wantage as its War Memorial by Mr Edward Brooks Ormond. How did this come about?

The true story commemorated by a stained glass window

IF you are attending a Christmas service at the parish church of St Peter and St Paul in Wantage this December, please take a look at this stained glass window which was installed in the church just before Christmas in 1861.

The story of 'Wantage's Royal Oak'

THE first casualty from WW2, commemorated on Wantage War Memorial was Marine Verdun Loos James Pierpoint who sadly died on the 14th October 1939.