Newick Village Society

History

Local historian and Newick Village Society member, Tony Turk, has written a number of articles about the history of our village. He has very kindly made them available for anyone to read and/or download. They are included here with his permission and that of the Newick Village Society Management Committee.

• The Chemist/Pharmacy at Newick
• A History of 20 Church Road and its use as "Bannister's" shop
• Medieval graves at Newick church. Are they Crusaders?
• John Martin and James Coley – a severe punishment for theft in 1839
• Mary Constance Dixon and the Reedens School of Gardening
• Fir Tree Cottage, Station Road
• The Geology of Newick Parish
• "Harvest Home" celebrations at Newick
• Elias Hurrion Neve – Schoolmaster at Newick
• Newick Post Office
• Pound Cottage, The Green
• The Village Pump
• The melancholy death of Spencer Vinall in 1865
• The "Swing Riots" in Newick in 1830
• A First World War poem by Sophia Turner
• A windmill at Newick
• Newick Road, Hackney

These articles are all copyright of Tony Turk. If you copy or make reference to any of them, please ensure you correctly attribute them.