The Museum is reopening on Easter Weekend, 20th April 2025 with a new exhibition.
We need your help! - The exhibition for this year in the Hendred Museum is WW2.
Do you have any memorabilia or family memories of what it was
like living in the village of East Hendred during that time?
Were members of your family in the Home Guard?
Do you have any photographs of the uniform they wore?
Do you have memories about RAF Harwell and the runway which was in part of this parish.
What was school like at that time with the evacuees sharing the classrooms?
We have information about the brave men who went to war and those who never returned, but it is the personal memories that we would love to hear about.
We are really interested in knowing how people managed in this village over the war years, how neighbours looked out for each other and gave support when it was needed the most.
Please do get involved and help us make this exhibition one to remember.
Please email hendredheritagesecretary@gmail.com​​​
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Media Archive
eHive collection
Our archive collection is displayed online using the eHive collection management system. Use the link to the right to view or search the collection.
In addition, David Hunter has produced the following slideshows: 'Old and New', 'A Colourful view of an Oxfordshire village' and a 6-minute slideshow with some historic images of East Hendred and its people:
Open gardens 2010
Champs Chapel festivities
Champs Chapel horse show
Grand National 1987
Maori Venture winning the Grand National. Ki Ming (trained in East Hendred) started favourite in the Epsom Derby in 1951)
Champs Chapel faces
Champs Chapel buildings
Champs Chapel St Augustine's
Snow photo competition 2009
Here's a selection of the many entries in the Snow Photo Competition (Feb 2009):
Snowman competition 2010
The villagers get involved in the annual Snowman competition in January 2010.
Media Downloads
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For a number of years a parishioner of East Hended Ron Foster has been producing truly captivating slideshows accompanied with music and narration. Being a keen traveller, a proud parishioner and an enquiring mind, Ron created a series of beautiful and enlightening audio-visuals about the village, the parish, the past and present history of East Hendred.
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We are happy to be able to share them with you now. Every slideshow is a standalone application and does not need any special software to run. Just download and double-click on the file - as if by magic, Ron will come to tell you a story...
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The village of East Hendred, King's Manor and Jesus of Bethlehem Chapel