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A busy weekend in November
November saw a flurry of events, all of which were very successful and engaging to the community. The WW1 and Dunsden exhibition in the Village Hall saw over 400 visitors, including some families of the village men whose names appear on the War Memorial. Children from Caversham Park Primary and Sonning Primary visited the exhibition,
Shiplake primary pupils connect with Ors
Year 5 pupils at Shiplake C of E Primary proudly show off their letters to children at Ors primary, the village in Nord Pas de Calais, France with which Dunsden is forging a friendship link. The pupils learnt about Ors and Wilfred Owen who was buried in Ors village cemetery in 1918. The Shiplake pupils
Deep Under Turfy Grass by David Breeze & Outrider Anthems
New contemporary song setting by local composer David Breeze, for Wilfred Owen’s Dunsden poem Deep Under Turfy Grass. Written at Dunsden between October 1912 and June 1913 after Wilfred Owen assisted at the funerals of Alice Mary Allen and her four year old daughter Hilda Agnes who died in an accident on Dunsden Green. With
