60.
Mains
water came to the village in 1937. Here shown at the ceremony on the underground
reservoir above Blewbury are, left to right.— Mrs. C. Langford Jones,
Mr. Jesse Dunsden (District Councillor and Clerk to the Parish Council),
Mrs. Dunsden, Mrs. Amy Hawkins (former Parish Councillor), Mr. Sidney
Langford Jones, Mr. Reginald Robinson (Chairman of Blewbury Parish Council)
and Mr. F. T. Hollyer (Parish Councillor). Electricity came to the village
in 1932 and the evidence can be seen in almost every photograph of present
day Blewbury!
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