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VISITORS:
Go online to “BOX OFFICE”
for Discounted Admissions
EXHIBITORS:
Go online to “HOW TO EXHIBIT”
T: 01235 538 134 E:
FEATURES OF
THE BOAT AND OUTDOOR SHOW
In July and August we’re open on Wednesdays as well as weekends.
See our website or call our information line for details.
Pendon Museum, Long Wittenham, Nr. Abingdon, Oxfordshire. OX14 4QD.
Many exquisite miniature buildings
Highly realistic model railways
Expert guides
Indoors, with shop and cafe
web:
pendonmuseum.com
tel:
01865 407365
Enjoy the “finest landscape
model in the country”
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Jane Insley, Curator,
The Science Museum, London.
Now open
from
11AM
‘All was new and sparkling. A car drive of four or five miles brought
us to Wanborough, a village set partly on the hills and partly in the
meadows below. The church was a couple of hundred feet up on the
top of the first rise, a landmark among its trees for several miles…’
This was how the aptly-named Roye England described his first
glimpse of the Wiltshire village in the summer of 1925. Aged eighteen
and excited by the prospect of standing on English soil for the first
time, Roye had arrived from his native Australia two months earlier.
After exploring London and touring the West Country he accepted an
invitation to stay with a cousin at Wanborough, little realising that his
journey to the village would ultimately become ‘the road to Pendon.’
The idea of recreating the English countryside in miniature form,
thus immortalising the precious landscape of the Vale for successive
generations, was born out of Roye’s concern for its long-term future.
Wherever he went in the glorious Vale, he observed the sheer beauty
of the countryside, but was all the while fearful that enormous
change lay ahead and that what he loved most dearly might soon
disappear.
A former pub at Wanborough, a village to which Roye would return
many times over the years, proved to be the foundation for his
ambitious project. The old ‘Calley Arms’ was a privately owned
thatched cottage when Roye first set eyes on it in the years between
the two World Wars. The cottage was to become the model for the
Waggon & Horses, Roye’s first creation and part of a composite
village he named ‘Pendon Parva.’
Roye’s intention was to capture in miniature the essence of the
traditional English village as he saw it. Though an imaginary setting,
the model at Pendon reflects a number of familiar landmarks and
features; the entire pastiche influenced by a single landscape - the
Vale of White Horse - as it was in the 1920s and ‘30s.
This is an extract from ‘Bringing the Past to Life’, a new Pendon
Publication available rorm the museum shop or from our web shop.
This year Pendon Museum celebrates its 60th Anniversary.
Why not pay us a visit? Opening times and lots more can be
found at
.
The Road to Pendon
