John was born near a ford over the river Roach on Michaelmas Day in the year that the Mini car was first produced.  He lives in Fynevue bungalow, so named because the outlook was once onto open land.

• Michaelmas Day
  • Is the Feast Day of  St.Michael, Archangel and caster-out of Satan, dragon combatant and patron of soldiers, horses and high places. 
    
• Mini Car
  • Read about the Mini at www.mini.co.uk
    
• Connections
  • The editor of The Times from 1878 to 1884 was Thomas Chenery, a former Professor of Arabic at Oxford.
    
• Fynevue Archives
  • The Sixties
  • The Seventies
  • The Eighties
  • The Nineties
  • The Double Os
    
• The Public Services:

Electricity

	The Public Services: Electricity
The Telephone
	The Public Services: The Telephone
The Post Office
	The Public Services: The Postal Service

• Engineering Excellence

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