The 1920s

In February 1921 the war memorial was unveiled. The ceremony was performed by Lieut.-Col. Livingstone Learmouth, and the service conducted by Rev Henry Isham Londen.

This was followed by a period of rebuilding village life after the gloomy years of the 1914-18 war. In 1922 a public telephone was installed on the corner of the Green, and the Baptist Chapel School Room was built at a cost of £838. In 1924 gas street lighting was installed and in 1927 an area was set aside on the Green for the children to play on.

According to Kelly's directory of 1920 the publicans were William Ellwood at the Foresters Arms and James Wright at the Old Sun. Amy Eales ran the shop and post office. The farmers in the village were listed as Oliver Adams, Wakefield Whitton, Henry Isham Londen, and John Banner. Early in the 1920s Ernest Humphrey came to the village and began his ladder making business, and in1928 the Collins family came to Wharf Farm.

In 1925 Anne Judkins died. The Judkins family had been in continuous occupation of Heyford Grange at least since the middle 1500s. Also in 1925 Mr Carrington succeeded Mr Cameron as Headmaster, a post which he held for 22 years.