Tales from an English "Chipping Town" (Scandals and Tales to Come tomorrow!)

 American tourists to the English Cotswolds may well have been taken to Chipping Camden or Chipping Norton.  

The locals were probably chillingly polite even as they seethed (think Venice and Barcelona!).

The word Chipping descends from an old English word meaning Market.

There is also a Chipping Ongar, about which I know nothing.

We come to Chipping Sodbury. I worked there. It's about ten miles from my home city of Bristol.

This photo' was taken in the 1920's (yes it was a Market Town!).

By the time I worked there in 1961-1964 (for the former Westminster Bank) the lovely main street had changed little, though the Cattle etc. had been moved to an out-of-town venue.

I was fortunate to work in this lovely town.  As a junior banker I was privy to town news, gossip and a juicy scandal.  More tomorrow!

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