Welcome to the catalogue of the Chipping Campden History Society Archive.
Here you can search through our collection . Then if you want to know more about a particular item, contact us with the reference number. Volunteers have begun to scan items from the archive, and we will be gradually adding them to the website. We do not charge a fee but look for donations to help towards the costs of maintaining our archives.
Featured items
A ‘ship in a bottle’, made for Judith Ellis in 1946/7 by Hans ??, a German prisoner of war who was working for Lionel Ellis on his nursery in Campden. Judith was 3 yrs old at the time.
35 Photographs of Campden in early years of 1900s, mostly taken by Sidney Reeve, his grandfather. Market, cars, bathing lake, Whitsun.
China cheese dish with lid, and beaker, both decorated with print of view of St. James Church. Descriptions on bases show that they were sold by H. Wixey. c.1910
Watercolour of The Martins, unknown artist (initials WAB) unknown date.
Artwork
View towards Campden Church, watercolour by Florence Mare. Description of her life in Digital Archive Box F15.
Artwork
A brass sign 40 x 25 cm, with embossed words ‘The Campden and District Farmers Co-operative Association Ltd’. Said to have been fixed to the office door at the cattle market behind the Noel Arms.
Latest items
Flier for the Cotswold Olimpick Games 3.6.2022
Leaflet celebrating 150 years of Lloyds Bank in Chipping Campden.
With photo and brief history pub. 2018.
Four leaflets with information from Campden Coronovirus Support Hub, formed in 2020.
A Christmas card from Princess Mary, with photo, sent to all servicemen.
A printed message to all serving in the VIII Army Corps, from Lt/Col. Aylmer Hunter Weston
July 1916
Certificate for Services in WWII, awarded to Dennis Hughes.
2 Clothing books (Dennis and Phyllis);
2 identity cards (Dennis and Phyllis)
CD of assorted aerial views of Campden, dates include 1947, 1967.