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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

Brass sign for Farmers Co-op

Ref: 2020/049/Art

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.
Memorial cards

Ref: 2020/048/DS

Memorial cards: Sarah Ann BOND 1879 Mary Louisa EDGE 1884 Hellen Bakewell EDGE 1882 Susannah BLAKEMAN 1866 Francis George Wilkes HAINES 1874 Priscilla FREEMAN 1893. Buried at Mickleton Annie Sophia GLADWIN 1901 William GLADWIN 1911 Ruth HARTLEY 1884 Jesse HELPS 1893 Sarah LANE 1874 Jane MANTON 1897 Eliza PEARSON 1906 Martha Anna Pile TANNER 1902 Robert ROBERTS 1862 Anne Elizabeth ROBERTS 1899 Robert STANLEY 1865 Eliza STANLEY 1877 Ann TOMBS 1879 Andrew Herbert WIXEY 1888 Bertha ...
Harold Ashwin - WWI memorial scroll and letter

Ref: 2019/148/DS

Memorial scroll and letter from King George V sent to the family of Harold Ashwin after his death in WWI.
Photographs of Bridge/Collett families

Ref: 2019/149/P

Collage of photographs of the Bridge/Collett families, associated with the Red Lion pub. Donated from the Red Lion. Individual photos have been scanned into COMMA.
May Day 1937

Ref: 2019/150/P

Large photograph, taken outside the Chemists shop, of participants in the May Day celebrations 1937
Campden Haymakers of Long Ago

Ref: 2017/128/DS

The story of Campden Haymakers told by Josephine Griffiths. Includes hard copy photographs of the five men which are also in COMMA . 1875.

Latest items

Edwin Kettle - cricketer

Ref: 2021/047/DI

Query from David West about Edwin Kettle, cricketer. Query no. 14/025. Correspondence with CCHS concerning the Kettle and Horne families. Reference to article in CCHS Signpost 3, Autumn 2015 about Edwin Kettle. Article by David West ‘The Lodge Gates at Ragley Hall, Alcester’.
William Higford Griffiths: the scandal

Ref: 2021/046/DI

The account of the ‘Scandal or love story’ of WH Griffiths and Ellen Sherborn, with background papers. Report in the Worcestershire Chronicle and Provincial Railway Gazette 26 July 1854, about litigation between WH Griffiths and Mr Haines, solicitor Obituary of WH Griffiths
St. James' Church repairs 1969/70

Ref: 2021/046/DI

Recollection by Richard Hobbs about the time that that St. James Church roof was repaired and Ray Plested inserted a ‘time plaque’ to record the work.
Four 'grand old folk'

Ref: 2021/045/DI

Unknown ‘Chronicle’ newspaper – ‘For Campden (population1,627) has at least 50 inhabitants aged over 80- and of these ten are more than 90 years old! This record of longevity reached the ears of the B.B.C., and so a camera team from the television programme “Tonight” went to the Cotswold village last week to find some of ...
WWII and tank trials

Ref: 2021/044/DI

Bill Buckland’s memories of WWII and the tank trials on Dovers Hill. Percy Hobart.
Nevill New: Recollections of Campden

Ref: 2021/043/DI

Letters from Nevill New with recollections: Mrs. Sands, AF Finberg, Ayling, Clemmie Mostyn, Marjorie Lindsay, Philip Chandler, Charlie Seitz, Mr & Mrs Greening, Julius Neve, Ulric Stanley, Osiris Players. Buildings: The Swan, Live and Let Live, The Plough, The Martins, Reginald Sharpley.