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
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.
View towards Campden Church, watercolour by Florence Mare. Description of her life in Digital Archive Box F15.
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:
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 ...
Memorial scroll and letter from King George V sent to the family of Harold Ashwin after his death in WWI.
Latest items
*Letter from W. Blakeman to his daughter Angela from WW1, 20 Jan 1918
*Photo of unknown woman, taken by Chipping Norton photographer
*Greetings card from Alfred Charles Blakeman(?) mentioning references to W. Blakeman in Geoffrey Powell’s book ‘The Book of Campden’
Order of Service for the burial of Christine Ackerman September 2021
Publicity and news items about coronovirus in Campden 2020
Campden Hub notices
*Newspaper cutting 1997? about temporary relocation of Campden Library
*Glos County Library Staff Newsletter 1997 – article about relocation
* Invitation to formal re-opening of Library , March 1998
Article in ‘Building Refurbishment’ pp 4-5, about the restoration of the East Banqueting House by the Landmark Trust 1990
Notes about the plans and launch of ‘Mr Harrison is Missing’, CADHAS publication about the Campden Wonder. 2010
