From the Archives

From time to time we feature an item from the CCHS Archives.

'The Archers' connection with Campden

We have just been given a souvenir booklet about people in ‘The Archers’. You might wonder about its relevance to ...
Ain't there nobody ill in the Almshouses?

New research has uncovered the plight of women in the Campden Almshouses whose husbands died, causing them to be evicted. One ...
Back to School

Starting with the Infant School, we are compiling histories of the different primary schools in Campden, using the information in ...
Buying a new car?

Photographs of two of the first motor cars seen in Campden are amongst the 16,000 digital images stored in our ...
Nicholas Feild, apothecary, and Mary his wife

Our item ‘From the Archives’ in September was a document dated 1765. It has been in the Archives for many ...
Samplers

In the Archives we have four lovely samplers with a family connection, although the final link is not yet made. ...
Scrapbooks

Two contrasting scrapbooks In the Archives we have several scrapbooks that have been donated over the years. They usually contain photographs ...
The German Field Gun Affair

One hundred years ago, on 6th March 1920, a German field gun was installed with great ceremony on a concrete ...
The Holly and the Ivy

We have recently answered a query about Campden’s connection with the Christmas carol ‘The Holly and the Ivy’… Over 100 years ...