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The King's England Worcestershire
Ref: 1997/035/B
“The King’s England – Worcestershire – The Garden in the Hills”. Pub. The Caxton Publishing Company.
The King's England Warwickshire
Ref: 1996/185/B
Revised and edited by E.T. Long, Illustrated by A.S. Kersting, Pub. Hodder and Stoughton 1966.
The King's England Gloucestershire
Ref: 1994/007/B
Covers 334 places in Gloucestershire, with 166 pictures, pub. Hodder and Stoughton, 1955
The Johnsons of Tidmington. Annals of a Forgotten Family
Ref: 1996/051/B
Family History of the Johnsons, researched by P. Drinkwater, pub. 1978.
The Inns and Alehouses of Chipping Campden and Broad Campden
Ref: 2007/208/B
CADHAS publication, pub. 1998, in a team research project with Celia Jones, Hilary Sinclair and Dorothy Brook. Printed by Vale Press. 2 extra copies in Spares Box
Cheltenham Probate Records 1660-1740
Ref: 2000/043/B
Gloucestershire Record Series, Vol. 12, pub. The Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 1999
Campden at War
Ref: 2009/356/B
Pub. Reminisce 2004. From Geoffrey and Felicity Powell’s effects.
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The Police Station and Magistrates Court
My introduction to Chipping Campden came when an uncle (Uncle Bert) by marriage to my father’s sister, was promoted to superintendant to Campden Police Station and moved from the Central...
Charles 'Slap' Blakeman 1862 - 1930
Charles ‘Slap’ Blakeman was the son of Joseph and Ellen Blakeman and is not to be confused with the Charles Blakeman of stained glass window fame. He first appears in...
Joan Donne 1920 - 1999
The family and joining the FANYs The Donnes hailed from Weybridge, Surrey, though Joan spent many school holidays in her boarding school where she was very unhappy. At the outbreak...
Gordon Greenall 1945 - 2014
A true Campdonian of the old order Growing up with his family in Berrington Road, Gordon experienced a childhood free to roam the neighbouring countryside where he readily absorbed both...
Pat Moran 1869 - 1950
Pat Moran, a genial Irishman born in Westport, County Mayo was a widower when he was married in Brussels in 1902 to Miss Catherine Augusta Hartwell of 1 West End...
George 'Bussy' Haysum
Born in Herefordshire in 1883, George was one of ten children of parents James, a waggoner and his wife Mary. George married Mary Maria Keyte in 1907 at Saint James’s...
Father Henry Bilsborrow
Born in Lancashire in Dec 1873 Henry Leeming Bilsborrow trained for the Priesthood at Oscott College, Sutton Coldfield. A nephew of both Bishop Bilsborrow and of the Rev. James Bilsborrow,...
Charlie Veale 1866 - 1932
Though it is thought that Charlie was born in Cow Honeybourne about 1866, other census returns state that he was born in Dumbleton, Gloucestershire. He was the son of Thomas...
Maypole Dancing
Maypole dancing is a very old country custom that is still performed in Campden. At the Whit Week Floral Parade in 1897 the cart carrying the Campden maypole dancers followed...
Norton Hall Red Cross Hospital in WWI
Norton Hall is situated two miles from Mickleton, towards Weston-sub-Edge. Samuel Bruce purchased Norton Hall in 1884, moving there with his wife Louisa and four children from their main home...
Whit Week Fetes & Floral Parades
Oxo
One of the most memorable ‘gentlemen of the road’, beloved by Campden children, was Paddy, who, after placing the winning bet on Oxo in the 1959 Grand National, was thereafter...
German Prisoners of War
I married Lionel Ellis in 1939 and we purchased some land on the Aston Road and set up a nursery. During the War we employed four German prisoners from the...
George 'Ninety' Griffin
George ‘Ninety’ Griffin was born in 1874 and in the 1911 census is listed as being unmarried and living with his parents, James & Elizabeth, in Wyatt’s Yard, Campden. As...
The History of Campden House
Baptist Hicks (by kind permission of Diana Noel) Sir Baptist Hicks bought the Manor of Campden from Anthony Smyth in the first decade of the seventeenth century, although Smyth died...
Shepherd Hedges
Shepherd William Hedges was a retired shepherd living in Westington, Chipping Campden, when in 1909 Cecil Sharp collected from him a large repertoire of folk songs that included We Shepherds...
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