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Signpost 2 Spring 2015
Issue No. 2 of Signpost includes articles on Robert Harris, a Puritan Divine, by Allan Warmington, reprinted from CADHAS Newsletter 25 (1992); The Cotterells of Campden by Bernard Allen; Bernard...
Dorothy Stanley (nee Meadows) at school
Dorothy Stanley I just longed to go to school – to be clever like my brother, Joe, who had been there for two years and could read and write. So,...
George III Spade Guinea token
Ref: 2001/035/G
A George III Spade Guinea token. Found in Westington Mill garden.
Signpost 6 Spring 2017
Contents: Dorothy Hodgkin – Cotswold Heroine Vivienne McGhee Campden Residents and the Faggot Votes In Rutland Vanessa Doe Cartomancy in the Cotswolds Richard Kaczynski Boys Brigade Judith Ellis Did You...
Signpost 5 Winter 2016
This edition includes: Our Campden Friend – Hon. Gerard Eyre Wriothesley Noel – An Appreciation by Carol Jackson J.B. Priestley and the Formation of the AONB by Vivienne McGhee Rabbit...
Unknown soldiers
Can you tell us anything about this photo? It looks like the uniform of a Scottish regiment....
Whitechapel Bell Foundry
On 1st December 2016 Whitechapel Bell Foundry, established in 1570, issued a Press Release: Whitechapel Bell Foundry Ltd announces, with regret, that by May 2017 it will cease its activities...
Chipping Campden Schooldays in the 1920s & 30s
Infant School Starting school at 4 years old, one of my earliest memories of infant school is of our teacher Miss Warner. A kindly lady, she was lame and walked...
Rigobert (Fred) Stange POW
A young German soldier, Rigobert Stange, spent his 17th birthday in a British POW camp in St. Albans, with little celebration, and shortly afterwards, around early 1945, was sent to...
Wentworth Huyshe
Wentworth Huyshe was born on 13 April 1847, the son of Alfred Huyshe. In overlapping phases he was journalist, historian, translator, designer, composer and actor, but being a writer suited...
Smiths Butchers - end of an era
Sadly ‘Smiths the Butchers’ has closed after 100 years in business. However, the new owners have re-opened the shop as a butchers and delicatessen, Fillet and Bone. Lewis Smith outside...
The Campden House Project
Painting of Campden House showing how it might have looked. From 2016 to 2018, with the permission of The Landmark Trust, Scheduled Monument Consent and a grant from the Heritage...
Campden Cricket Club
Campden Football Club
Made with stone-milled flour
As a young boy I remember the four water-powered flour mills that were all flourishing in Campden at that time. If my memory serves me right they were: Westington, Haydon,...
'Campden violets' scent bottle
Ref: 2003/108/Art
“Campden Violets” scent bottle, with a picture of St James’ Church and a thatched cottage in front of it.
Unconsidered Trifles - Sundials, Scrapers & Knockers
Sundial in High Street Sundials People have always needed to know the time and sundials were used long before there were any clocks. Even when clocks and watches had been...
Signpost 4 Spring 2016
The Spring 2016 edition of ‘Signpost’ includes articles on: the Hicks and Noel monuments in St James’ Church Woodroffe windows in Leatherhead and Cardiff William Wray’s last years Mihály John...
Campden's Olympic Gold Medallist
Constable Fred Merriman Frederick “Fred” Harris Merriman (18 May 1873 – 27 June 1940) Frederick was the second son of Philip and Dinah Merriman, who had six other children: William...
Campden Boys Brigade
The Boys’ Brigade was founded 1883 in Glasgow by William Alexander Smith. Its aims were the advancement of Christ’s Kingdom among boys and the promotion of habits of Reverence, Discipline,...
Signpost 3 Winter 2015
Issue 3 includes articles on: Paul Woodroffe’s Stained Glass, by Carol Jackson, William Bartholomew’s Sermon of May 1660, by Jill Wilson Traditional Cotswold Roofs by Roger Johnson “A Campden Cricketer...
The Old Silk Mill
After the fine old buildings of Campden such as the Almshouses, St James Church, Grevel House and the Market Hall , it is perhaps unexpected to find an 18th century...
Signs and ancillary artefacts
Working Life in Photographs
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