NEWSLETTER 14th June 2019
Social Evening on Friday 21st June
hosted by Ilona and David at
Westcote Manor Farm, Edgehill, OX15 6HS
This June our Members and guests are invited to a relaxed buffet with refreshments at Westcote Manor Farm, from 6.30pm to 9.30pm, on our usual third Friday of the month.
Directions.
From Kineton, take the Banbury Road to the top of the Knoll, past the Castle Inn in Edgehill on the right and continue out of the village for about half a mile, until the isolated cottages and private lane appear on the right. (If you reach the T junction with the A422 Stratford Road you have overshot by about 200m). Take the single-track lane, after a few hundred metres it dives down a very steep hill through a wood (no passing places). At the hairpin bend at the bottom bear right. Keep going for a couple of hundred metres to the stable and barn, opposite which will be a signed car park in the field on the left. The house is down the track another 50 metres.
Your satnav (OX15 6HS) will probably get you most of the way but tends to leave you with our neighbours at Westcote Manor. To avoid this be sure to keep right at the hairpin at the bottom of the steep single-track through the wood.
Adventurous members who would like to stroll in the fields (over the remains of Westcote deserted medieval village) are advised to wear suitable footwear.
If the steps to our house could present a difficulty there is access via a grassy ramp but surfaces etc can be rural and uneven.
To help us with catering etc, if you intend to come and if you hadn’t already signed up at the May meeting, could you please reply to this email or phone 01295 670675 or 01295 670516, preferably by Wednesday evening.
We look forward to seeing you, and hope for a fine evening in all senses!
Ilona and David
Summer Outings 2019
CHIPPING CAMPDEN 10.30am Saturday July 13th
Meet at at the Chipping Campden Market Hall for guided walk Cost £5.00
Pre Chipping Campden : Cotswold Stone, Chipping Camden 1
Romans, Saxons , Normans, Domesday book, the start of “Chipping”,
Medieval: wool trade, growth of Campden
( architectural changes to the houses ) , –
Grevil House 
and Woolstaplers House
17th Century : Baptist Hicks, Campden House,
Banqueting Houses, Almhouses, Market Hall
Civil War , visit to St. James’ church
18th and 19th Century – Inclosure Act; Silk Mill. Palladian Architecture changes
Early 20th Century – Arts and Crafts in Campden visit to Silversmiths ,
IRONBRIDGE GORGE
All Day Coach Trip Saturday 10th August
Meet at 8.45am St Peter’s Church, Kineton Cost £32.00 includes all entrance fees
We will visit the Coalbrookdale Musem of Iron, Blists Hill Victorian Town, the iconic bridge itself and other historic industrial sites in Ironbridge Gorge.
The Severn valley from Coalbrookdale to Coalport is one of the firsy UK monuments to be inscribed as a World Heritage Site, as a cradle of the Industrial revolution.
Blists Hill Victorian Town is a recreation of a 19th century
industrial settlement, inhabited by re-enactors. It has many catering and shopping opportunities.
All sites have disabled access except for the upper floor of the Toll House near the bridge
If you have not already signed up and you wish to join either of these outings please contact Isobel Gill on 01926 640426 or email: isobel.mirador.gill@gmail.com or reply to this Newsletter email
Report on the 15th May meeting. Our last meeting was billed as a double act by Martin Russell and Tony McKay entitled “Unravelling the Cropredy Campaign 1644”, but in the event we were treated to a passionate solo exposition by Martin who described the Civil War skirmishes along the Cherwell. Martin detailed the characters and numbers involved, and the strategic and tactical motives behind the separate armies’ moves. His research offered a radical reinterpretation, based on an intimate study of the terrain, which included a scale model of the relief and roads, coupled with a detailed examination of the contemporary written accounts.
The topic chimed with the Civil War Loss Accounts Transcription project, which in my last newsletter I mistakenly credited to the Warwickshire Record Office, but which was initiated by, and is led by Dr Maureen Harris, with funding from the Dugdale Society supported by the Friends of Warwickshire County Record Office, with the assistance of the Record Office itself. We look forward to the eventual Dugdale Society publication of the transcriptions, edited by Maureen.
Other Events.
Warmington Heritage Group
Thursday June 20th 2019 7.30pm
Warmington Village Hall
The Wroxton Mineral Railway
By Chris Hone
Chris has recently published a book about the railway and will give an illustrated talk followed by an opportunity to walk part of the tracks on the following Saturday.
Members free, visitors £2, or join us for £10 a year.
World War 2 Oral Histories. A website founded by broadcaster and historian, Dan Snow, and author and broadcaster, James Holland, WarGen (http://wargen.org) is a crowd-sourced online repository of oral-history from the people who lived through World War 2. As well as containing varied stories from this fast disappearing generation, this group is now looking for individuals to join their volunteer team as interviewers in their local communities. They are also eager to hear from people who might have their own stories to tell. If you are interested in either becoming an interviewer or sharing your story, please contact Shane Greer at shane@wargen.org
Heritage and Culture Warwickshire (HCW) has just launched a new project called Warwickshire Bytes. The project has several strands – all digital. HCW are inviting people to get involved with online indexing of documents held at the County Record Office, starting with court depositions from the 19th and early 20th century. No prior knowledge is necessary and full support is given. Another aspect is Warwickshire in 100 objects and stories. HCW are asking people to contribute objects and stories to the Our Warwickshire website so they can create a People’s History of the county. Click here for more information:
Monday 24 June Leamington History Group, Dormer Conference Centre, Dormer Place, 7.30pm: Sheila Woolf on Here Come the Girls.
KDLHG Committee Matters.
The next Committee meeting is on Monday 1st of July at 7.30pm, again at Catherine’s home.
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DF 14.06. 2019