Author: Antony Farmer
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Village May Queens
For many years the Village May Day celebrations included the crowning of a May Queen. Other village children were also given roles in the ceremony, such as May Queen Assistant or Maypole Bearer. Although not officially recorded, it has been possible to build up a provisional list of Village May Queens covering the first half… Read more
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Spring Festivals – May Day and Empire Day
The Traditional May Day Festival was celebrated in the two villages for many years. The May Day Festival and Parade is discussed here, and the May Queen celebrations are discussed here. A list of the Village May Queens has also been compiled. The village school also closed for the May Day festival up until the… Read more
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King’s Newnham and Church Lawford Triennial Show 1900
The local press carried a detailed report on the 1900 King’s Newnham and Church Lawford Triennial Show – this version is from the Coventry Herald. Read more
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King’s Newnham and Church Lawford Triennial Show 1914
The local press reported on the 1914 Village Show – this extract is from the Coventry Standard of 31st July 1914. Read more
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Village Stocks From Another Angle
Following the extensive searches and digging into sets of old photographs quite a few pictures of the Village Green in olden times have been found – as detailed here. Additionally there is the debate about the Village Stocks which had further pictures, albeit being rather grainy newspapers copies – shown here. Some of these pictures… Read more
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Rugby Borough
Rugby Borough was created on 1st April 1974 when the existing Town council was merged with Rugby Rural District, which had looked after the affairs of the local villages for 80 years. It inherited control of all of the various services previous provided by the individual councils – see here for the details of how… Read more
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Rugby Rural District Council
The 1894 Local Government Act introduced elected councils at both district and parish level. The town of Rugby already had a local council at this stage (known as an urban district from 1894), but a separate council was created in 1894 known as the Rugby Rural District Council, which brought together the parishes in a… Read more
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Village Directory 1956
This was the first directory to incorporate the Airey Houses, shown at the end as the block of 12 houses in “Newnham Lane”. Somewhat confusingly, the original Council House numbers are also used for Newnham Lane in the main body of the directory. The houses in what became Coronation Road some years later are numbered… Read more
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Protected: Old School Photographs (Private Page)
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. Read more
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Scholars
The pictures of the schoolchildren in these pictures are 90-100 years old, and it may prove difficult to recognise faces apart from family similarities or perhaps a copy of one or more of these photos might be in a family archive. The last two of the four class pictures do have a little more information.… Read more