Dunchurch Stocks and Weighing House

Dunchurch stocks, weighing house and Dun Cow inn ca. 1900

Courtesy of Warwickshire CC, Rugby Library Local Studies Collection; WCRO PH827/5/34; photographer Rev. E. Dew

Dunchurch stocks on the green, 2015

Anne Langley

The Dun Cow at Dunchurch as it is today (2014)

Anne Langley

Continuing our diversion from the river Avon: the stocks in Dunchurch still survive, though I think they must have been moved because it proved impossible to take a photo similar to the old one. There’s a maypole on the green now, which is used each year. The Dun Cow is still a flourishing pub, though no longer a coaching inn. The statue of Lord John Scott is dressed up in December each year in the costume of a currently famous character: this year (2015) it is a Stormtrooper from the latest Star Wars film.

Weighing house

The weighing house shown in the original photo provided a base for the man checking the weight of vehicles on a nearby plate in the road; it has since disappeared. (The building in the middle distance of the modern photograph is a thatched bus shelter.)

A trip down the River Avon revisited

This is part of a series of ‘before and after’ photographs based on the Rev. E.N. Dew’s lantern slides for a talk about the Warwickshire Avon. The original photos date from around 1900 and the linked article explains the history of the photographs.