Napton Windmill is a red brick tower mill with batter, built about 1835. It had a dome cap, windows , acorn finial, three pairs of stones and originally had two ...
Nathaniel Hawthorne is one of America’s most celebrated writers, especially famed for The Scarlet Letter of 1850. He stayed in Leamington three times, including Lansdowne Circus in 1857. On his ...
I did the bulk of my National Service at RAF Gaydon, April 1958 to December 1959. I was in equipment accounting and as I arrived as the 1,000 hours flying ...
I’m very excited to share the news that we’ll be holding an outdoor screening at the record office itself in Warwick in September.
Venues and dates have been secured for the Near Belonging exhibition. There’s now a really comprehensive tour in place with just one set of dates still to be confirmed.
The Near Belonging group meeting at Warwickshire County Record Office has been making what I suggested could be called ‘archive box homes’.
Part of the ‘adoption’ process for participants has been having their portrait made in a similar pose or style to the archive image. Very few people like having their photograph ...
This month is all about sharing and being brave, which is why I’m finally publishing thoughts and experiences from the project here, online.
This is more a pictures than words update, as the merged new and old portraits are now all complete and have been shared with participants, so I’d love to share them here too
Near Belonging has evolved unusually, in that the activity has happened simultaneously in three groups
We’ve recently held the test screening so participants and close friends of the project could see, and share feedback on, the first edit.
I loo for the youngest, oldest, most decayed, most unusual, most striking images. My selection was roughly representative but also inevitably personal.
1 Part of a complex of cropmarks.
3 A very limited area of the cursus at Barford was excavated in 1972-73, confirming its shape, size and position, and (because it was ...
The site of a partially destroyed Neolithic cursus. The cursus was partially excavated in order to determine its shape and size. It can be seen as a cropmark on aerial photographs. It is located 400m south east of Barford Sheds.
1 Flint implements including barbed and tanged arrowheads have been found in these fields.
2 Hundreds of flint implements, flakes and cores have been found. The area is probably an occupation ...
A flint scatter of Neolithic or Bronze Age date was found 250m south west of Lower Rock Farm.
1 Two ring ditches show as cropmarks.
2 One of the ring ditches has internal pits and looks like the Neolithic/Bronze Age hengiform structure at Barford (PRN 718).
3 Noted.
Two possible ring ditches, which date to the Neolithic and Bronze Age, are visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs. They are located 900m north west of Charlecote House.
1 At Newnham Regis, between Brinklow and Wolston, there are signs of ancient habitations, and three sepulchral urns were found there some time ago.
2 Near the site of the demolished ...
The site of several ring ditches of Neolithic or Bronze Age date. Some of the ring ditches have been partially excavated and interpreted as the remains of a henge, enclosure and barrow. The ring ditches are situated 700m east of Bretford.
