Welsh Road East and Welsh Road West are so called because they are the route of the old drovers’ road through Southam that dates from way back before the Elizabethan ...
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Southam Heritage Collection
Tithe Place
High Street
Southam
CV47 0HB
1 Limeworks started by Mr Oldham in 1854, taken over by Tatham, Kay and Co in 1868 and by the Rugby Portland Cement Co in 1934. Commencing initially in Long ...
Southam Cement Works and quarry, described as 'Long Itchington Cement and Lime Works' in the Ordnance Survey map of 1886. From the middle of the 19th century production expanded and came under different owners. The site is now a concrete waste.
In 2001 a group of 12 ladies got together to create a series of embroidered panels that told the story of Southam from 998 AD to 1902 AD. The secretary of ...
in our 2020 calendar. A large A3 picture with associated artifacts and stories, from household items to gruesome pre-1950s medical items. A quiz, Christmas cards to colour and others to ...
At the time of writing, Southam’s Market Hill and High Street is having its appearance dramatically changed. The town centre ‘regeneration’ project is under way, and the new Tithe Lodge ...
Local man sails away into the blue from Kent to Kettering (Tasmania). How a long weekend on a Thames sailing barge turned into the voyage of a lifetime on a ...
Today we are used to instant communication to all parts of the globe and it is difficult for young people to imagine what it was like before telephone use became ...
Southam Twinning Association was formed in 1991. This was the culmination of some four years of preparatory work following an initial public meeting called by the Mayor, Ken Connolly, in ...
April 7th, is the 100th Anniversary of the official opening of the Southam WW1 Red Cross Hospital in 1917. Open for just two years, the hospital treated approximately 1,000 wounded ...
