My name is Diana Mentor (nee Harris) and I currently live in New Zealand. I emigrated from the UK in 1954. Recently I was talking to my daughter about my ...
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Mass
We all had to attend Mass most mornings, regardless of one’s faith, it always seem so cold early in the morning and I used to feel quite ...
There have always been memorable shows and dances to entertain the people of Southam, and some residents have had their reminiscences recorded by Southam Heritage Collection.
The Sparklets
Doreen Smith remembered that her ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
William Henry Grassam was a headteacher in Warwickshire schools, including Southam and Bedworth, between 1915 and 1955. He was also an active member of the community. He married A.M. Hammond ...
Jonathan Cardall, Jack’s father, who lived in Oxford Street, Southam, started the dance band just after the first world war. In 1917 he had bought the delicensed Blue Pig Inn ...
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 ...