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Our thanks to Robert Howe who produced a very interesting paper on the Alderminster War Memorial which is situated in the Church at Alderminster by way of a plaque on the wall. He has researched the names of the people on the memorial and his paper and findings are downloadable by clicking on the appropriate document at the right hand side of this page.
Robert Howe has been trawling the archives at the Stratford Herald and has found the three documents describing weddings that have taken place in Alderminster prior to the second world war. The documents can be downloaded from the documents on the right. They certainly knew how to describe weddings in days gone by! A good source of information of past weddings in Alderminster is to click on http://parishroots.co.uk/content/alderminster-marriages-1613-1812?page=0,4 The period covered by this link is 1613-1812 only.
Thanks to David Hathaway a one time resident of Alderminster who sent in the cutting from a Church magazine from 1940 giving details of the death of John Hathaway and the 'calling to the colours' of the then church organist Mr. W.Haylock. To read the full content please download the article on the right hand side of this page.
A photograph was sent to me by the grandson of George and Edith Hampton who lived at No.56 from the end of the war until about 1950, when they moved to Cornwall. Later this property and its neighbours was converted into one house and is now known as Quince Cottage. Ian Hampton, their son, went to the school in Alderminster. The photograph can be viewed amongst our photographs that are published on our flickr pages via our photographs link http://www.alderminster-pc.gov.uk/Photographs.cfm?source=left
Thanks to Phil Oliver, George and Edith's grandson, for the information and photograph.
The following information has also been kindly supplied by David Hathaway.
The following properties in the village were built, in the 1920's, by his grandfather Mr. Harry Ward, however the order in which they were built is a little uncertain. Harry had lived with his family at nos. 52 and 63 Alderminster before embarking on his building projects.
Mr. Ward was a resident of Alderminster until his death on September 7th 1941. He left Alderminster for Australia in 1911 and returned in 1914. On his return he returned to build some houses in the village and these properties carried some design features, eg. a verandah, that he had observed in Australia and they all bore the names of places he had seen in Western Australia. He built one property then lived in it whilst he built the next. In 1927 he left Alderminster again for Australia for a while, where he worked on the building of the Sydney Harbour Bridge for a company called Dorman Long of Middlesborough.
Cartref (now called the Summer House - No.63 Alderminster)
Glenavon (now called Churchavon)
Bondi
Sunnyhurst
Sunnydale
Sir Robert Keith Arbuthnot, fourth baronet, 1864-1916 son of Sir William W. Arbuthnot. third baronet was born in Alderminster and his mother,Alice Margaret Thompson, was the daughter of the local vicar Revd. Matthew C. Thompson. Where he was born in Alderminster remains undiscovered - if you know please contact the web master at info@alderminster-pc.gov.uk. If you click on the download at the right hand side of this page you can read all about his heroic exploits in the Navy. There is quite a lot about him on various websites if you wish to learn more about this man. One link is http://wapedia.mobi/en/Arbuthnot_Baronets.
08/01/1944 Wellington LN241 of 23 OTU was practicing single engine flying when the engine cut out. The aircraft hit an HT cable at Alderminster and crashed before an engine could be re-started. Sgt F W Dolter RCAF and his crew were unhurt. Sgt Dolter went to 424 Squadron, from where he was posted missing when Halifax LW157 failed to return from Aachen on 24-25/05-1944.
Has anyone any further information about this incident?
Two paintings are for sale on the following website the subject of which are two Old Cottages in Alderminster, near Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. The first and slightly larger painting depicts a row of timber-framed thatched cottages with figures to the foreground. The second painting shows a large timber-framed thatched cottage with two figures and another cottage in the background. Click on the download button on the right to view these superb paintings.
The Paintings
A pair of watercolours measuring 9" x 12" and 8½" x 12". The first has an old label verso, inscribed in ink "Old Cottages in Alderminster, Painted by Sir Henry Dryden Bart." The second has the same inscription verso in a later hand. It is very similar to a watercolour in the Henry Dryden Collection at Northampton Central Library (accession no. DR/39/003), which was painted on 22 August 1861.
About the Artist
Sir Henry Edward Leigh Dryden, Bart. (1818-1899) was the eldest son of the Rev. Sir Henry Dryden of Canons Ashby, Northamptonshire. He was educated at Shrewsbury School under the celebrated Headmaster, Dr Samuel Butler. On the death of his father in 1837, he became the owner of Canons Ashby. He was an enthusiastic archaeologist and antiquary and is particularly remembered for his skill and accuracy in producing thousands of architectural and archaeological drawings. The Sir Henry Dryden collection in Northamptonshire Central Library includes thousands of Dryden’s drawings, plans and notes that were presented to the town of Northampton after his death in 1899 by his only daughter, Miss Alice Dryden. Dryden's work includes studies of buildings and historic sites and monuments throughout Britain and Europe, occasionally providing the only record of structures that have not survived.
The following link will take you to a story on the BBC website which tells the story of a young boy who was evacuated to Alderminster during the Second World War. Click on http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/36/a1949736.shtml to read it.
Robert Howe, whilst researching local history, came upon this story from about 1880 published in the local newspaper - click on the link at the right hand side for the full story.
On Friday May 11th 1888 a GRAND CONCERT was held in the School Room in aid of the debt on the Church Restoration Fund. The doors opened at 7pm and the concert began at 7.30pm. The programme for the evening is produced on this page. To view it please click on the link at the side of this page. From looking at the Census records for 1881 the Steel Family ran the Post Office which was situated in those days at Number 27 Alderminster. The Timperley's appear to have been relatives of the Steels.
There is a photograph of the old Post Office at Number 27 on the photographs page on this website. Just follow the links to get there.
If you want to know who lived at your house in 1881 you can find a copy of the census records by clicking on the following link www.hunimex.net/warwick/freecens/2478.html and then page down some way to Folio 78 Page 1. Most of the houses that existed in 1881 are recognisable and if your house was built by that time you should be able to find out who lived there.
A source of reference for the history of the Church can be found at the following website click on the link:
http://www.crsbi.ac.uk/ed/wa/alder/index.htm
Click on the link at the right hand side of this page to read about the antics of Revd. Swanne of Alderminster in 1666 and other information about the church.
The following is the published will of Revd. Rice found at the National Archives website:
Reverend Bernard Rice (1747-1810) DR 724/2 [n.d.]
[no title] DR 724/2/1 1847
Contents:
Double probate copy will (8 October 1808) and codicil (10 June 1809) of Reverend Bernard Rice of Alderminster:
To wife Alice: household effects in Vicarage plus horse and cow
To Susan Alibone: £20
Residue of personal estate, cash and securities to nephews William Wells and John Gill in trust to convert and invest in parliamentary stock, public funds, government or real securities and pay interest to wife Alice for life, then 100 guineas to son Vincent Rice, clerk in the India Office, who has had considerable sum already spent on his advancement. Residue in trust for 5 younger children viz: Susanna, Edward, David, Bernard and John to be received equally at 21.
Trustees and wife appointed executors.
Codicil: Revokes appointment of William Wells and replaces him with his brother Edward Wells.
Alice also made a trustee.
Stipulation that books not to be sold but divided among children.
Double probate:
February 1811: Grant to Alice Rice with reservation to Gill and Wells.
13 December 1847: Grant to Gill with reservation to Wells
A source of reference for the history of Alderminster (Includes the Church) can be found at the following website click on the link:
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=42846#n34
Child pages
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Plumb Brothers fatality >
A Drowning in the River Stour at Alderminster 1905
In the churchyard at St Mary and the Holy Cross in Alderminster there is a grave containing the bodies of two brothers Francis George and Amos Richard Plumb who were sadly drowned in a swimming accident in June 1905,
The memorial to the two brothers is described in an article from the
Downloads:
Grand Concert Programme 1888 (122KB PDF)
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A heartless Alderminster man (92KB PDF)
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Sir Henry Dryden paintings (54KB PDF)
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Church Information from 1940 re John Hathaway (331KB PDF)
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Hutchings - Taylor Wedding details (692KB PDF)
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Jacques - Baker wedding (852KB PDF)
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Jaques - Hollins Wedding (1736KB PDF)
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Revd. Swanne of Alderminster (25KB PDF)
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Sir Robert Keith Arbuthnot (29KB PDF)
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WW1 Memorial Details (120KB PDF)
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