Bidford-On-Avon
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Once my home
I lived here for two years in 1941/42. My father rented it from Mrs Switzer who owned Bell Court. I was ten years old and together with my parents was escaping the Birmingham bombing. I used to fish from that very unstable veranda. We later rented a home on Grange Road in Bidford.
Jack Nunn
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Once my home
I lived here for two years in 1941/42. My father rented it from Mrs Switzer who owned Bell Court. I was ten years old and together with my parents was escaping the Birmingham bombing. I used to fish from that very unstable veranda. We later rented a home on Grange Road in Bidford.
Jack Nunn
A memory of Bidford-On-Avon contributed by First Name Last Name
Present use
This building is known as "Studley Castle" and after the demise of Rover, who owned it, was sold to a hotel chain.
A memory of Studley contributed by Des Adams
Pram race
I was 10 years old when I entered the pram race. Myself and two other neighbours entered as a junior team. I was dressed up as a baby and the two other lads were dressed as mom and dad. The race went round Wooton Wawen. It started at the top of the High Street in Henley, down to the traffic lights which we had to turn right, then left up Mayswood Road. At the end of Mayswood Road we turned left on to the Stratford Road back into Henley and up the high street. We had to take it in turns to be in the pram which was difficult to get in and out of when running. The crowds up the ...read more here
A memory of Henley-In-Arden contributed by julie draper
Extracts From Bidford-On-Avon & Warwickshire books
Bidford-on-Avon is one of eight villages satirically described in a rhyme attributed to William Shakespeare and penned after a heavy drinking session. The rhyme goes: ‘Piping Pepworth, Dancing Marston, Haunted Hillborough, Hungry Grafton, Dodging Exhall, Papist Wixford, Beggarly Broom, Drunken Bidford’. This picturesque street still retains some 15th- and 16th-century half-timbered buildings.
An extract from from"English Villages".
Bidford-on-Avon is one of eight
villages satirically described in
a rhyme attributed to William
Shakespeare and penned after
a heavy drinking session. The
Bard and his cronies had a
drinking bout at this inn with
the Bidford Sippers and lost.
Too drunk to make it back to
Stratford, they slept the night
under a crab-apple tree. The
rhyme attributed to him goes:
‘Piping Pepworth,
Dancing Marston,
Haunted Hillborough,
Hungry Grafton,
Dodging Exhall,
Papist Wixford,
Beggarly Broom,
Drunken Bidford’.
An extract from from"Warwickshire Pocket Album".
About a mile from Bidford, the hamlet of Marlcliff sits snugly below the eponymous marl cliff
beside the River Avon. There are a few 17th-century cottages here, whose residents are usually
outnumbered by the anglers who throng the riverbank.
An extract from from"Warwickshire Revisited Photographic Memories".
Shakespeare knew
this 16th-century
stone building as the
Falcon Inn, and is
reputed to have drunk
there. Presumably, it
was still in business
in 1901, because the
men sitting in the
road outside all have
tankards in front of
them. The inn has
since been converted
into private homes,
and anybody hanging
around in the road
these days would
soon be squashed by
traffic.
An extract from from"Warwickshire Revisited Photographic Memories".
Though by no means
unchanged, this riverside
house is still recognisable
and has an enviable
situation. Bell Court was
originally the name of
one of the six manors
which made up medieval
Bidford. The others were
Bidford itself, Bidford
Grange, and the outlying
hamlets of Broom, Barton
and Marlcliff.
An extract from from"Warwickshire Revisited Photographic Memories".