Moreton Paddox
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Waifs and Strays Society
From approximately 1939-1945 the house was taken over by the Waifs and Strays Society becoming a home for 40 boys. They had moved from Chislehurst, Kent. The house was also used as a landmark by German bombers during their attacks on Coventry.
A memory of Warwick contributed by Ronald Forrest
George Goode
George Goode who was born at Wappenbury in the 1840s was one of the builders who worked constructing this church. He was my great grandfather on my father's side of the family. His daughter was Ellen Louisa Goode who married Thomas Pratt. He was once an officer at the Reformatory at Weston under Wetherley. He later became a master baker and became baker at Moreton Morrell.
A memory of Leamington Spa contributed by susan Dyke
My Banbury gran's village.
My grandmother's name was Amelia Gough and she lived in the second cottage on the right at the bottom of the green on the road to Mollington, water was collected by bucket over the road from a tap in the vicarage wall. She had two children Arthur and Mary, my mother. We lived in Oxford and visited every two weeks arriving Saturday and going back to Oxford Sunday. We went by train to Banbury stopping at every village on the way, then caught a little yellow and green bus to Warmington. I made a lot of friends with the local children, we spent most of the time roaming round the fields, helping on the farm just below the cottages with a ...read more here
A memory of Warmington contributed by Michael Bennett
Markham's of Bascote
My husbands family were from Bascote. His ancestor Edwin Markham moved there as an ag labourer in the 1870s. His wife Maria died shortly after, and he married again. He had very many children, and used to drink at the Fox and Hen pub - the landlords were witnesses at his wedding! Sadly his cottage, by the pub, has been demolished, but his children all stayed local to Bascote when they grew up; one of his sons died in the Great War, and is named on the Bascote Heath memorial.
A memory of contributed by rebekah markham
Extracts From Moreton Paddox & Warwickshire books
The Lucy family
owned Charlecote
from c1200 until
1945 when they gave
it to the National
Trust, though the
family still lives
there. The present
house was begun in
1558, but has been
much altered since.
It has had its share
of illustrious visitors,
including Elizabeth I
in 1572, and Charles I
in 1642, shortly before
the Battle of Edgehill.
An extract from from"Warwickshire Revisited Photographic Memories".
The creators of the
impressive neo-Jacobean
panelling probably never
expected that it would one
day be partnered with a
set of utilitarian chairs that
would look more at home in
a village hall.
An extract from from"Warwickshire Revisited Photographic Memories".
Moreton Paddox featured profuse neo-Jacobean decoration in wood and plaster in most areas,
including the main staircase, as we see here. But other periods featured too: the stone-vaulted
chapel was Gothic, and the bedrooms were decorated in an assortment of 17th- and 18th-century styles.
An extract from from"Warwickshire Revisited Photographic Memories".
The large windows
were essential
in a room which
contained so much
dark panelling.
Even so, it must
have felt gloomy
at times, and the
functional mid-
20th-century
furniture does
nothing to
improve matters,
looking ugly and
incongruous in
such a setting.
An extract from from"Warwickshire Revisited Photographic Memories".
An extract from from"Leamington Spa Town and City Memories".