Thirty Years of Southam Twinning Association - May 2022 - Bill Pease
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the formal twinning of Southam with Marolles-en-Hurepoix in France. Marolles is a small rural town ...
Southam Convent Memories - March 2022 - Mary Grant
I was born in 1931. My parents were Cyril and Mary Duckett and my father worked on the farm from the age of thirteen and ...
Cardall's Corner - January 2022 - Linda Doyle
When I moved to Southam some forty years ago, I didn’t know I was returning to my ancestor’s homeland. My great grandfather x 5 was Richard Hiorns ...
Cardall's Corner - October 2021 - Linda Doyle
“The tone of The Harp is strong and clear. Likewise, so is this Harp’s beer.” That is what was written on the sign of The Harp Inn, ...
Cardall's Corner - September 2021 - Linda Doyle
Until 1760 Southam remained as open land in strips belonging to different families. The aim was to share the good and the bad strips of land between ...
Cardall's Corner - Aug 2021 - Linda Doyle
They say time flies, but was it really 8 years ago in 2013 that Victor Hodges House was demolished, along with Southam Library, to build Tithe Lodge...
Cardall's Corner - June 2021 - Pauline and Hedley Stone
Although the Crown Inn in Daventry Street is not as old as The Olde Mint, it is one of the oldest buildings in Southam. The Crown survived ...
Cardall's Corner - April 2021 - Helen Morris
The Graham Adams Centre* in St James Road Southam is a very popular and well-used community facility for Southam and surrounds - but who ...
Cardall's Corner - Feb 2020 - Bransby Thomas
In 1227 the Prior of Coventry obtained a statute allowing Southam a weekly market, thereby giving it Town status. Because of its market town status, Southam was chosen ...
Cardalls Corner - Jan 2020 - Bernard Cadogan
Southam has been around as a town, village and community for a very long time, in fact longer than many places in the country including some of our major ...
Cardall's Corner - Dec 2019 - Linda Doyle
The workhouse was the last place anyone wanted to be, whatever time of year, but especially so at Christmas. Whilst the poorest people could survive during ...
Cardall's Corner - October 2018 - by Pam McConnell
Whilst pondering the impact of the new housing estates that are springing up all around Southam I am reminded of my own family’s move to Southam in October 1960. I was six years old and we moved from an isolated tied farm cottage on the Fosse near Harbury, to a new …
