The Pendicle and the tragic Edmunds Family
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 ...
Local Archaeology
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...
The Crown Inn and Adjacent Properties
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 ...
Who Was Graham Adams?
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 ...
Southam Magistrate’s Court
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 ...
Southam’s Oldest House
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 ...
Christmas in Southam Workhouse
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 ...
A New Home in Southam
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 …
Southam’s Workhouse
Cardall's Corner - June 2018 - By Linda Doyle
Today, Southam’s Primary School stands where once stood Southam’s solemn and imposing Victorian workhouse (see photograph from 1910). It was a domineering place built in 1837 on Welsh Road West, then called Workhouse Road. The enclosure of land at Southam in 1761 brought to a head the need to provide for the poor …
Southam’s Rectory
Cardall's Corner - May 2018 - By Linda Doyle
Over the years Southam town centre has had many changes, but one of the more dramatic was when the old Southam Rectory (see picture) was pulled down in the 1960s to make way for a new library, police station and magistrate’s court. ...
Henry Lilley Smith
Cardall's Corner - April 2018 - By Pam McConnell
The 13th April this year marks the 200th anniversary of a meeting held at the Craven Arms Inn that established Southam’s Eye and Ear Infirmary in Warwick Road. In the days before the NHS, all medical treatment had to be paid for, and this Infirmary in Southam was the first of its ...
Southam Coat of Arms
CARDALLS CORNER - December 2017 - by Bill Pease
The arms and crest of Southam are familiar but how many of us know their origins and meaning? They were granted by the College of Arms to Southam Rural District Council on 19th May 1959. The red and silver of the shield are the basic colours of the arms of both Warwickshire County Council and [...]