A Rambling Story
A Rambling Story - Richard Clarke - Apr 2024
On 12 November 1985 the premises now occupied by Everest Fitness in Southam High Street hosted a group dedicated to a gentler form of healthy exercise. The first Annual ...
A Rambling Story - Richard Clarke - Apr 2024
On 12 November 1985 the premises now occupied by Everest Fitness in Southam High Street hosted a group dedicated to a gentler form of healthy exercise. The first Annual ...
Vagrancy and Birth Settlement - Dr Roland Raffell - March 2024
In October 1782 a constable from Birmingham apprehended an itinerant, Richard Fairfax, who had, ‘…been lying in the open air…unable to give a good account of himself…’ On ...
Southam Friendly Society - Dr Roland Raffell - Feb 2024
It is estimated that in 1795 Southam had some 750 inhabitants, including farmers, tradesmen, publicans for its 13 ale houses and shopkeepers, together with landowners and ...
Southam on Fire - Dr Roland Raffell - Jan 2024
‘…it pleased Almighty God to lay a heavy affliction upon him by a sudden and fearful fire…his house burnt to the ground.’ Thus the local Justices of the Peace described ...
The Long Arm of the Law - Dr Roland Raffell - Dec 2023
In Southam, the role of the local constable is evident from the seventeenth century, as responsibility for local administration moved from the Lord of the Manor towards ...
Southam Zoo - Linda Doyle - Oct 2023
I moved to Southam in October 1975 and was interested to find the Zoo on the Daventry Road on the edge of town. It had been open to the public since 1966 ...
Southam's Heritage Collection: How it all began - Bernard Cadogan - Aug 2023
On Friday 18 August the volunteers of the Southam Heritage Collection invite you to one of their regular coffee mornings at St James’ Church. For anyone who has not previously attended ...
From Poverty to Vagrancy, Crime and Punishment - Roland Raffell - July 2023
In 1530 the government of Henry VIII passed into law an Act designed to deter vagrants from roaming from parish ...
Early Southam Medicine - Linda Doyle - June 2023
Of the many greatly acclaimed individuals in Southam’s history Dr Henry Lilley Smith, who developed the Eye and Ear Hospital in Warwick Road, was ...
The Coronation 70 Years Ago - May 2023 - Richard Clarke
Adapted by Richard Clarke from Rene Cardall’s article of June 2003. Following on from the Coronation of King Charles on 6 May, it is interesting to look back on the way the town celebrated the Coronation of the late Queen Elizabeth ...
Nuisances in Southam - April 2023 - Dr Roland Raffell
We have all doubtless suffered from ‘nuisances’ in our lives; however, we might like to spare a thought for our ancestors and neighbours living in Southam and the surrounding villages in the nineteenth ...
Cardall's Corner - Dec 2022 - Pam McConnell
The Robinsons did most of their Christmas shopping in Southam, getting their greeting cards from Chambers the printers and a lot of their groceries from Mr Bull’s shop on ...