VILLAGERS' PICTURE GALLERY
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Everyone is welcome to send in pictures of the village and its activities, whether contemporary or from the past. You can send them directly to me at [email protected].
Thanks to Peter Mackness for the following collection of spring flowers (April 2009):
The following five pictures by Peter Mackness, taken from the Magpie Road in May 2008, show the roadside verges and fields to the west of the village at their most colourful, with the yellow of the oilseed rape contrasting with the white "keck" (cow parsley):
The following nine photographs were taken by Peter and Clare Pollak and show various parts of the village after a heavy overnight snowfall in early April 2008:
Kirkleys Garden and the Church
Kirkleys Garden
Castle Hill
Castle Hill
The Church from Castle Hill
Kirkleys Garden
The village from the footpath to Barrow Hill
Buzzard over Barrow Hill - once rare in Sulgrave, now becoming a familiar sight.
This one is from Graham Roberts:
Lambs in Great Meadow, just north of the Old Railway Embankment
April 2007
The next one was sent in by Anne Wiseman, who was an evacuee to the village from London, 1940-44, living with her grandmother Alice Owen who was cook and housekeeper at Sulgrave House, in front of which this photo was taken (Read Anne's emails here):
The photo was taken after the wedding of Tom and Lily Wilcox in 1942. The following people have been tentatively identified: on the extreme left, Nurse Walters from Helmdon; bridesmaid standing next to Tom Wilcox, Lily Branson: between Lily Branson and Tom Wilcox, Tom Branson; in front of the bridegroom, Anne Wiseman herself. The bridesmaid next to Lily Wilcox was Aunt Beatty possibly related to Lily. The little boy in front was Roy Norris, lived in Wooten Bassett, related to Lily. The dog ,Betsy, belonged to Lily and Tom Wilcox. If anyone has any further information about this photograph, I would be pleased to receive it.
This picture was taken at Sulgrave Manor on the occasion of the 30th re-union of the Cave Family History Society on 23rd June 2007. Those identified in the picture are (1) Brian Cave, a descendant of the Cave family of Sulgrave, (2) Alec Cave of Sulgrave, (3) Emma Cave of Sulgrave, (4) Janet Cave of Sulgrave, (5) Hugh Cave, founder of the Cave Family History Society, (6) Anne Watts, (7) Peggy Heasman. The Cave family were, in fact, the last inhabitants of the Manor before it became the Washington Museum in the 1920s. Here is a picture from 1912 of Frank Cave with his sister and daughter in the Manor’s 18th Century parlour.
