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The Cardall Collection originated in the middle of the 20th century when a local Southam man, Jack Cardall, started writing about the history of Southam, a market town in South Warwickshire. The Collection grew as local people offered Jack collectable items relating to the town. For many years the Collection was housed in Jack’s house and after his death it was looked after by his widow, Rene Cardall. Eventually the Collection numbered approximat...
Docking Heritage group was set up in 2007 as part of the ARCH project, Archiving Rural Community History. Our aim is to record, preserve and present the history of DOCKING through various media and in a way that encourages people to take an interest in and appreciate their local heritage. Since then we have grown to about 20 members all with diverse interests but all dedicated to archiving our village history. We have a permanent home, the Tony A...
...Phyllis Lindsay Excellent site plus the map. Our forebearers were evicted from the Strath Kildonan in 1813. They came from Aultbreakachy & Kennacoil. We found Aultbreakachy on the map but cannot find Kennacoil. Can you tell us where it in? Maybe Loth parish? Thank you, Mrs. P. Lindsay, Canada *** ***plindsay@islandnet.com...
Bampton Community Archive Founded in 2001, Bampton Community Archive was set up to gather historical and contemporary records and information about Bampton and its surrounding villages. We are based in the Old Grammar School, Bampton, itself an extraordinary inheritance for the village from the will of a local wool merchant in 1635, who left money for the construction of the building and an endowment for the running of a school. The Archive has o...
‘Connecting Histories‘ is an innovative partnership project led by Birmingham City Archives, the University of Birmingham, Warwick University and ‘Black Pasts, Birmingham Futures’ and supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund. Running from April 2005 to July 2007, it aims to increase access to culturally diverse archive collections, promote learning and community engagement. The project will be working with a range of collections reflecting a number...
...sense the data is stored in text files, the data is indexed by a free-text search package and the application is written in Python, Javascript, HTML5 and CSS under a CC license. I was able to extract the content of the database tables to recover the data. This is not without problems, for example discovering the meaning of the numbers in the hotspot table took a while and I am still not sure of the correct meaning of the numbers in some of the cat...
