Category Archives: Timeline
Ratley
The Girls Friendly Society festival held at Upton House. About 100 were present.
Banbury Guardian, August 1914
Fenny Compton Wharf Sale Yard
10 August 1914
250 fat sheep, fat beast, calves and pigs.
John Margetts and Sons Auctioneers
Sale starts at 2.30 pm
Banbury Guardian, August 1914
Primitive Methodist Rally
Primitive Methodist open air rally at Edgehill.
Banbury Guardian, August 1914
Gaydon Flower Show
The weather militated against the success of the twenty third annual show at Gaydon on Thursday…. Mrs Wake, cook at Bitham House, Avon Dassett judged the cookery classes.
Banbury Guardian, August 1914
Inquest into the Death of Mary Padbury
6 August 1914
Fenny Compton Reading Room
Inquest into death of Mary Padbury, 56 suffering from cancer, slit throat with a razor to relieve breathing. Dr Elkington said that death was not due to the injury caused by the wound and his opinion was in any circumstances the deceased would not have lived more than two or three days. She died two days after the wounds was inflicted. A verdict was returned in accordance with the medical evidence.
Banbury Guardian, August 1914
Farnborough Hall
Farnborough
Mr WG Waldron has returned from the Argentine and is in residence in Farnborough Hall.
Banbury Guardian, August 1914
Bitham House Party
August 5 1914
Miss Perry entertained a large party at Bitham House on Thursday afternoon. Among those present were Lady Mordaunt and Miss Mordaunt, Lady Fairfax Lucy and party, Hon Mrs Stourton and Miss Stourton, Hon Mrs North and Miss North, Mrs Fitzgerald and the Misses Fitzgerald, Hon Mrs Verney and Miss Verney, Hon Mrs Basil Hanbury, Hon Mrs Roger North, Major and the Hon Mrs Annesley, Sir Michael and Lady Lakin, Mrs Cartwright, Lady Stonhouse, Captain and Mrs Allfrey, Mr de Trafford, Mr Wyre, Colonel and Mrs Beech and many others.
Banbury Guardian, August 1914
Warwickshire Yeomanry Mobilises
All four Squadrons of the Regiment mobilised between 5th and 10th August 1914 and camped on Warwick Common on 10th August.
Warwickshire Yeomanry Sergeants on Warwick Common in August 1914.
Picture published here with kind permission of the Trustees of The Warwickshire Yeomanry Museum.
Herbert Henry Wadland
On 5th August 1914 Herbert Henry Wadland is mobilised. He had been a soldier in the Warwickshire Yeomanry since 1908.