Stretton on Dunsmore History Society

Anne Langley

Local historian Anne Langley is secretary of the Stretton History Society; she has published booklets on 'Victorian Village Life', 'Brandon Silk Mill' and 'Warwick County Asylum' and edited a collection of Joseph Ashby's writing. She offers illustrated talks on the following. No fee, but a modest donation to 'Cruse Bereavement Care' is requested. Contact her at 12 Squires Road, Stretton on Dunsmore, Rugby CV23 9HF or telephone 02476 542703 for further details.

• Early photographs of Rugby and surrounding villages (NEW)

• My great-grandfather built railways in Japan (NEW)

• The Rev. EN Dew's trip down the River Avon around 1900 (NEW)

• History is all around us (look at your locality with new eyes) (NEW)

• The sinking of the Titanic (from contemporary accounts) (NEW)

• Tithe maps and documents for family and local historians

• Victorian Village Life

• The Victorian Village School

• Joseph Ashby's Victorian Warwickshire

• Warwick County Asylum: the first reformatory in Warwickshire

• Brandon Silk Mill and child labour

• Local almshouses (within Warwickshire)

• Early Allotments in Warwickshire

• Joseph Elkington, 18 th century agricultural drainage pioneer

• Bertie Greatheed's 18 th century grand tour of Europe

• Researching and/or writing the history of your community