Local and Family History

THere are many interesting folders on open display available for reference. 

​all of these can be viewed in the Museum at your leisure.

HERE ARE JUST SOME OF THEM:

  • WW1 “Letters to Harold”: 18 letters written by J W (Jack) Mason RE 1916-1918 to schoolboy Harold Greening.
  • Emma Dent’s 1877 Annals of Winchcombe and Sudeley (scanned copy) on open display.
  • Extracts from Books in Winchcombe Parish Church by Thomas Webb 1894.
  • Winchcombe WW1 VAD Hospital photographs.
  • Katherine Parr and Frederick Simmons.
  • Winchcombe Infant School 1868-1872 transcribed by Judith Pugh.
  • Winchcombe 18th and 19th century clock makers and their clocks by Mike Lovett.
  • 1st Gloucester Volunteer Royal Engineers “G” Company (Winchcombe) 1889-1907.
  • Correspondence between Harold Greening & H J Massingham (and others) on Winchcombe life & people 1936-1948 Transcribed by Bridget Yates.
  • Waterhatch - The farmhouse and work on the farm in 1950s photographs.
  • Changing Traders 1880s-1980s. 100 years of Winchcombe shops & adverts.
  • Winchcombe’s old fire engine, 1789-1891.
  • Winchcombe 1939-1945. People, past and present, write about their lives in Winchcombe in the war years.
  • Winchcombe schools, where and when? Plus information on schools’ items in the collection.
  • St Kenelm, his legend and Winchcombe.
  • Winchcombe Court of Petty Sessions, 1877-1894. The Museum’s two Victorian Registers, which give all cases and names, indexed by Rosemary Potter.
  • Winchcombe & Sudeley Manor 1841 census transcribed by Rosemary Potter.
  • Monumental Inscriptions in St Peter’s Churchyard by Gloucester Street History Group.
  • Surnames index to the Museum’s collection of documents, photographs and other items.
  • Copies and transcripts of photographs, documents, cuttings and other sources of local and family history.
  • Memoirs and memories: Winchcombe people past and present write in their own words about life and work from 1850s to 1970s.
  • Mariette Lydis, artist and refugee, in Winchcombe 1939-1940. Display and folders.
  • “Then and Now”: Photographs of Winchcombe streets taken in 1870s-1900s and again in 2002.
  • The 1887 Golden Jubilee celebrations in Winchcombe.
  • Local information index: brief details of buildings past and present (schools, shops, churches, hospitals etc) events and people. Photographs and notes on many local buildings.
  • Information on Shepherd Richard Wiggins 1820-1913 whose smock is on display.
  • Winchcombe in pictures: buildings, school and group photographs etc.
  • 1815 Greet & Sudeley Tenements enclosure map, and indexes of fields’ names and numbers and of owners’ names.