Local and Family History
We have many folders on open display for reference.
- New for 2011. 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.