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Lillington Local History Society NOVEMBER 2012 NOVEMBER 2012 Contents Let us remember Samuel Ingram Vicarage Road in 1911 Pig on the highway Lillington Men’s Club War Memorial The Leamington and Lillington Brickyard Lillington Board of Health Lillington Primary School Persis Blanche Rooper Autumn in Lillington Programme of meetings until April 2013 Do you remember this service coming up Lime Avenue on its way to Napton or has the driver forgotten to change the destination blind? The Regular monthly meeting Midland Red Timetable of the day suggests that the 558 service would Cubbington Road Free have gone along the Radford Road out of Leamington Spa. The phone Church Hall, 4.30 pm on the box has long gone but when was it removed? first Friday of each month. We thank Bryan Hicks for allowing the use of this picture from his Contact us by collection. -Coming to one of the LILLINGTON PRIMARY SCHOOL Cubbington Road. Society’s monthly meetings, - th or by introducing yourself Lillington Primary School celebrates its’ 60 Anniversary this year. We through committee member are looking for past pupils, parents, teachers and governors who are Gladys at the Chain Office, 89 willing to share their memories of the School. Did you keep a scrapbook of cuttings from the local newspapers? Do you have school Crown Way. 01926 739402 or photographs, reports, programmes from Sports Day, school concerts or 07815565370 pantomimes, or any other memorabilia associated with the School that -or by referring any queries you would be prepared to share with us? If so please contact Gladys about the society, Gibbs at ‘The Chain’ 01926 739402 or Peter Coulls from the Lillington contributions, photographs or Local History Society on 01926 339316, who are helping the School reminiscences to Graham mark this significant date in the School’s history. Cooper – telephone 01926 We look forward to your help. 426942 1 LET US REMEMBER SAMUEL INGRAM Samuel Ingram was buried in Lillington churchyard on January 7th 1903.The burial records do not give us much detail other than that Samuel was “an old parishioner”, was unmarried and had died as a pauper in the Warwick workhouse aged 89. The 1901census gives us a little more detail. Samuel was one of over 300 inmates living in the workhouse, a substantial building on the site now occupied by Warwick hospital. He had been born in Leek Wooton in 1815, and had been a farm worker all his life. His status in the 1901census was listed as “pauper”. In 1894, the British Medical Journal set up a "commission" to investigate conditions in provincial workhouses and their infirmaries. Following a visit to Warwick, the commission's report made a number of comments and recommendations. The infirmary being our special concern, we asked permission to visit first that part of the buildings. Its plan is a compact parallelogram, the administration block being in the middle, with the male and female wards on either side, the part used for the women being rather the larger of the two; it is a three-storeyed building, and has accommodation for 96 patients, the average number of beds occupied being 80. The space is cramped, the landings being small, and the staircases, which are principally of stone, confined. On the ground floor on the men's side there was a small day room, and opening out of it a ward for 8 beds, one of which was occupied, the remainder of the patients being in the day room, or seated round the fire in the ward. On the next floor was a large ward for 12 beds, 3 of which were occupied, the rest of the patients being up. Above, again, were 2 smaller wards, with 6 and 5 beds respectively. The arrangement of the wards is throughout the same. There are windows on both sides, and the beds are between the windows; a large deal table in the middle, with benches and armchairs for those who are up; little tables between some of the beds, and one or two commodes for night use. We were sorry to see the chamber utensil under each bed; this betokens some want of sanitary care. The wall surfaces are of brick, painted with silicate in two colours. The windows are rather small, and set high up in the wall, so that the patients cannot see out of them as they lie in bed. The ventilation is chiefly by the windows, the amount of opening being regulated by means of a rack; there are, besides, ventilators in the cornice. The wards are warmed by open fires and lighted by gas. A few of the bed-steads were of modern pattern and supplied with a pull; the majority were of the old style: almost all of fair width. The bedding was flock, hair, or "oat fly"; in no case were mattresses in use. Over the laths was a very thick fibre mat, but the matron considers that this is not cleanly; as they wear out she is not having them replaced. Water mattresses and cushions are supplied for such cases as require them. The quilts are red check, of the old- fashioned heavy cotton make; they might with advantage follow the fibre mats. We were struck with the lack of cupboards, and wondered how and where the necessary Warwick workhouse infirmary site from the north-east, 2000. ©Peter Higginbotham. appliances for ward work would be kept. After 1930, the former workhouse became known as Warwick Infirmary, and subsequently as Warwick Hospital. Virtually all the former workhouse buildings have been demolished. Parts of the 1903 infirmary remain. The brief note on the burial record “an old parishioner” encourages us to think that Samuel was mourned by old friends in Lillington and who were able to attend his last rites. CDMR 2 VICARAGE ROAD 100 YEARS AGO Let’s walk down Vicarage Road in April 1911, courtesy of the National Archive census returns. Reginald and Susan Maudslay live at Number 1. Alice Woods looks after their one year old daughter Margaret. They also employ a cook and a housemaid. Reginald Maudslay writes on the census that he is the Managing Director of an Engineering Company. He was in fact the founder of the Standard Motor Company in Coventry. The family later moved to Sherbourne. His son, Henry Maudslay, born in 1921, joined the Royal Air Force in 1940, was awarded the DFC and was the youngest of the Dam Buster pilots. Elsie Higgs, 52, lives next door at Number 3. Her father, Thomas had been the manager of the Charing Cross Hotel in London, where she was born, and later the proprietor of the Regent Hotel in Leamington. Miss Higgs has a general servant, Amy Hartwell. The Reverend Roper Roberts, 27 a Clerk in Holy Orders [priest] was her lodger. Magalen Wilson, 75, lives at Number 5. Magalen was born in Madras, India, where her father Captain Arthur MacFarlane had been an officer in the Madras Army. Her husband had been the Vicar of Waterbeach in Cambridge, then Rector of Stoke Bruerne, and later of a parish in Pembrokeshire. Magalen had had five children, and her daughter –also called Magalen- lives with her still. They are helped by Charlotte Reed, their domestic servant. There’s a big family at Number 7. Charles and Clara Birch have five adult children still at home. Charles started as an organist in Leamington, and lived on the Parade before moving to Lillington. He lists himself as a Professor of Music and Piano Merchant. His shop is at 104 The Parade. His son, Charles 26, is also a Professor of Music. Nellie Eyre, 20, their servant. Henry Hillier 33, the dentist, lives at Number 9. He and Clarice, his wife, have one servant: Sarah Knight. The Reverend Champion Welbank Streatfield, 73, lives at Number 11 with his daughter Winifred and their servant Edith Hiorns. He had been born in East Ham in Essex, and served as Vicar of Isycoed in Denbighshire. Number 13 is home to Frederick 57 and Lizzie Myott. They had seven children, and three of the surviving five still live with them. Frederick had been trained as a chemist in Oldham, but started listing himself as ‘retired’ from the age of 37. CDMR Acknowledgements: National Archives; Leamington Lives Remembered by Alan Griffin for the material on Henry Maudslay; Travelodge; Standard Motor Club; Wikipedia 3 PIG ON THE HIGHWAY: AN OFFENCE REPORT Frederick Charles Claydon P.W.R1. 56 Frederick William M.... Aged 33 QEFC 70/1 Xx Queen Street, L/Spa Allowing a pig to stray upon the highway. 10.30 am Tuesday 8th Feb.1944 Wathen Road, Leamington Spa. Sir, I have to report that at 11.40 am. Sunday 8th Feb 1944, I was on duty at Binswood Corner when I received information over the Police Pillar that a pig was straying in Wathen Road. I at once went to Wathen Road and there saw Mrs. Winifred May K..... aged 47 years – housewife: the complainant and from her I obtained the following signed statement:- Winifred May K..... stated: - At about 10.30 am this morning Sunday 8th February 1944 I had occasion to go to my front door and on looking out I saw a white sow pig running along on the path in Wathen Road. As there was no one with it I thought at once it must have strayed and therefore telephoned the Police Office ......... Signed W.M.K I made a search in the vicinity for the animal and eventually traced it to a stye(sic) in the Brickyard Allotments Campion Road.