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WEDDINGTON CASTLE -
An
Online History
PICTURE GALLERY VI -
Weddington Village part 1
This section contains
photographs of Weddington over the past century, showing some of the many
changes that have occurred to the area over this time. Other views of Weddington
can be seen in the 'Other Buildings' and 'St James Church' picture galleries in
this section.
Click each thumbnail image to see the
full-size picture, and then use your browser's back-arrow to return to this
page.
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Weddington Meadows - early colour postcard |
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Weddington Road in the 1900s |
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Weddington Road in the 1900s (a colourised version of the previous image) |
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Shawe Avenue, where a housing estate was built on the site of the Castle. |
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The Avenue is named after the Shawe family who owned the Castle. |
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Plan of Castle Road, showing early housing, dated 1933 |
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This shows that Shawe Avenue was originally called simply 'The Avenue'* |
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A view of Castle Road, which was built on the site of the Castle |
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A view of Castle Road, which was built on the site of the Castle |
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Fields at the back of St James' Church. |
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Believed to be the site of Weddington's Deserted Medieval Village. |
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Weddington's original Church Hall, Church Lane. Demolished c.1990** |
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Weddington's new Church Hall (built on the site of the original one) |
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Pictured in 2007 |
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"Swinnerton's Heritage" : the new access road for the new houses built on the site of the allotments behind the old Church Hall, 2007 ***. |
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Weddington meadows footbridge over the River Anker, c.1928** |
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Mount Jud. This quarry heap overlooks Weddington and Nuneaton |
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Remaining woodland in Sandon Park, formerly in the Castle grounds |
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Remaining woodland in Sandon Park |
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Remaining woodland in Sandon Park |
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* Grateful acknowledgements to Kevin Purchase
for providing the original document for this.
** From the collection of Alan F
Cook for which grateful acknowledgement is given.
*** The Swinnerton family were major farmers
in the area. Robert Swinnerton lived at The Grove in the C19th and there is an
impressive memorial for the Swinnertons in St. James Churchyard
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