Photo Album 8

The last pages of the album from Judith Shields

The photo top right might have been taken in Sheep Pens fields from the landscape and the white splashes are probably bags rather than flowers. Bottom left looks like Tommy Norwood inspecting cereals. The 1967 report says harvesting started 5 August, a few weeks after it starts now and the barley was sold for malting that year (i.e. it was top grade).

Glasshouse unit (6 glasshouses off a header house). Now replaced by the Bleasdale building and a car park.

East Hall Farm at Paglesham, right out on Wallasea Island in Essex. It was primarily used for seed raising and sold off c 1977 when the Wellesbourne site was re-structured and expanded.

Archaeological Finds

The NVRS archaeological club was set up by Dr Philps in 1965. They did some excavation which is where the pottery and ring probably came from. I understand the records of the excavations may have been taken to New Zealand. I haven't found a written report . I think the finds are with Warwick Museum. About 300 flint tools have been collected from the station over the last 60 years particularly by Colin Welch. Transactions of Birmingham and Warwickshire Archaeological Society 97 PJ Wise & E Bond 1991/92 summarises the finds to that date. It is a paper that makes professional archaeologists eyes light up. If this axe came out of the site of the Prince Philip Building (Meadow Flats) as written here it has not been recorded. It was believed for some time to have left in the pocket of a director but was found in 2003. It is now on display in reception in a specially made box which is bolted down along with a representative selection of flint tools presented by Colin. I don't think it would get classed as a 'hand axe' by today's archaeologists. Colin Welch found the mammoth tooth in the big dip in Sheep Pens East beside the Meteorological Station. This is probably an old gravel extraction pit. Suggestions that it is a World War II bomb crater are completely unfounded. The tooth is now with Warwick Museum. We currently have two fields scheduled as Ancient Monuments. One contains part of a Neolithic 'cursus' and Bronze Age ring barrow, the other a Romano-British (much more British than Romano) site.

Glasshouses now stand on the cricket pitch and the David Lowe Building on the hockey pitch.
Cricket Picture - Richard H says Left to Right; ?, Jean Faulkner, ?, ?, George Faulkner, Tom Coaker (seated) and Les Fitzgerald

Top left: Denley Wright and James Philps and (presumably) Mrs Wright and Mrs Philps Top right: Demonstrating seed cleaning equipment (with vining peas?) in the packing shed. Bottom: Trailer tour of the field

No information on what the play was or when it was performed.

Party and Pantomime 1965

Richard H says Left to Right - Peter Salter, ?, Stan Finch, Brian Dowker, ?

Party and Pantomime 1965

? and Sue Palmer, says Jan Conway

Jimmy Winter with broom, Ken Turnbull leaning on ladder. (Jimmy Winter seems to have got typecast as the vicar in station plays looking at later pictures)

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