| Description | Re-opening of Alderminster Church et al: a number of newspaper cuttings, pasted on to both sides of a white piece of card, comprising cutting, from the Stratford-on-Avon Chronicle, re the re-opening of Alderminster Church (attended by the Rev. C.W. Cox, rector of Atherstone-on-Stour) after the restoration, 1873-1885, with a short history of the church, an account of the restoration and summaries of the Bishop of Worcester and Archdeacon of Worcester's luncheon speeches, 17 Apr 1885; an advertisement by the vicar of Alderminster in The Guardian in July 1885 to exchange Houses and Sunday Duty for the month of August with a seaside living; cutting from the Stratford Herald re the Harvest Thanksgiving Service, 17 Sep 1885; cuttings re the annual meeting of the Alderminster Cricket Club (with score cards for matches played against Wilmcote and Alveston), June-Oct 1887, a meeting of the Primrose League, June 1887, and the Jubilee Proceedings at Atherstone, 20 June 1887.
The second side of the card has a photograph, by S.W. Smartt of Stratford-on-Avon and Leamington, of the exterior of the S Wall of the nave taken in the period between the collapse of the wall and restoration, showing the wall plate and S wall supported with props with the interior and a ?gallery/upper room visible, 1885 |