Sulgrave Village Advent Calendar Windows 2016 – No. 11 – Wootton House, Little Street

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Donkeys – yes, real ones! See next page.

 

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Another Wootton House window and another donkey!

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Some information on Wootton House, recycled from the 2014 Advent Calendar Window pages:

 

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My grandfather, Joseph Wootton with his bride Katherine on their wedding day in 1894. Joseph’s father Isaac ran the family building business, established in the village a hundred years earlier. Katherine was from the Taylor family who were business rivals and it seems that their prospective union was frowned upon. As can be seen from the photograph, Joseph was clearly not a man to be trifled with and so they ran away to Warwick and returned married. However, all was forgiven and the house known as Wootton House was their wedding present from Isaac (the house had no name until about twenty years ago). They had one daughter and seven sons of whom my father was the youngest. The eldest son, Harold, was killed at Ypres during the first months of the Great War.

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The only daughter, Gladys with Arthur, her husband to be, in the early 1920s…..

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….married in Sulgrave Church in 1926 (Katherine and Joseph to her left).

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Gladys and Arthur had an only daughter, Kathleen, who married Alec Munro in Sulgrave Church in 1945 and as can be seen above they took up residence in Wootton House. Universally known as “Sandy”, Alec had been a navigator on Lancasters during the war. He and Kathleen were very active in the village, being much loved and respected by all. (See more about Sandy).

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Earlier this year Sandy and Kathleen’s two daughters, Carol and Hilary, came to a gardens’ open day in the village and stood once more in front of the house where they had spent their childhood.

Colin Wootton

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One Response to “Sulgrave Village Advent Calendar Windows 2016 – No. 11 – Wootton House, Little Street”

  1. Ingram Lloyd says:

    Well!! Real donkeys! What fun that must have been. I hope Basil enjoyed himself as well. Sadly I won’t get to see them but the window looks enchanting as well.

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