Photograph: Tony Keatley
Kym writes: Advent window no 6 our first gathering for the week. Fortunately the rain held off and we were treated to a wonderful mulled wine with equally yummy nibbles to keep us warm.The window was a real treat featuring a snowman in 3D lights. lovely.Thank you very much Zoe and Richard and all of you who ventured out on this cold but dry night.
Tomorrow is at The Stocks, Park Lane. Hope to see lots of you there.
More photographs on the next page, together with a link to Zoe and Richard’s amazing advent evening in 2016 (real donkeys) and some notes about Wootton House.
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The following photographs by Colin Wootton except where otherwise stated:
Photograph by Tony Keatley.
Click here for a link to the Wootton House Advent Calendar Windows evening in 2016 (real donkeys!)
Some notes on Wootton House:
The above photograph shows 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 now known as Wootton House was built by Isaac as their wedding present (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 was killed at Ypres during the first months of the Great War.
The only daughter, Gladys with Arthur, her husband to be, in the early 1920s…..
.….married in Sulgrave Church in 1926. Joseph died later in the same year and left the house to Gladys.
Gladys and Arthur had an only daughter, Kathleen, who married Alec Munro in Sulgrave Church in 1945 and they took up residence in Wootton House. Universally known as “Sandy”, Alec had been a navigator on Lancaster bombers during the war. He and Kathleen were very active in the village, being much loved and respected by all. (See more about Sandy).
Colin Wootton