Tumbledown Stile – Revisited – Cyril Hobbins

Abbey Gatehouse
Stile just visable behind the man (1860s) (courtesy of Warwickshire County Records Office ref. PH 652/1/113 img 7093

Other Tumbledown Stile’s

The Charlecote Stile – Both old (early 1900s) and present day (2022)

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How Old is the Stile?

Vandalised – 1973

By March 1973 it was starting to show its age and bits were falling off. (courtesy of Kenilworth Weekly News)

The Restoration – 1986

Photos courtesy of Cyril Hobbins (1986)
(2022)

Abbey Museum & Heritage Centre – Abbey Fields

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Abbey Museum & Heritage Centre – Abbey Fields

Present Day

Cyril re-united with stile – 2022

Escape From Dunkirk – Robert Green

Robert’s Parents – Harry and Gwendoline
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British Expeditionary Force

WW1 Equipment

Rapid Withdrawal

Arrival at Dunkirk

Daily Totals Evacuated from Dunkirk

Robert in the TA after the war

Jim’s War – Jim Lewis

Bofors Gun

Off to Bonnie Scotland

Invasion of North Africa – Operation Torch

Nea Hellas

Friendly Fire

Tragedy

Gun Tractor

The Itailian Campaign

Regiment Disbanded

Later Years

Jim Lewis – Almost 100 years old

H. H. Railton & Ernest Shrimpton

Nellie and Ernest in their younger days. (photo courtesy of Sally Taylor)
Shop at 6, The Square c1920s (photo courtesy of Sally Taylor)
Shop in New Street – year unknown (photo courtesy of Sally Taylor)
Present day (now a private house)
The Norvic Shoe Factory – c1961
Ernest is on the far left of the back row c1930s (photo courtesy of Sally Taylor)
Pet & Garden Supplies – c1997
Nellie and Ernest – 1963 (photo courtesy of Sally Taylor)
The Picture Shop – c2005
Tree House Book Shop – present day

Lost Shops 2013-14