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On Sunday the 3rd April at 11am a team of volunteers will be in the churchyard doing their annual tidy up – this will include disposing of Christmas Wreaths, removing dead flowers etc and safety checking memorials. Please help us keep our churchyard tidy – thank you.

Barrie Haywood sent in this photo of Richard Clarke School. Barrie started school about 1952 and remembers some of the names on this photo ie Michael Fowell and Donald Grimley. Please help fill in some of the names. Barrie hopes to come down from Yorkshire and meet up with some… Read More »Richard Clarke School

WANTED for our Archives and future exhibitions:- Uniforms of St Mary & St Anne and up to closure i.e Girls summer dress from the 1960s and 1970s, Veil, Ties, Board (hat), boys blazer and cap plus memorabilia and most importantly photographs – including entering into the fancy dress competition in… Read More »St Mary & St Anne

Joseph Twigg served the Meynell family of Hoar Cross Hall for thirty seven years. Towards the bank of the west side of the church, a headstone lies flat belonging to Joseph Twigg. The inscription reads: JOSEPH TWIGGWHO DIED AT HOAR CROSS14TH JANUARY 1870AGED 74 YEARSFAITHFUL ANDVALUED SERVANTOF HUGOCHARLES MEYNELLINGRAM ESQ… Read More »Joseph Twigg: A Faithful and Valued Servant of Hugo Charles Meynell Ingram Esq

Just to say we are incredibly grateful for all the donations we have received towards the Churchyard Maintenance Fund so far. It’s great to see that preserving our village history is important to so many of us. Thank you! The price for getting a headstone restored can cost anywhere between… Read More »Thank you for your donations!

You may have noticed that there are many headstones in St Nicholas’ churchyard which have become unsafe over time and require attention. The Abbots Bromley Nostalgia Team are delighted to be working with the P.C.C to identify any unsafe headstones where families are still living in the local area. This… Read More »Abbots Bromley Churchyard Fund

Pictured here is one of Abbots Bromley FC great players. His name is George Willetts (pictured here with his son) he was scouted by West Bromwich Albion and other clubs but unfortunately WW2 broke out and George joined the RAF but still played the beautiful game. After the war he… Read More »Abbots Bromley FC

Remembering the airmen who lost their lives over Abbots Bromley. Some coming back from raids in Germany, some pilots training from RAF Abbots Bromley. We will remember them.

Remembering the Prisoners of War. Dennis Tomlinson of Lichfield Road – served in The Leicester Regt. Captured by the Japanese 15/2/1942 in Singapore. Dennis never got over his ordeal and sadly passed away on the 7th December 1964 age 46 and is buried in St Nicholas Churchyard. Gunner Frederick Fowell… Read More »Prisoners of War