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WEDDINGTON CASTLE -
An
Online History
PICTURE GALLERY I - Weddington Castle
In this section are a range of surviving
photographs of the Castle - dating from the 1860s to the 1920s. This section
also includes some related paintings and maps.
Click each thumbnail image to see the
full-size picture, and then use your browser's back-arrow to return to this
page.
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The Castle as a Red Cross Hospital |
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The benefactor Edward Melly is on the far right |
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Patients and nurse at the Red Cross Hospital |
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The local hunt at the Castle in the 1910s |
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Weddington Castle, featured in a postcard from the early 1900s |
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The Castle coat of arms, preserved at 1 & 3 Shawe Avenue |
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Contains Kay family crest and motto: IN DEO SOLO SPEC MIA – In God alone is my hope |
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"Francis Vincent, his Wife Mercy, and Daughter Ann, of Weddington Hall, Warwickshire" 1763 |
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Painting by Arthur Devis (see 'Key People') |
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Dr Edward Nason (1860 - 1940) |
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Dr Nason was head doctor at the Castle whilst it was a Red Cross Hospital. There is a ward named after his family at the current George Eliot Hospital |
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Pictures marked '**' are from the collection of Alan F
Cook for which grateful acknowledgement is given
Pictures marked '*' are © Warwickshire County Council,
2003
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