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Article: Down your way: Royal link in village history; The Queen Mother, air raids and caning at school all feature in a book about Churchover in Warwickshire. Ross Reyburn went to meet the locals.
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- June 16, 2001
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Byline: Ross Reyburn
S
ome 50 years have passed since the Queen Mother was in the Warwickshire village of Churchover.
But she has not forgotten her time there and has contributed to the publication of a book on life in the 20th century in this Midlands rural outpost.
'We asked her if she would write something for us. Her lady-in-waiting wrote back and said she couldn't provide anything written for the book but she would would provide us with a gift that we could auction,' recalls Doreen Bradbury, co-author of A Century in Churchover, ...