What's been happening
Talks, tours, visits and discoveries from Harbury Heritage Centre and the village.
2026
School children find out more about World War 2 and the blue plaques
On Monday 19th October, Year 6 children from Harbury Primary School visited the Heritage Centre to find out more about Harbury in World War 2 as part of their curriculum. After a short presentation…
7th Annual Village Treasure Hunt - A BIG Success!
A BIG THANK YOU to the 28 teams (a record), who turned up to the Treasure Hunt on Sunday 20th September in perfect weather. The overall winner was the Gladden family with full marks! There were 7 x…
Wagstaffe School House comes on the market
One of the village's oldest properties, the Wagstaffe School (House) dating back to 1611, is now up for sale for the first time in over 50 years! Sitting in a prime village location by the side of All…
Another village tour success!
For the second year running we offered a village tour to local residents. On a hot summer's evening 16 of us set off to walk around the village and learn more about Harbury's history. Returning to the…
Visit of Barby History Group
Once again, volunteers from the Centre turned out to host visitors on an informative tour around the village, culminating in Tea and Cakes at the Heritage Centre. Barby History Group members visited…
Harbury Carnival
Many thanks to all who visited our stall (run jointly with the Harbury Society) at the Carnival on Saturday. The theme was the 60th anniversary of England winning the FIFA World Cup at Wembley in July…
Local author has published his third book
Harbury author Steve Garrison has published his third 'ghost story' book 'Whispers from Warwick 3'. Full of interesting facts and some embellishment, there are a number of stories which leave you…
French twinning village Samois-sur-Seine enjoy village tour
On Saturday 16th of May our visitors from Samois visited the Heritage Centre for coffee and biscuits before setting off on a tour of the village to find out more about the buildings and their history.…
Harbury World War Memorial Book
A 48 page, hard back book designed by Heritage Vice-Chairman David Turner was presented to the Reverend Andy Batchelor at All Saints Church in April. The book contains the biographies of the men…
2025
Heritage Group on BBC CWR Radio at the Great Western Pub
On Friday 5th December local radio station Coventry and Warwickshire Radio broadcast The Vic Minett Show live from the Great Western Pub, just outside Harbury. Bill Timson explained to Vic about the…
Award of the 'Heritage Medal'
Harbury Heritage Centre was delighted to receive The Heritage Medal from Ed Wilson, Chair of the Harbury Society on October 21st. Volunteers are shown celebrating in the Centre before the AGM on…
6th Annual Treasure Hunt
It was actually our 6th Treasure Hunt and we had a record turn out, 26 teams! Thank you to everyone who turned up, took part and gave us such positive feedback. Thanks must also go to our volunteers…
Summer Village Tours
Once again, volunteers from the Centre turned out to host visitors on an informative tour around the village, culminating in Tea and Cakes at the Heritage Centre. Kineton and District History Group…
World War 2 VE Day Commemoration - BIG success!
On Sunday May 11th, 60+ guests attended the official unveiling of the latest blue plaques mounted around the village to honour more of Harbury's fallen heroes of both world wars. A champagne reception…
Interpretation Panel fitted on Crown Green
An interpretation panel featuring a large scale map of the War Memorial Trail has been fitted near to the war memorial in Crown Street as part of the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of VE Day.…
More Blue Plaques go up around the village
Chris Roles-Wain of 'Just Anything' has been busy fitting the latest batch of blue plaques on houses in the village to honor the fallen from two world wars. The plaques, expertly made by Croft…
The Mike Bloxham photograph collection
After many hours of sorting by our volunteers, the collection is almost complete. Mike's colour photos , 6" x 4", are now in flip photo albums. Full list of categories to follow. The black and white…
Grant secured for more Blue Plaques!
A grant was received from the 'National Lottery Community Fund' to provide 12 more Blue Plaques to honour the fallen of two world wars. These were installed around the village in time for the 80th…
2024
Village Treasure Hunt defies the weather!
We had a record 24 teams turn out to solve the clues on our village treasure hunt on Sunday 22nd of September. Amazingly the rain held off just long enough for the teams to complete the task of…
Visit of Warmington Heritage Group
On Sunday 18th August we welcomed members from Warmington to the Heritage Centre. Many of them arrived during our open day 2-4pm and had a good look around our displays as well as exploring our…
Visit of the Warwickshire Local History Society
On Saturday 20th July, members of the WLHS visited Harbury and enjoyed a guided tour of the village, finding out more about its history. Afterwards they enjoyed afternoon tea in the Heritage Centre.
Monsters in Harbury!
On Monday the 1st of July the Reception Class from the primary school visited the Heritage Centre to watch a presentation about the two dinosaur skeletons discovered in Harbury Quarry in the 1920s.…
Visit of Lighthorne History Group
On Sunday 9th June members of the Lighthorne History Group visited us for a guided tour of the village followed by a cream tea in the Centre. What a lovely group of people!
Village Tour with members of the Long Itchington History Group
Members of the Long Itchington History Group joined us for a Village Tour on a glorious sunny evening in early May.
New Panel 'The Story of Harbury' outside the library
A new weatherproof display panel kindly funded by Harbury Parish Council has been fitted outside the library telling the 'Story of Harbury'. The panel, a shortened version of the ones in the Heritage…
New Photograph Scanner
The Heritage Group is extremely grateful to the Harbury Parish Council and Harbury W.I for granting us funds for a new scanner which will enable us to back up photographs and documents in our…
New Publication from The Heritage Group Vice Chairman, David Turner
'The Story of the Harbury Enclosures' is our first publication for some time. An A3, portrait, spiral bound book designed and produced by David Turner as a result of his extensive work on digitising…
Recent Presentations
The History of Harbury's Schools and Harbury Windmill - Past, Present and Future were the subjects of two recent presentations / talks given to 'Harbury Friends' and 'Harbury Society' both in the Tom…
Helping Year 1 with their topic 'Our island your island'
In January we took Year 1 pupils with their teacher and some of their parents around the village pointing out some of the key village buildings and landmarks to help them with their topic. Afterwards…
2023
Help with School WOW Day
On Monday 4th December we welcomed Year 4 from the Primary School and gave them a presentation on the Anglo Saxons in Harbury. The children dresses in period costume and later took part in other…
Harbury Windmill display
There is a new display all about the windmill and its history for you to see in the Heritage Centre.
Treasure Hunt well supported!
Our annual treasure hunt was well supported by all ages and the weather almost stayed dry! Plenty of pirates about too 😊
2023 Charity Calendar
We have donated £1000 to Myton Hospice for the sale of the 2023 calendars. The presentation was made at Heritage Centre on the 8th of March to Louise Carless the Myton Community Fund Raising Officer.…
Monsters in Harbury!
In March Years 1 and 2 from Harbury Primary School visited the Heritage Centre to find out all about the dinosaur fossils that were found in the 'Red Triangle' (Harbury) Quarry in the 1920s. The…
Whispers from Warwick
Local Harbury author Steve Garrison has published his first book - a series of 'true' tales set in Warwick of ghost stories and other unexplained happenings. You can order a copy directly from Steve…