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Browsing Archive: August, 2009

Coleshill House Meet - Photos Uploaded

Posted by Tom Sykes on Thursday, August 27, 2009, In : General 
My deepest thanks goes to all who came along yesterday.


Image taken and edited by Jacquie Yeates

I have now uploaded some of the images I took. Sadly my camera was playing up so they are not as sharp as normal.

If you attended the meet and have images please do email them to me.

You can see the images near the bottom of our Multimedia page.

Tom Sykes

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Coleshill House Get Together

Posted by Tom Sykes on Tuesday, August 25, 2009,
Tomorrow a select group of Aux Unit members and historians will meet at Coleshill House along with Tom and a film crew to capture thoughts and memories of Coleshill on film.

The trip which has been organised by the Coleshill House Community Project, has been set up in order to obtain video footage for this website and also any future possible broadcasts about Coleshill.

A series of short films will be produced by Goldeneye Creative after the trip and these will be uploaded to the site.

The CH...
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Add Your Comments To Our Blog / Diary

Posted by Tom Sykes on Friday, August 21, 2009, In : General 
You can now comment on our diary and blog pages.

If you read a blog you like and want to contribute to then click on the title of the blog and scroll down to the white box below "Add New Comment".

You can leave a message as a guest or sign up so you get notified when others respond to your posts. If you don't register (free by the way) it will ask you if you want to. Below this it says "Click this step and post my comment as a guest"
 so click there.

Try it with this blog and see what I have sa...
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Growing Up in Coleshill

Posted by Tom Sykes on Friday, August 21, 2009, In : Research 
Today we added a personal account of the house fire in 1952 and memories playing in the grounds by Des Williams.


Des contacted us after seeing us on the BBC locally and wanted to contribute to the site.

You can read his story here.

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Shop Launched

Posted by Tom Sykes on Thursday, August 20, 2009,
Today we launched our Shop Page.

Like all small projects and community groups we need to raise funds to keep the group going. This website and the community project are not funded by anyone so we have decided to add some small revenue streams on this page.

The books and items are all related to our cause and we would suggest you read them even if we weren't selling them. If you know of a book or DVD we have missed or would like to help fund us please email us

If any money is raised in this way ...
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The Real Dad's Army - Watch Now

Posted by Tom Sykes on Wednesday, August 19, 2009, In : Press 

In my search for more video footage I have found "The Real Dad's Army" on the internet. I am sure many of you have either been in it or watched it but here it is again.


The final film of the series examines Britain's secret resistance army, codenamed the Auxiliary. It features Bob Millard and lots of footage of Coleshill including the bunker. Watch it here


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Funding and Printing

Posted by Tom Sykes on Wednesday, August 19, 2009, In : General 
Hello,

As you all know this site is run without any funding. As a web designer and working from home, I am able to do the updates and dedicate time to it around my normal paid work.

The National Trust at Coleshill do offer guided walks around the site a few times a year and I would like to produce a postcard sized flyer that they can give to guests to promote our website.

I am appealing for anyone that might have connections in the printing world where we can get these printed for ...
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Radio and TV Coverage

Posted by Tom Sykes on Friday, August 14, 2009, In : Press 
Today we filmed an interview for BBC Oxford TV Evening News. We only had two minutes to talk and condensing the history of the Aux Units and Coleshill into that time was tough. The BBC did make some mistakes in what they had researched but the mistakes are worth the coverage we feel.



Straight after filming the Presenter suggested we went on BBC Radio Oxford and we were taken into the radio studios.

Within two minutes Tom was sat in the studio and talking to Bill Heine LIVE.

The interview was a...
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Coleshill House on the BBC

Posted by Tom Sykes on Thursday, August 13, 2009, In : Press 
Once again Coleshill House is going to be discussed on the BBC.

This time it will be on TV on BBC Oxford's Evening News tomorrow night (Friday 14th August) between 6:30pm and 7pm.

I am going to be talking about the project and although we have been given a tiny window we may appear on another programme later in the year.

If you live outside of the Oxford area and have SKY you can watch it on sky channel 985.

We will try to get a copy of it on the site over the next week.

Tom Sykes

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Screen Writer Needed

Posted by Tom Sykes on Wednesday, August 12, 2009, In : General 
We are now looking for a Screen Writer to help us turn our research into a TV drama or Documentary Please see more here

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LOADS OF NEW WEBSITE UPDATES !!

Posted by Tom Sykes on Tuesday, August 11, 2009, In : General 
Today we have added some new info to the site.

Donald Brown, Author of

Coleshill House, Coleshill, Mabel Stranks, Highworth, Highworth Post Office, Colonel Gubbins, Auxiliary Units, Churchill's secret army, Special Operations Executive (SOE), Home Guard, The Countryman's Diary-1939, Peter Fleming, Ian Fleming, Pleydell-Bouveries, Sir Thomas Freake, Sir Henry Pratt, guerrilla warfare