Scuppets & Scutchell Issue 2

The second issue of Scuppets & Scutchell includes articles on the 18th-century miller Edward Twopenny, going to school in late-Victorian Woodchurch, the life and times of wealthy Hengherst heiress Evelyn Schreiber, Widow Bangham and welfare in the 18th century, a history of The Pavement, bastardy orders and the turbulent life of Philadelphia Barman, the last blacksmith in Woodchurch, the village poorhouses and much more. It also includes the British Association for Local History award-winning article from Bob Chown, 'Black Lives Mattered in Eighteenth-Century Woodchurch'.

• Black Lives Mattered in Eighteenth-Century Woodchurch
• Going to Woodchurch Primary School in Victorian Times 
• The Importance of Being Ernest: Woodchurch’s Last Blacksmith
• Seventeenth-Century PPE: Extreme Masking or a Sensible Precaution?
• A Stroll Along The Pavement
• On Being Poor in the Eighteenth Century: Widow Bangham
• The Miller’s Tale: Village Life in the Early Eighteenth Century
• Woodchurch Oral History: Three Eighteenth-Century Examples
• The Poor Houses in Woodchurch
• Bastardy Orders: Philadelphia Barman & Isaac Goldsmith
• Evelyn Mary Bingham Webb: A Woman of Substance

Scuppets & Scutchell is for anyone interested in the history of Woodchurch or keen to discover more about the village's fascinating past.