User:Argrogan

I'm Adrian Grogan, I am a retired Civil Servant a degree in History and Geography. I have lived in Birmingham for all my life, within the parish of Yardley except for three years as an undergraduate in London. My main interests are local (Warwickshire, Worcestershire) history with an ecclesiastical emphsis. I am interested in Anglo Saxon history, church architecture, First World War graves/memorials (Western Front Association member).

When I started on Wikipedia I tended to embellish existing articles or stubs which is still generally the case with little bits of knowledge that I have about the location concerned. I still welcome any ammendments by more experienced users regarding formatting and referencing. I have for some years been interested in Warwickshire's history and have collected a small number of books on the subject.


 * Doomsday Book for Warwickshire
 * Antiquities of Warwickshire, William Dugdale 1656,
 * History of Warwickshire, Sam Timmins 1889
 * Memorials of Old Warwickshire Alice Dryden 1908
 * Bygone Warwickshire, Andrews, William F.R.H.S. (Editor) 1893
 * Historic Warwickshire, Its Legendary Lore Traditional Stories and Romantic Episodes, J Tom Burgess 1876
 * Highways and Byways in Shakspeares Country, W.H. Hutton 1914
 * Old Warwickshire Churches, W. Hobart Bird 1936
 * Gleanings from Warwickshire History, John Burman 1933
 * In the Forest of Arden, John Burman 1948
 * Warwickshire people and places, John Burman 1936
 * The buildings of England, Warwickshire, Nikolaus Pevsner, Alexandra Wedgwood 1966
 * The Old parish churches of Warwickshire, Mike Slater 1992

WikiProject UK geography/How to write about settlements

Articles I have worked on

 * No. 106 Squadron RAF
 * Icknield Street C-class May 2011
 * History of Warwickshire
 * River Cole, West Midlands Rated C Class January 2014
 * Bordesley, West Midlands

Churches

 * St Cyprian's Church, Hay Mills I am very pleased that this has now (December 2009) been classified as a B-Class article on the quality scale
 * St Mary the Virgin, Acocks Green
 * Holy Trinity Church, Bordesley

Warwickshire Villages

 * Ardens Grafton
 * Aston Cantlow
 * Bearley
 * Beaudesert, Warwickshire
 * Claverdon Rated C Class January 2011
 * Coughton
 * Great Alne
 * Hampton in Arden
 * Hockley Heath
 * Kinwarton
 * Morton Bagot
 * Offchurch
 * Oldberrow
 * Olton
 * Sambourne
 * Snitterfield
 * Spernall
 * Studley
 * Temple Grafton
 * Ullenhall
 * Wilmcote
 * Wixford
 * Wootton Wawen