Our next meeting on Tuesday 27th October at 7:30pm in Stoneleigh Village Hall will be about "Mary Dormer Harris, 1867-1936, Historian, Writer, Pacifist, Feminist... Icon!" Jill Kashi will be introducing us to this local girl, born at Dale House Farm, Stoneleigh. Mary Dormer Harris became a local historian of great repute in her lifetime and has left a legacy that endures to this day: through her academic work; as an educator; a suffragist; a heritage campaigner and dramatist. This talk examines aspects of her cultural legacy, reflecting her passions and concerns as well as the influence of her Stoneleigh roots. Jean Field's book, Mary Dormer Harris - The Life and Works of a Warwickshire Historian, will be available to buy that evening: £5 for the paperback and £10 for the hardback. The October edition of the Stoneleigh and Ashow News is now available and the minutes of the September meeting. There is a new Monthly Memory. This month, Shirley Ball shares her childhood memories. Also available in the booklet section is her father Harry Edmunds' Diary, which recalls life in Stoneleigh during the first half of the twentieth century. Two new sections have been added. First, directories are now available under the Burial and Census tab, complementing the census records. Second, the Parish Maps section shows the original Stoneleigh Estate, which included Westwood Heath until it became a separate ecclesiastical parish in 1846. The area changed significantly in 1926, when it was incorporated into the City of Coventry under the Coventry Corporation (Boundary Extension) Act following the sale of the Stoneleigh Estate lands. Both of these sections will be added to over the coming months.