Edward Fardon

1922 'STONELEIGH.
MR FARDON'S BIRTHDAY.- On Monday next Mr. Edward Fardon, of this village, will attain his 83rd birthday. He was born at Leamington, and though not now able to do much work, is still about and as cheery as ever. He tells how his father went to Kenilworth in 1841, where he himself worked in the blacksmth's shop till, in later years, he went into employment at Skidmore's Art Metal Works at Coventry. With the spirit of adventure he walked to London and got work there: was sent to Switzerland to help in the erection of gates at a mansion; afterwards at Boulogne, and at Lord Dudley's in Worcestershire, some of the latter work being fixed in the London International Exhibition of 1862. He returned to Kenilworth on the death of his father, did Stoneleigh Abbey estate work, and improved on the new velocipede. He has lived at Stoneleigh since 1873. He has two sons and five daughters, 24 grandchildren, and several great-grandchildren. A sketch of Mr. Pardon which appeared in a newspaper a couple of years ago described him as "of a class that is the strength and pride of village life," and asked "will the class survive amid the economic changes which are coming on rural England?"

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