Photos from various Cople events, historical images, and general scenes from around the village. I welcome any Cople related photos to be uploaded, which includes both recent and especially the distant past – please email me (Dominique).

Images are uploaded using Google Photos. All photographs are copyright of the photographer. We would like to thank everyone who has sent pictures and allowed them to be displayed here.

Albums marked as (Friends) are events arranged by the Friends of Cople Church.

Album Photographer(s)
General    

Cople Images

Ian Whiting

Fauna and Flora of Cople

Ian Whiting

Events    
Cople Sale Trail May 2026 Libby Sands
The Queen’s Jubilee 2022Also see HERE

Various

Julie and her mother at the fete Cople Church Fete June 2019

Julie Scherrer

Snow White and Some Dwarfs Pantomime 2018 – Snow White and Some Dwarfs (Friends)Photo Gallery
Programme
(PDF)
Reviews (PDF)
Awards (PDF)

Abi Dunford

Church Fete 2017

Ian Whiting

From all at Team Renhold www.renholdvillage.co.uk CopleFest 2016 Cople Music Festival

from All at Team Renhold www.renholdvillage.co.uk

Pantomime 2015 – Aladdin (Friends)
Barn Dance 2014 (Friends)
Pantomime BTS March 2014 (Friends)
Cinderella Pantomime – Live Show (Friends) Vaughan Southgate
Pantomime Dress Rehearsal March 2014 (Friends) Ian Whiting
Safari Supper 2014 (Friends)
Pantomime Cinderella Portraits Jan 2014 (Friends) Ian Whiting
Games Evening, November 2013 (Friends)
Barn Dance 2013 (Friends)
Celebration of Christmas 2012 (Friends)
Shipwrecked Nov 2012 (Friends)
Church Fete 2013
Bike ‘n’ Hike 2012
Barn Dance 2012 (Friends) Vaughan and Marilyn Southgate
Songs of Praise, Danish Camp 2012
Music Festival 2012 Julie Scherrer
Charity Shoot Jan 2012 Heather Walsh
Historic Interest

Carriage House and Cople House

Aerial images of Cople (1966) and the Carriage House, Woodlands Close (unknown date.) Also pictures of the Carriage House conversion

Images kindly supplied by Miles Tetley
Stanley Brown’s Photo Archive – Stan lived and worked in Cople for most of his life and has kindly allowed photos from his archive to be shown here. Most taken in Cople House and its grounds, some of the nuns (and his late wife Vera) who were at the house when it was a nunnery.
  Peter Burr Archive Various unknown
Historic Images Various unknown
Cople Festival 1971 Programme PDF
Bedfordshire Times article from 25th September 1986 JPG
Cople Village Hall History 1958 PDF From Sonia Minney

NOTE RE. PHOTOGRAPHS OF CHILDREN

27th February 2016 (Ian Whiting) – Update – Just out of interest, I have never, since the Cople web site started around year 2000, had any other complaints of photographs of children appearing on this web site. I have, however, received several complaints about now removing them! However I do realise that, sadly, there are children who need to be “protected” from being recognised from, for example, an estranged or potentially violent partner to the parent. Also these children must not be identified as such. I have no way of knowing whether such protection is required of anyone in Cople. Therefore I will continue the policy of not including pictures of children unless their parent(s) or guardian(s) give permission.

23rd October 2012 (Ian Whiting) Although there is no law in England against including children in photographs (with certain obvious and universal restrictions) I have received a complaint via Cople school that some parents do not wish their children to be included in photos on the school web site and wish this to be extended to school functions on the Cople web site.

I have no way of knowing which children to exclude and have no wish to upset any parent. I would like to apologise to anyone who may have been upset seeing their children included on this web site. I have now, sadly, made a blanket decision to no longer include any pictures of children except where they may incidentally appear within a crowd of adults. All albums that were predominantly of children’s events have been removed from the web site as have individual images from other albums.

As always, if anyone has a particular objection to any image on the Cople web site please contact me to consider its removal.