This old nursery rhyme came to mind when I was busy indexing the Quarter Session Minutes for 1824. At the Easter sessions in Warwick Court House, several men were in ...
Berkswell has a row of almshouses centrally located on the village green; they were built to replace parish poor houses.
The original charity
In 1589 parishioners complained that the Lord of the ...
A potted early history
The origins of St John’s were in the mid to late 1100s, when it was originally a sprawling medieval hospital. Its position on the eastern edge of ...
The minutes of the Quarter Sessions held in Warwick and Coventry are currently being indexed and they turn out to contain all sorts of surprising snippets of information. For example, ...
Reassigned recreation land in 1927, Hearsall Common is the city’s most extensive common. Not that the cessation of pannage and commoners’ rights was ever recognised by Farmer Green. As a ...
I was born February 25th 1937 at 2, The Common, Polesworth, which was also the birthplace of my dad Ernie. The house is still there, over the road from the ...
I think you may find these two photos interesting.
They are both of the Polesworth Church Lads Brigade. The first one includes a band, which was probably brought in to mark ...
Jonathan Cardall, Jack’s father, who lived in Oxford Street, Southam, started the dance band just after the first world war. In 1917 he had bought the delicensed Blue Pig Inn ...
I lived at the Hit or Miss pub for a great many years, beginning 1955.
The archway was the entrance to the ‘yard’ at the rear of the pub. It was ...