The discovery
In 1876, whilst undertaking restoration work in the St Peter ad Vincula Chapel at the Tower of London, workmen discovered a number of skeletal remains under the floor. One ...
The Warwickshire County Record Office holds quite a lot of photographs and records of the coal mining industry which went on in and around Polesworth. This industry was spurred by ...
Warwickshire has been a sea-bed in its time, with aeons-old, marine fossils found in geological exposures from north of Nuneaton to Burton Dassett. Today the county hosts a variety of ...
John Roberts has already told us about the intriguing occurrences of maritime/salt-loving plants in parts of our landlocked county. Interestingly, this same landscape preserves geological evidence (rocks and fossils) for ...
1 The remains of a rare and unusual method of treating the dead known as a ‘pipe burial’. They were found in 1980 in a drainage trench 30m from and ...
The remains of a rare 'pipe' burial, dating to the Roman period, were found 300m south west of Barn Farm.
This pub, near the Five Ways roundabout, has an unusual name. In the 20th century the owner, Mercedes Griffith, had a small cottage with a licence to sell beers and ...
I have thought about visiting Astley Church in the past and it is open on Sundays between 2.00 and 3.30 p.m. when there is a service so we stopped off ...
1 The octagonal building attached to the W side of Clopton Bridge is a tollhouse.
2 The toll house was built in 1814.
3 Early 19th century crenellated octagonal toll house of ...
'Tower Toll House', a toll house built in the Imperial period, where tolls were collected. An octagonal building, it is sited to the west side of Clopton Bridge, Stratford upon Avon.
For me, it is the seemingly incidental comments captured in records that really bring history to life. Most of the history of the Civil Wars and Commonwealth in England as ...
With his striking feathered headdress, his jewelled and embroidered attire and his signature cry of ‘I gotta horse!’, Ras Prince Monolulu must have been a difficult figure to miss.1 In the ...
Fancy dress, or ‘guising’, has been a pastime throughout Warwickshire’s history. On these occasions, people were free to enact different roles, or even perform different genders.
A set of postcards from outside ...
The Abbey is a detached Grade II Listed house set within the Southam Conservation Area. The three storey property is approached from Warwick Road through a pair of early 19th ...
Picture the scene; the year is 1838, autumn is closing in. In the bustling streets of Victorian London we find Samuel Probert, a smith in his late 30s, purchasing a ...
An exhibition about Southam’s public houses. Today only four remain, but we know there has been up to 30 public houses throughout the years in Southam and the exhibition brings ...
It’s funny the things you find when looking for something else.
A regular visitor to the Warwickshire County Record Office (name withheld to protect the guilty) drew our attention to a ...
I recently came across this interesting article in the Rugby Advertiser for April 29th 1911.
‘Wireless Messages from Trains. Experiment at Stratford-on-Avon
On Thursday last week, in the presence of a large ...
All the projects I’m involved in are driven by an endless curiosity about the social uses of art and a fascination about the relationship between collaboration and creativity. I always work alongside other people, often communities drawn together by their location, shared experiences or interests.
Socially Engaged Art with its collaborative approaches usually includes a fair bit of negotiation and lots (and lots) of chatting!
1 Marked as Wappenbury Hall on OS maps.
2 Although this building is marked as Wappenbury Hall on the latest O.S. maps, technically it is not so. The present owner ...
Wappenbury Hall, a house which was extended during the Imperial period from a small farm house and which has seen further extensions during the 20th century. It is situated 400m north east of the church, Wappenbury.
This register, entitled Knowle Men was kept by the Reverend Downing of Knowle Parish Church. It contains the names of every man from Knowle who enlisted in the First World ...
Hon. George Shirley
George Shirley was born in 1705 at Staunton Harold, Leicestershire. At the age of 16, he joined the army as an ensign in the First Regiment of Footguards. ...
Over the last year artist Lady Kitt has worked with Proud Youth, a group for LGBTQ+ young people based in Leamington, supported by Warwickshire Pride.
This photograph was found in a Building Byelaw application file from 1937, for the erection of a house, milk shop and dairy: the photograph of the site was taken by ...
My Grandfather William Billings worked for Lord Warwick as a carpenter and had his workshop at the rear of 12 Coten End, next to the cattle market. The photo was taken ...
1 13 anti tank pimples in two groups. Those beside the B4112 are 5 rows deep and disappear beneath a bank of earth as they head north towards the ...
The site of a Second World War tank trap. It comprised 13 anti tank pimples in two groups beside the B4112 and the Oxford Canal at Newbold on Avon, Rugby.