For a small village, Church Lawford certainly had its fair share of clock makers, of which Daniel Dalton was one. There is an intriguing record that may explain how the ...
The windmill was built on Hill Farm in Danzey Green, near Tanworth in Arden in about 1830 by Robert Summers a millwright. The Midland type brick round house was to ...
There’s something irresistibly intriguing about old paths and highways that were once well trodden but are now more often than not forgotten or overgrown. Across the years, they’ve attracted the ...
1 The figures in the Lay Subsidy returns of 1327 and 1332 suggest that Southend was more than half as large again as any of the other hamlets in ...
The Medieval deserted settlement of Dassett Southend. In some areas the remains of the settlement are visible as earthworks and there is good documentary evidence for the settlement. The site is located between Temple Herdewyke and Little Dassett.
Daw Mill Colliery was a natural development of Kingsbury and Dexter Collieries which worked the coal in the northern end of the coalfield. It was the only new colliery to ...
For some people, autumn is a rather magical time of year. Colourful trees, drawn days and crisp nights, it presents us with the perfect opportunity to wrap up and contemplate ...
Here are some Christmas themed snippets from the Royal Leamington Spa Courier and Warwickshire Standard Newspapers for December 1914.
Warwick and Country Edition Page 4, Column 5, 4th December 1914
Impact of ...
This small bundle of documents1 is concerned with a specific piece of land in Southam, known as Tattle Bank. During the period covered by the successive documents of 1847-1872, very many persons are ...
Gabor Denes (who later anglicised his name to Dennis Gabor) was born in Budapest in June 1900 and studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Budapest and at the ...
Earthworks indicating an area of Medieval settlement. Possible evidence for a moated site (PRN 6206) and fishponds (PRN 6207).
1 In the centre of Priors Hardwick village is a large field ...
The site of a Medieval deserted settlement. It is first recorded as one of 24 vills granted to Earl Leofric to found a monastery at Coventry. The village was in decline in the 16th century. The site is located 300m south of the church at Priors Hardwick.
1 From Whitehall Farm, a hollow way runs due S through the field called ‘Fore Yard’. It turns a right angle and enters the large field known as ‘Old Yards’. ...
The site of a Medieval deserted settlement. Hollow ways and house platforms survive as earthworks. Fragments of Medieval pottery and roof tiles have been found at the site which lies to the west of Long Itchington.
1 This is in the Hodnell group of villages. Hodnell parish consisted in its heyday of Hodnell, Chapel Ascote, Watergall and Wills Pastures. The site is visible on aerial photographs ...
The site of the deserted settlment of Watergall which dates to the Medieval period. House platforms, crofts and hollow ways are visible as substantial earthworks. The site is located west of Watergall Bridge.
1 Transferred from Northants, 1896. It is an abandoned site. It appears SW of Stoneton House, between the house and the pool.
2 Very good archaeology (A). Period of archaeology known, ...
The site of a Medieval deserted settlement. The remains of the settlement are visible as earthworks and as ploughed out remains on aerial photographs. The settlement site is located at Stoneton, 300m north of Berryhill Plantation.
Fossil shells known as Gryphaea are amongst the most familiar of Warwickshire fossils. They are commonly known as ‘Devil’s toenails’, due to their broadly curved shape, which looks a bit ...
The Dexter shaft was sunk in 1927 by Kingsbury Collieries Ltd to extract coal from the other side of the Arley Fault, a geological fault that had caused the coal ...
These photos relate to celebrations of 100 years of the cooperative movement nationally and the diamond jubilee of Nuneaton Co-operative Society, both in 1944. There was a People’s pageant at ...
This Ladies complete pocket-book was found in the last of a row of houses beyond the factory, on the road from Wixford to Bidford.
Although the book is dated as 1777, ...
Nuneaton Memories were passed this diary by a family member. What particularly stands out at the beginning is the length of time needed to reach their station, but also the ...
Continuing on from part one on this website, the second selection of pages from a World War One diary. Here, despite the fighting going on around him, the soldier clings ...
The third section of the diary, continuing on from part two. This section covers Clark’s birthday, although there is less of a desire to maintain ‘normality’ here than in the ...
The fourth and final selection from the diary, continuing from part three.
The intensity of the work in this section sees Clark having nothing to eat and drink all day on ...
Dick Turpin, the infamous 18th century highwayman, is more commonly associated with York and London than with North Warwickshire. However, his ghost riding a phantom horse is reputed to travel ...
My mother lived the majority of her life in Sambourne at 74 Sambourne Lane, where my father also lived for 43 years. My mother’s family had roots in Sambourne as ...
About four months after the Battle of Waterloo, Mr William James, the land agent for the Earl of Warwick, travelled with two other officers from the Warwick Estate to the ...
