Not so long ago I handed around some beach-worn bones, hoping to share just a little bit of the magic that I felt on discovering my first dinosaur bone, over a quarter of a century ago.
1 This sign is set into the wall of one of the buildings on the north side of Long Street, opposite the junction of Long Street and Coleshill Road.
2 Photographed ...
An undated piece of street furniture dating to the Imperial period. It is a direction sign set into the wall of a building on Long Street, Atherstone.
1 At Little Dassett is an ancient stone chapel, long since disused, now a store-shed with a thatched roof. The E part, about 8.9 by 6.6m outside, has ...
The remains of a Medieval Chapel. The west end of the building was removed during the Second World War. It is situated at Little Dassett.
1 Interconnecting linear Ditches seen on aerial photographs 100m to the east of the bridge at Bretford were mapped as part of the English Heritage National Mapping Project.
2 These would ...
Interconnecting linear Ditches can be seen on aerial photographs 100 mto the east of the bridge at Bretford.
1 In Rous ‘tres Dishford’ (ie three settlements called Ditchford). One of them was probably near the present Lower Ditchford Farm in a bend of the Paddle Brook, where the ...
The site of the Medieval deserted settlement of Ditchford Frary. The remains of trackways are visible as earthworks. The settlement site is located east of Lower Ditchford.
These interesting pictures show Mr Alan Carr helping to repair the bridge on the A446 over the river Tame at Coleshill. The photos were taken in 1968 and the diver’s ...
We would love to know what you saw and when and where you spotted it. Please send your species records to the Warwickshire Biological Records Centre with these details:
The four ...
David would like to know!
When I started working at the Warwickshire Museum in 1999, casual conversations with members of the local geological community revealed a popular theory concerning the landscape and (relatively) recent geological ...
This Valentine’s note, written some time in the early 1800s and treasured in the Warwickshire County Record Office collection, is visually stunning: its papercut artwork is beautiful and delicate. Unfortunately the poetry is ...
I remember the fish and chip shops, Oates and Garibaldi and the one in Leam Terrace. We passed Sabin’s bakery every day on our way to school. One day Amber, ...
Domesday Books were compiled as a consequence of the Finance Act, 1910 in the period 1910 to 1915. They contain entries for each hereditament (property that can be inherited) in ...
I’ve just taken delivery of some pike. All very interesting, you might think, but what does this have to do with this website, Heritage & Culture Warwickshire (HCW), and the Our Warwickshire project as a whole?
As far as I can recall, I was never met from school. I found my own way home at lunchtime and after school in the afternoon, a distance of about ...
Part of the reason the company ended its boat building venture was that the company moved from the Cape to a former cinema at Coton End in Warwick and the ...
Donald Healey’s first racing and rally driving competition experience was in 1921-1922 when he drove a Buick in a speed trial run by the Truro Motor Club near Perranporth, and ...
During his visits to the USA Healey had spotted a gap in the market for a lighter, smaller British sports car. He was aware that Austin’s A90 Atlantic engine was ...
Donald Healey started to look for another partner to produce a Healey sports car and was approached by Kjell Qvale, who imported British and other cars to the United States. ...
Donald Healey moved back to Trebah in Cornwall in 1963 because of his wife Ivy’s poor health. Trebah included 26 acres and had room for workshops. Former Donald Healey Motor ...
Donald Healey may be associated with the car company that bears his name, and that was based in Warwick, but his early life started in the south of the country.
An early ...
Healey considered several names for the car, such as Invicta, Railton, and Vindex, but after advice from Victor Riley he decided to use his own name. The Donald Healey Motor ...
Triumph worked on developing a truly competitive sports cars and at one stage took an Alfa Romeo apart to see why it was a successful design. Healey also went to ...
This is for me an acknowledgement to a lady who lived through devastating times, had an extremely difficult life but never, ever, forgot her connection with Ladbroke and the rural ...
In part one, I went through my mother Dora Baker’s early years, and her background. In this part, I’d like to talk about Dora’s war years, her marriage, and leaving ...
