According to Wikipedia, St Mark’s Church was built in 1891 with railway money as compensation for disruption to the nearby ancient village of Wolfhampcote.
The Fleur de Lys pub at Lowsonford is famous for its pies. The classic pie was chicken and mushroom or steak and kidney, originally baked here by Mr Brookes in the ...
The photo shows a van driving (or perhaps stranded!) on a flooded road on the outskirts of Rugby: the B 4112 at its junction with the A 426. The village of Newbold ...
Wolston has flooded regularly over the years. These residents recall their memories of them.
Mrs. Selina Bracebridge had spoken of Florence Nightingale as a young person likely to make an exceptional record in the course of her life. Her mother, she said, rather feared ...
Florence Rose was the Rev. Squirrell’s eldest daughter, being born in Croydon in 1865. She was married to James Ward in 1893, when if the ages given on the census ...
Flower and Sons used to have a brewery in the heart of Stratford-upon-Avon.
I started working for them in 1968. The company was then owned by Whitbread who decided to close ...
1 On Bath Hill is the Bath House, which gives birth to a copious spring issuing from a basin 31cm long, 20cm broad and 15cm deep. The lower part of ...
A folly dating to the Imperial period. It is situated in Bath House Wood. There were suggestions that it was a Roman bath house but recent investigation revealed that the whole building dates to the 18th or 19th century, though the gazebo did contain a spring or bath.
I love food, I love to eat and I love to cook, so it is perhaps no surprise then, that when thinking of an object that connects me to the history ...
These were halcyon days of playing football and cricket, but one special event was the school entering a team for the Rugby and District Junior School relays, not an event ...
1 Bridge marked.
2 The bridge is apparently of two quite distinct styles – the N half is a brick single-arched, humped Victorian-looking structure; while the S half is a very ...
The partial remains of a footbridge from the Imperial period, that crossed the River Leam 200m south west of the church at Wappenbury. It was marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1886. The present bridge is part Victorian brick, part modern concrete.
This almshouse was founded in 1529 by William Ford, a wool merchant, for five men and their wives. The Hospital came under threat after the Reformation, with the crown claiming ...
1 A pair of cottages, formerly the Smithy. They are 17th-18th century, one storey and attic, brick, thatch roof. The west front has two upper wood casement windows ...
The site of a forge where wrought iron was made during the Post Medieval and Imperial periods. The forge buildings have now been converted in to houses, which are situated on Rugby Road, Dunchurch.
1 Formal gardens, mainly 20th century, 7.6 ha, attached to 17th and 20th century house, in 18th century landscape park, c150 ha. The present formal elements at Upton are ...
Formal gardens surrounding Upton House, mainly dating to the 20th century. The gardens may overlie formal gardens which surrounded the Post Medieval house.
1) Former Congregational Chapel shown on First Edition (1886) Ordnance Survey Map 39SW.
Former Congregation Chapel shown on First Edition (1886) Ordnance Survey Map. This building is now known as Toad Hall (2008) and lies 40m to the south of the Green, Ashorne.
As Clandon Park House in Surrey went up in flames so quickly in April 2015, it showed once again how fragile the items of the past could be. To me, ...
This modest building was erected in 1819 by James Bisset to display his museum of curiosities (moved with him from his former museum in Birmingham).
Death
Bisset died in 1832 and the ...
Primitive Methodists were meeting in Bishops Itchington by 1849 (but the congregation was not recorded in the 1851 religious census). A chapel for 100 people was built in Poplar Road ...
This is the last remaining former ribbon-weaving factory in Coventry; it stands in New Buildings and was occupied by Exchange and Mart in the 20th century. It had been standing ...
This article, written in March 1997, reflects on 40 years of research at Warwickshire County Record Office. The author, Revd. Dr. Anthony Upton, and his wife have each continued their research since ...
