1 2 George inn (now hotel), High street, Brailes
Historic inn recorded on FWhite&Co.’s, and Victuallers’ databases. The latter shows it in existence in 1806.
Situated on the south side of the ...
Historic inn situated on the south side of the High street, opposite the church.
I have previously written about Walter Kimberley, a Coventry City footballer who lost his life during World War One. He was not the only former Coventry City footballer to suffer ...
George Henry Withers moved to Leamington in 1916, after a childhood in Weston Super Mare. Before moving to Leamington he had a range of occupations, including a grocer’s assistant in ...
As Warwickshire County Record Office is closed to the public on Mondays and Tuesdays, we decided that those days would be the perfect opportunity to get our bearings and determine the scale of the collection.
Recently, I’ve been getting to grips with the logistics for opening Chesterton Windmill during Heritage Open Weekend on 8th and 9th September, 2018. This scheduled ancient monument, and a much ...
We’d gone to games during the cup run, but we still needed tickets for the cup final; this was planned like a military operation. We had enough stubs for the ...
The secondary school which I attended, Kineton High, was in sight of Edgehill, where the first major battle of the British Civil War was fought. A story used to go ...
In the early 19th century, the north side of Coventry Cathedral was supposedly haunted by a ghostly monk. It got so frequent that a residents of Priory Row used to ...
These images might seem more appropriate for Hallowe’en, but our autograph book with a twist is a charming way to think of friends, past and present, as the festive season ...
1 The site of a heavy anti aircraft artillery site which was part of the Coventry Gun Defended Area, and was listed as F, title H67, being first mentioned in ...
The site of a heavy anti aircraft installation from the Second World War and identified at this grid reference from documentary evidence. It was located west of Gibbet Hill Road.
Gibbet Hill Farm House faces the Gibbet Hill road and forms part of a rectangular enclosure comprised of farm buildings with a substantial stone wall to the front . The ...
The article on George Redding allowed me to share this photo of my mother (nee Ingram). My Mother was born in Rugby in King Street off Newbold Road, opposite the ...
There’s a hotel where the job centre is now, the corner of Albert Street – I can’t remember what it was called, and they used to sell chicken specs, and ...
Some years ago, I was kindly given a copy of the Kenilworth Weekly News by someone who recalled the time when Laurel and Hardy came to Kenilworth and were on ...
Doesn’t time fly? The past year has been a whirlwind, yet it's maybe a time to look both back and forward.
Community is what it’s all about, both online and offline...
Interviewer 1: You said you remember going to one of the cinemas. When was that?
Interviewee: Oh god. I would have been oh, I should imagine I probably would’ve been about ...
Moxhull Hall
The hotel we now know as The Belfry originated in the thirteenth century, when it was known as Moxhull Hall or Manor, when it had been a manor of ...
Hosting the Ryder Cup
By 1985, The Belfry was ready to host the Ryder Cup. This was the ultimate test for the Brabazon course and it passed with flying colours, as ...
1 An enclosure about 33m square, surrounded by a well-defined moat. Outside this is another moat which is not so clearly defined. The entrance is by a well-built, double-arched stone ...
Goodrest Lodge double moat, a wide ditch that surrounded a Manor House, of Medieval date. There is documentary evidence for its existence, and it remains visible as an earthwork. It is situated 450m north west of Nine Acre Plantation, Leek Wootton.
1 Description. Gorcott Hall began probably with a 15th century timber-framed house of two fairly low storeys, with a middle hall and end cross-wings, jettied in the gabled upper ...
Gorcott Hall, a country house originally built during the Medieval period. It is situated 900m north of Mappleborough Green.
Gower House and Warneford House were two separate residences that made up a large regency style property which, at the time of its demolition, stood on the corner of Forfield ...
Tracing the residents of the property from 1883 onwards has been fairly straightforward because from that year there are surviving street directories. While there are gaps in the series of ...
