Caroline wants to know the answer to a naming conundrum
The Market Hall Museum displays include a large slab of ironstone, collected a good few years ago from the now disused Edge Hill quarries in the south of the county. ...
Patrick would like help identifying a convent.
Located at approximately sp 343 628 this “imperial barn” though unexceptional is not typical of Warwickshire barns. It appears to be for animal use with a hay loft above and ...
We’re getting more and more excited here about our top 10 objects at the museum. Tomorrow (10th January), we’re starting the countdown on social media of the objects themselves, so keep an eye on our social media channels.
Recently, two marble topped tables were sold at Sotheby’s which originally came from the Warwick Castle collection. These were made by the Grimani family in Italy between 1600 and 1620 ...
Ivo Eagle was the stage name of a man who spent most of his life as a travelling performer, and was also a photographer in the 1920s. When he retired, ...
James Mansell inherited his business from his father and mother in 1862. He supplied fruit, seeds, plants and vegetables to the people of Warwick and to Warwick Castle. James sold ...
Early years
James Speight was born on 25th February 1879, the youngest son of Edward Hall Speight and Louisa Gulliver (m.1861). Edward Hall Speight was originally from Ambleside in Cumbria; he ...
James’ story continues with a series of letters he wrote to family and friends during his time on active service in the First World War. These letters were all returned ...
In 1883 James Styles opened a furnisher and ironmongers shop at 7 Smith Street. He sold furniture and metal goods, like nails and tools. This was not the first, or ...
James William Foxwell made, sold and repaired carriages and carts. Records show James’s business did work for Warwick Castle, with the Earl of Warwick even having his own account book. ...
The Mann Family ran an ironmongers in Warwick for several generations. Thomas Mann took over the shop from his mother, Elizabeth, in the middle of the Victorian period. It was ...
This month, the snippets from the Royal Leamington Spa Courier and Warwickshire Standard Newspapers for January 1915, are a mix of stories from the front, life at home and some ...
Following on from ‘Daffodils in December’ I looked around the garden and found ‘Japonica in January’ also flowering early. (To be honest it was there in December too but that ...
Interviewee: I remember seeing other big blockbusters at other cinemas. The Ritz particularly was the last one to close in Nuneaton, wasn’t it?
Interviewer 1: Yeah
Interviewee: I remember going to see Jaws ...
I remember as child travelling from Banbury to Jephson Gardens in about 1950 to see the famous illuminations. Each year’s illumination had a different theme, the theme for my visit ...
1 Public gardens, established 1836 as Newbold Gardens, laid out in 1846-48 and renamed after Dr Henry Jephson, 6ha. Site runs NE from Victoria Bridge to Willes Bridge, on N ...
Jephson Gardens, established as a public garden in the Imperial period, were first known as Newbold Gardens. They are now named after Dr. Henry Jephson. Garden features include pathways, a lake and ornamental trees. They are situtated in Leamington Spa.Review of Register entry recommended by Lovie with view to expanding it to include those other parks and designed urban landscapes which form the 19th century landscape setting of the Spa.
By the principle of utility is meant that principle which approves or disapproves of every action whatsoever, according to the tendency it appears to have to augment or diminish the ...
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Bentham’s first recorded visit was in late October 1789, when he intended to stay there for three days. A surviving letter to a member of the Vernon ...
Jessamine Victoria Bradley was born in Derby on 25th May 1897. She was the daughter of William Edge Bradley, a clerk for the Midland Railway, and Louise Violet Squirrell, who ...
The Slipper Factory in Station Street, Atherstone was sold in 1989 and closed very soon afterwards. It was started by Joseph Lester Vero in the late 1800s and manufactured socks ...
The Hundred Years War is a term applied to the intermittent hostilities between England and France during the 14th and 15th centuries. One such phase featured Joan of Arc and ...
In the Leamington Spa Courier dated Saturday 30 December 1843, there is an advertisement for a series of lectures on Native Americans. We learn that the Mesquakie chief Joc-o-sot, or Walking Bear, ...
John Clarke’s business was making furniture and hanging wallpaper in the homes of Warwick and at Warwick Castle too. By the late Victorian period John was employing six men and ...
