The small Muntjac Deer is widespread in Warwickshire, living in parkland, woodland and even venturing into gardens. Male Muntjac have small unbranched antlers and long canine teeth. They can live ...
With its pretty thatched cottages, ancient church and walls of warm Cotswold stone, it seems an idyllic spot. Yet in 1875 the picturesque village of Long Compton made national headlines as ...
This vegetable garden in the Murray School grounds was started as part of the boys’ studies and continued during the First World War as part of the local effort to help ...
An archive is not just a resting place of dusty manuscripts and quiet study rooms. In some cases they can be filled with music.
A few months ago I ordered two ...
In the early 1980s I was working in Royal Leamington Spa. My work brought me into contact with many people who had diverse professions and around that time, I was ...
I lived in Barnacle till the age of four. My parents came to rent a property in Spring Road from a relation. We lived next to my mother’s grandmother and ...
During World War Two George, my husband, was in a reserved occupation tool-making for war factories. I was a housewife and we lived in Three Spires Avenue. Our son Glynn ...
Home thoughts from abroad?
Well from the Isle of Wight actually and unlike the poem by Robert Browning, it was September rather than April, but apart from that……..
Anyway, it was in ...
My wartime memories start rather in Coventry round about 1939, when I would have been five years old. We got bombed out of Coventry after the 14th November Coventry blitz and ...
I first started working on the Queensway part-time in the December of 1984 at a company called Al-Ko B&B. It occupied the site where Queensway Court is now. Al-Ko was ...
When I was two we moved into our first home which was a prefab. It was made of asbestos and was the corner house of a little estate of prefabs, ...
Imagine my excitement! I have just seen a photograph of my ancestors on your website!
It features ‘Women in Front of Cottages’, in the village of Combrook. I have this photograph ...
My family research has taken me down some very unexpected roads.
Warwickshire origins
I have been researching for over twenty years and from my research I learned of the strong ties of ...
My-Parish is an online community and resource for everyone interested in parishes, from the Middle Ages to the modern day, whether in Warwickshire, Britain, continental Europe or the Americas. Maintained by the Warwick Network for Parish Research, this is an open space to exchange ideas, showcase research, launch initiatives / events, solicit collaborations and find advice and source materials on parish history, art, heritage and culture.
Rather surprisingly the Rev Dew finished his ‘Trip down the River Avon’ talk in Warwick, rather than continuing on down to the river Severn, though perhaps there was a part ...
I was walking down Castle Hill to take a photo of the old bridge over the Avon when my eye lit on this rather dark blocked up doorway in the ...
For many months I have been researching the history of the nationally unique series of tall cast iron mileposts along the former Stratford on Avon to Long Compton Turnpike. There ...
Nuneaton Memories would like some help identifying some photos.
1 Remains of an extensive earthwork located on a jutting promontory of Edge Hill at about 230m. It has a very commanding position on top of a steep escarpment. Land ...
Nadbury Camp, an Iron Age hillfort. In some areas the ramparts are still visible as earthworks. The hillfort is located 400m south of Arlescote.
Karen wants help identifying a football team.
George Greville had shown himself to be occupied with Napoleon and the consequences of battle and his favourite son, Charles John Greville (1780-1836), had by the far the most active ...
1 Originally owned by a firm called ?Alloy Bricks. The kilns were originally coal-fired, the coal coming by canal; c1963 they installed oil-fired German machinery including a linear kiln and ...
The site of Napton Brickworks which are marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1886. They date from the Imperial period through to Modern times, closing down in the 1970s. They were located between the Oxford Canal and the Napton Windmill.
