I used to paint with five other painters, and I’m the only one of the five left – the others passed away quite some time ago. They called us the ...
The Palace Cinema stood at the corner of Victoria Street and Queens Road. It was designed by R Pitcher architect and opened on December 10th 1928. The cinema was damaged ...
Nuneaton Memories were given an album full of photographs all believed to have been taken by prolific Nuneaton amateur photographer Reginald Bull. The family of Bert Healey donated the album ...
1 Handaxe of flint, lower Palaeolithic, Priory Park, previously held by Borough School and transferred 1970. In good condition and complete; length 87 mm, width 55 mm max and 5 ...
Findspot - a Palaeolithic stone handaxe was found in Priory Park, Warwick.
Even in 1885 the subjects of pantomimes were similar to today. The Theatre Royal, Leamington, saw a version of Robin Hood performed. Some of the characters are familiar; we have ...
The review and performance may have been written 160 years ago, many of the stylistic presentations of the story may have altered but, ultimately, what actually changes in 160 years?
Mrs Delany was born Mary Granville in Coulston, Wiltshire, in 1700. At the age of 17, she was married off to the nearly 60 year old Alexander Pendarves, a wealthy ...
Taxation like death is one of life’s certainties. As one would expect, Warwickshire County Record Office has numerous tax records within our holdings from copies of the earliest subsidy rolls ...
1 Apsidal chancel, nave, N and S aisles, and W tower. The tower is an unusual example of a rebuilding in the 15th century on older foundations with the re-use ...
The Parish Church of All Saints dating to the Medieval period. The church was largely rebuilt in the Post Medieval period. The church is located 300m north west of Honington.
One of the best-known features of the little church of St Milburga in the scattered hamlet of Wixford near Alcester, is the enormous yew tree outside the south porch. In ...
The state of the weather has always been a crucial consideration for farmers, preoccupied as they are with crop yields and livestock husbandry. Both the length and the content of ...
As we look forward to Christmas celebrations this year, it’s maybe worth looking back on previous years’ celebrations. For no other reason than it allows me to make a bad ...
My visit to Pauls Jaunzem’s sculpture park in Riga, Latvia inspired the exploration of sculptures and monuments in Leamington which were under my nose. For decades I had passed them ...
1 Bridge marked.
2 The bridge still exists and appears to be an early one. It has two spans, hump-backed, of sandstone and brick and is reinforced with concrete. The upstream ...
Pedlar's Bridge, a bridge dating to the Post Medieval period. It is marked on an estate map of 1778. The bridge is situated on Smearton Lane.
The Coleshill Civic Society heard that there was a timber framed barn at Daw Mill Colliery that they wanted removed. I approached Avoncroft Building Museum, and they came and looked ...
