Toppers is one of the oldest fish and chip businesses in Britain being 102 years old this year (2014).
Street party, believed to be Bracebridge Street, Nuneaton. Photo supplied by one of our facebook members Vera Horton.
As you may have noticed, we have a number of historic sites that do not have images associated with them. This is where you come in! If you know where a site is, if it’s accessible (we don’t want you to trespass on others’ land) and if you are willing and able, we’d love you to take a picture and submit it to us.
Sometime in the 1920s with a London and North Western Railway, Claughton Class 4-6-0 through train heading to Birmingham.
From the Nuneaton Local History Group Collection.
A general background
My great grandfather was a master photographer based in Rugby, he started the Redding studio in the town which lasted for 100 years. John Frearson writes1 how Redding ...
In 1999, Warwickshire County Record Office was left a large photographic collection by Mr Reginald Bull an amateur photographer of Nuneaton. Part of this collection consists of over 8,000 black and ...
From the Nuneaton Local History Group Collection.
A couple of images from the Reg Bull collection at Warwickshire County Record Office. Nuneaton Memories have kindly supplied an image of the street in 2016…
Some photos of Astley Castle from before and during its rebuilding by the Landmark Trust. A brief history of the castle can be found here.
More places you may remember
The Well at Berkswell and the village stocks. From old post cards, and part of the Peter Lee Collection.
Kenilworth Ford in Castle Road floods regularly and these two photographs show that things have not changed much in nearly 100 years in spite of regular flood alleviation measures. The ...
The first Nuneaton Carnival took place 18th October 1930 to raise funds for the Nuneaton General Hospital. Here are three photos of the first Carnival Queens.
Nuneaton has had some large scale flooding over the years, 1900 and 1932 being just two of the biggest but the town also flooded in 1958.
