Rugby town has a long-standing tradition of wire sculptures (the donkeys in a field beside the B4112 north of the town are a much-loved addition to the local scene). As part of ...
During the First World War, The British Red Cross set up temporary auxiliary hospitals/convalescent homes across the country for less seriously wounded servicemen who often just needed time to recuperate.
They ...
Several huge rugby balls have appeared in Rugby to celebrate the World Cup this autumn. The caption on the plaque explains it well:
Rugby’s got balls. Celebrating the Rugby World Cup ...
For those of us from Rugby and the surrounding areas, the clock tower in the centre of town is a landmark that’s as much, if not more so, a sign ...
The old Rugby racecourse lies next to the A5, just a couple of miles east of the town itself, at Clifton on Dunsmore. Racing took place there between 1862 and ...
As part of a volunteer research project for Warwickshire County Record Office, I’ve been looking through back copies of the Rugby Advertiser to look for items, 100 years since women achieved the ...
The old Town Hall stood on the High Street. It was built in 1857, with an extension in 1919. The upper floor became a cinema (Vint’s Palace) around 1913. A ...
In Rugby on Saturday 10th November 1984, Chris Smith stepped up to speak at a protest meeting and made history:
My name is Chris Smith. I’m the Labour MP for Islington South and ...
1 Pigeon-cote west of castle. Late 17th century or early 18th century. A small square stone structure of two storeys. Roofless and derelict. It belonged to Baginton Hall.
2 Dovecote. Square ...
The site of a dovecote, a building in which doves or pigeons were housed. It was in use from the Post Medieval period onwards and was associated with Baginton Hall. The dovecote was situated at Baginton Castle.
1 A brick-built structure of 19th or 20th century date is visible on the bank of the Inchford Brook, with a sluice gate. Its purpose is unclear.
2 Sluice is marked ...
A brick-built structure of 19th or 20th century date is visible on the bank of the Inchford Brook, with a sluice gate. Its purpose is unclear.
Rupert Brooke’s father William was a teacher at Rugby School who ran his home, 5 Hillmorton Road, as a boarding house for boys from the school. This is where Rupert ...
Today, Rupert Brooke is possibly best known as a War Poet and is included on the Poets of the First World War memorial in Poets’ Corner, Westminster Abbey, alongside fellow poets, Wilfred Owen, Edmund ...
Continuing the extracts from Julie Barnett’s account of her wartime childhood.1
A schoolboy, Percy, pumped the organ in church. His ‘family, like mine lived in Eathorpe, they had a thatched cottage ...
1 Ryton House (II) was built 1806-7 for Stephen Freeman (1774-1856), a member of a long-established family of Unitarian tradesmen. The house was extended to the west, shortly after it ...
Ryton House and its associated gardens which date to the Imperial period. They are situated to the south east of Ryton on Dunsmore.Register entry (for garden) recommended for review by Lovie.
1 There was a fulling mill at Ryton-on-Dunsmore in 1621.
2 There was a mill at Ryton in 1086. It seems likely that the mill was used for fulling in the ...
The site of Ryton Mill, a watermill that dates back to the Medieval period. It was later used as a fulling mill, a mill for beating and cleaning cloth. It was situated 500m south west of Old Hare Covert.
