The brick mill with batter was built about 1807, and was rebuilt after a fire in 1849. It had six storeys, four patent sails, and two sets of stones on ...
As a child I lived in Rugby, and my sister and I loved our mother to take us to visit Southam Zoo.
When in work, until about ten years ago, Southam Quarry was a fantastic resource for geological investigations. The ‘Blue Lias’ clay and limestone layers were a rich source of fossils, ...
When Prince George of Cambridge was christened in a replica of a gown first used for a royal baby 172 years ago, it was a commemoration of eight generations of ...
When excavations for the Orbit Homes development in Southam started in 2013, strange foundations were discovered under the former Victor Hodges Home site. Orbit brought in a team of archaeologists ...
I was around 10 years old when, on one particular weekend, there was a church fete which I visited with a group of friends from the area. We looked round ...
The Middle Jurassic period, roughly 170 million years ago, saw a time when tropical waters made their mark on what is now central England. Shallow, clear seas spread over the ...
Edward Hall Speight, Photographer
The Speights were a family of talented photographers. Edward Hall Speight (originally a Wesleyan schoolmaster) set up his photography business in Rugby around 1872. All of his ...
