The Dun Cow was a coaching inn on the London to Holyhead Road, now the A45. It was first recorded in 1731 at Knightlow Hill (near the Knightlow Cross where ...
Myth and history can sometimes be uneasy bedfellows, yet the mythic past can often be just as key as anything rooted in historical ‘fact’ when forging a community’s identity. Myth ...
The Dun Cow was an important local folklore that told of an enormous cow in Shropshire that was owned by a giant. The cow had an inexhaustible supply of milk ...
Jane is looking for help to track down some huts in the village. Were they prefabs?
The old County Gaol is the building next to Shire Hall, and was here until a new gaol was built at the Cape in 1860. After that part of the ...
Please note the exhibition is closed 28 October – 16 November
A collection of photographs from an Edwardian Rugby family showing a snapshot of local life from before the First World ...
Warwick had not taken the news that his engagement was ended, well. Within a week of the engagement being broken, he had incurred extensive bills at the Ritz Hotel, had ...
There was a cold breeze sweeping by as they stepped off the train. The slight patter of rain dripped onto the eagerly anticipating journalists who had been waiting all morning ...
A strong wind was blowing across the trenches. A putrid smell lingered in the air, a mixture of chlorine gas, mud, filth, and flesh. It was approaching lunchtime in the ...
Your intrepid reporter ventured out into her back garden, the forecast was good, the sky proved clear, and she was all prepared with eclipse glasses, a colander and a clock. Yes a ...
With an election on the horizon, it might be nice to look at a past parliamentary election from a cultural historical perspective. Here, we look at the 1774 election for ...
The elephant
has always been in my family, as long as I can remember. It sits in our house now, out of the way, but still there. It was a wedding ...
The war went rolling on and by the start of 1944, things were getting tight. I never remember being hungry, but I certainly remembered being cold. My grandmother used to ...
Decline and demolition
With the close of the Great War came the closing chapter of Weddington Castle. Following the end of the war, the Red Cross withdrew from Weddington Castle and it ...
William Booth was born on Hall End Farm near Beaudesert, Warwickshire in 1776. Son of a church warden and farmer, he was one of eight children. In around 1799, he ...
For 33 years the extensive coalfield of Warwickshire had been free from serious disaster. Tragically this impressive record was marred by a calamity that took place at the Exhall Colliery ...
(An account of the disaster can be found in this article)
The circumstances of the disaster were investigated by the Coroner and jury at Coventry County Hall.
The first witness was Dr. ...
The farm buildings at Manor Farm consisted of a stable, an engine house and dairy, four bays, known as standings, for milking cows, two loose sheds, one known as the ...
The Field is a series of photographs taken since 2005 in Welford on Avon, I wanted to show the changes in myself and the location.
I try to take a picture every ...
A Mr. Cole wrote down his reminiscences of his childhood in Kenilworth and Warwickshire, around the time of the First World War. His recollections of the war offer an insight ...
Surprisingly the entries in the Stretton on Dunsmore elementary school logbook for 1914 do not mention the war at all.
The King reviews the troops before Gallipoli
In February 1915 the children ...
A ley line is believed to run from Childswickham in Worcestershire through Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon, ending at the mound of Warwick Castle keep. Leys are believed to attract a ...
This attractive Grade II listed building was the old gas works for Warwick and Leamington. The building was erected in 1822: one of the first gas works in the world. ...
1 Built between 1746-1747 of ironstone ashlar in a castellated Gothick style of two storeys with three storey turrets.
17th Century Gatehouse designed by Sanderson Miller.
When the German army invaded Belgium 250,000 Belgians fled to Britain. Rugby, quite typically of the country’s reactions, established Relief Committees to organise accommodation and fund support1. 200 were settled ...
