The author
A few months ago I was given a copy of a pamphlet entitled The Warning Voice, consisting of verses composed in the second half of the 19th century by ...
I was interested in finding the identity of the people mentioned in the poem “The Warning Voice” by James Brown (1817-1886), about sudden deaths in Warton in 1875-76, a copy ...
Part one of this article explored the first deaths included in James Brown’s poem The Warning Voice, but he had not yet concluded his tale!
The young woman
The next to fall ...
There are a handful of treasures dispersed around the museums of the world which still bear the name ‘Warwick’. This is despite many of them having left the town quite ...
The Warwick Earthquake (September 23) was a mild tremor; one of many to have affected central England over geological time. Warwickshire is cross-crossed by many geological faults. Most of these ...
Constructed 1280-1330 with later additions
Until 50 or 60 years ago, Warwick was home to one of the best preserved English medieval wooden instruments surviving in modern times. The ‘Warwick Gittern’, whose main ...
The early museum
A museum has existed at Market Hall since 1836, when the Warwickshire Natural History and Archaeological Society hired some rooms in the centre of Warwick. Expanding rapidly, by ...
The pageant of 1906 was accounted a great success, and did much to raise the temperature of the ‘pageant fever’ developing in the wake of the Sherborne performance. With the ...
Pageant week got underway on Sunday 1 July with a special service at St. Mary’s Collegiate Church, preached by the Bishop of Bristol. Special services were also held in other ...
In June 1905 Edward Hicks, an enterprising Warwick journalist (and author of a book about Caradoc), pounced on a passing suggestion in the Daily Telegraph that Warwick would be an ideal site ...
“Every picture tells a story” so the saying goes. The above picture appears to have many tales to tell, including who may have been the artist
Whilst seeking out objects for ...
There are many black days in British economic history, but before Black Wednesday and Black Monday there was a Black Tuesday, 6th September 1887, when the Bank of Greenway, Smith ...
This is a real stuffed bear that was probably shot in the Victorian period and was inherited from the Warwick Natural History and Archaeological Society in 1932. It has been ...
The Weaver’s House has been restored to show how it would have looked in 1540. This shows how John Croke, a Coventry narrow-loom weaver and his family would have lived and ...
The first well house was built on the instruction of the 4th Earl of Aylesford, the lord of the manor, following a visit to the town in 1803.
The house was ...
The Victorian stained glass of the west window of St Michael’s Church, Whichford is a beautiful example of the craftsmanship of the time. However, an altogether different design had been ...
1 Along the canal banks in the above square are four wharves. There is one to each side of the Nuneaton Road bridge (SP 33 94), and one to each ...
The Wharves at Hartshill. Four canal wharfs, where vessels would have loaded and unloaded goods, were in use during the Imperial period. They are situated 500m north of Hartshill Quarries.
The first Women’s Institute in Warwickshire was formed in April 1917, now known as Tysoe WI, the original title was “Compton Wynyates in association with Tysoe”, as the Marchioness of ...
The records of a Rugby-based engineering firm that pioneered the manufacture of steam engines and turbines for electricity generation are being catalogued by Warwickshire County Record Office in a project ...
During the 19th century, the Jurassic limestone layers of southern and eastern Warwickshire were quarried for flooring, gravestones and walling, and for making lime and cement. Workmen often uncovered amazing fossils ...
The Wilmcote Plesiosaur has always been an impressive sight; discovered in the early 19th century at Wilmcote, near Stratford-upon-Avon, it has been a fixture in the museum for over 100 ...
It was the December of 1962, and my husband, two sons and I had been living in Alveston since September at the Baraset farm. This particular winter was a difficult ...
In 1851, Henry Christopher Wise sold the Warwick Priory and 37 acres of its parkland to the Birmingham and Oxford Railway Co, which planned to lay its railway track through ...
At the time George Wise inherited Woodcote he was unmarried, and at the age of 53, already had another home in Surrey. He died in 1888 and the family estates ...
Between 1938 and 1945 the women of Warwickshire took on volunteering roles in their local communities to support the war effort (yes even in 1938 they knew war with Germany ...
