We are a small, friendly study group researching the history of Westwood Heath.
This is a photograph of a street party in Warwick. It is likely to be for the Coronation of King Edward VII in 1902, but I can’t be sure. My great ...
Malcolm has a structural question...
I bet you're wondering how we're getting along in the Market Hall with the refit, what with all the blinds being closed? It's a bit of a mystery isn't it? Well, make no mistake, it's pretty drastic, you won't recognise the place.
My childhood was accompanied by hedgehogs teaching me road safety and not to step out into the road but what do we know about them?
The essential facts
Hedgehogs are around 26cm ...
Copyhold is one of the three main forms of land ownership found in the post-medieval period. Freehold corresponds to ownership as we now know it, and Leasehold refers to property ...
James wants to know if childhood tales are true.
You may, or may not, have realised that Our Warwickshire has its own Notes & Queries section...
Here’s a nicely evocative couple of shots from the Reg Bull collection of photographs. These photos are nicely catalogued with dates, but here there’s a rather blatant clue as to ...
According to the Nuneaton Chronicle of November 2nd 1951, you could see Robin Hood of Texas. Now, I thought I knew my myth and legend, but I don’t know this version! ...
1 The possible extent of the medieval settlement, based on the first edition OS 6″ maps of 1886, 24 SE, and 54 NW.
2 Domesday lists Whatcote in Fexhole Hundred. The ...
Probable extent of Medieval settlement in Whatcote as indicated on the Ordnance Survey map of 1886.
Miss Mary Freeman of Ryton on Dunsmore did something quite remarkable. She noted the weather in the village on a regular basis for roughly 50 years, up until her death ...
Can anyone help with the location, i.e. farm etc?
1 2 3 Wheat Sheaf Inn, Cole End, Coleshill.
Historic inn recorded on Pigot’s, F.White and Co.’s and also Victuallers’ Databases. The latter shows the inn was in existence by ...
Historic inn at Cole End, close to Cole Bridge.
Chris is after some specific Midland Red information, along with the name of a grocer. Can you help?
People are broadly aware of the historic criminalisation of male homosexual activity – cases of certain famous individuals like Oscar Wilde and Alan Turing spring to mind. Until the Sexual ...
In part one, we learnt that Samuel Butler and Harry Sidwell had a sexual encounter in 1888. It was a time when homosexuality was illegal, and these two men were caught ...
Sharon (and others) are looking for a pike to create a heritage recipe.
Geraldine has a question about what happened to some plaques once Grandborough School closed.
Patricia would like some help identifying a church.
I’ve always been interested in why streets have certain names, yet my interest hasn’t been the etymological background to names, nor even the history of streets that have existed in ...
In Anglo-Saxon times (broadly 410 AD to 1066 AD), what we know as ‘Warwickshire’ was gradually taking shape. Over a thousand years ago, our county would have looked very different. ...
