William Clarke ran a bakery and confectioners , selling bread and cakes. One unusual customer of the bakery was an elephant owned by Daisy, Countess of Warwick. A receipt from ...
William Cookes (1788-1853) was a member of the Warwickshire Natural History and Archaeological Society. In 1844 he donated a collection of 40 slabs of various types of wood from Britain ...
Towering over scholarship on Warwickshire’s Past is the figure of William Dugdale, author of the Antiquities of Warwickshire. Born in 1605 in Shustoke, he lived at Blyth Hall in the ...
William and Henry Enoch were brothers who both had businesses in Warwick as watchmakers and jewellers in the early Victorian period. William was the younger brother and had a shop ...
William Floyd of Berkswell was a whitster whose job it was to bleach wool or cloth. Early in November 1795 he took out a patent for his invention of a ...
After World War One William returned to his career as Headmaster of Southam School. In March 1919 he was involved in setting up The Soldiers’, Sailors’ and Airmen’s Association at ...
William Henry Grassam was a headteacher in Warwickshire schools, including Southam and Bedworth, between 1915 and 1955. He was also an active member of the community. He married A.M. Hammond ...
William Gold followed his father by also working on the railway and at one stage worked in West Bromwich where he met and married Lily Jane Edith Gee, the daughter ...
Until Webb Ellis’s definitive act, the game of football allowed the ball to be handled, but the player could not hold it and run towards the opposite goal. Progress forward ...
Photo shows Mr William Worrall in the employ of Garside Phillips; we think the photo dates around 1920 but are not sure. Garside Phillips owned the former Ansley Hall and ...
These three well-loved statues made of wire stand in a field beside the A426 to the north of Rugby. The plaque beside them says ‘These donkeys were named William, Webb ...
