I worked at Wilson and Staffords for nearly 20 years. I worked in the settling shop, rolling the felt up and putting in the water. Then I moved from there to ...
1 Brick tower mill. Windmill shown in 1725 may have been a post mill, but represented as tower mill late 1780s. In ruins for much of 19th century and remains ...
The remains of a windmill in use from the Post Medieval to the Imperial period. It is uncertain whether it was a post mill or a tower mill. Only part of the foundations and the millstones survive at the site, which lies 1km north east of Bearley Cross.
1 1794. Tower mill. Had two pairs of stones, four sails (two common, two shuttered) which came down 1925. Ground floor stones worked by steam engine to 1919. Converted into ...
A tower mill, a type of windmill, that was built during the Imperial period. The mill is still standing but is now in use as a dwelling. It is situated on Main Street, Thurlaston.
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It is not just the word ‘witch’ that is still stigmatised, black cats have been tainted too. They are often depicted in popular culture as being a ...
On 3 December 1867 John Davis was sentenced at the Warwickshire Assizes to 18 months’ hard labour for ‘wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm’ (HO 27/148). His victim ...
Here’s a charming sign in the village of Withybrook: the painting shows what is recognisably the local parish church plus a willow tree and the local brook. Withy is an ...
