I started employment with Automotive Products (AP) in June 1976 (a very hot year!) with the grand title of ‘Group Photographic Controller’ at their headquarters in Tachbrook Road.
A vast site
Such ...
I left the Fleet Air Arm after 12 years in 1960 and joined AWA in July of that year working as an instrument technician in the instrument test lab under ...
I ended up working here by accident: when I left school at the age of 17 (in 1968) I was asked what I wanted to be and replied ‘a cowboy’. ...
I graduated from Strathclyde University with a BSc in Mechanical Engineering in the mid 1980s. Steam turbines were my passion and I got a job at GEC Turbine Generators in ...
Mary Jane Kirby (1876-1946) worked in the kitchens at Warwick Castle in the early 20th century. In 1993, her daughter Gertrude Lakins (1905-1999) was interviewed as part of Warwickshire County ...
Identifying ancestors who worked the canals can be problematic and researchers have found that canal boat ancestors may not have registered the births of their children, or even their marriages. ...
A diary of a Nuneaton Soldier dated 1942 was donated to Nuneaton Memories, does anyone recognise these character drawings that were also with it ?
A few extracts from a diary dated 1942 donated to Nuneaton Memories – hoping you can read the entries.
1 Circular concrete holdfort sited in a small area of ridge and furrow between Johnson Avenue and allotments north of Bilton Road, Rugby. To the north of this is ...
The site of a Second World War gun emplacement. The remains comprise a circular concrete holdfort for a Bofors gun sited on top of a spoilheap next to the railway on the opposite side of the line to the Rugby Cement Works.
