According to one of our viewers, “Chilvers Coton Infant School stood to the left hand side of Chilvers Coton Church Hall, looking from Coventry Road. The School playground looked onto ...
Judith who gave us these images believes they are around mid 1950s. We can see many buildings and streets, including the Fleur De Lys pub, former Vicarage School, Coventry Road, ...
I found some photographs I had taken when my Father was working for a building supply company which was opening a new outlet in Nuneaton. Before the building was built, ...
The Chinese New Year has just started: the year of the sheep. That’s an excuse to show off some of our Warwickshire lambs along with blackthorn flowering. Blackthorn is usually ...
Whilst indulging my obsession with chairs, I was trawling through the online collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) when I stumbled on a chair, and then a set ...
1 Christ Church garden, Beauchamp Square, Leamington Spa.
Lovie reports town square gardens surrounding chpel; grid-plan walks and mixed planting, laid out in 1825.
Chapel demolished c 1960 but trees and planting ...
Town square gardens surrounding chapel. Chapel demolished c 1960 but gardens survive. Recommended for inclusion on Local List by Lovie.
William Glassbrook and three other men stole six live tame fowls at Aston in December 1884 (presumably for the Christmas market). They all had previous convictions and each received eight ...
Rugby workhouse routine was considerably relaxed on Christmas Day. Dinner included ½ lb of meat per person with mashed potatoes and gravy followed by plum pudding, with beer, lemonade and coffee to drink.
So it’s Christmas time, the shops are busy, it’s all about buying stuff, right? What’s happened to the true meaning of Christmas, I hear you cry!
Well, the December 27th edition ...
My dear Father
I received your letter of the 21st November. I hope that you all spent a happy Christmas. I have no doubt you did, I suppose that you had ...
Pauline hopes for some help with a sibling debate.
At first glance, these may not look like much – just a couple of toy cars in, well, not bad condition, but not perfect. It’s funny how the small things ...
I got fed up with a tinselled chicken, so for this year's Christmas blog have a photo of a rabbit in a Santa hat, courtesy of Archive Assistant Jo Taylor.
Christopher George Squirrell was born in Ipswich around 1844, where he followed in his father’s footsteps by becoming a watchmaker.
He had however, been preaching since he was 16 and at ...
On 11th January, 1711, the following advertisement appeared in the London edition of ‘The Tatler’: –
This is to give notice, That at the ‘Seven Stars’ under the piazzas in Covent-Garden ...
