Iain Hodgson, our Learning and Community Engagement Trainee was 'volunteered' to contribute to our blog. We extend a warm welcome to Iain, who has already been a great help during our redevelopment and no doubt he will feature in one of our future 'Five Minutes with...' blog posts. So, without further ado, here he is discussing the market stall we will be running during the museum's closure.
On Sunday 10th February 2019 commemorations were held for the hundredth anniversary of the death of trade unionist and MP, Joseph Arch. Coming from a family of agricultural labourers, he ...
Commemorations are being held all over Warwickshire to mark the centenary of the end of the First World War. St Mary’s Church in Warwick appealed for 11,610 poppies to correspond ...
The form of this recovery was a formal exemplification issued under the monarch’s seal and as such, it was relatively easy to identify from the wording at the start and ...
1 Compton Pike, a beacon, assigned to the late 16 century.
2 Probably erected as a beacon and subsequently used as a landmark. 16th century coursed square ironstone rubble.
3 Photograph.
Compton Pike, a beacon that was built during the Post Medieval period. It is situated 200m south of Windertonroad Spinney.
1 Rous records a population of 53, but the settlement had been depopulated by his day. He cites a chapel as destroyed (PRN 5309). Dugdale does not mention the existence ...
The site of the Medieval deserted settlement Compton Scorpion. Aerial photographs show earthworks of enclosures, hollow ways and house platforms. The settlement is located to the south of Windmill Hill.
This is a deed announcing the grant of the church of Compton Verney, (referred to as the church of Cutona in the deed), to Saint Mary’s church in Warwick by ...
