For some people, autumn is a rather magical time of year. Colourful trees, drawn days and crisp nights, it presents us with the perfect opportunity to wrap up and contemplate ...
This small bundle of documents1 is concerned with a specific piece of land in Southam, known as Tattle Bank. During the period covered by the successive documents of 1847-1872, very many persons are ...
Gabor Denes (who later anglicised his name to Dennis Gabor) was born in Budapest in June 1900 and studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Budapest and at the ...
1 A level platform exists in the orchard to the SW of the modern house named ‘The Manor’. A local resident records that carved stone pieces now in his garden ...
The site of a deserted settlement dating to the medieval or post-medieval period. The site of a house is visible as an earthwork. It is located 800m east of Mappleborough Green.
Earthworks indicating an area of Medieval settlement. Possible evidence for a moated site (PRN 6206) and fishponds (PRN 6207).
1 In the centre of Priors Hardwick village is a large field ...
The site of a Medieval deserted settlement. It is first recorded as one of 24 vills granted to Earl Leofric to found a monastery at Coventry. The village was in decline in the 16th century. The site is located 300m south of the church at Priors Hardwick.
1 From Whitehall Farm, a hollow way runs due S through the field called ‘Fore Yard’. It turns a right angle and enters the large field known as ‘Old Yards’. ...
The site of a Medieval deserted settlement. Hollow ways and house platforms survive as earthworks. Fragments of Medieval pottery and roof tiles have been found at the site which lies to the west of Long Itchington.
1 This is in the Hodnell group of villages. Hodnell parish consisted in its heyday of Hodnell, Chapel Ascote, Watergall and Wills Pastures. The site is visible on aerial photographs ...
The site of the deserted settlment of Watergall which dates to the Medieval period. House platforms, crofts and hollow ways are visible as substantial earthworks. The site is located west of Watergall Bridge.
1 Transferred from Northants, 1896. It is an abandoned site. It appears SW of Stoneton House, between the house and the pool.
2 Very good archaeology (A). Period of archaeology known, ...
The site of a Medieval deserted settlement. The remains of the settlement are visible as earthworks and as ploughed out remains on aerial photographs. The settlement site is located at Stoneton, 300m north of Berryhill Plantation.
Interviews with John Gardner on the designs for the Healey 100, Geoffrey Shepherd on getting the order for the big Healeys and David Unitt on driving a big Healey.
John Gardner ...
The Dexter shaft was sunk in 1927 by Kingsbury Collieries Ltd to extract coal from the other side of the Arley Fault, a geological fault that had caused the coal ...
These photos relate to celebrations of 100 years of the cooperative movement nationally and the diamond jubilee of Nuneaton Co-operative Society, both in 1944. There was a People’s pageant at ...
This Ladies complete pocket-book was found in the last of a row of houses beyond the factory, on the road from Wixford to Bidford.
Although the book is dated as 1777, ...
Dick Turpin, the infamous 18th century highwayman, is more commonly associated with York and London than with North Warwickshire. However, his ghost riding a phantom horse is reputed to travel ...
My mother lived the majority of her life in Sambourne at 74 Sambourne Lane, where my father also lived for 43 years. My mother’s family had roots in Sambourne as ...
In April 2014, the chance for Warwickshire Museum to digitally capture high quality images of the Sheldon Tapestry Map was offered by the Warwickshire County Record Office and Icam Archive ...
About four months after the Battle of Waterloo, Mr William James, the land agent for the Earl of Warwick, travelled with two other officers from the Warwick Estate to the ...
Not so long ago I handed around some beach-worn bones, hoping to share just a little bit of the magic that I felt on discovering my first dinosaur bone, over a quarter of a century ago.
1 This sign is set into the wall of one of the buildings on the north side of Long Street, opposite the junction of Long Street and Coleshill Road.
2 Photographed ...
An undated piece of street furniture dating to the Imperial period. It is a direction sign set into the wall of a building on Long Street, Atherstone.
1 At Little Dassett is an ancient stone chapel, long since disused, now a store-shed with a thatched roof. The E part, about 8.9 by 6.6m outside, has ...
The remains of a Medieval Chapel. The west end of the building was removed during the Second World War. It is situated at Little Dassett.
1 The former quarry is now used as part of the “Stockton Railway Cutting Nature Reserve”.
2 Marked as ‘disused quarry’ on 1886 map. Probably quarried limestone for the lime ...
The site of a quarry that was in use during the Imperial period and now forms part of the Stockton Railway Cut Nature Reserve. It had ceased operation by the time of the Ordnance Survey map of 1886 and is located 1km north of Stockton.
1 A hollow feature was noted during an archaeological observation at the church. No dating evidence was recovered from it but it could have been a former pond or ...
Possibly a former boundary ditch or pond. Uncertain hollow feature found in an excavated trench.
1 Interconnecting linear Ditches seen on aerial photographs 100m to the east of the bridge at Bretford were mapped as part of the English Heritage National Mapping Project.
2 These would ...
Interconnecting linear Ditches can be seen on aerial photographs 100 mto the east of the bridge at Bretford.
1 In Rous ‘tres Dishford’ (ie three settlements called Ditchford). One of them was probably near the present Lower Ditchford Farm in a bend of the Paddle Brook, where the ...
The site of the Medieval deserted settlement of Ditchford Frary. The remains of trackways are visible as earthworks. The settlement site is located east of Lower Ditchford.
These interesting pictures show Mr Alan Carr helping to repair the bridge on the A446 over the river Tame at Coleshill. The photos were taken in 1968 and the diver’s ...
David would like to know!
