A carrier bag full of photos was recently donated to Nuneaton Memories. Amongst them was these three postcards, all unused so cannot tell date. They are not in the best ...
The Coventry Blitz was a series of bombing raids that took place on Coventry during World War Two. By far the most devastating of these attacks occurred on the evening of 14 November 1940. ...
The founder
Nicholas Eyffler was a glass maker from Germany who worked at Charlecote and Kenilworth Castle. Warwickshire County Record Office has a fine collection of documents about him; including his ...
Don Govan
I was a trainee draughtsman at British Trane from July 1951 to Dec 1955. Frank Trotman was Chief Draughtman, (he was also captain of St Nicolas camponologists). After Frank ...
1 2 Falcon Commercial hotel, 1-3 Chapel street, Stratford upon Avon
Historic inn now hotel recorded in F White & Co.’s and Pigot’s databases. The latter gives a date of 1828.
Situated ...
Historic inn now an hotel situated on the west side of Chapel street at the junction with Scholars lane.
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South Farm, Arbury, Nuneaton
We lived there from 1922-1924. Owned by the Newdigate family who lived at Arbury Hall. He was governor of the Bahamas for 2 years while ...
More extracts from Julie Barnett’s account of her childhood1.
Many well-known people used to visit Eathorpe. Anthony Eden, the foreign minister in Churchill’s war-time Government, and his wife, were regular though ...
Sometimes, there are documents in Warwickshire County Record Office that are significant because they are particularly educational, or something of great significance in Warwickshire’s history. Often there are documents that ...
Look closely in your flower beds, local park or on your allotment and you’ll almost certainly find rounded pebbles of a smooth, fine-grained rock-type known as quartzite. They are actually ...
It is sad to see the remains of the Great Western pub that has been badly damaged. A fierce fire broke out in the afternoon of 24th August 2017 and ...
1 Photographic record of the building. Brickwork externally could be 18th/19th. Although the internal photographs showed black beams these appeared to be late features rather than indicators of an earlier ...
Cottage shown on first edition ordnance survey map. The house appeared to be 18th/19th centuryin date but many of the internal features have been obscured by plasterwork/cladding.
1 (NB Not technically a Warwickshire Monument – but it does relate to an area of settlement which the majority is in Warwickshire).
Site of a former farmstead which had gone by 1849. This farmstead and others in he vicinity maybe a post-medieval settlement encroaching on wasteland. Is now in Worcestershire.
