Mourning rings date back from the Middle Ages and continued to be used until the early 20th century. It was in the 17th century that they became more defined from ...
1 Plans and elevations of the house are shown in Sharpe’s (or Shape’s) survey.
2 The house was altered extensively and enlarged on two occasions in the 19th century. The site ...
Moxhull Old Hall, a house which was built during the Medieval period and which later became an inn. It is situated 900m to the west of Cuttle Mill Farm.
White’s 1874 Trade Directory for Dunchurch records:
This parish has produced an ingenious and remarkable character in the person of the late Mr. Thomas Maycock, a farmer and native, who lost ...
1 Cut features and walls identified by magnetometer survey, together with extant earthworks suggest that there was settlement in this area. Possible pit alignments and ring ditches indicate a prehistoric ...
An area of possible settlement at Henbrook Lane in Brailes was identified by geophysical survey. The characteristics of the features and the extant earthworks suggest a multi-phase site, perhaps dating from the prehistoric to medieval periods.
The small Muntjac Deer is widespread in Warwickshire, living in parkland, woodland and even venturing into gardens. Male Muntjac have small unbranched antlers and long canine teeth. They can live ...
With its pretty thatched cottages, ancient church and walls of warm Cotswold stone, it seems an idyllic spot. Yet in 1875 the picturesque village of Long Compton made national headlines as ...
This vegetable garden in the Murray School grounds was started as part of the boys’ studies and continued during the First World War as part of the local effort to help ...
An archive is not just a resting place of dusty manuscripts and quiet study rooms. In some cases they can be filled with music.
A few months ago I ordered two ...
In the early 1980s I was working in Royal Leamington Spa. My work brought me into contact with many people who had diverse professions and around that time, I was ...
I lived in Barnacle till the age of four. My parents came to rent a property in Spring Road from a relation. We lived next to my mother’s grandmother and ...
During World War Two George, my husband, was in a reserved occupation tool-making for war factories. I was a housewife and we lived in Three Spires Avenue. Our son Glynn ...
Home thoughts from abroad?
Well from the Isle of Wight actually and unlike the poem by Robert Browning, it was September rather than April, but apart from that……..
Anyway, it was in ...
My wartime memories start rather in Coventry round about 1939, when I would have been five years old. We got bombed out of Coventry after the 14th November Coventry blitz and ...
I first started working on the Queensway part-time in the December of 1984 at a company called Al-Ko B&B. It occupied the site where Queensway Court is now. Al-Ko was ...
When I was two we moved into our first home which was a prefab. It was made of asbestos and was the corner house of a little estate of prefabs, ...
Imagine my excitement! I have just seen a photograph of my ancestors on your website!
It features ‘Women in Front of Cottages’, in the village of Combrook. I have this photograph ...
My family research has taken me down some very unexpected roads.
Warwickshire origins
I have been researching for over twenty years and from my research I learned of the strong ties of ...
Rather surprisingly the Rev Dew finished his ‘Trip down the River Avon’ talk in Warwick, rather than continuing on down to the river Severn, though perhaps there was a part ...
I was walking down Castle Hill to take a photo of the old bridge over the Avon when my eye lit on this rather dark blocked up doorway in the ...
Nuneaton Memories would like some help identifying some photos.
1 Remains of an extensive earthwork located on a jutting promontory of Edge Hill at about 230m. It has a very commanding position on top of a steep escarpment. Land ...
Nadbury Camp, an Iron Age hillfort. In some areas the ramparts are still visible as earthworks. The hillfort is located 400m south of Arlescote.
