If visiting historic country houses has taught me one thing, it is that you should always carry a torch with you. Delicate fabrics, drawings and materials necessitate low lighting levels; ...
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Like oranges, black servants were far from uncommon in wealthy households during the 1600s. Indeed, both King Henry VIII and his daughter Elizabeth I had black people ...
The Ordovician Period is a division of geological time spanning the interval between about 490 and 445 million years ago. In some parts of Britain the Ordovician is represented by ...
This letter contains a beautiful hand coloured draft plan for the development of land on both the north and south sides of the River Leam and includes an area of ...
During the early Iron Age or earlier, it is thought that a Celtic family moved from the Fulbroook-Sherbourne area to establish a farm in an Arden-Forest hill-top clearing which became ...
The Coventry and Midland Photographic Society (as it was then called) was one of the first in the country: it was founded in 1883 by ten gentlemen who met in ...
1 Early 19th century stuccoed house with roughcast and bricked wings of 17th century timber framing (outdated Listed Building List).
2 Photographed in 1977.
Orton Lodge, a house built during the Post Medieval and Imperial periods, is situated on Old Church Lane, Water Orton.
My name is Diana Mentor (nee Harris) and I currently live in New Zealand. I emigrated from the UK in 1954. Recently I was talking to my daughter about my ...
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Mass
We all had to attend Mass most mornings, regardless of one’s faith, it always seem so cold early in the morning and I used to feel quite ...
During the Market Hall Museum closure period, Heritage and Culture Warwickshire (HCW) will deliver five community engagement programmes across the county. These programmes will explore Warwickshire’s heritage and culture (past, ...
The last year has seen us trail around the county, taking in 27 different venues where we’ve been capturing your stories, speaking to the public, and getting all kinds of interesting curios passed to us. It all began on January 19th, when an intrepid duo visited Polesworth Tithe Barn to speak to the North Warwickshire History Forum.
This isn’t the end of the road, not by a long chalk. Having opened, we now have the task of building on the work we’ve done up until now, and creating and maintaining the service you all deserve.
1 photographic record prior to conversion shows that the agricultural buildings were associated with a livestock farm – probably cattle.
2 Buildings are shown on the First Edition Ordnance Survey map.
Open fronted animal sheds with troughs. Evidence for mechincal fodder processing. Store for feed or hay. 19th century.
The current handsome Georgian building in Jury Street stands on a site that had been successively St Peter’s Chapel, the Cross Tavern and an earlier Court House. The surviving Court ...
1 Overslade garden, Bilton, Rugby.
Lovie reports a villa with pleasure grounds and kitchen garden. Site developed c. 1985. Some mature trees and boudary planting remain.
Lovie recommended no action.
Villa pleasure grounds and kitchen garden. Some trees and boundary planting remain after site developed.
1 Oversley Bridge is on the site of an earlier bridge mentioned in 1543. It had become a county bridge by 1659 and considerable repairs were carried out ...
Oversley Bridge, a road bridge which was built during the Post Medieval period with later alterations made during the Imperial period. It is situated on Stratford Road, Alcester.
Warwickshire’s links to the transatlantic slave economy are slowly being exposed. Studies on the Greville family of Warwick Castle and Bertie Greatheed of Guy’s Cliffe House show how key figures ...
1 L-shaped building in stone with slate roof and unusual buttresses. Inscription dated 1706 above door.
2 Photographed in 1982.
Oxhill House, a house that was built during the Post Medieval period. The inscription above the door is dated 1706. It is situated in Main Street, Oxhill.
