1 To the north of Warwick was Guy Cliffe Grove, recorded in 1422-3 and 1483 The site is suggested by the enclosure award for St. Nicholas’s parish, which included ...
Medieval woodland formerly Guy Cliffe Grove
My visit to Pauls Jaunzem’s sculpture park in Riga, Latvia inspired the exploration of sculptures and monuments in Leamington which were under my nose. For decades I had passed them ...
1 Two late 17th/ early 18th century ogee roofed corner pavilions, part of walled forecourt forming part of vanished formal gardens.
2 Two ogee roofed gazebos were built at the south ...
Three Post Medieval garden pavilions or summerhouses are all that remain of a formal garden at Arlescote House.
1 Bridge marked.
2 The bridge still exists and appears to be an early one. It has two spans, hump-backed, of sandstone and brick and is reinforced with concrete. The upstream ...
Pedlar's Bridge, a bridge dating to the Post Medieval period. It is marked on an estate map of 1778. The bridge is situated on Smearton Lane.
The Coleshill Civic Society heard that there was a timber framed barn at Daw Mill Colliery that they wanted removed. I approached Avoncroft Building Museum, and they came and looked ...
Dudley White died when his tank was hit by a shell at the crossroads in the Belgian village of Poelcapelle where the German army had its local headquarters and the ...
The records of the churchwarden particularly the account books can be found in abundance amongst the collections of parish records deposited at Warwickshire County Record Office. They can range in ...
The writer Philip Larkin was born in Coventry on 9th August 1922. He began writing at an early age, and after studying English at Oxford, he became a librarian at ...
Members of the bowls club at Atherstone Miners Welfare in South Street circa 1950. Names that I can recognise – Fred Mills, Harry Mills and Danny Mitchell. The club was ...
Looking towards Birmingham on the Nuneaton – Birmingham line.
Alice and Bert Wainwright (mine hosts), Bob Higgins, Henry Hall, George (Juddy) Hall, Geoff Radford.
From the Nuneaton Local History Group Collection.
A general background
My great grandfather was a master photographer based in Rugby, he started the Redding studio in the town which lasted for 100 years. John Frearson writes1 how Redding ...
In 1999, Warwickshire County Record Office was left a large photographic collection by Mr Reginald Bull an amateur photographer of Nuneaton. Part of this collection consists of over 8,000 black and ...
A couple of images from the Reg Bull collection at Warwickshire County Record Office. Nuneaton Memories have kindly supplied an image of the street in 2016…
More places you may remember
The Well at Berkswell and the village stocks. From old post cards, and part of the Peter Lee Collection.
Kenilworth Ford in Castle Road floods regularly and these two photographs show that things have not changed much in nearly 100 years in spite of regular flood alleviation measures. The ...
