Joan Galloway had been called up to the Women’s Land Army in 1943. The day for Joan started at 7am with breakfast. After breakfast a lorry would come and collect ...
Interviews with John Gardner, Gordon Barton, Geoffrey Shepherd and Terry Westwood. They talk about working at the Cape Works site, the hardships of metalworking and visits from American airmen.
John Gardner ...
These are my memories of the Recro 80 Festival which took place at Stoneleigh Showground, Kenilworth to celebrate the Queen Mother’s 80th birthday. I was only 10 at the time ...
1 Cropmarks in a field 150m north of New Barn, Barton on the Heath were mapped as part of the English Heritage National Mapping Project. There are five cropmarks ...
A group of four penanular crop marks, one of which is partially enclosed by a rectilinear feature, can be seen on aerial photographs taken in July 1996.
2 A crop mark of a rectilinear enclosure appears on air photographs. The enclosure appears to contain several circular features.
3 First edition OS map 39NE (1886) shows a sewage ...
A rectangular enclosure of unknown date which is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs. It is situated 200m north of Harbury Lane. The 'enclosure' is most probably a sewage tank shown on the 1st edition OS map.
1 Rectilinear feature to the west of Curdwoth Bottom Lock seen as crop marks on aerial photographs mapped as part of English Heritage (EH) National Mapping Project (NMP) ...
Rectilinear feature to the south west of Curdwoth Bottom Lock seen as crop marks on aerial photographs.
1 Late 17th/ early 18th century with more recent additions. A plain, but somehow attractive house of stone with stone gable ends, and a projecting gabled wing surmounted by ...
A vicarage that was built during the Post Medieval period. It is situated in Church Road, Baginton.
As you may have noticed, the museum is now open, and it’s bedding in now, nicely! It seemed appropriate, then, to reflect on the opening itself.
Produced by Heritage & Culture Warwickshire and supported by Warwick District Council, the Reframing Sheldon project aims to explore how digital arts and creative technologies can be used to shed new ...
Reginald Foort holds a key place in the role of cinema organist, having been a pioneer of organ broadcasting and recording. He began by accompanying silent movies in 1926, and ...
1 There was a mill in Kingsbury in 1086, valued at 9s 4d. In the 12th century it was granted to Polesworth Abbey and remained a possession of the Abbey ...
The remains of Hemlingford Watermill. Documentary evidence indicates that it was built in the Medieval period and went out of use during the Imperial period. The site lies 150m south east of Hemlingford Bridge.
1 In 1535 the last Abbot surrendered to the Crown. The Abbey lay a roofless ruin until 1561. An Elizabethan building was constructed and remained substantially unaltered until 1710. The ...
The remains of Stoneleigh Abbey buildings that are of Medieval date. Parts of the abbey cloister, chapter house and dormitory survive and have been incorporated into a later building. The abbey buildings were located 500m north west of The Grove.
1 The roofless remains of two buildings exist S of the church. The smaller is about 4.9m square and 11.4m from the church. It has a W doorway similar ...
The remains of Wroxall Priory, a nunnery founded in the Medieval period. The remains of two buildings exist on the site; the refectory or dining room; and the chapter house, where the nuns met to carry out business transactions. The site is 700m southwest of Wroxall Village.
1 Cotswold Archaeological Trust (CAT) was commissioned to undertake an archaeological evaluation on land to the E of Harbury Lane, Ufton. The evaluation indicated that Medieval and Post Medieval deposits, ...
Archaeological investigation revealed the remains of buildings and ridge and furrow dating to the Medieval period. The site is located 500m south of the church, Ufton.
1 Hospital of St Michael, on the N of town, near St Michael’s Church. Founded by Roger Earl of Warwick about the end of the reign of Henry I (1100-1135). ...
The remains of a Medieval hospital founded by Roger Earl of Warwick. The remains lie to the north of Saltisford Road 100m north west of the Vittle Drive / Ansell Road cross roads. Upstanding buildings include the 15th century chapel and 15th/16th century Master's House.
1 Ponds visible on the 1841 Tithe Map and on the OS Second Edition map are probably the remains of a moat surrounding the 16th century (or earlier) farmhouse. ...
Ponds visible on 1841 Tithe Map and OS First Edition 1:2500 surrounding Manor Farmhouse are probably the remains of a medieval moat.
1 The parish church of St Leonard was originally part of the priory (PRN 2609), but it is probable that this part was always assigned to the parishioners and that ...
The remains of Wroxall Priory Church, of Medieval origin. The church is now used as the Parish Church. It is likely that this part of the church was always used by parishoners, and that the portion of the building to the south, which is now destroyed, was used by the nuns.
Stoneleigh History Society is documenting all the graves in the churchyard (St Mary the Virgin Church, Stoneleigh CV8 3DN) by photographing and transcribing them, and researching the lives of those ...
When records at risk of decay are discovered by someone who has an inkling of their worth and contacts the record office, it can be all hands on deck for our archivist and conservation teams.
Soon after I had started writing up the story of Ann Tennant, I received a telephone call from a freelance newspaper reporter who had been commissioned to write a series ...
1 Small underground reservoir supplied the village from 1930s onwards supplemented by water from the Alcester Waterworks Company.
The site of a small underground reservoir which was built during the Imperial period. It is situated 500m south east of Alne Hills.
1 Reservoir marked on 1886 map.
The site of a reservoir which was created in the Imperial period and is marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1886. It was located at Campion Hills, Leamington Spa.
We can't be sure how long the Wilmcote plesiosaur skeleton has been on display at the Market Hall Museum, but it's certainly been for at least a hundred years. As part of the 'Our Warwickshire' refurbishment, we had the skeleton taken down from its mount, in October 2015.
In January 1747 the Reverend Cotterell, vicar of Polesworth, died at Polesworth, aged 77. Some kindly person decided that ‘it would be injustice to the memory of so valuable a person’ ...
