Sidney Slatter was working for his father in Whichford, Shipston on Stour, when he faced conscription in March 1916. It was feared that his call-up to war would mean disaster for ...
1 World War II signal box with concrete root reported to be still standing at side of dismantled railway line by the A461, west of Bidford-on-Avon
2 Aerial photograph showing signal ...
The site of a railway signal box which was constructed and used during the the Second World War. It was situated on what is now the dismantled railway, west of Bidford-on-Avon.
1 Diamond shaped GWA weight restriction signs, early 20th century, on bridge approaches.
Canal weight restriction signs dating to the Imperial period. They are located on the approach to a canal bridge on the Stratford on Avon Canal, 350m south west of the Wootton Wawen Viaduct.
1 Whilst metal detecting on cultivated land, a 13th century silver pin from a brooch was found two to three inches below ground.
1 Excavations on a site in the Medieval settlement also revealed a single pit of possible Bronze Age date.
2 Pottery identified as Late Bronze Age by Stephanie Ratkai.
A single pit of Bronze Age date was uncovered at this site on Harbury Lane, Ufton.
Sir Alfred Herbert loved the city of Coventry, and in particular the many who worked with him and for him building up his highly respected machine tools business which was ...
Francis Galton was born in Birmingham in 1822, son of Samuel Galton and Frances Darwin, and therefore a cousin of Charles Darwin. The Galton family had made their fortune in ...
In 1915 Terry Frost was born in Leamington Spa. He grew up in a house on Rugby Road, attended the Central School on Leicester Street and did a number of ...
Sir Thomas Holte’s family made their fortune in the Birmingham iron trade: he was a royalist who was knighted for supporting James 1 financially. He was the son of a ...
Think of King Arthur and certain images come to mind; jousting, the Lady of the Lake, the Launcelot, Guinevere, Arthur love triangle to name but three,. Think of places, and ...
1 At the junction of Lillington Avenue and Lillington Road stands a large tree known as the Midlands Oak, claimed to mark the centre of England.
2 No longer standing. ...
The site of 'The Midlands Oak' a named tree which once stood at the junction of Lillington Avenue and Lillington Road and was believed to mark the centre of England.
