A strong wind was blowing across the trenches. A putrid smell lingered in the air, a mixture of chlorine gas, mud, filth, and flesh. It was approaching lunchtime in the ...
The elephant
has always been in my family, as long as I can remember. It sits in our house now, out of the way, but still there. It was a wedding ...
The war went rolling on and by the start of 1944, things were getting tight. I never remember being hungry, but I certainly remembered being cold. My grandmother used to ...
Decline and demolition
With the close of the Great War came the closing chapter of Weddington Castle. Following the end of the war, the Red Cross withdrew from Weddington Castle and it ...
William Booth was born on Hall End Farm near Beaudesert, Warwickshire in 1776. Son of a church warden and farmer, he was one of eight children. In around 1799, he ...
For 33 years the extensive coalfield of Warwickshire had been free from serious disaster. Tragically this impressive record was marred by a calamity that took place at the Exhall Colliery ...
(An account of the disaster can be found in this article)
The circumstances of the disaster were investigated by the Coroner and jury at Coventry County Hall.
The first witness was Dr. ...
The farm buildings at Manor Farm consisted of a stable, an engine house and dairy, four bays, known as standings, for milking cows, two loose sheds, one known as the ...
The Field is a series of photographs taken since 2005 in Welford on Avon, I wanted to show the changes in myself and the location.
I try to take a picture every ...
1 the Firs garden, Warwick Road, Kenilworth.
Lovie reports a villa with modest pleasure grounds.
He gives state as untraced.
Villa with modest pleasure grounds.
A Mr. Cole wrote down his reminiscences of his childhood in Kenilworth and Warwickshire, around the time of the First World War. His recollections of the war offer an insight ...
Surprisingly the entries in the Stretton on Dunsmore elementary school logbook for 1914 do not mention the war at all.
The King reviews the troops before Gallipoli
In February 1915 the children ...
A ley line is believed to run from Childswickham in Worcestershire through Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon, ending at the mound of Warwick Castle keep. Leys are believed to attract a ...
This attractive Grade II listed building was the old gas works for Warwick and Leamington. The building was erected in 1822: one of the first gas works in the world. ...
The Fusilier Museum Warwick brings the past to life and tells the personal stories of soldiers in the local area. It spans over 350 years of the Royal Warwickshire’s history.
1 Built between 1746-1747 of ironstone ashlar in a castellated Gothick style of two storeys with three storey turrets.
17th Century Gatehouse designed by Sanderson Miller.
When the German army invaded Belgium 250,000 Belgians fled to Britain. Rugby, quite typically of the country’s reactions, established Relief Committees to organise accommodation and fund support1. 200 were settled ...
Many of us, especially those with children or grandchildren of a certain age, will be familiar with the hit children’s television series Teletubbies. Teletubbies ran for several hundred episodes over ...
This glasshouse was an attractive and useful feature of Riversley Park that has now gone.
Was it demolished or did it blow down in a gale?
Although there are piles of weighty solemn looking documents kept in the strongrooms of the Warwickshire County Record Office, there are a good deal of gems down there that could be ...
We’ve dealt with this building earlier, referring to its time as a prison, but in that text we only made fleeting reference to its time as a pub. We said how landlord ...
1 The W and N C was authorised in 1794 and was built and opened simultaneously with the Warwick and Birmingham Canal in 1800. It was therefore an essential ...
The Grand Union Canal, a waterway used for transporting goods. It dates to the Imperial period, when it was the Warwick and Napton Canal, and part of the link between Birmingham and London.
1 The Grange garden, Upper Holly Walk, Leamington Spa.
Lovie reports villa with lodge, formal terraces, pleasure grounds with walks, conservatory.
Demolished and redeveloped at time of Lovie’s report (1996/7).
Villa with pleasure grounds.Demolished and redeveloped.
When I was in Class 2 we were based in St Mary’s schoolroom in New Street, and our teacher was Mr Binks. This was great for me as our back ...
On the 5th September 1694,
..a sudden fire, which broake out about two of the clock in the afternoon on the fifth of this instant September, in the western part of ...
