On Christmas Eve 1998, I took delivery of a large brown envelope postmarked Southport. Inside was a copy of the death certificate of my great-great grandmother Ann Tennant. I knew ...
On the evening of 15 February 1886, PC William Hine left home in Fenny Compton for duty on patrol around the “George and Dragon Inn” where a cattle auction was ...
In the middle of Nuneaton parish churchyard lies a substantial flat stone memorial to the mid 19th Century clergyman, Canon Robert Savage. The tombstone, like so many in our graveyards, ...
In the previous section, I looked at the chiefs’ time in Nuneaton. This section concludes the story.
Savage’s son Alfred, who would have been 12 years old when the chiefs arrived, had ...
In part one, I gave the background to my hunt for George Mandyoli Konah Macomo. In this section, I deal with his time in Nuneaton.
Sir George Grey’s decision to send these ...
It is always an awkward feeling when research dispels the myth of a much loved local treasure.
On display in the Great Hall of Warwick Castle is a small and delicate ...
This record1 shows the plan and proposed time scale for closing the North Warwick Colliery in 1965. This process was thought to take nine months and involved removing and dismantling machinery, ...
Joan Cockram may have been born in Tamworth, but her life and career saw her crossing the border to Warwickshire. Indeed, her own family history was closely tied up with ...
Last weekend also saw open days for Astley Castle. Now, Astley has featured on these pages fairly regularly, so yours truly decided to visit. What’s significant when there is how ...
1 17th century timber framing in gables, otherwise rebuilt modern brick.
The Old Hall, a Post Medieval manor house. It retains timber framing of this date in the gables. It has been rebuilt in brick in a later period. It is situated 300m north east of the church, Hunningham.
1 This house was never the Manor House (and was previously known as Ivy Cottages). It was the home of the Tibbetss family who occupied this property in 1548 ...
A timber framed house dating from the Post Medieval period it once had two wings but the most southerly was demolished at an unknown date. It is situated 400m south west of Turner's Green.
My grandparents Henry and Amy Robbins lived in part of the old mansion buildings which stood on the site of the present Mansion Close until it was demolished in 1964. ...
1 Built for a Presbyterian, later Congregational church (now United Reformed Church) formed in 1686, for which the first known meeting house was registered in 1705. The present building was ...
The Old Meeting House, a meeting house which was originally built during the Post Medieval period. It is situated off Chapel Street, Bedworth.
Southam minted its own coins in mediaeval times because local people found ordinary coins too high in value for everyday use. The old mint house was built in the early ...
An Exhibition by Knowle Local History Society
The history of Knowle’s first parsonage, a 16th century timber-framed building of which only a part remains as No. 1644 High Street. Behind a ...
Recently in Coventry I happened to pass the old Banner Lane factory. It has now been demolished. It was built at the outbreak of the Second World War, as a ...
The William James Heritage Trail remembers William James (1771-1837) who built the tramway in Stratford.
The line started at the Stratford Canal Basin in the north and crossed the river before ...
1 The vicarage was rebuilt by 1625, it is not known if it occupied the same site.
2 What is now called the vicarage dates to the end of the 19th ...
The possible site of a Medieval vicarage. The site is that of the present vicarage, which was built during the Imperial period. It is situated 400m south west of Wolfhampcote.
1 Built in 1821 at a cost of £1,200. Red brick with low pitched slate roof with hipped ends and wide projecting eaves. Two storeys. Square on plan but with ...
A two storey vicarage which was built during the Imperial period of red brick. It is situated 150m north of the church, Cubbington.
1 The old vicarage is a neat residence erected on part of the Glebe land.
2 Marked as vicarage on the 1887 6″ OS map.
3 2 storey 19th century redbrick building ...
The Old Vicarage which was built during the Imperial period. It is marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1886. The vicarage is situated in Hoskyn Close, Hillmorton.
Rugby is of course well known for its train station, and part of the reason for the town’s dramatic growth in the Victorian era is its status as an important ...
Hillbrow School was a prep school founded in 1859 by the Modern Languages teacher at Rugby School, John William Joseph Vecqueray (1826-1901), a Prussian from Aachen by birth. In 1922 ...
The Newbold Tunnel was built in 1829, and is a familiar landmark along the Oxford Canal around Rugby. The two pubs, the Boat and Barley Mow, are perpendicular to the ...
I have previously discussed the history of our family bakery up until the end of the 1950s. Here, I would like to conclude its story.
David Hugh Pails, born in 1963 ...
At Easter 2007 I went to Stretton on Dunsmore in search of my Parrott family history. I was lucky to find Kath Edwards, a cousin who was still living in ...
