In February 2015 a painting, which was picked up at auction, was donated to the Warwickshire County Record Office. It was instantly recognisable as the Priory, Warwick.
The painting is dated ...
Products of the Jewel Factory
Although gone, “The Jewel Factory” is certainly not forgotten. Its memory lives on not only through the happy memories of us ex-employees, but also through the ...
The Warwickshire Avon rises in Naseby (in Northamptonshire) and the old photo shows an overgrown pool of water and the side of a monument. It’s not easy to find the ...
In 2008, a hoard of 1146 silver Roman denarii coins was discovered in a small white ware pot buried in a field on the Edge Hill. The hoard was eventually ...
It is a widely held belief that Ridley Scott’s 2023 epic film Napoleon, featuring Joaquin Phoenix, was something of a failure. Boiling down the career and passions of one of ...
1 2The Spring garden, Kenilworth.
Lovie states that pressent house built 1870, earlier garden remodelled c 1925. Formal gardens, lawns, ha-ha, rock garden and pool, terraces, orchard, paddocks and parkland to ...
formal gardens, terraces, lawns, kitchen garden, orchard, paddocks.Recommended for inclusion on Local List by Lovie.
Every day I go for a walk up Cape Road in Warwick, and I noticed that on the side of a large house there are the remains of a painted ...
A 500-mile cycling and walking network is being set up in the West Midlands and named the ‘Starley network’. This prompted me to investigate further: there’s a Starley statue I ...
The steam roller is an 8 ton ‘C’ class roller built by Aveling & Porter Ltd of Rochester, Kent and supplied new to the Royal Borough of Leamington Spa in ...
1 There are large fishponds W of the house, perhaps in part a former moat.
2 There is no ground evidence of a complete moat or of any pre 1690 earthworks. ...
The site of several fishponds, used for breeding and storing fish. These fishponds date to the Post Medieval period and survive as earthworks. They are situated 300m north west of Blyth Hall.
The Stockton boulder is outside Braunston House in Stockton (24 High Street). It had railings around it (as shown in the photograph) and these were removed for the war effort ...
Much of southern and eastern Warwickshire is underlain by layers of grey clay and limestone dating back 200 million years to the dawn of the Jurassic Period. This material is ...
Are you and your family interested in the past? Would you like to play a part in finding out more? Seen Time Team and want to have a go at geophys? Then we’ve got just the thing for you!
Earlier, I set the background to Sir Fulke Greville’s murder, but it may be surprising to hear that the tale of Sir Fulke’s ghost is actually less than one hundred ...
1 The Stratford-upon-Avon canal runs from the river Avon at Bancroft Basin in Stratford-upon-Avon to the Worcester and Birmingham canal at Kings Norton junction. Constructed between 1796 and 1815.
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The Stratford on Avon Canal dates from the Imperial period. It runs between the Bancroft Basin in Stratford and the Worcester and Birmingham Canal at Kings Norton, Birmingham.
Henry Street (1825-1899):- Fellmonger and owner of the Skin Works at 78 West Street Warwick. © HP Street
Catherine Agnes Street (née Goode) married Henry Louis Street at Hatton Church ...
Things looked promising for the proposed super-pit after the public enquiry, notwithstanding the construction cost that was estimated at £400 million over 10 years (£94 billion in 2023 terms). There ...
There are a few objects in our museum which hold special significance, firstly to the people of the county, secondly to us and thirdly because they are some of the ...
18th and 19th centuries
The inn was originally three cottages built in the late 18th century (according to a recent owner). The old photograph shows the inn with the Fosse Way ...
Just north of Packwood House, the church of St Giles nestles snugly among a patchwork of fields. Entering on a cold winter’s day, it takes a while for your eyes ...
The bet
In 1811, Sir John Throckmorton entered into an extraordinary wager at a dinner party. He bet a huge 1,000 guineas that he could have a coat made in the ...
The Throckmorton family have been living at Coughton since 1412. Their house, Coughton Court, is now open to the public though the National Trust. The oldest part of Coughton Court ...
Pub signs are well-known and well documented; pub murals may have been painted by the same sort of artist but are often less well-known, and sadly more ephemeral. Here are ...
This unusual pub name refers to the famous song from the First World War ‘It’s a Long Way to Tipperary’. The author – Harry Williams – was born in Aston ...
‘The neat little village of Church Lawford, with its equally pleasant tributary, Kings Newnham, are most favoured localities, and the inhabitants of those rural places ought to be, and no ...
