In part one, I introduced the Townsends, setting a little context for the family and the collection of their records now held at Warwickshire County Record Office. In this section, ...
They’re a harsh lot in Nuneaton…
Anyway, it’s safe to say also imaginative. The Nuneaton Observer of December 11th 1964 reports on the above event, held by the Weddington and District ...
A resident of Rugby, George Day appeared before the circuit judge at the Coventry Courts quarter sessions twice in 1854, both times accused of thefts linked to pigs. George was ...
1 A neat residence near the church.
2 18th century redbrick, hipped tile roof. Central 19th century pedimented trellis porch. 19th century stucco door surround has pediment and freize on ...
A vicarage that was built during the Imperial period. It is situated on Main Street, Newbold on Avon.
Between 1832 to 1843 there was an ongoing correspondence between Anna Jarrett and her brother Wathen Waller. She was the wife of John Jarrett, the owner of broad acres in Somerset and ...
Unfortunately, the war came in 1939 and, regrettably, I had to eventually leave J. C. Smith’s to work in a factory for war work. My mother was already working at ...
In 1939 when the war was announced, I was 18 years old. I was stood on the side of the road next to the cinema waiting for my mum to ...
The author
A few months ago I was given a copy of a pamphlet entitled The Warning Voice, consisting of verses composed in the second half of the 19th century by ...
I was interested in finding the identity of the people mentioned in the poem “The Warning Voice” by James Brown (1817-1886), about sudden deaths in Warton in 1875-76, a copy ...
Part one of this article explored the first deaths included in James Brown’s poem The Warning Voice, but he had not yet concluded his tale!
The young woman
The next to fall ...
There are a handful of treasures dispersed around the museums of the world which still bear the name ‘Warwick’. This is despite many of them having left the town quite ...
The Warwick Earthquake (September 23) was a mild tremor; one of many to have affected central England over geological time. Warwickshire is cross-crossed by many geological faults. Most of these ...
Constructed 1280-1330 with later additions
Until 50 or 60 years ago, Warwick was home to one of the best preserved English medieval wooden instruments surviving in modern times. The ‘Warwick Gittern’, whose main ...
The early museum
A museum has existed at Market Hall since 1836, when the Warwickshire Natural History and Archaeological Society hired some rooms in the centre of Warwick. Expanding rapidly, by ...
The pageant of 1906 was accounted a great success, and did much to raise the temperature of the ‘pageant fever’ developing in the wake of the Sherborne performance. With the ...
Pageant week got underway on Sunday 1 July with a special service at St. Mary’s Collegiate Church, preached by the Bishop of Bristol. Special services were also held in other ...
In June 1905 Edward Hicks, an enterprising Warwick journalist (and author of a book about Caradoc), pounced on a passing suggestion in the Daily Telegraph that Warwick would be an ideal site ...
“Every picture tells a story” so the saying goes. The above picture appears to have many tales to tell, including who may have been the artist
Whilst seeking out objects for ...
There are many black days in British economic history, but before Black Wednesday and Black Monday there was a Black Tuesday, 6th September 1887, when the Bank of Greenway, Smith ...
In addition to the behind the scenes work, and the regular displays that you can pop in and see, there are many events that take place at the museum – these events can add a little insight into the collections and the objects on display.
This is a real stuffed bear that was probably shot in the Victorian period and was inherited from the Warwick Natural History and Archaeological Society in 1932. It has been ...
The Weaver’s House has been restored to show how it would have looked in 1540. This shows how John Croke, a Coventry narrow-loom weaver and his family would have lived and ...
The first well house was built on the instruction of the 4th Earl of Aylesford, the lord of the manor, following a visit to the town in 1803.
The house was ...
The Victorian stained glass of the west window of St Michael’s Church, Whichford is a beautiful example of the craftsmanship of the time. However, an altogether different design had been ...
1 Along the canal banks in the above square are four wharves. There is one to each side of the Nuneaton Road bridge (SP 33 94), and one to each ...
The Wharves at Hartshill. Four canal wharfs, where vessels would have loaded and unloaded goods, were in use during the Imperial period. They are situated 500m north of Hartshill Quarries.
