The Lord Leycester Hotel is in the news at the moment, after proposals to turn the hotel into a number of flats, with houses built at the rear. The building’s ...
This fine pub still exists at 69 Coten End. It is first listed as a pub in 1880 but the building is much older and is described in detail in ...
As a Warwickshire County Record Office volunteer, I have been sorting through and then cataloguing the late Roger Smith’s collection of photographs (PH1239) – transparencies mostly of Warwick, Leamington Spa, ...
The Regent Hotel was officially opened on 19th August 1819. Proving itself to be a popular place for visitors taking the Spa waters, the Regent saw a number of celebrities ...
This well-known pub is situated at 57, Smith Street and is a popular pub to this day. The earliest record of it as a pub is the 1806 map of ...
1 On the edge of Kenilworth, Thickthorn Lodge began as a cottage, before becoming a three storey farmhouse, and in 1811, a ‘country mansion’ in the Mock-Tudor style with mock ...
Thickthorn Lodge, which was first built as a cottage in the Imperial period and was later extended into a three storey farmhouse. By 1830 it had become a mock Tudor country mansion with castellations, turrets and an elaborate gatehouse. It is situated to the south of Windy Arbour.
1 In 1316 the canons of Kenilworth secured surrender of common rights in a wood called Thickthorne and a pasture called Littlehay which stretched from Sohochale lidgate to the hedge ...
Medieval Wood
In previous articles, I have given an overview of the Adkins letters available at the Warwickshire County Record Office. However, it is also worth noting Adkins’s career after he retired ...
In the initial article, I gave an overview of Adkins’s career as an interpreter and diplomat with the Chinese Consular Service. However, against the dramatic political backdrop of events at ...
The idea of this website is to publish online Thomas Baker's diaries together with the relevant finished painting where possible for the benefit of art researchers, and owners in the further appreciation of his work. A section for his watercolours is also included.
This video link charts the history of the School House and associated Coton Hall. Thomas Coton founded a school for the children of Kingsbury, Warwickshire in 1686. His old school is ...
The almshouses were founded in the 1570s by Thomas Oken, who has been called ‘Warwick’s most famous son’. He was a silk merchant – a self-made man without children who ...
Ben Earl’s contribution on this website about Lawrence Sheriff School (LSS) in Rugby brought back memories of my time there during 1941-1946. At the end of his article Ben mentions ...
1 Comprises Chase Wood, Henry Eave’s Whites Coppice, Mr. Malleries Whites Coppice, Black Hill Wood
Medieval Wood
This almshouse was founded in 1518 by Sir Robert Throgmorton of nearby Coughton Court. It stands modestly on the Birmingham Road close to the entrance to Coughton Court.
The inhabitants
The original ...
Discover what shopping was like in Royal Leamington Spa from the 1880s to the 1980s.
Using personal stories, photographs and objects from the collection, the exhibition will focus on the many ...
Not an early demo of a Thin Lizzy album, but instead a report into weather of particular savage brutality. On 9th July 1905 a terrible storm swept across the UK. ...
1 Plans of sheep wash (scaled)
2 Detailed description of sheep dip. Brick built into the embankment of the dam for the possible fish pond (4105). Appears to be ...
Brick built sheep dip.
This windmill is a red brick, six storey tarred tower with a marked batter and conical roof, and was built in 1794. About 65 feet tall, it had two pairs ...
