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 start of the war ...
1 2 3 Warwick Arms hotel, High street, Warwick.
Historic inn recorded on the Board of Health map of Warwick. Also on F. White and Co.’s and Pigot’s databases. The latter ...
Historic inn, situated on the south side of the High street.
1 Warwick Castle Park. An 18th century park and river landscape around the Medieval castle, c.320 ha. The park extends for c75 ha on the N side of ...
Warwick Castle Park. Documentary and evidence from excavation shows that the landscaped park, which surrounds Warwick Castle, dates to the Post Medieval and Imperial periods.Recommended for Review Register entry by Lovie.
3rd December, 1871. A fire tears through Warwick Castle. The Great Hall is destroyed, along with a number of private apartments and offices.
A popular attraction
Even in 1871 the castle was ...
1 A castle at Warwick was begun by William I in 1068 as part of a plan to safeguard the Midlands. This castle was of the motte and bailey type ...
Phase I of Warwick Castle which was built from 1068 as a motte and bailey castle. It was first constructed in wood, but was rebuilt in stone possibly during the 12th century. It was at least partially enclosed by a moat.
The inventory for the housekeeper’s bedroom1 points to her elevated rank in the hierarchy of domestic service. She was the most senior female servant at the castle, matched in importance ...
The owners of Warwick Castle have always aspired for connection, and involvement, with the wider world – from the earliest Anglo-Norman earls patronage of the Knights Templar, to Thomas Beauchamp, ...
In part one, I looked at the castle’s owners’ involvement in colonialism up to the point of Robert Greville, 2nd Lord Brooke. Further involvement was to follow, as I examine ...
This pioneering reformatory was established by Warwickshire magistrates in 1818 in a rented 18th-century farm at Stretton on Dunsmore. It was run by a married couple and housed up to ...
In 1915 it was becoming clear that the new ‘industrialised’ style of warfare used in World War One needed a much bigger army than the country could raise by volunteer ...
1 Likely that the suburb was well developed by 1123.
The earliest mapping from the 1610 Speed map shows built up frontage of the streets within the suburb while the ...
Medieval suburb stretching out east from Warwick including Smith Street, Church Street, Chapel Road, Priory Road, Gerrard Street, St Johns, Coten End and Mill Street.
Barrack Street in Warwick used to be known as Bridewell Lane because the House of Correction or Bridewell stood on one side of it. On the opposite side stood the ...
The Warwick House of Correction or Bridewell stood on the corner between Saltisford Rock (now Theatre Street) and Bridewell Lane (formerly Wallditch and now Barrack Street); the site is roughly where ...
This Society, founded in 1954, is open to anyone with an interest in the natural environment. The Society holds indoor meetings on alternate Thursdays from September to March with a variety of speakers, together with field meetings during the summer.
The interdisciplinary Warwick Network for Parish Research (founded in 2003) supports a wide range of initiatives on parish history, art, heritage and culture from the Middle Ages to the present.
This image of the Priory is part of the Waller collection, which is a valuable historical resource spanning eight centuries. The significant families within the collection are Wise and Waller. The ...
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Come the mid 19th century there were repeated complaints by visiting justices, who remarked that the Warwick gaol on Barrack Street, and the Bridewell were unfit for purpose, suffering from ...
1 The prison was built c1860 to replace the gaol at Shire Hall; it was used until 1915 and demolished in 1933. The route of the perimeter wall is perpetuated, ...
The site of Warwick Prison. The Prison dates from the Imperial Period and was situated on Cape Road.
1 The Warwick meeting is amongst the oldest in the country. The oldest racecard is at the Woolpack Hotel and dates to 1775 but it is believed that the races ...
Warwick Race Course had been established by 1775, possibly earlier. One document suggests that the first proper race meeting took place here in 1709, making it one of the oldest Race Courses in the country.
The first racing in Warwick was held in 1694, hoping to raise money for the town after the great fire of that year. The first race at what is now ...
Four keys to Warwick Union Workhouse
The project will serve as a permanent resource for schools, university projects, social historians and local people to understand better the sacrifices made in Word War One by a relatively small county town.
1 Observation of the laying of a new water main through Warwick town centre revealed no evidence of suggested Saxon defences (WA 2191) at the corner of Brook Street and ...
Archaeological work located part of the Medieval town boundary ditch at the junction of Market Street and Bowling Green Street, Warwick. The remains of a modern building dating to just before the 1960's was also found.
