To identify exactly what inspires great works of art is an impossible task. However, when presented with the ideal subject artists often flock to paint, draw or sculpt it.
Warwick Castle, ...
1 Existence of the canal caused the growth of a small industrial area at One Elm where a short canal arm was built parallel to the Birmingham Road. This ...
The site of a canal wharf, where vessels would have loaded and unloaded during the Imperial period. It was located between the canal and the eastern end of Western Road, and is marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1886.
I was intrigued by accounts of candle auctions in the Rugby Advertiser.
A candle auction at Leamington Hastings in 1912
Fourteen acres of winter keeping, the property of the Charity Trustees, was ...
1 Look out point with cannon. Six civil war cannon and one naval cannon.
Cannon Bank, the site of a Post Medieval battery, where several cannon were situated during the English Civil War. The remains of the battery are visible as an earthwork. The site is located at Upper Shuckburgh.
2016 sees the three hundredth anniversary of the birth of Capability Brown (CB300).
He was baptised on 30 August 1716 at Kirkharle, Northumberland, the son of a yeoman farmer and a ...
A previous article has described the former Warwick Prison on Cape Road, with a photograph of the Governor’s House that still survives. A little further down Cape Road, on the left just ...
Good Morning, I collect ocean liner ephemera and I have a few items with a Warwickshire interest which you may not be aware of or even interested about but I ...
A photographic exhibition of the journey from battlefield to hospital using Imperial War Museum and Southam Heritage Collection photographs, and a DVD of the Battle of the Somme.
Admission: Free
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Southam Heritage ...
In the 1970s I was able to spend 18 months in Port of Spain, Trinidad so that I could get to know my Trinidad relations. My family background had seen ...
2 Carved masonary found during construction of new fence, possibly salvaged material from 19th century rebuilding of All Saints Church
1 Eight in situ graves were located clustered together in the east corner of the burial ground. The burials were all in coffins and the graves were aligned on the ...
During archeological work at Castle Hill Baptist Church eight burials were discovered. These burials date to the Post Medieval and Imperial periods.
Castle Hill placename.
1 A field adjacent to the holy well (WA 7390) was known locally as Castle Hill field.
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1 The earliest reference to mills attached to the castle is in 1150. These stood about 100m downstream from the present site and were totally destroyed by floods in the ...
Castle Mill, the site of several watermills dating from the Medieval to the Imperial period. The present building dates from the 18th century. The main waterwheel survives at the southern end of Mill Street, Warwick, but no machinery is left.
On the 9th March 1829 the inhabitants of Halford petitioned Parliament in protest at the plans for one of the most radically transformative constitutional measures of the 19th century, Catholic ...
Today, geological collecting at the Warwickshire Museum focuses upon specimens either from Warwickshire, or collectors with close links to the county. In the past however, the museum collected much more ...
The air raid shelter referred to on the historic record ‘may’ have been used by the Bedworth Central C.E. Junior School which was demolished in late 1960s / early 1970s ...
The exhibition tells the story of lime and cement production and its impact on the town and surrounding villages. Production was based around a number of quarries and works all ...
1 The Cesters Over corn mill on the River Swift is doubtless the successor to the mill attached to the manor in 1086. Both a watermill and windmill belonged to ...
The site of Cesters Over Mill, a corn mill that dates back to the Medieval period. It continued in use until the 1930s. The ruins of the building are still visible. The mill was situated 300m west of Ryehill Spinney.
1 In 1460 and 1467 patents were granted to a London draper named Henry Waver. He appears to have been a native of this village, which had twelve messuages in ...
The Medieval deserted settlement of Cestersover. The settlement is known from documentary evidence. It was situated 1km north west of Churchover.
When I am not working at Warwickshire County Record Office I have to admit to an obsession about chairs!
When did my obsession start?
This started about eight years ago, when I ...
1 A chantry chapel existed at Upper Eatington (Ettington) in the Middle Ages; after the Dissolution it was converted into three houses for the poor, and as such it was ...
A Medieval chantry chapel. Traces of the chapel still remain in the structure of a cottage at Ettington.
1 Archaeological recording took place at Chapel End Methodist Church prior to the building being sold for refurbishment as a dwelling. Three distinct phases of build were discerned, the original ...
Chapel End Methodist Church, built in 1887. The chapel is located at Chapel End, Nuneaton.
