The discovery
In 1876, whilst undertaking restoration work in the St Peter ad Vincula Chapel at the Tower of London, workmen discovered a number of skeletal remains under the floor. One ...
The Warwickshire County Record Office holds quite a lot of photographs and records of the coal mining industry which went on in and around Polesworth. This industry was spurred by ...
Warwickshire has been a sea-bed in its time, with aeons-old, marine fossils found in geological exposures from north of Nuneaton to Burton Dassett. Today the county hosts a variety of ...
John Roberts has already told us about the intriguing occurrences of maritime/salt-loving plants in parts of our landlocked county. Interestingly, this same landscape preserves geological evidence (rocks and fossils) for ...
For me, it is the seemingly incidental comments captured in records that really bring history to life. Most of the history of the Civil Wars and Commonwealth in England as ...
The Abbey is a detached Grade II Listed house set within the Southam Conservation Area. The three storey property is approached from Warwick Road through a pair of early 19th ...
It’s funny the things you find when looking for something else.
A regular visitor to the Warwickshire County Record Office (name withheld to protect the guilty) drew our attention to a ...
Hon. George Shirley
George Shirley was born in 1705 at Staunton Harold, Leicestershire. At the age of 16, he joined the army as an ensign in the First Regiment of Footguards. ...
Over the last year artist Lady Kitt has worked with Proud Youth, a group for LGBTQ+ young people based in Leamington, supported by Warwickshire Pride.
This photograph was found in a Building Byelaw application file from 1937, for the erection of a house, milk shop and dairy: the photograph of the site was taken by ...
Nuneaton Memories have conducted more interviews on a number of subjects. For further details, visit this page.
In 2005 whilst I was a member of the carnival committee I suggested that we make our version of Is This The Way To Amarillo starring myself (union jack suit) ...
The first thing to say is that until some time between 1876 and 1880, the property was actually numbered as 9 George Street. It changed to number 22 when the ...
The 2nd Battalion the Royal Fusiliers were billeted on Stockingford, Nuneaton in January 1915.
300 million years ago, during the Carboniferous Period, what is now Warwickshire lay just north of the Equator. The climate was hot and rather arid, as evidenced by the reddened, ...
The bittern is one of the rarest breeding birds in the UK. It is golden-brown in colour, rather plump, related to the heron and inhabits freshwater reed beds and other ...
Continuing Julie Barnett’s account of her childhood from Warwickshire County Record Office ref. CR 3913/1.
‘My next school was at Princethorpe, about two miles from Eathorpe. In my childhood, Princethorpe was ...
Earlier, I described the history of the building which housed our family bakery in Chapelfields. In this section, I would like to explore the background of my family who worked ...
My friend and I were fortunate enough to snaffle up tickets for the Christmas Regency Ball, recently held by Unlocking Warwick in the old courtrooms on Jury Street. It was a beautiful ...
Christmas tree in mid-January
Over a hundred years ago Christmas trees were a rarity in private homes, but sometimes a communal one was provided; families could be charged to view it (though ...
Next to Bentley Pound is a bench that attracts attention with its slightly unusual design. It may serve a practical purpose, but it too has a history. After speaking with ...
A few years ago, new steps and a disabled-access ramp were installed at Shire Hall, Warwick. The chosen medium for construction was a local building stone known as Hornton Stone, ...
This beautiful specimen from Warwickshire Museum’s collection is part of a natural limestone nodule, collected about twenty years ago from the now-flooded ‘old quarry’ near Southam, formerly owned by Rugby ...
I’ve always lived in Warwick and was born in Warwick; my husband grew up in Warwick too so we’ve got a lot of memories about Warwick.
The greengrocer
My father-in-law used to ...