It can be very difficult to find black voices from Warwickshire in our archives. We have found that many of our historical records relating to black people come from the ...
The first chapel
The first Methodist chapel in Bedworth (Weslyan Chapel) was in a rented cottage in Kinders Yard off Leicester Street, soon to be followed by the use of a ...
Today we may be more familiar with the concept of a drag queen, but drag kings (or ‘male impersonators’) have a history dating back over the centuries. Performers such as ...
Wolston has flooded regularly over the years. These residents recall their memories of them.
Woodlands School
When I was three, I went to the Woodlands School. I can still remember the big red tubular rocking horse there. We used to line up for a glass ...
George Hull, my great grandfather, was a coachman to the Emmens family at Mount Vernon in Northumberland Road. I think the photo was taken in Trinity Street in Leamington, where ...
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So within eight years of Rev. John Craig’s death the Priory had changed out of all recognition. The grounds had been sold and houses, including those lining ...
To while away the hours, a few of those incarcerated decided to get artistic and leave their mark. To this day we have some of the interesting graffiti they left behind, scratched into the stone walls.
Verity Fincher wrote down reminiscences of growing up in Abbot’s Salford. Her recollections of the village and its residents offer an insight into life in Abbot’s Salford in the early 20th century.
Cottages and gardens
Our village, ...
During the Second World War a civil servant working at the castle came and told us we had to have someone staying with us, he was doing war work. My ...
In 1506, William Cope sold the manor of Wormleighton to his wife’s cousin, John Spencer of Snitterfield beginning a long association between the Spencer family and Wormleighton.
John Spencer built a manor ...
The Coleshill Civic Society heard that there was a timber framed barn at Daw Mill Colliery that they wanted removed. I approached Avoncroft Building Museum, and they came and looked ...
Edward Hall Speight, Photographer
The Speights were a family of talented photographers. Edward Hall Speight (originally a Wesleyan schoolmaster) set up his photography business in Rugby around 1872. All of his ...
Verity Fincher wrote down reminiscences of her summer holidays spent at Salford Hall. Her recollections of the building offer an insight into its uses in the early 20th century.
The Squire’s apartments
Our summers at Salford started ...
Decline and demolition
With the close of the Great War came the closing chapter of Weddington Castle. Following the end of the war, the Red Cross withdrew from Weddington Castle and it ...
Verity Fincher wrote down reminiscences of her childhood in Abbot’s Salford and Salford Hall, around the time of the First World War. Her recollections of the war offer an insight into ...
In Anglo-Saxon times (broadly 410 AD to 1066 AD), what we know as ‘Warwickshire’ was gradually taking shape. Over a thousand years ago, our county would have looked very different. ...
Woodwards
My mother worked at Woodwards, Eva Jones she was then. She was born in 1901 so I suppose she was working there when she was about 16 or 17. She ...
