From the age of about nine I started work on Cresswell’s milk round belonging to two brothers, Bill and Dick, who had a farm at the top of Higham Lane. I ...
My Dad worked there – he started off with a horse and cart with the milk when he was 17 and he later worked on the Co-op Mutuality Club (a ...
These photos relate to celebrations of 100 years of the cooperative movement nationally and the diamond jubilee of Nuneaton Co-operative Society, both in 1944. There was a People’s pageant at ...
Don Govan
I was a trainee draughtsman at British Trane from July 1951 to Dec 1955. Frank Trotman was Chief Draughtman, (he was also captain of St Nicolas camponologists). After Frank ...
The first shaft of Griff No. 4 Colliery was sunk in 1851. This was a downcast air shaft known as Charlie Pit that was serviced by one of the older ...
Haunchwood Colliery was founded by John Nowell of Wednesbury, Staffordshire. He had previously owned Oakwood Colliery at Wednesbury, which had traded under the name John Nowell & Son. Oakwood Colliery ...
The Kosy Kinema was on Lister Street, and opened on Monday 21st March, 1932. The cinema was the brainchild of Mr. F. Roberts, who ran a furnishing firm at Queen’s ...
Some of the staff of Nuneaton Observer decided to enter a float in the 1965 Nuneaton Carnival. As we had a small Albion hand printing press it was decided to ...
Seventy years ago the first school children from Roanne (in the Loire Valley, France) arrived in Nuneaton. At that time the only schools involved were the two grammar schools – ...
A couple of images from the Reg Bull collection at Warwickshire County Record Office. Nuneaton Memories have kindly supplied an image of the street in 2016…
Nuneaton has had some large scale flooding over the years, 1900 and 1932 being just two of the biggest but the town also flooded in 1958.
If you have any memories of these, it’d be appreciated.
The Co-operative Society Dairy was situated in Merevale Avenue, Nuneaton. It took delivery daily of 1000s of gallons of milk, which was treated, bottled and delivered from there. Behind the ...
St Emmanuela’s was a HORSA classroom, short for ‘Hutting Operation for the Raising of the School-leaving Age’. These pre-cast concrete classrooms were constructed soon after World War II and were ...
In 1961-1962, I went to see the Beatles at the Co-op. You had to queue all the way down Edwards Street. We had to buy the tickets in advance. They ...
It has been a very theatre-friendly year, what with the 400 year anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, and having discovered this treasure at the Warwickshire County Record Office I thought it would be ...
In the first part of this article I discussed the history of the Prince of Wales theatre, Nuneaton, from its opening night to its demolition. Now we shall have a ...