Near Kenilworth Castle, just off Castle Hill, is a charming group of thatched cottages called ‘Little Virginia’. The name is said to derive from Sir Walter Raleigh’s introduction of potatoes ...
I started at St Nicholas school in 1937 at the age of 5. The first class we were in, the teacher wore a long black dress. The cloakroom had beds ...
Kenilworth Ford in Castle Road floods regularly and these two photographs show that things have not changed much in nearly 100 years in spite of regular flood alleviation measures. The ...
The De Montfort Hotel (now the Holiday Inn) opened in 1967, occupying part of the site destroyed by the landmine of the 21st November 1940. Historically, the Square had been ...
I have just been going through the family photo archive and found some photos from the 1966 700th anniversary of the siege of Kenilworth Castle.
They show the local Kenilworth Guides and Brownies putting ...