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 ...
Warwickshire Museum hosts a collection of fascinating objects amongst which you can find an Iron Age miniature bronze shield. This item continues to baffle archaeologists, curators and historians alike as to its ...
Radway Church is now the site of a splendid new exhibition about the first pitched battle of the English Civil War. This was the nearest village to the battle of ...
The founder
Nicholas Eyffler was a glass maker from Germany who worked at Charlecote and Kenilworth Castle. Warwickshire County Record Office has a fine collection of documents about him; including his ...
My father, Clifford Charles Oliver worked for H & T Taylor, Bakers of Attleborough (at the top of Lister Street). He was born in 1923 and married his wife Ethel ...
The Warwickshire County Record Office has, naturally, a vast array of recipes within its archive. Mary Wise’s cookbook is well-known, but there are many other culinary delights dating from the 16th ...
When you’re digging over your garden you don’t expect to find much, aside from some worms and the occasional bit of rock. If you’re a bit unlucky you may even ...
A rare, 16th century Hans Frei lute is held in the Market Hall Museum collections, and whilst this lute did not arrive in Warwickshire until the 20th century, the lute ...
Mourning rings date back from the Middle Ages and continued to be used until the early 20th century. It was in the 17th century that they became more defined from ...
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 – ...
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 ...
I used to play in the crater when I was a child, that must have been about the early ’50s. That crater was around the back of School Street, the ...
Browsing the Calendar of Prisoners Index, as you do, I came across an entry which intrigued me. The crime was listed as ‘Assault and Rescue of a Prisoner’.1 Now, I ...
Soon after I had started writing up the story of Ann Tennant, I received a telephone call from a freelance newspaper reporter who had been commissioned to write a series ...
In Rugby on Saturday 10th November 1984, Chris Smith stepped up to speak at a protest meeting and made history:
My name is Chris Smith. I’m the Labour MP for Islington South and ...
The sketchbook containing these drawings1 is one of very few documents held at the Warwickshire County Record Office relating to George Francis Alexander Seymour, 7th Marquess of Hertford and Earl of ...
One of the last shops to go in Leamington was Toytown, a much loved emporium, haunted by generations of children. It sold everything from Steiff Bears to pocket money toys. In ...
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 ...
Warwick had not taken the news that his engagement was ended, well. Within a week of the engagement being broken, he had incurred extensive bills at the Ritz Hotel, had ...
There was a cold breeze sweeping by as they stepped off the train. The slight patter of rain dripped onto the eagerly anticipating journalists who had been waiting all morning ...
Although there are piles of weighty solemn looking documents kept in the strongrooms of the Warwickshire County Record Office, there are a good deal of gems down there that could be ...
Most of the records we keep here at the Warwickshire County Record Office are written documents, on paper or parchment. These come in a myriad of different sizes, ages, and – ...
When I was a student at Birmingham University studying chemistry, we used to cycle from Edgbaston to the Henley-in-Arden ice cream parlour. This was on a Sunday morning before our ...
There are quite a few months to go before the glittering and glamorous ball season begins in Vienna. A city famous for its art, architecture and music, Vienna lays claim ...
