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 ...
When I was a child I would meet up with a small group of four or five of my friends who lived around my street as everyone knew each other ...
Alvecote Colliery, also known as Tamworth Colliery, was sunk in 1875 by Charles Brownslow Marshall. Workers from the collieries around Nuneaton and Bedworth were often taken to the Magistrates court ...
Ansley Hall Colliery was sunk in 1874 by William Garside Philips of Oldbury Grange, the great grandfather of Captain Mark Philips, the first husband of Princess Anne. It had three ...
