I do still go round Coventry city centre, which has changed a bit from my time as a student. The old fire station is still there, by Pool Meadow bus ...
The fight for votes for women involved militants who were prepared to break the law – often called ‘suffragettes’ – in contrast to the law-abiding suffragists. Most suffragettes belonged to ...
In part one, I looked at the castle’s owners’ involvement in colonialism up to the point of Robert Greville, 2nd Lord Brooke. Further involvement was to follow, as I examine ...
After leaving school in 1983, I went to Coventry (Lanchester) Polytechnic, as it then was, at the start of the Michaelmas Term in 1983 to study a BTEC Higher National ...
Imagine the scene: it was midnight on 1st August 1876 and Hugh Glover, a boatman from Gloucester, was busy getting through a lock on the canal at Aston. He was ...
The war went rolling on and by the start of 1944, things were getting tight. I never remember being hungry, but I certainly remembered being cold. My grandmother used to ...
Primitive Methodists were meeting in a barn at the time of the religious census of 1851; the form was filled in by ‘Precher’ Charles Adams a brickmaker from Stockton. The ...
A 500-mile cycling and walking network is being set up in the West Midlands and named the ‘Starley network’. This prompted me to investigate further: there’s a Starley statue I ...
My wartime memories start rather in Coventry round about 1939, when I would have been five years old. We got bombed out of Coventry after the 14th November Coventry blitz and ...
I eventually left the King’s High School Kindergarten and landed up in the Prep department at Warwick School, but after a while I had to leave for being disruptive and ...
The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) was formed in 1944, replacing the Miners Federation of Great Britain. At the request of the Midlands Area of the NUM, Warwickshire Miners’ Association ...
The first Warwickshire Miners’ Association was formed in 1872. A Bedworth printer, Mr John Colledge, was elected as the Secretary. The society’s first report was issued in June 1872, which ...
Pit Ponies were used in mining from the mid 18th Century to the late 20th Century, with the last pit pony leaving the mines of Ellington, Northumberland in 1994. At ...
During World War Two George, my husband, was in a reserved occupation tool-making for war factories. I was a housewife and we lived in Three Spires Avenue. Our son Glynn ...
I originally grew up in Uxbridge Avenue, Willesden before being evacuated to Brinklow in Warwickshire when I was 7. I was born in 1932 and lived in a two-up and ...
During World War Two I was working as a radio engineer and had already seen many nights of air raids over Coventry.
Everywhere was lit up
The night of the Blitz, I ...
I was at school at Hartshill South when World War Two was going on. The school holidays went on as normal. At night I heard the planes going over and ...
There is evidence of a group of Primitive Methodists meeting in Priors Hardwick in 1849, but it was not recorded in the 1851 religious census and ceased at the end ...
My mother was born and brought up in Wolston and as a child, I was frequently taken to visit my grandfather, Joseph Henry Ward and various aunts and uncles who ...
Where the Motoring Centre in Leamington High Street is now, was a company called Moss Agencies. They were a Riley-Morris car dealership. The original building (since gone) was apparently art ...
The A45 London Road passes through Ryton on Dunsmore and past Knightlow Hill, where the ancient Wroth Silver ceremony takes place each St Martin’s Eve. There is, however, a phenomena ...
A water mill used to stand on a mill-stream off the river Avon between Brandon and Ryton on Dunsmore; it was situated on what is now the eleventh green of Brandon ...
Nicholas Chamberlaine, rector of Bedworth, founded this almshouse in 1715. He declared in his will: ‘I, having no child, do dispose of my estate to the charitable uses following’. His ...
Frederick Elisha Freer was a tent-maker and manufacturer of canvas goods throughout his life and many will remember his business in Smith Street and later West Street, Warwick. He was ...