Mr Alfred Jordan was a lengthman at the beginning of World War 2, and so was exempt from having to serve in the war because of this...
Mrs Delany was born Mary Granville in Coulston, Wiltshire, in 1700. At the age of 17, she was married off to the nearly 60 year old Alexander Pendarves, a wealthy ...
1 Jubilee Fountain. It stood in the Market Place on a stepped base.
2 The memorial was erected for the Queen’s visit to Warwick in 1858. The architect was D Greenaway. ...
The site of a memorial fountain erected in 1858 to mark the Queen's Jubilee visit. It was demolished in 1962. It stood in Market Place, Warwick.
1 Duke of Suffolk’s monument. Monument of stone blocks, 1.96m diameter at base and 2.3m high, with inscription ‘On this spot formerly stood a large hollow oak tree ...
The Duke of Suffolk's Monument, a commemorative monument to Henry Gray who reputedly hid in an oak tree on this site to escape capture. The monument was erected during the Imperial period and is situated 500m south west of Astley.
1 1899 by Thomas Brock. White marble statue of Thomas Hughes (1822-1896), MP and QC, author of “Tom Brown’s School Days.”
2 The statue couldn’t be located during a site ...
The site of a statue of Judge Thomas Hughes which dated to the Imperial period. It was situated in Barby Road, Rugby.
1 A sandstone cross on Blacklow Hill marks the place where Piers Gaveston was beheaded in 1311.
2 1832 by J C Jackson. Heavy short cross on a high pedestal of ...
A sandstone cross marks the spot where Piers Gaveston was beheaded in 1311. The cross was erected during the Imperial period and lies on Blacklow Hill, north of Warwick