The invasion of Belgium ruined the life-hopes of many ordinary Belgian folk. One couple was Victor Buelens and Emelie Alice deKeyser from Louvain who had planned their marriage for 22nd ...
These almshouses were founded in the 16th century (along with the famous Rugby Public School) by Lawrence Sheriff who was born in Rugby and rose to become grocer to Queen ...
I worked at Granada Bingo from 1976 for about 10 years. We moved to the site on the corner of North Street and Everuex Way after previously being in Bank ...
The project to catalogue the records of the Rugby engineering firm Willans and Robinson has uncovered many topical references to the First World War.
Following the German invasion of Belgium on ...
The Plaza opened on 30th January 1933 to There Goes the Bride starring Jessie Matthews and Owen Nares, work having started on the site in May 1932. Being renamed the ...
Rugby is of course well known for its train station, and part of the reason for the town’s dramatic growth in the Victorian era is its status as an important ...
I’ve always been interested in why streets have certain names, yet my interest hasn’t been the etymological background to names, nor even the history of streets that have existed in ...
By a quirk of administrative boundary changes, Warwickshire’s home at Edgbaston is not in the current county. Delve back to its early years however, and some of the key places ...
Tom Wills, educated at Rugby School, Warwickshire, was an Australian sporting genius. He created Australia’s national code of football; and was the central figure in Australia’s most compelling cricket story.
Born ...
The beginning
Following the First World War, the government were determined to set up the long delayed Imperial wireless network. They wanted the station in this country to be government run ...
The old Town Hall stood on the High Street. It was built in 1857, with an extension in 1919. The upper floor became a cinema (Vint’s Palace) around 1913. A ...
Say you went to school in Rugby, and if you are outside of Warwickshire there is a fair chance you will have to clarify this does not have to mean ...
Until Webb Ellis’s definitive act, the game of football allowed the ball to be handled, but the player could not hold it and run towards the opposite goal. Progress forward ...
Lincoln House School was on the corner of Caldecott Street, it comes into Hillmorton Road. Tebbs now own it, they built a nursery there years ago and took over the ...
The article on George Redding allowed me to share this photo of my mother (nee Ingram). My Mother was born in Rugby in King Street off Newbold Road, opposite the ...
I went to the school between 2003 and 2010. Many of the memories one has of Rugby High School are framed by the annual traditions that took place there (and hopefully still ...
I only went to Rugby Cattle Market on a school trip. The thing I remember most was the noise of the place. It was a constant bustle and commotion, lots ...
A resident of Rugby, George Day appeared before the circuit judge at the Coventry Courts quarter sessions twice in 1854, both times accused of thefts linked to pigs. George was ...
Returning to the course of the river Avon: there was a mill at Rugby worth 13s 4d in the Domesday survey. Rugby Mill continued as an active corn mill longer ...
Cataloguing the Willans Works archive material at Warwickshire County Record Office is revealing some interesting facts, partly because of the efforts of volunteers who are helping with the collection. Their ...
The records of a Rugby-based engineering firm that pioneered the manufacture of steam engines and turbines for electricity generation are being catalogued by Warwickshire County Record Office in a project ...
A collection of over 300 glass plate negatives has recently been catalogued and prints are now able to be consulted at the Warwickshire County Record Office. Some of these photos ...
During the First World War, The British Red Cross set up temporary auxiliary hospitals/convalescent homes across the country for less seriously wounded servicemen who often just needed time to recuperate.
They ...
Drama! Excitement! Derring-do!
We take air travel pretty much for-granted nowadays, but it’s not so long since the exploits of magnificent men in their flying machines could capture the public’s imagination. ...