If these cards look somehow familiar, it is because they are the same trick that you will find in many cheap Christmas crackers today – ‘The Mystery Calculator.’ These are ...
I was recently introduced to the modern folk song ‘One Day’ by Martin Simpson, based on a poem by Martin Taylor, which was written on the loss of his son1. ...
In Anglo-Saxon times (broadly 410 AD to 1066 AD), what we know as ‘Warwickshire’ was gradually taking shape. Over a thousand years ago, our county would have looked very different. ...
My childhood was accompanied by hedgehogs teaching me road safety and not to step out into the road but what do we know about them?
The essential facts
Hedgehogs are around 26cm ...
In April 2014, the chance for Warwickshire Museum to digitally capture high quality images of the Sheldon Tapestry Map was offered by the Warwickshire County Record Office and Icam Archive ...
I was born on 12th of June 1926. I represented Warwickshire farmers in the Victory Parade at the end of the Second World War. My dad was secretary of Farm ...
To me Warwickshire has always felt like border country, the end of the southern half of Britain. This is marked by the old Roman highways of Watling Street from London ...
Warwickshire County Record Office holds a couple of dozen Compensation Registers from the Midland Colliery Owners’ Mutual Indemnity Company (MCOMIC), the pre-nationalisation employers’ insurance company. These registers list payments for occupational illness or injuries ...
I had parents and grandparents from both Warwickshire and Staffordshire, and grew up in far South Warwickshire near the Oxfordshire / Gloucestershire county boundaries, so I have dialect words and ...
Curator of Natural Sciences, Jon Radley, introduces us to the county’s Jurassic past through the story of particular dinosaur, Cruxicheiros, who roamed the shallow seas of southern Warwickshire around 170 ...
August Schneider had spent the early part of his life in Kenilworth as an active member of the community.
As a British citizen and a single man August was conscripted and ...
After his role in the First World War, August Schneider returned to Kenilworth.
Back to Germany
Life continued to be difficult for the family in Kenilworth after the war and in May ...
The experience of being bombed in Birmingham during World War Two was something we all wanted to escape from.
Escape to Heronfield, near Knowle
Clarice & Richard Usher, my paternal grandparents, ...
During World War Two I lived in Yardley, Birmingham and experienced many bombing raids on the city.
Rationing
Food was very strictly rationed. One day my mother had got hold of several ...
In 1915 it was becoming clear that the new ‘industrialised’ style of warfare used in World War One needed a much bigger army than the country could raise by volunteer ...
I now live in Stratford, but I was born in Birmingham in 1938 and lived with my parents in Yardley, Birmingham until 1948. Our street, Barrows Lane, was about half ...
I love food, I love to eat and I love to cook, so it is perhaps no surprise then, that when thinking of an object that connects me to the history ...
Before 1947 there were some gruesome stories of how pit ponies were treated. Warning: these stories contain graphic accounts of animal cruelty.
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 ...
Warwickshire’s coalfield had been worked since the 13th century, but had yet to boom. It was not until the commercialisation of the steam engine in the 1830s did Warwickshire’s coal ...
I have been prompted to revisit the book ‘Exploring Shakespeare Country 100 years ago’ by Stuart Ludlum. This was published in 1985 and so I was surprised to see the ...
Wanting something to pass the hours during this time? Try solving some of our jigsaw puzzles of photos on our website. We used Jigsaw Explorer to create these puzzles, and hope ...
Coal mining has been engrained in Warwickshire’s heritage for centuries. Stretching from Tamworth to Warwick, the Warwickshire coalfield covers 385 square kilometres and has been worked on since the 13th ...
2022 is the 50th anniversary of the Ugandan Exodus, as it came to be known. My identity card is from 1972 when my family was expelled from Uganda – at ...