This fascinating picture gives us an important record of the industrial revolution in Warwickshire. The textile mill was built for Sir Roger Newdigate of Arbury Hall (1719-1806) on his land to ...
Donald Healey may be associated with the car company that bears his name, and that was based in Warwick, but his early life started in the south of the country.
An early ...
Healey considered several names for the car, such as Invicta, Railton, and Vindex, but after advice from Victor Riley he decided to use his own name. The Donald Healey Motor ...
During his visits to the USA Healey had spotted a gap in the market for a lighter, smaller British sports car. He was aware that Austin’s A90 Atlantic engine was ...
Part of the reason the company ended its boat building venture was that the company moved from the Cape to a former cinema at Coton End in Warwick and the ...
It is sad to see the remains of the Great Western pub that has been badly damaged. A fierce fire broke out in the afternoon of 24th August 2017 and ...
Towards the end of 1960, big changes came about; the Rally-Racing Department at the Allesley Service Division was closed down, and Ken Richardson and a small number of people were ...
In the early 1970s a new department was set up within the service department for press cars. We worked under Mike Brooks, who was also with Austin-Morris Press Cars in ...
Were you or someone you know working at Wood Brothers, Caldwell Road in 1977? If so, keep eyes peeled. Lovely home cine film converted and supplied to us by Paul Gardner.
In 1929, the filling station consisted of a largish detached house, a wooden building, which was the shop and a number of petrol pumps – hand operated of course.
Facilities in our house were fairly basic; water was drawn by hand pump from a well just a few feet beyond the front door.
In part one of this article, I reviewed the building of Christ Church until its closure in 1950. With the mantra of the time being if it’s old it has ...
As I have mentioned in other postings on this site, in the years following the Second World War there seemed to be a frenzy of demolition from which no building ...
Back in the 19th and early 20th centuries, Kenilworth was the home of three tanneries.
Warwick Road
The Warwick Road Tannery was on the current site of Talisman Square. In the late ...
My earliest memory of Rootes was the annual visit to the pantomime at the Coventry Hippodrome with the other kids of Rootes workers. We all got a Christmas stocking of ...
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 ...
By 1939 the Co-op employed 18 people including Mr. Honiwell (the Manager), Mr. Carter (the Head Shopman), Mr. S. Knight (the Secretary), Mrs. Holder (the Draper), Mr. A. Austin and ...
This record1 shows the plan and proposed time scale for closing the North Warwick Colliery in 1965. This process was thought to take nine months and involved removing and dismantling machinery, ...
When I first went there I went from GEC, and I arrived there in my Volkswagen Beetle, and the security man wouldn’t let me take it in there! He said ...
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 ...
Woodwards
My mother worked at Woodwards, Eva Jones she was then. She was born in 1901 so I suppose she was working there when she was about 16 or 17. She ...
By the 1960s Finn Shoes were producing some 10,000 pairs of these shoes a week from its factory in Nuneaton. According to accounts provided by the British Board of Trade, ...
The Shop, the Pub, the Farm
The pub’s just round the corner, the Oak and Black Dog to the left of the shop. This was really the heart of the village. In the ...