Miss Mary Freeman of Ryton on Dunsmore did something quite remarkable. She noted the weather in the village on a regular basis for roughly 50 years, up until her death ...
Charles Hoy Fort, (1874-1932), collected notes upon many subjects, including ball lightning. This is an expanded version of one of his notes, of a “fireball” in Nature, to which I ...
Over the week of the 9th of October, the five-day weather forecasts were predicting unseasonably warm weather for the weekend of the 14th, culminating on Monday 16th with temperatures in ...
The photo shows a vanĀ drivingĀ (or perhaps stranded!) on a flooded road on the outskirts of Rugby: the B 4112 at its junction with the A 426. The village of Newbold ...
Not an early demo of a Thin Lizzy album, but instead a report into weather of particular savage brutality. On 9th July 1905 a terrible storm swept across the UK. ...
The state of the weather has always been a crucial consideration for farmers, preoccupied as they are with crop yields and livestock husbandry. Both the length and the content of ...
Wolston has flooded regularly over the years. These residents recall their memories of them.
A Mr. Cole wrote down his reminiscences of his childhood life in Marton, and they paint a picture of village life 100 years ago.
Scarlet nasturtiums
We went to Marton in a ...
It was Maundy Thursday, 1998.I was working as a laboratory technician at Exploration Associates in Station House, opposite Leamington Spa railway station, at the time. Some of us who worked ...
As a kid, history had always fascinated me with lots of visits to Kenilworth Castle not far from Coventry on my bike. I never had a camera back then, so ...