Down to the lock gates where sticklebacks would be waiting for bent pin and worm, then on to the old ruined mill to fight the battles of old once more… ...
As father was the gamekeeper, we lived in the keeper’s cottage on Sherbourne hill. We had plenty of meat to eat, and lived on rabbits, pigeons and chickens. No one ...
In 1940 my family moved to a small half timbered cottage in Church Street (still extant) opposite the memorial hall. There was well water but we still used oil lamps.
I ...
Elsie Jakeman was born in Lower Cape, Warwick and cleaned at many places during her life including the Pump Rooms where, with her mother, had to scrub the mosaic tiles ...
This is for me an acknowledgement to a lady who lived through devastating times, had an extremely difficult life but never, ever, forgot her connection with Ladbroke and the rural ...
In part one, I went through my mother Dora Baker’s early years, and her background. In this part, I’d like to talk about Dora’s war years, her marriage, and leaving ...
Imagine my excitement! I have just seen a photograph of my ancestors on your website!
It features ‘Women in Front of Cottages’, in the village of Combrook. I have this photograph ...
I am lucky enough to live near Victoria Park, and also as a child my Nan lived in the house I now own, so I have visited the park nearly ...
I was born and brought up in Clapham Square, one of ten children. Sadly, one of my brothers George was drowned in the canal with a friend when he was ...
I remember the fish and chip shops, Oates and Garibaldi and the one in Leam Terrace. We passed Sabin’s bakery every day on our way to school. One day Amber, ...
The will begins:
I Nathaniel Mason of Withybrook in the County of Warwick Grasior being of sound and perfect mind memory and understanding God be praised to make and ordain this ...
In early 1933 (year of my birth) my father William (Bill) Miller was a postman in Atherstone. He told me that he cycled down the gravel drive of Grendon Hall ...
The winter festivities are over and the New Year has swept in, but while many of us gave presents at Christmas, how many gave gifts at New Year?
This article highlights a ...
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South Farm, Arbury, Nuneaton
We lived there from 1922-1924. Owned by the Newdigate family who lived at Arbury Hall. He was governor of the Bahamas for 2 years while ...
When I was a child I would meet up with a small group of four or five of my friends who lived around my street as everyone knew each other ...
My mother died when I was nine, but I was looked after very well by neighbours. My father remarried when I was 13 and my stepmother was a kind lady.
I ...
When I was a child my father was a partner in a small general building firm. As well as various, what would now be classed as ‘DIY’ jobs, they were ...
There’s a hotel where the job centre is now, the corner of Albert Street – I can’t remember what it was called, and they used to sell chicken specs, and ...
The walking stick / sword in the photograph is from India. An officer in the British army was a friend of my Dad, and he gave this sword to my ...
Unfortunately, the war came in 1939 and, regrettably, I had to eventually leave J. C. Smith’s to work in a factory for war work. My mother was already working at ...
For the first 40 years of my life I was resolutely based in the North of England, and I am still proud of my Northern links, but I didn’t imagine ...
Not that I remember it, but we moved to Wellesbourne when I was two and a half years old in 1967. It was on a new estate, called the Willowdene ...
My brothers, Michael and Tony and I have incredibly happy memories of staying in Rupert Cottage with our parents in the 1950s and 1960s when visiting their friends Dick and ...
Home thoughts from abroad?
Well from the Isle of Wight actually and unlike the poem by Robert Browning, it was September rather than April, but apart from that……..
Anyway, it was in ...