In 1928 a tragedy occurred in Rugby when a balloon being piloted by Percival Spencer crash landed on No. 4 Hillmorton Road. This was a Rugby School boarding house run by the Rev. J.M. ...
Continuing Julie’s account of her wartime childhood1.
Land army girls worked on the farms alongside the prisoners and farm hands. They were billeted in a large detached house, opposite the village ...
Nuneaton Memories have conducted more interviews on a number of subjects. For further details, visit this page.
We’re accustomed these days to the sad news of fatal car-accidents on a daily basis, but in 1899 petrol-driven internal-combustion vehicles had only recently been invented and were an uncommon ...
William Gold followed his father by also working on the railway and at one stage worked in West Bromwich where he met and married Lily Jane Edith Gee, the daughter ...
In part one, I discussed the background to the Suevic running aground off the Lizard and the account of a passenger, Warwickshire woman Mrs. Ireland.
When the ship first hit the ...
With Warwickshire having two locations that claim to be the centre of England, the old cross at Meriden and the former Midland Oak at Lillington, it is probably pretty safe ...
The crash occurred on 6 June 1975, on the West Coast Main Line just south of Nuneaton railway station. The accident occurred at approximately 01.55, as the train approached Nuneaton ...
It isn’t often that folk in rural Warwickshire are witness to a plane crash and an event of historical significance but my late parents were. On a sunny Monday morning ...
These photos have suffered from the ravages of time, but do show that Reg Bull was always on hand to capture Nuneaton moments and events, of all significance. Here, we ...
Warwickshire has a long and proud heritage of coal mining, with the Warwickshire coalfield extending across the county from Warwick to Tamworth. Towns such as Bedworth owe much of their ...
These pictures are further records, following on from a previous selection of pictures about this train crash.
The Nuneaton rail crash was a train crash which occurred on 6th June 1975 ...
On the evening of January 3rd 1916, a curious accident happened at the Castle Arms pub in Warwick. As happened on any night, Nora Phipps was serving behind the bar ...
On 23 December 1911, the miners worked their last shift before the Christmas holidays. A small staff worked to feed the pit ponies and keep the ventilation fan and pumps ...
My paternal grandmother moved to Leamington, from Warwick, in 1897 when she was five. She lived there for the next 90 years before moving back to Warwick not long before ...