In times gone by, the way to learn a craft and earn a living was to be apprenticed to a master. You would be legally bound to the master for ...
The length of time involved in an apprenticeship – often seven or even ten years – inevitably meant that there were problems, some more serious than others. The records cared ...
Many of the apprentice records held by Warwickshire County Record Office relate to paupers. The parish had to care for children when their parents died or became unable to support ...
My Grandfather William Billings worked for Lord Warwick as a carpenter and had his workshop at the rear of 12 Coten End, next to the cattle market. The photo was taken ...
I started a five year student apprenticeship at Rugby, straight from school and home in Sussex in 1956. Competition for a place was strong. I believe there were 1,200 apprentices ...
On 11th January, 1711, the following advertisement appeared in the London edition of ‘The Tatler’: –
This is to give notice, That at the ‘Seven Stars’ under the piazzas in Covent-Garden ...
Frank Whittle’s achievements in both inventing and developing the jet engine are well-known and well-documented. Indeed, it is not unreasonable to call him one of Warwickshire’s more famous sons, especially ...
This film was part of the ‘Animation Alive at the Museum’ project involving young people from Warwick, and was organised and supported by the Learning and Community Engagement team and Warwickshire ...
This film was part of the ‘Animation Alive at the Museum’ project involving young people from Warwick, and was organised and supported by the Learning and Community Engagement team and Warwickshire ...
This film was part of the ‘Animation Alive at the Museum’ project involving young people from Warwick, and was organised and supported by the Learning and Community Engagement team and Warwickshire ...
The Michaelmas Quarter Sessions of 1855 saw charges of passing on counterfeit coins against Richard Broome and Robert Kent. The depositions from the archives reveal what appears to be a ...
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 ...
(continued from the Master Bakers of Coventry)
The ‘property’ of the Bakers’ Company was handed over to the Corporation of Coventry by Mr Thomas Windridge, c.1908.
It consists of:
Three books of minutes ...
On browsing through the minutes of the Coventry & District Master Bakers Association, which are kept in the City Archives, I found many interesting items relating to the bakery trade ...
White’s 1874 Trade Directory for Dunchurch records:
This parish has produced an ingenious and remarkable character in the person of the late Mr. Thomas Maycock, a farmer and native, who lost ...
John Sumner was born in 1807, the son of tea merchant, grocer and druggist William Sumner who owned shops in Birmingham and Coleshill.
His diary was gifted to the Warwickshire County ...
2016 sees the three hundredth anniversary of the birth of Capability Brown (CB300).
He was baptised on 30 August 1716 at Kirkharle, Northumberland, the son of a yeoman farmer and a ...
This pub is first recorded on the 1806 map of Warwick and was situated on Bridewell Lane, although it was later listed as being at 13, Barrack Street. This area of ...
Sometime in the 1580s, Ralph Sheldon, a wealthy Warwickshire landowner and gentleman, commissioned a set of four tapestry maps to hang in his newly built house at Weston, near Long ...
The Map
This map was almost certainly commissioned by Ralph Sheldon (1537-1613), the coat of arms. It can be dated to the period 1580 to 1613.
Aesthetics Or Function?
The map’s unusual decorative ...
The smithy at Claverdon is a grade II listed building dating from the late 17th century. It was still in use as a smithy during the 20th century. The building ...
I remember Dad and I taking our ponies to be shoed by Harry Jackson, the Blacksmith, in Beausale, when I was a little girl during the 1960s. He lived in ...
Unlike the County Gaol and the House of Correction which adjoined it, as well as St. Mary’s Church nearby, the Shire Hall suffered little damage in the Warwick great fire ...
A.W.N. (Augustus Welby Northmore) Pugin (1812-1852) was a famous English architect, most recognised for his signature Gothic style. In 1834, Pugin converted to Roman Catholicism, and this was reflected in ...