1 World War II observation post that was occupied through out the war on land at Tracy Oak Farm.
The site of an observation post dating to the Second World War. It is situated 1km west of Ullenhall.
1 Site of a Royal Artillery Anti-Aircraft Operations Room covering the Coventry & Rugby Gun Defended Area. Built in the early 1950s. Building now demolished, only the footprint ...
The site of an anti aircraft operations room which was in use during the 1950s. The building has been demolished but the foundations are still visible. It was situated 600m north east of Stareton.
1 Recording of the anti aircraft battery prior to conversion to stables. The site survey included recording the surviving features, entrance gateway, gun pits and visible earthworks. A photographic survey ...
The site of a Second World War anti aircraft battery, west of Beckfield Lodge Farm, Fillongley.
1 A two phase vexillation fortress was established in the pre-Flavian period on the site of the modern village of Mancetter. Traces of earlier and later forts or camps have ...
The site of several successive Roman forts at Mancetter. The forts were all built on the same site but on different alignments and were situated 500m east of Rose Hill Farm.
1 Circular concrete holdfort sited in a field behind Rokeby School, Rugby. The holdfort has 8 large bolts and a central square hole. The steel foundation plate lies ...
The site of a Second World War Bofors gun emplacement. All that remains of the gun emplacement is a circular concrete holdfort. It is located in a field behind Rokeby School, Rugby.
1 Site of a Bofors gun emplacement recorded at Brownsover, Rugby.
The site of a Second World War Bofors gun emplacement. It is situated 500m south east of Brownsover.
1 Bofors gun emplacement sited as part of a ring of defences around Rugby to protect the vulnerable railway junction and factories.
The site of a Second World War Bofors gun emplacement. It is situated on the railway embankment at Rugby, west of Clifton Road.
1 Location of a Bofors gun emplacement, listed as CC on the total armament list in 1940. This was part of a circular defence located around Rugby to protect ...
The site of a Second World War Bofors gun emplacement. This was one of a number of gun emplacements that formed a defensive ring around the Rugby railway station and factories. It was situated 100m to the north of Lower Hillmorton Road, Rugby.
1 Location of 2 Lewis guns in central Rugby that formed part of the defence ring around Rugby to protect the vulnerable railway junction and factories. The site ...
The site of a Second World War Lewis gun emplacement. It was located in central Rugby and formed part of the defence ring around Rugby railway junction.
1 Location of 3 Lewis guns in central Rugby that formed part of the defence ring around Rugby to protect the vulnerable railway junction and factories. The site ...
The site of a Second World War Lewis gun emplacement. It was situated in central Rugby and formed part of the defence ring around Rugby railway junction.
1 Location of 2 Lewis guns in central Rugby that formed part of the defence ring around Rugby to protect the vulnerable railway junction and factories. The site ...
The site of a Second World War Lewis gun emplacement. It was situated in central Rugby and formed part of the defence ring around Rugby railway junction.
1 Circular concrete holdfort sited in a small area of ridge and furrow between Johnson Avenue and allotments north of Bilton Road, Rugby. To the north of this is ...
The remains of a Second World War gun emplacement. All that remains is the circular concrete holdfort for a Bofors gun. It is situated in a small area of ridge and furrow between Johnson Avenue and allotments north of Bilton Road, Rugby.
1 Circular concrete holdfort sited in a small area of ridge and furrow between Johnson Avenue and allotments north of Bilton Road, Rugby. To the north of this is ...
The site of a Second World War gun emplacement. The remains comprise a circular concrete holdfort for a Bofors gun sited on top of a spoilheap next to the railway on the opposite side of the line to the Rugby Cement Works.
1 Circular concrete holdfort sited in a small area of ridge and furrow between Johnson Avenue and allotments north of Bilton Road, Rugby. The emplacement has ammunition lockers to ...
The site of a Second World War gun emplacement comprising a circular concrete holdfort for a Bofors gun. It was sited in Newbold Quarry Park, Rugby.
1 Single rows of pimples lining both sides of the road north of the Oxford Canal forming a tank trap. There are 11 on the west side and 9 ...
The site of a Second World War tank trap formed by eleven anti tank pimples. They were situated on the north side of the aquaduct carrying the Oxford Canal over the Old Leicester Road at Rugby.
1 Five 3 foot tall concrete roadblock cylinders, on a now disused stretch of the road from Rugby to Lutterworth. This was the site of a roadblock. A ...
Five 3 foot tall road block cylinders, forming a Second World War tank trap. They are situated on a disused stretch of the road from Rugby to Lutterworth.
1 13 anti tank pimples in two groups. Those beside the B4112 are 5 rows deep and disappear beneath a bank of earth as they head north towards the ...
The site of a Second World War tank trap. It comprised 13 anti tank pimples in two groups beside the B4112 and the Oxford Canal at Newbold on Avon, Rugby.
Below is what was read out at one of our vigils for one of our locals.
15th November 1915
Private Charles Peter Nevill, 22 Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps.
Private Nevill is remembered ...
Coleshill Chronicle 27th November, 1915
The sad news was received in Coleshill last Friday, November 19th, of the death at the front of Charles Peter Neville, of the R.A.M.C. The news came ...
In August 1803 James Arnold, the Superintendent (i.e. Parish Constable) of Wormleighton compiled schedules of men willing to offer their services as volunteers when the imminently expected French invasion commenced.
Wormleighton’s ...
I first became aware of the First World War tribunals whilst on an Access to Higher Education course in 2000. My history dissertation was going to be on how the ...
On Friday June 11th 1948 the Nuneaton Observer reported on the grandiose visit by the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, to unveil the new inscription on the Riversley Park ...
1 At Meeting Lane (AL14), trial excavations in 1983 revealed a layer of silty clay which although aceramic, may represent the Roman rampart or related structure.
The possible remains of a rampart which formed part of the defences of the Roman town of Alcester. The remains were found during archaeological work in Meeting Lane, Alcester.
1 In 1995 a geophysical survey was carried out on the site of Spernall DMV. To the north east of the survey area, a WWII Home Guard gun emplacement ...
The site of a Second World War gun emplacement. It is located near Spernall Bridge.