I grew up in the Dugdale Arms, Nuneaton. Our family had run “The Dug, or The Duggie”, as it was known, since 1911, but its history extended further back than ...
The Dugdale Arms in Nuneaton, also known as The Dug, had been a pub since the 1860s.
For the first 9 years of my life we lived at 36 Dugdale Street, ...
A 500-mile cycling and walking network is being set up in the West Midlands and named the ‘Starley network’. This prompted me to investigate further: there’s a Starley statue I ...
The first Warwickshire Miners’ Association was formed in 1872. A Bedworth printer, Mr John Colledge, was elected as the Secretary. The society’s first report was issued in June 1872, which ...
Pit Ponies were used in mining from the mid 18th Century to the late 20th Century, with the last pit pony leaving the mines of Ellington, Northumberland in 1994. At ...
A water mill used to stand on a mill-stream off the river Avon between Brandon and Ryton on Dunsmore; it was situated on what is now the eleventh green of Brandon ...
1 Quarry marked on OS map of 1885.
The site of a quarry which was in use during the Imperial period. It is marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1885. It was located 700m south west of the church, Ufton.