The Old Shire Hall as it currently stands was rebuilt and completed in 1776, in the Palladian style. It was used at the Warwickshire County Court from then until 2011 ...
In July 1715, the country was in a state of tumult. Riots were taking place across England and Scotland, opposing the accession of protestant King George 1st. In Birmingham, protestant ...
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Burial – 11th September 1783
Mary Allen, 10 years of age; murdered by her Mistress, Ann Pratt, a farmer’s wife of Leather-Iron in this parish, where she lived in the capacity ...
The Warwick House of Correction or Bridewell stood on the corner between Saltisford Rock (now Theatre Street) and Bridewell Lane (formerly Wallditch and now Barrack Street); the site is roughly where ...
The old County Gaol is the building next to Shire Hall, and was here until a new gaol was built at the Cape in 1860. After that part of the ...
The Black Horse Inn of Saltisford in Warwick records the exploits of highwayman Bendigo Mitchell thus: ‘Bendigo Mitchell was an 18th century highwayman. He plied his trade on the Warwick ...
William Booth was born on Hall End Farm near Beaudesert, Warwickshire in 1776. Son of a church warden and farmer, he was one of eight children. In around 1799, he ...
Taxation like death is one of life’s certainties. As one would expect, Warwickshire County Record Office has numerous tax records within our holdings from copies of the earliest subsidy rolls ...
The Murder of Charles Pinchback and the subsequent bringing to justice of the two criminals who murdered him has been recorded in the Burial Register for the Parish of St ...